G20 Energy Abundance Ministerial Chair’s Statement

1. We, Energy Ministers of the G20 who assembled in Houston, Texas, in the 250th year of the United States’ independence, affirm that energy security is fundamental to economic growth, national security, and human flourishing. Recognizing the significant effects of the current global energy disruptions in 2026, we reaffirm the importance of secure, resilient, and uninterrupted energy flows, including safe navigation and transit passage through international waterways and the security of critical infrastructure, as essential to global economic stability and energy security. We underscore the importance of timely efforts to support stable, diversified, affordable, and reliable energy supplies and technologies, including through encouraging cooperation to strengthen supply chain resilience. We recognize that modernizing energy systems, expanding durable energy supply, and improving efficiency can strengthen energy security and support economic growth. We note members are pursuing transformation of existing energy systems. 

Building an Energy-Secure Future 

2. Each G20 member has a sovereign right to select an energy mix that best serves the needs of its citizens. Promoting access to affordable, reliable, and secure energy is essential for energy abundance. Diversifying supply chains and supporting the transparent flow of energy can contribute to these goals. This is inclusive of a broad range of sources and technologies, including, but not limited to, conventional sources and zero and low emissions technologies, as well as the integration and advancement of transformative energy technologies, as well as modernizing energy systems to improve efficiency and reliability. These technologies can support energy security, sustainability, and reliability. Global energy demand is projected to increase as economies grow, driven by a range of structural factors, including population growth, economic development, industrialization, expanding energy access, electrification, increasing cooling needs, expanding transport demand, and the unprecedented rise of digitalization and information technology. Meeting demand in a manner that addresses affordability, sustainability, accessibility, and security strengthens economic competitiveness and resilience; enhances participation in global markets; and, critically, improves people’s livelihoods, health, and prosperity. 
3. Reaffirming our domestic priorities and respective international commitments, we therefore seek to advance our shared goal of energy security, taking into account the following voluntary principles:

Advance Affordability

4. Access to affordable energy promotes productivity, increases industrial strength, enhances energy security, generates opportunities for economic growth and development, and improves livelihoods. Targeted policy solutions help address scarcity risks, global market dynamics, and excessive price volatility through adequate investment in energy systems and supply chains to meet evolving demand. 
5. The following efforts further advance energy affordability: implementing demand-side and efficiency measures that complement ongoing supply‑side expansion, especially of the most cost-effective power sources, and do not constrain economic growth; streamlining or eliminating unnecessary regulatory barriers; diversifying sources; optimizing system costs; and fostering predictable investment environments that support stable, long-term planning, including through improving access to affordable financing, particularly for developing countries.

Expand Energy Supply to Meet Structural Demand Growth

6. Unlocking the potential of domestic energy sources, and the potential of regional connectivity based on mutually agreed terms, will improve universal energy access and help stabilize systems as energy projects scale to meet demand growth, alongside evolving patterns of energy consumption. 
7. Energy security is strengthened through investments, particularly for developing countries, in energy infrastructure and a diverse range of energy sources and technologies across the entire value chain that address growing energy demand. Supply and demand-side measures such as efficient energy use and system flexibility contribute to energy security. Stable and predictable domestic regulatory environments, along with durable contractual frameworks, particularly for long-term agreements, underpin the investments required to expand energy supply. 

Diversify Energy Systems

8. To reliably meet evolving global energy demand, energy systems should incorporate a diversified mix of generation and supporting systems. A broad range of energy sources and technologies can contribute to meeting today’s rising energy demand. 
9. We note emerging energy technologies that can deliver baseload energy. Some countries acknowledge advances in civil nuclear energy technology as contributing to meeting growing global electricity demand and enhancing energy security, while recognizing that, for others, nuclear energy may not be a desired option for their energy mix.
10. Procurement of energy sources and technologies is strengthened by resilient, reliable, sustainable, and diversified supply chains. Domestic energy mixes will vary based on geography and resource endowments and will reflect domestic policies, including efforts to modernize energy systems, expand reliable, diversified, and affordable supply, and improve efficiency, as appropriate, as well as respective international commitments. Robust analysis based on empirical data and sound science, including the costs associated with inaction, is encouraged when designing policy choices.

Strengthen Infrastructure and Resilience

11. Energy systems built on a diversified energy mix require adequate infrastructure and networks that optimally connect energy production to consumers. Secure and diversified energy systems call for timely expansion and modernization of transmission, storage, and distribution infrastructure, including cross-border interconnections, where appropriate, such as pipelines and electricity interconnections, supported by sound long-term planning and investment, especially in remote or underserved regions. Robust grid infrastructure strengthens reliability and enables the integration of energy sources and technologies. Approaches to enhance system flexibility and stability include retrofitting, expansion, and modernization of grid backup and balancing capacities. 
12. G20 members encourage exchanges of regulatory best practices and collaboration on improving regulations and permitting to accelerate development timelines, where appropriate, and improve energy outcomes. Recognizing the growing interdependence of energy systems, supply chains, and information networks; and the threats posed to energy infrastructure and supply chains by natural disasters and extreme weather events; G20 members will advance cooperative approaches that protect continuity of supply and strengthen emergency preparedness for resilience to physical, cyber, and hybrid threats, particularly directed at critical infrastructure. Investing in infrastructure development, modernization, diversification, and protection, including in regional interconnections, where appropriate, alongside strengthening connectivity and emergency response mechanisms including fuel reserve systems, safeguards continuity of supply, and mitigates catastrophic outcomes. 
13. Skilled workforces, strong institutional capacity, effective governance, capable and effective regulatory bodies, and engagement among producing and consuming countries and across regions remain critical for system resilience. We also encourage cooperation to strengthen supply chain resilience, address regional vulnerabilities, and foster durable partnerships. We also recognize that wildfires can be significantly impactful to human safety and our natural resources. We encourage voluntary collaboration to share best forest management, fire response training, and emergency management practices, as appropriate.

Enable Innovation

14. Underlying each of these principles is innovation, which continually strengthens our energy systems and expands future possibilities. G20 members value the promotion of enabling environments that support research, development, deployment, and scaling of a wide range of energy technologies and solutions. G20 members recognize the growing role of transparent, innovative, and market-based approaches that encourage investments that enhance energy security and support diversification. Public-private partnerships can provide an innovative mechanism to finance and develop energy infrastructure, particularly in underserved regions. 
15. G20 members endeavor to catalyze innovation while respecting intellectual property rights and encourage international cooperation and accessible financing as essential to strengthening energy security, and advancing prosperity. We support the deployment of emerging energy solutions and emphasize the role of innovation to support capacity building, particularly for developing countries.