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2024 State Experts Roundtable on Protecting Energy Infrastructure from Physical Attacks

2024 State Experts Roundtable on Protecting Energy Infrastructure from Physical Attacks

On September 12, 2024, the National Governors Association (NGA), in partnership with the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC), ...
Ensuring Clarity and Transparency in Radioactive Waste Definitions

Ensuring Clarity and Transparency in Radioactive Waste Definitions

The purpose of this document is to help states impacted by cleanup at U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) nuclear weapons ...
Ensuring Energy Security & Resilience for All

Ensuring Energy Security & Resilience for All

Strategies for Governors to address the needs of certain vulnerable individuals during energy emergencies (Download) As states and territories face ...

Meet the Team

  • Daniel Lauf, Program Director
  • Chris Fletcher, Program Director
  • Henry Ashley, Policy Analyst
  • Fiona Forrester, Policy Analyst
  • Jenna Johnston, Policy Analyst
  • Alex Sherwood, Policy Coordinator

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Energy Library

Energy development and use affects the nation’s economy, environment and national security. States play an important role in shaping our energy choices through a range of policy, regulatory and budgetary actions including: prioritizing resource use; setting prices; permitting generation, production and transmission; funding and performing research and technology development; providing financing and incentives; developing refueling infrastructure; sponsoring demonstration projects; and promoting economic development initiatives.

State Trends for Advancing Energy Storage

This webinar will provide state policymakers with insights on some of the ways that states can advance the deployment of energy storage such as setting statewide energy storage procurement targets, ...

State Trends for Advancing Energy Storage

Advanced energy storage technologies are transforming the U.S. electric power market to one that is more resilient, cleaner and more diverse. As the costs of advanced energy storage technologies such ...

Mid-Course Workshop of the Policy Academy on Power Sector Modernization

November 29–December 1, 2017 | Orlando, FL The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) hosted the Mid-Course Workshop of the Power Sector Modernization Policy Academy was built ...

Powering Up: State Trends for Advancing the Use of Energy Storage

Advanced energy storage technologies are transforming the U.S. electric power market to one that is more resilient, cleaner and more diverse. As the costs of advanced energy storage technologies such ...
Grid Smarts: State Considerations for Adopting Grid Modernization Technologies

Grid Smarts: State Considerations for Adopting Grid Modernization Technologies

Governors can guide the consideration of trade-offs in adopting grid modernization technologies by setting clear policy goals and ensuring that decision makers explore new technologies and related policies that best ...

States Focus on Strengthening Electric Grid

The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) has selected five states—Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, South Dakota and Wisconsin—to participate in a workshop to explore lessons learned from the upcoming GridEx IV exercise ...

environment Library

States serve as environmental stewards through their roles in managing state parks and forests, energy production and distribution, wildlife protection, land use and waste management. States also directly affect natural resources through their preservation and conservation strategies. To be effective environmental stewards, states must seek to balance efforts to maintain a healthy environment with efforts to develop and utilize natural resources.

Testimony – Final Report of the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy

Chairman McCain and Senator Hollings, on behalf of the states, thank you for this opportunity to testify on the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy's final report supporting development of a ...