Managing Risk in Clean Energy Supply Chains

Electricity demand in the United States is surging after decades of stagnation, driven by the explosive growth of data centers and the broader electrification of the economy. Mature technologies like wind and solar generation, paired with cutting-edge approaches like AI grid management and long-term battery storage, could help meet this rise in demand. But, U.S. development and deployment of these technologies has been hampered by perceived economic and cybersecurity risks, as China dominates their design and manufacture. 

These risks are real, but they are not binary: gradients of risk exist between zero and one, which can be quantified, parsed, and often managed. Please join CFR’s Energy & Climate Program for a hybrid, on-the-record roundtable discussion with Sarah Ladislaw, Founding Director of the New Energy Industrial Strategy Center, and Harry Kresja, Director of Studies at the Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy and Technology, as they explore how the United States can better manage supply chain risks to meet the needs of an increasingly electric world.