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Energy Explained
Get the latest as our experts share their insights on global energy policy.
Asia’s Gas Shock Playbook: Coal, Curtailment, and Competing for LNG
Almost 90 percent of the LNG that transited the Strait of Hormuz in 2025 was destined for Asian countries.
Podcasts
Hear in-depth conversations with the world’s top energy and climate leaders from government, business, academia, and civil society.
Dan Steingart on Battery Innovation and the Future of Energy Storage
The conflict in Iran is a reminder of how quickly global energy markets can be disrupted. It also underscores why advances in things like battery technology — from...
Events
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April 15, 2026
• 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Student Roundtable with LinkedIn’s Co-Founder Allen Blue
This roundtable is open only to currently enrolled Columbia University students. To register, you must sign in with your UNI. Join the Center on Global Energy Policy’s Women...
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• Center on Global Energy Policy
1255 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10027
1255 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10027
Climate programs that Jigar Shah at the Department of Energy and Jahi Wise at the Environmental Protection Agency oversee will pump billions into clean tech.
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Iran Energy Shock Tests Limits of Trump’s Vision of US Energy Dominance
Consumers remain vulnerable to price spikes despite record domestic oil and gas production. But experts doubt the crisis will boost clean energy, absent strong policy.
Expert warns Middle East energy infrastructure will take months to recover
Even with this shaky ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran, some warn the energy infrastructure in the Middle East will take months to recover, and prices may not drop as much as hoped. William Brangham discussed more with Jason Bordoff, the founding director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University.
Why Energy Has Become a Foreign-Policy Weapon
Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz is a reminder of how everything is fair game in an era of great-power competition.
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Publications
The Iran Shock
Within days of the initial U.S. and Israeli attack on Iran on February 28, 2026, the world was plunged into an energy crisis.
Once Again, Energy Is Power
Energy has reemerged this year as a central force shaping our world—both a geopolitical weapon and an economic fault line.
A Post-American Persian Gulf?
The Iran war will accelerate the region’s economic transformation.
