The American Energy Alliance (AEA) is the independent grassroots affiliate of the Institute for Energy Research (IER) .   AEA’s mission is to enlist and empower energy consumers to encourage policymakers to support policies that lead to abundant, affordable and reliable energy for all Americans and to hold our leaders accountable for their actions – not their words – towards this important end.

In fulfilling its mission, AEA will enlist the support of Americans in every state and conduct targeted, non-partisan national and local energy education campaigns.  Outcomes will create a climate that encourages the advancement of free market energy policies.
 
AEA believes it is important for the United States to have a broad and diverse energy portfolio, balancing a wide-range of energy sources, such as nuclear, wind and solar energy, with our abundant natural resources such as coal, oil and natural gas, would minimize our nation’s dependence on any single source and ensure competition that would promote technological advances.  AEA recognizes that there is no “magic energy bullet” capable of solving our energy and environmental troubles, and that a complex energy supply and infrastructure will be the most effective, dependable and technologically advanced when responding to market forces, not federal mandates, which, in contrast, are likely to reduce reliability and affordability. 

AEA will also help fulfill the mission of the Institute for Energy Research, which is to establish itself as the premier source of accurate, substantive and timely energy information for policymakers, the media and the public.  By communicating IER’s decades of scholarly research to AEA grassroots activists, AEA will empower citizens with facts so that people who believe in freedom can reclaim the moral high ground in the national and state public policy debates on energy and environmental policy.