Filling the "Missing Middle" to Scale Energy Breakthroughs

From Climate Realism. A gap in private funding for companies and projects inhibits energy innovation in the United States. This “missing middle” slows or blocks technologies that could help the energy system become more secure, affordable, and sustainable, and weakens U.S. firms relative to Chinese and other international competitors. Join CFR’s Climate Realism Initiative as it launches Financing the Missing Middle, a collection of policies and strategies to help bridge that gap. This event, and the essay collection itself, has been made possible through the generous support of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, under grant number G-2025-25233. Speakers David M. Hart CFR Expert Senior Fellow for Climate and Energy, Council on Foreign Relations Vanessa Chan Jonathan and Linda Brassington Practice Professor, Materials Science and Engineering and Inaugural Vice-Dean of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of Pennsylvania Josh Prueher Chief Executive Officer, XGS Energy Presider Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran Global Energy and Climate Innovation Editor, The Economist; CFR Member Subscribe to our channel: https://goo.gl/WCYsH7 This work represents the views and opinions solely of the author. The Council on Foreign Relations is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher, and takes no institutional positions on matters of policy. Visit the CFR website: http://www.cfr.org Follow CFR on X: http://www.twitter.com/cfr_org Follow CFR on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/councilonforeignrelations/