Teach energy systems with the real thing

The same platform industry uses to plan the energy transition — in the classroom and the research lab. Students model real technologies, real costs, and real emissions, not toy examples.

Featured in an open MITx course

Systems Thinking in Energy: Navigating Costs, Emissions, and Impact

Sesame One is the hands-on modeling tool in MIT's open online course ENE.002x — students use it to quantify tradeoffs and make apples-to-apples comparisons across technologies, policies, and energy pathways, for systems anywhere on the globe.

MITx · ENE.002x · Instructors: Christopher Knittel (MIT Sloan) & Emre Gençer (Sesame Sustainability)

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Use cases

In the classroom and the research lab

Teaching

Hands-on systems thinking

Classroom-ready scenarios and datasets — students model electrified transport, grid reliability, and hydrogen pathways from day one
Apples-to-apples comparisons that make tradeoffs concrete: cost, emissions, reliability
No setup burden — browser-based, no installs, course licenses cover the whole class

Research

The full modeling library

The same first-principles process models and global databases as the commercial platform
A lineage of 20+ peer-reviewed publications built on SESAME methods since 2018
Licenses scale from a single research group to multi-department programs

Academic roots

Built at MIT, made for learning

Sesame began at the MIT Energy Initiative as a research platform used by more than thirty researchers. Education isn't a side use case — it's where the platform comes from.

MITxopen course powered by Sesame

20+peer-reviewed publications

$5,000/yracademic licensing, starting at

Bring Sesame to your course or research group

Academic licensing starts at $5,000 per year and scales from a single research group to multi-department programs.

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