EIRP’s high-level bipartisan Task Force on U.S. Indo-Pacific Energy Strategy produced this comprehensive assessment of the intersection between the ongoing global energy transition and intensifying geopolitical and geoeconomic competition in the strategically important Indo-Pacific region.
On November 18, 2020, EIRP President Paul J. Saunders moderated the second panel in a joint EIRP/Center for the National Interest series on great power technology competition.
On December 14, 2020, the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center and EIRP co-sponsored a webinar evaluating challenges and opportunities to U.S.-Japan and U.S.-South Korea cooperation on energy technology research and development.
EIRP President Paul J. Saunders assesses U.S. energy research and development cooperation with Japan and South Korea during the Trump administration as well as challenges and opportunities for the incoming Biden administration in this December 2020 study.
On October 21, EIRP President Paul Saunders moderated an online panel discussion of U.S. technological competition with China and Russia, the first in a series on Great Power Technological Competition.
In this original report, EIRP President Paul J. Saunders assesses over 100 academic studies and government reports on solar and wind power and presents five key findings.
Thernstrom discusses nuclear capacity factors
EIRP CEO Samuel Thernstrom discussed the capacity benefits of nuclear power in the article “Thought leaders on nuclear capacity factors,” which appeared in the May 2020 issue of the American Nuclear Society’s publication Nuclear News. To read his and other contributions, follow this link.
Writing for The National Interest, EIRP President Paul Saunders argues that as U.S.-China competition intensifies, Washington should deepen its technology cooperation with South Korea, a key U.S. ally in the Indo-Pacific region.
E&E News quoted EIRP CEO Samuel Thernstrom, who noted that while “there’s been a really remarkable shift in the conversation about climate and energy policy options over the last couple years,” such policy ideas are still “mostly on the sidelines” within Congress.
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.
