Expertise

Energy Policy

Global Policy Group^®  assists corporate clients from North America, Japan, and Europe on U.S. energy policy through retainer relationships and customized consulting assignments.  Global Policy Group^®  provides intelligence and analysis, offers advice and guidance to senior corporate executives, and organizes meetings for clients with government and private-sector climate and environmental policy experts in Washington.

Renewable and Alternative Energy Policies

Global Policy Group^®  has assisted clients on a wide range of U.S. federal and state legislative and regulatory initiatives to promote the use of renewable and alternative energy sources, including:

• analysis of how proposed cap-and-trade legislation and renewable electricity standards could affect demand for renewable energy

• tax incentives to promote investment in and use of renewable energy sources

• federal and state efforts to promote the use of on- and off-shore wind power

• federal and state efforts to promote the use of solar power, including both photovoltaic and concentrating thermal solar power (including a major client-private report, Thermal Solar Power in the United States and the European Union)

• U.S. biofuels policy, including the renewable fuels standard, efforts to promote flex-fuel vehicles, and regulatory and legislative issues related to ethanol (E-10, E-85, etc.) and biodiesel

• federal efforts to promote hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and battery-electric vehicles and advanced lithium-ion and other batteries

• U.S. efforts to develop hydrogen fuel cell programs for automotive and stationary applications (including a major study, Fuel Cells and Advanced Batteries: Next Generation Automotive and Stationary Power Systems)

U.S. Energy Policy

Global Policy Group^®  has assisted clients on numerous aspects of U.S. energy policy, including:

• federal efforts to develop clean coal technologies, including carbon capture and sequestration

• the U.S. nuclear energy revival, federal efforts to stimulate the use of nuclear power, and key challenges in terms of nuclear technology, waste, and security (including a client-private report, The U.S. Nuclear Revival Gains Momentum)

• federal and state programs to promote the development of a “smart” electricity grid

• efforts to expand domestic oil and gas drilling, both on- and off-shore

• key foreign policy challenges in energy-producing regions around the world

• measures to enhance the energy efficiency of appliances, computers, and other products

Global Policy Group^®  has ongoing relationships on energy policy issues with companies in the utility, automotive, oil and gas, financial services, and information technology industries.