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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
Mar 29, 2022
Hydrogen’s role in energy security and decarbonization
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Atlantic Council
Hydrogen may play a key role in helping the world decarbonize and enhance global energy security. But policymakers will need to scale clean hydrogen quickly.
Global Energy Forum
Mar 29, 2022
How the UAE plans to invest in a net-zero future
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Atlantic Council
UAE policymakers now face the task of aligning the whole of domestic industry with their net-zero objective.
Global Energy Forum
Mar 28, 2022
In the energy transition, oil and gas have a ‘guaranteed’ role, says OPEC secretary general
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Atlantic Council
Even as the world decarbonizes, oil and gas will play a continued role in an equitable, affordable, and sustainable energy transition.
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