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Energy & Sustainability

Greener, Leaner, Cleaner — and Smarter

Global carbon emissions continue rising, warming oceans and the atmosphere. Weather is becoming more extreme. Cities and coastlines are flooding like never before. New environmental threats to human health, such as PFAS or forever chemicals, also continue to emerge.

At this critical moment for the planet, Stevens is advancing research and innovations in climate change, energy technologies, grid optimization, materials science, toxics reduction, sustainability planning and other fields — while also addressing environmental justice.

Partners in Energy and Sustainability Research

  • Department of Defense

  • Department of Energy

  • Hugo Neu

  • NASA

  • NJ DOT

  • NOAA

  • NSF

  • PSEG

  • University of Michigan

  • U.S. Geological Survey

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Research in: Energy & Sustainability

Energy & Sustainability by the Numbers

4 days
Advance flood prediction by Stevens’ systems
1,000
Years for PFAS chemicals to break down
40 billion
Tons of global CO2 emissions per year
1 to 6 feet
Rise in NYC-area sea level by 2100

Research for the Planet

Stevens is at the forefront of developing sustainable solutions and advancing leading-edge energy research.

Two people wade in shallow water on the shore of Hoboken, New Jersey, with the New York City landscape in the background.

Transforming Hoboken’s Shoreline for a More Resilient Future

Stevens researchers and students are working with the city of Hoboken, New Jersey, to support the natural restoration of Weehawken Cove. As one of New Jersey’s first large-scale urban living shoreline projects, this initiative promises to enhance coastal resilience, restore ecological health and create new learning opportunities.

Lithium-ion battery container outdoors next to wind turbines and solar panels.

Benjamin Paren Investigates Materials at the Nanoscale to Help Address Challenges in Global Energy Sustainability

The chemical engineering and materials science assistant professor's research on polymer electrolytes may help pave the way for safer, more efficient energy storage solutions.

Three men plant green grass-like plants inside a wooden box planter.

Can Green Plants Mine Key Minerals?

Working with researchers from Michigan Technological University (MTU) and NJIT, Stevens professors Dibs Sarkar and Christos Christodoulatos were awarded $1.9 million by the Department of Energy for a phytomining project to find out.

Stevens' expertise and dedication in assisting us in the development of innovative green, climate-friendly technologies have been pivotal to our mission of protecting the environment and human health to enable equitable community resilience and sustainability.
Dominique Lueckenhoff EVP - Corporate Affairs, Hugo Neu
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Preparing for An Era of Climate Change

Stevens researchers work to assess climate change and sea-level rise, create systems to warn vulnerable communities and assist planning agencies and municipalities as they prepare new defenses and policies for a new era

Turtle in Galapagos islands

Greener Transit for the Galápagos

Stevens students and faculty lend the government of Ecuador a hand as the nation rethinks its fossil fuel-powered ferries

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Ensuring Climate Equity

Stevens researchers Philip Orton and Kaijian Liu work to prepare communities in the Big Apple equitably for the inevitabilities of floods, extreme weather and climate change.

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