Enhancing America’s capabilities to spur energy innovation and investment.
Both US political parties agree: ensuring energy security around the world is core to American economic, security, and diplomatic interests. But the ambitions, policies, and institutions of US overseas energy investment are all in flux. We need a new playbook.
Achieving energy security in emerging economies is core to US interests. It expands new markets for innovative American technologies. It powers activities crucial to US foreign policy goals and US firms, such as mining, minerals processing, and data processing. And it strengthens economic relationships by creating jobs and boosting growth and productivity.
The Hub closely tracks decisions, debates, and challenges at relevant US agencies, the White House, and in Congress, and provides independent analysis to encourage more effective approaches. We propose pragmatic, politically resonant policy fixes and new ideas to build a US global investment toolkit that leads the world in making electricity abundant, reliable, and affordable in emerging economies.
Energy Security Pacts is a Hub proposal that would enable the US to respond quickly, efficiently, and effectively to the specific energy concerns facing its partners — and provide a far more credible response to geostrategic competitors. See more on Energy Security Pacts.
The DFC, the US government’s development finance institution launched in 2020, should be leading American investment in infrastructure abroad. See our work on DFC.
The MCC is an independent US aid agency that leads on grant funding for public energy infrastructure and reform. See our work on MCC.
The United States leads in critical energy technologies like nuclear and geothermal. See Hub insights on how US policy can encourage exports and utilization of these technologies in emerging markets.
