Strategic Competition > Strategic Domains
Energy Security & Sustainability
Powering Economic Resilience, Strategic Autonomy, and Global Influence
“Strategic competition requires not only being energy dominant today—capable of powering ourselves and our allies—but also ensuring we lead in the energy systems of tomorrow.”
Kennedy Photo from China.
🔹 Strategic Context
- This page is part of WISC’s Strategic Competition framework, applying geoeconomic statecraft through the STEAD model — integrating Security, Technology, Economics, Alliances, and Diplomacy — to secure U.S. leadership across critical domains.
Why Energy Security and Sustainability Matter
- Energy security is economic security—and economic security is strategic security.
- Authoritarian regimes weaponize energy dependencies to:
- Coerce vulnerable states
- Finance authoritarian expansion
- Undermine open-market systems
- Democratic nations must secure energy systems that are:
- Reliable
- Resilient
- Free from coercive leverage
Strategic Priorities for Energy Security and Sustainability
- Diversify Energy Supply Chains and Sources: Expand trusted sourcing and infrastructure for oil, gas, critical minerals, and renewable technologies across allied networks.
- Lead in Energy Transition Technologies: Drive innovation and deployment of clean tech—advanced batteries, hydrogen, carbon capture, modular nuclear—to future-proof economic resilience.
- Secure Critical Energy Infrastructure: Harden energy grids, supply hubs, and digital infrastructure against cyber, physical, and economic disruptions.
- Embed Energy Security into Trade and Development Policy: Integrate energy cooperation into trade agreements, development aid, and infrastructure investment strategies with trusted partners.
- Expand Strategic Energy Engagement with Emerging Markets: Offer high-standard energy alternatives to Belt and Road projects and authoritarian-backed energy expansion.
Insights & Engagements
🏛️ Engaging Administration or Congress, 📰 Op-Ed / Article / Quoted ✍️ Policy Brief 👥 Roundtable 🎤 Speaking / Moderating 🎥 TV/Video 🌐 Global
Geopolitical Energy Competition
Address malign influence from authoritarian exporters while building redundancy and resilience into global supply.
Global Energy Alliances
Strengthen alignment with allies through infrastructure investment, technology sharing, and harmonized transition pathways.
Energy Innovation
Accelerate R&D, deployment, and workforce development in renewables, storage, grid modernization, and hydrogen.
- 🎤 Bolstering Energy Security through Innovative Infrastructure Technologies - Moderated Wilson Center Roundtable - April 3, 2024
Critical Minerals Supply Chains
- 🎤 Bolstering Energy Security through Infrastructure Technologies - Moderated Wilson Center Roundtable - April 3, 2024
Carbon Accounting & Green Trade
Lead in establishing carbon pricing norms and sustainability standards that favor open, rules-based economies.
Closing Principle
Energy is not just fuel—it is leverage, security, and influence. Securing it defines strategic advantage.
👉 Related Pages
🔷 Featured Insights
U.S. and Japan Collaborating on Energy Security and Infrastructure - Interview of Tatsuya Terazawa, Chairman & CEO of Tokyo's Institute of Energy Economics - January 27, 2025
How Can the Economic System Drive Decarbonization? - Interview with Oxford Professor Karthik Ramana - September 25, 2024
Equitable Green Trade: Strategies for Inclusive Carbon Pricing and Environmental Policies - World Trade Organization Public Forum - September 10, 2024