Energy & Environment
IEEE Positions
IEEE recruited over 50 engineering societies around the world in endorsing the United Nation’s Sustainable Energy for All Initiative. (See Declaration of 17 Oct. 2012)
IEEE does not presently have any global public policy position statements on issues related to energy or related environmental issues.
IEEE Organizational Unit Positions
IEEE permits its Organizational Units to adopt public policy position statements on issues within their specific geographic, technical or subject matter scope. The following position statements represent the views of the specified IEEE Organizational Units that adopted them. They do not necessarily represent the views of IEEE as a whole, its global membership, or other IEEE Organizational Units.
IEEE-European Public Policy Committee
- Maintaining and Enhancing Electric Power Grid Stability and Security During Energy Transformation (2022)
- The Role of Green Hydrogen in a Low Carbon Future (Position Statement)(2022)
- Renewable Energy Systems in the Europe Union (Position Statement)(2020)
- Heating and Cooling Future of Europe and Interactions With Electricity (Position Statement) (2018)
- Vision on Sustainable Power and Energy Systems (Position Statement) (2017)
- DC Electricity Distribution in the European Union: An Opportunity for Energy Efficiency in Europe (Position Statement) (2017)
IEEE-USA
- Existing Nuclear Power Plants (July 2020)
- Electric Power Transmission (Jan. 2020)
- National Energy Policy Recommendations (Nov. 2019)
- Commercial Nuclear Energy and Technology Leadership (June 2019)
- Fusion Energy (June 2019)
- Greening of the U.S. Electric Power Supply (Position Statement) (Nov. 2018)
- Technology Evolution and Electric Market Reform (Position Statement) (Nov. 2018)
- Energy Sector Jobs, Workforce Requirements and the Economy (Position Statement) (June 2018)