ELEVATE research takes place at the nexus of renewable energy generation and storage, the electric grid, energy policy, and the global climate. Students and faculty work together to figure out how the design of technologies, grid algorithms, market solutions, and policy mechanisms could be fundamentally changed, to account for the complex and shifting realities of the electricity system, the goals of social and economic equity, and the uncertain and changing nature of the climate. This vision requires convergence between engineering, computer science, natural sciences, and the social sciences.