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EnergySource
May 21, 2025
Replace the Inflation Reduction Act with FUEL-AI
By
Joseph Webster
To compete in the global AI race, the United States must dramatically expand its power supply. Replacing the Inflation Reduction Act with the FUEL-AI Act would reorient energy policy toward national security, fast-tracking domestic energy production and infrastructure to power America’s AI future.
Issue Brief
May 14, 2025
The United States’ role in managing the nuclear fuel cycle
By
Kemal Pasamehmetoglu
Global nuclear energy generation is likely to increase significantly in the next few decades. This expansion provides an opportunity for the United States to shape the global nuclear energy landscape and set a high bar for standards of safety, security, and nonproliferation for the nuclear fuel cycle.
AfricaSource
Mar 20, 2025
If the international community wants to curb fossil fuel emissions, it must make Africa a serious clean energy offer
By
Neil Ford
Before the international community asks African countries to leave undeveloped fossil fuel resources in the ground, it must make them an offer of clean energy financing—one substantial enough to fund Africa’s current and future appetite for electricity.
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The Global Energy Center develops and promotes pragmatic and nonpartisan policy solutions designed to advance global energy security, enhance economic opportunity, and accelerate pathways to net-zero emissions.
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Dec 7, 2023
TRENDS – Atlantic Council 3rd annual conference on sustainable security: The soft and hard implications of climate action
By
Alex Elnagdy
This year’s Conference at COP28 explored how climate change is shaping the global orders of conflict and finance—all to elicit insights from practitioners and experts from the region and beyond to formulate recommendations for policymakers.
New Atlanticist
Dec 6, 2023
John Kerry unveils a ‘critical’ new US strategy to expand fusion energy
By
Katherine Golden
"We need to pull ourselves together with every strength we have,” Kerry said on the first day of the Global Energy Forum.
New Atlanticist
Dec 6, 2023
The world’s biggest energy exporters plot out the next steps toward net zero
By
Nick Fouriezos
At the Global Energy Forum, key leaders of the Net-Zero Producers Forum laid out a vision from some of the world’s largest energy exporters for making progress on the world’s sustainability goals.
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