Energy Project

About the Project

America’s economy—in fact our way of life—is highly dependent on secure, affordable, and reliable energy. Though the U.S. has abundant and diverse sources of domestic energy, our energy challenges are great: we face a complex array of often-competing federal and state taxes, subsidies and regulations; a weak economy struggling to invest/deploy new energy technology; extensive global oil market risks; increasing world-wide competition for energy; and rising global greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental concerns. Confronting those challenges as the U.S. invests in economic recovery and confronts an unsustainable national debt creates difficult but necessary policy choices.

BPC Releases Policy Recommendations to Build on U.S. Energy Abundance and Efficiency Gains
Feb. 27, 2013

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) today unveiled over 50 energy policy recommendations developed by its Strategic Energy Policy Initiative, which is co-chaired by former Sen. Byron L. Dorgan (D-N.D.), former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.), General James L. Jones USMC (Ret.) and former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator William K. Reilly.

America’s Energy Resurgence: Sustaining Success, Confronting Challenges
Feb. 27, 2013

As the United States struggles to emerge from a historic recession, energy has emerged as both a bright spot and a source of ongoing challenges for the nation’s long-term prosperity and security.

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Capitalizing on the Evolving Power Sector: Policies for a Modern and Reliable U.S. Electric Grid
Feb. 7, 2013

The U.S. electric power sector faces a significant transition over the next decade, with implications for the cost, reliability, and environmental impacts of the electricity supply. Specifically, economic trends and state and federal energyand environmental policies will continue to increase the share of natural gas and renewable energy in the generation mix. This ongoing shift provides an important opportunity to consider policies and institutional structures that help the electric grid adapt to changes in market conditions, policy, and technology in ways that enhance system reliability and maintain affordability.

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VIDEO: A Solution to the Electric Transmission Riddle
Feb. 10, 2013

Former Virginia Congressman Rick Boucher and FERC Chairman Curt Heber discuss the findings of the Bipartisan Policy Center's new electric grid report.