Deployment
Deployment of new technologies and infrastructure is critical to continued reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and access to affordable energy. To ensure America’s continued leadership in lowering emissions, we must remove barriers to access resources, build energy infrastructure, and deploy new clean energy technologies.
The U.S. grid is widely considered a massive engineering achievement—and it’s how our country enjoys reliable, abundant and affordable electricity. In fact, the grid successfully balances supply and demand in real time and manages disruptions without having customers see interruption. Our electricity is incredibly reliable—with power available to consumers almost 99.95% of the time.i As our nation sees electricity needs grow, the grid will need reinvestment to ensure we continue to […]
Helion Energy, an American fusion energy company, recently achieved a major milestone in the race to commercialize fusion energy. On February 13, the company announced its Polaris prototype successfully reached temperatures of 150 million degrees Celsius and demonstrated measurable deuterium-tritium fusion. This achievement breaks the company’s previous 100-million-degree record and marks a substantial step forward in private-sector fusion energy progress. Fusion is the process in which two atoms are forcibly merged to release energy. The energy released is up to four times more […]
To highlight the importance of America’s existing grid technology and the necessary updates to keep up with demand, CRES Academy’s first session of 2026 brought together dozens of staffers and industry leaders to discuss the need to build and expand America’s energy capacity. With CRES Forum’s Director of Government Affairs Tommy Reynolds providing opening remarks, […]
To highlight Congress working to advance an all-of-the-above energy approach, CRES Forum hosted a reception entitled, “Unleashing Energy: Removing Regional Obstacles for Growth,” bringing together Republican members of Congress, senior congressional staff, industry leaders and energy policy experts. CRES Forum President and CEO Heather Reams opened the evening with brief remarks, touching on the importance of removing obstacles to diversify the nation’s regional energy creation. She also highlighted a recent Member roundtable held by CRES Forum that focused on abundance derived from the unique geological benefits across states. Reams continued the programming, thanked guests for coming and introduced Chairwoman of the Conservative Climate Caucus Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa), who spoke on the need for a true […]
Clean hydrogen is quickly emerging as a strategic tool for industrial competitiveness—and the United States is well-positioned to lead. Clean hydrogen offers a transformative opportunity for American industrial renewal and global energy leadership. From refineries and fertilizer plants to steel mills and shipping ports, it offers a practical path to strengthen America’s manufacturing base while lowering […]
Recently, CRES Forum hosted a panel discussion at the U.S. Capitol featuring several House and Senate communications staffers through their Cool Conservative Communications Collaborating on Climate Change (C6WC) program. The event drew strong policy and communications engagement from all corners of Washington D.C.— including from industry leaders and U.S. House and Senate Committee staff. Moderated by CRES Forum’s Vice President of Communications Mary Collins Howell, the program included questions regarding permitting reform progress in the House and Senate, and how to communicate in-the-weeds policy questions to constituents. […]
Geothermal is a homegrown energy resource that aligns with core conservative energy principles: reliability, affordability and American innovation. As advanced geothermal technologies gain traction in the energy sector, it is worth recognizing the federal policies that helped get this innovative technology to this point. For decades, Republicans in Congress championed policies to unleash geothermal resources […]
Introduction Over the past two decades, the United States transformed its energy landscape by modernizing and rapidly expanding natural gas production. Key technological breakthroughs such as horizontal drilling, hydraulic fracturing and 3-D seismic imaging unlocked vast shale reserves once thought unfeasible. This transformation positioned America as a global energy superpower, with liquefied natural gas (LNG) […]
Introduction Nuclear energy provides reliable, zero-emissions electricity and has the highest capacity factor of any power-generation source. In 2023, nuclear plants in the United States operated at full capacity more than 93 percent of the time. Nuclear assets run 24/7, 365 days a year, providing clean, abundant and safe baseload power. In the U.S., demand […]
CRES Forum hosted the sixth and final CRES Academy session of 2024, “Nuclear 101: The Role of Nuclear Technologies in Powering the Future.” The session explored the vital importance of nuclear assets for the future of energy in the U.S., including the different regulatory environments that nuclear utilities operate in, the deployment challenges that nuclear […]