At Climate Week NYC, the Irving Institute gathered regulators, investors, operators, and policy strategists to examine the structural, financial, and political obstacles standing between America and the grid it needs now. The technology to expand grid capacity already exists—what else needs to be aligned?

A Climate Week NYC panel discussed new technologies—enhanced geothermal, fusion, small modular reactors—that are being put to the same capital markets test that solar, wind, and batteries faced. Investors, frontier energy developers, and scholars agreed that hype itself can drive real breakthroughs.

The Irving Institute and SAP's second Climate Week NYC panel convened supply chain and security experts with leading scholars. Together they examined critical minerals, how we can build more resilient energy supply chains, and what role emerging technologies may play in redefining energy security.

The Irving Institute and SAP partnered to host a Climate Week NYC panel exploring how platform economics, AI, and smarter data sharing can realize the full potential of distributed energy resources and accelerate the path to energy abundance.

In a thought piece, Honor Passow outlines the utility perspective on distributed energy resources.

Jeff Immelt '78, former Chairman and CEO of General Electric, and K.R. Sridhar, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Bloom Energy, joined a conversation moderated by Tuck Professor of Business Administration Lauren Xiaoyuan Lu about AI, infrastructure, reliability, and scale.

A CERAWeek 2026 panel: Why so many AI initiatives stall at the pilot stage—and what it will take to move from promising experiments to durable, scalable value.

A CERAWeek 2026 panel: If energy firms are to unlock AI's promise—lower‑cost operations, sharper emissions reductions, and new business models—they must redesign the very foundations of how they work.

Amid a more assertive U.S. policy in the Western Hemisphere, an expert panel examined the future of Venezuela. Topics centered on oil's role, geopolitical goals, private investment, and how regional history and local politics may shape outcomes.