On March 7, the Japanese government’s Green Innovation Fund awarded $1.62 billion to a Japanese-Australian business venture to create Japan’s first hydrogen supply chain between Victoria State in Australia and Kawasaki, Japan.
President Joe Biden’s January 13 meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Washington yielded new reaffirmations of the U.S.-Japan alliance and Washington’s commitment to defend its ally as well as a strong American endorsement of Japan’s plans to boost its defense spending.
On January 19, energy analytics firm Vortexa reported that Russia eclipsed Iraq as India’s largest source of crude oil starting in October 2022.
On February 15th, South Korean and Mongolian Industry Ministers signed a memorandum of understanding to encourage cooperation on rare earth supply chains.
On March 2nd, 2023, EIRP President Paul Saunders discussed the energy impacts from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with Director of Programs and Strategy Brian Chung of the Global American Business Institute.
Writing for Bloomberg, Samuel Thernstrom and David Garman outline a reform agenda for the Department of Energy to move the department beyond the Solyndra scandal and the troubled loan guarantee program by refocusing its work on basic and pre-commercial research into key energy technologies.
Writing in The National Interest, EIRP President Paul Saunders presented key findings from EIRP’s report “Toward an Indo-Pacific Clean Energy Framework.”
Writing for Bloomberg, Samuel Thernstrom and David Garman outline a reform agenda for the Department of Energy to move the department beyond the Solyndra scandal and the troubled loan guarantee program by refocusing its work on basic and pre-commercial research into key energy technologies.
In a new EIRP report, Paul J. Saunders and former EIRP Research Assistant Amelia K. Gilchrist assess opportunities for the United States to build and strengthen regional frameworks in the Indo-Pacific to accelerate clean energy deployment.
Writing in the September/October 2022 issue of The National Interest, Paul Saunders discusses energy, technology, and geopolitics–and argues that clean energy cooperation with key allies, such as Japan and Korea, can advance U.S. economic, political, and strategic interests.
