Blog

See blogs on the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center’s Energy Source publication and all content at https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/expert/robert-f-ichord-jr/.

Atlantic Council Series: Transforming the Power Sector in Developing Countries:

1.  October 2016,  Transforming the Power Sector in Developing Countries: A Strategic Framework for Post-Paris Action.

2.   March 2017, Transforming the Power Sector in Developing Countries: The Critical Role of China in Post-Paris Implementation.

3.   September 2017, Transforming the Power Sector in Developing Countries: Indonesia’s Diversification Challenge.

4.   January 2020, Transforming the Power Sector in Developing Countries: Geopolitics, Poverty and Climate Change in Bangladesh. 

5.   January 2020, Transforming the Power Sector in Developing Counries: Geopolitics, Poverty and Climate Change in Pakistan. 

Nuclear Energy and National Security

Worked on the geopolitics of nuclear energy and the global competition with Russia and China in this sphere . In 2018. I worked on global nuclear power issues and the Atlantic Council’s US Nuclear Leadership Task Force.  Please see my March 2018 Issue Brief: US Nuclear-Power Leadership and the Chinese and Russian Challenge and subsequent briefs on Innovation in Nuclear Energy Technoogies: Implictions for US National Defense (September 2020 with Dr. Jennifer Gordon) and The Value of the US Nuclear Power Complex to US National Security (2019 with Bart Oosterveld).

Links to Blogs, Articles and Presentations

Energy Geopolitics

Advanced Nuclear and Innovative Technologies

Energy Transformation in the Emerging and Developing Countries

Electricity Markets and Grid Reliability and Resilience

Emissions, Decarbonization, and Climate Change