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EnergySource
May 21, 2025
Replace the Inflation Reduction Act with FUEL-AI
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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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Global Energy Forum
Apr 1, 2022
Practical steps for Europe as it turns away from Russian gas
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Atlantic Council
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and its manipulation of the European gas market before then, has made discussions in Europe about getting out from under Russian gas hegemony more pressing than ever.
Global Energy Forum
Apr 1, 2022
The future of environmental, social, and corporate governance: ‘It’s not about ticking a box.’
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Atlantic Council
With unprecedented amounts of private capital projected to be deployed in order to fight climate change, environmental, social, and corporate-governance investing is taking center stage in financing the energy transition.
Global Energy Forum
Apr 1, 2022
The search for energy security may put the energy transition in the ‘back seat’
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Atlantic Council
How will a decarbonized and digitized energy system respond to these growing security challenges?
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