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Exploring the New Math Puzzle of a PJM Intervention

The White House NEDC and partnering agencies released a Statement of Principles to urge PJM to make electricity more affordable for residential customers and strengthen grid reliability by building more than $15 billion of reliable baseload power generation.

Commentary by Arushi Sharma Frank — January 16, 2026

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U.S. LNG: Remapping Energy Security

Europe's wartime shift from Russian gas to U.S. LNG is reshaping global energy trade. A new CSIS interactive feature demonstrates how transatlantic cooperation is critical for ensuring European energy security and hastening the energy transition.

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Experts React: Progress and Setbacks at COP30

COP30 showcased noteworthy progress while exposing persistent roadblocks in global climate diplomacy. CSIS experts react to the conference’s most significant outcomes and their implications for the future of climate, energy, health, development, and the COP process at large.

Commentary by Leslie Abrahams, Jane Nakano, Noam Unger, J. Stephen Morrison, Katherine E. Bliss, Mathias Zacarias, Ray Cai, and Alexis Burns — November 25, 2025

Climate Leadership Should Include Foreign Assistance

The inaugural Leaders Climate Summit will be held on Earth Day 2021 and marks a major opportunity for the Biden-Harris administration to integrate a climate lens across the U.S. foreign assistance apparatus. CSIS’s Erol Yayboke and Christine Li present four ways for it to do so.

Commentary by Erol Yayboke and Christine Li — April 19, 2021

Energy Transition Strategies: Ethiopia's Low-Carbon Development Pathway

Ethiopia is at the forefront of a new development paradigm. Where environmental goals were once perceived as limiting industrialization and growth, Ethiopia is proactively challenging this perception with innovative policy solutions and international collaboration.

Report by Nikos Tsafos and Lachlan Carey — October 30, 2020

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Just Transitions: Assessing Gender Dimensions

This week, guests Adrienne Cruz (ILO) and May Thazin Aung (SEI) join Sarah Ladislaw (CSIS) to discuss the gender dimensions of just transitions and offer recommendations for understanding and incorporating these dimensions into planning and implementation.

Podcast Episode by Sarah Ladislaw — September 14, 2020

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Getting to Reliable Electricity Access

Morgan Bazilian, executive director of the Payne Institute at the Colorado School of Mines, joins CSIS Energy Program Director Sarah Ladislaw to discuss energy access globally and some of the metrics used to measure access.

Podcast Episode by Sarah Ladislaw and Morgan Bazilian — August 31, 2020

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Energy and Development: Providing Access and Growth

Based on findings from several workshops conducted by CSIS over the last two years, Energy and Development explores several of the most important shifts underpinning the energy access issue.

Event — November 28, 2017

Myanmar’s Path to Electrification

Many in the international community see Myanmar as a new economic frontier as the country has opened to the outside world and started to implement political and economic reforms after decades of isolation and military rule.

Report — October 30, 2015