On Wednesday, September 16 th , 2026, G20 Energy Ministers concluded the Energy Abundance Ministerial in Houston, Texas. The Ministerial was hosted by the White House National Energy Dominance Council (NEDC), the Department of the Interior, the Department of Energy, and the Environmental Protection Agency. At the conclusion of the Ministerial, G20 Ministers reached consensus on four outcomes advancing energy access, infrastructure development, water resilience, and supply chain security. The outcomes advance the Energy Abundance Working Group’s three pillars: Energy Security and Affordable Baseload, Permitting and Regulatory Efficiency, and Critical Minerals and Resilient Supply Chains.
Together, they support the common sense solutions that President Trump has championed to increase energy availability, speed the development of critical infrastructure, strengthen water resilience, and reduce vulnerabilities in the supply chains essential to modern economies. Ministers reached consensus on deliverables that support affordable, scalable, and context-specific pathways to expand household energy access, including the use of liquefied petroleum gas, or LPG , where it is a reliable and scalable means of rapidly displacing traditional biomass.
They also reached agreement on Permitting and Regulatory Efficiency to encourage more efficient, predictable, and effective domestic permitting and regulatory processes, and a Water Reuse Initiative outlining voluntary, fit-for-purpose water reuse to strengthen resilience for communities, energy production, manufacturing, agriculture, and other critical sectors. Finally, Ministers agreed in the Critical Minerals Statement on voluntary cooperation to build resilient, affordable, secure, and diversified critical minerals value chains through information sharing, innovation, investment, capacity building, and local value addition.
“The world cannot build secure energy systems, advanced manufacturing capacity, or digital infrastructure on fragile mineral supply chains,” said Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, Chair of the National Energy Dominance Council. “The consensus reached in Houston supports a common sense approach: diversify supply, strengthen domestic and regional capacity, encourage investment and…