Energy development and use affects the nation’s economy, environment and national security. States play an important role in shaping our energy choices through a range of policy, regulatory and budgetary actions including: prioritizing resource use; setting prices; permitting generation, production and transmission; funding and performing research and technology development; providing financing and incentives; developing refueling infrastructure; sponsoring demonstration projects; and promoting economic development initiatives.
NGA Resources
2025 Governors’ Advisors Energy Policy Institute
The National Governors Association (NGA) held the 2025 Governors’ Advisors Energy Policy Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, October 7-8. The annual Energy Policy Institute convened Governors’ energy policy advisors and senior ...
Transmission Summit Readout
On October 9, 2025, the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) hosted a States Transmission Summit coinciding with the NGA Center’s annual Governors’ Advisors Energy Policy Institute ...
Governors Issue Bipartisan Energy Permitting Reform Priorities
Govs. Stitt, Shapiro lead bipartisan working group Washington, D.C. – A bipartisan group of more than a dozen governors released a package of reform priorities to improve federal permitting and ...
NGA Letter on Energy Permitting Priorities
(Download) Hon. Mike Lee, Chairman Hon. Martin Heinrich, Ranking Member Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources304 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Hon. Brett Guthrie, Chairman Hon. Frank ...
Permitting Progress
“Permitting reform is one of those issues where both Republicans and Democrats recognize the problem, we largely agree on solutions, and Congress gets close year after year to doing something ...
NGA Nuclear Dispatch: Advancing Nuclear Energy in Virginia and Tennessee
After a robust build out of nuclear capacity towards the end of the 20th century, the United States is currently positioned to experience a nuclear renaissance. (Download) Executive Statement While ...
