US-India Energy Partnership

India is the second-largest energy consumer and energy importer in the Indo-Pacific region. Growth in energy demand and imports has peaked in China, the world’s largest energy consumer and importer. But growth in India’s energy demand is expected to continue for the next three decades, making trade and cooperation with India in the energy sector extremely important. India’s strategic vectors in the energy context are resilience or the ability to adapt to changing markets, independence or low reliance on external technologies and resources, and identity as a responsible, reliable regional and global partner. India’s domestic goals in the energy sector, including self-reliance for strategic autonomy, economic wealth maximization for material power projection, and social justice for the provision of affordable energy, temper its strategic vectors. The success of India’s energy partnerships with the US, like those with countries on every continent, have depended on the bilateral relationship promoting India’s strategic agenda without compromising its domestic goals.

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US-India Energy Partnership... by Hoover Institution