Education
- CESP engages a multinational student body participating in undergraduate master’s and doctoral programs at George Mason University
Research Areas
- Regulatory regimes and institutions
- Clean coal approaches
- Nuclear power
- Electricity grids
- Energy security, sustainability and resilience
- Energy infrastructure challenges
- Energy trade
- Geopolitics of energy security
Research
- Research by
- core CESP academic personnel
- affiliated GMU faculty from the School of Policy, Government and International Affairs, and the College of Science as well as other American and international scholars and practitioners
- CESP research activities include
- workshops
- public lectures
- joint research partnerships
- technical reports
- scholarly publications
Training
- Non-degree courses aimed at
- US Federal, Commonwealth of Virginia and local officials
- Representatives of private sector and NGOs
- International officials
- Focus on
- The evolving global energy revolution
- Interconnected challenges of energy security and climate change
- Role of current and advanced technologies in ensuring a variety of energy resources.
- Critical and analytical skills, and assessment tools necessary to apply knowledge of energy trends to both science and technology
Policy Recommendations
CESP believes that a core objective of energy policy is provision of reliable, quality and affordable energy regardless of the source.
- CESP understands that energy developments have shifted the geopolitical focus from dealing with energy scarcity to dealing with energy abundance.
- CESP recognizes the multi-dimensional nature of the energy issue and its impact on the local, national and international level. This has implications for:
- National and international security,
- Economic development,
- Democratization and governance
- Conflict resolution,
- Climate change
- Environment, and
- Human rights
- CESP’s research and analysis develops policy recommendations for local, state and national governments.
