Built to Connect the Leaders
and Industries That Power
American Growth
The National Association for Energy & Commerce brings together leaders across energy, infrastructure, manufacturing, capital, workforce, technology, public leadership, and communities.
Our mission is to strengthen the conditions America needs to build responsibly, compete globally, and create lasting economic opportunity at home.
A National Platform for the Interconnected Energy and Commerce Economy
The National Association for Energy & Commerce, NAEC, is a national business league created to strengthen the conditions for responsible energy, infrastructure, industrial, and economic growth.
NAEC is not organized around a single fuel, technology, industry, or professional discipline. We focus on the relationships among the systems that support American growth:
- Energy affects industrial capacity and economic competitiveness.
- Infrastructure affects where companies can invest and expand.
- Capital depends on project readiness and manageable risk.
- Workforce capacity affects whether projects can be built and operated.
- Public leadership shapes the policy and development environment.
- Communities determine whether growth is understood, supported, and sustainable.
NAEC provides a national platform where these perspectives can be better understood and brought into the development process earlier.
A Clear Mission Grounded in Practical Outcomes
To strengthen the conditions for responsible American energy and economic growth by advancing credible intelligence, productive working relationships, and earlier coordination among the leaders who build, finance, publicly oversee, staff, and host major investments.
An America able to build, finance, staff, and sustain the energy and infrastructure required for prosperity, security, and opportunity.
What We Work to Improve. NAEC works to improve the information, relationships, risk visibility, and organizational readiness that shape whether responsible energy, infrastructure, and industrial investment can move forward.
Better Information
Decision-makers need credible facts, meaningful context, and a clearer understanding of the forces affecting major investments.
Earlier Risk Visibility
Technical, financial, workforce, regulatory, and community concerns are more manageable when identified before they become costly barriers.
Stronger Working Relationships
Progress depends on leaders understanding one another's responsibilities, constraints, and measures of success.
America's Growth Systems Are Connected. Its Decision-Making Often Is Not.
America does not lack ambition, investment opportunities, technology, or capable leaders. The greater challenge is that the institutions responsible for energy, infrastructure, capital, workforce, public policy, and community development often begin from different information, timelines, responsibilities, and expectations.
A project that appears attractive to an investor may face grid or infrastructure limitations. A technically viable development may not yet have a prepared workforce. A public official may be expected to evaluate a complex proposal without complete information. A community may be asked to consider significant change after important decisions have already been made.
These are not isolated issues. They are connected conditions that can affect project readiness, capital confidence, public understanding, construction timelines, operating costs, and long-term regional outcomes.
NAEC exists to help leaders recognize those dependencies earlier, develop more productive working relationships, and address shared barriers before they become more expensive and difficult to resolve.
No single stakeholder controls the whole outcome. Every essential stakeholder can influence it.
The Economy We Serve Is Measured in Jobs, Paychecks, and Communities
Energy and commerce are not abstract systems. They are the power behind a factory, the skilled trade that supports a family, the supplier that grows alongside a new project, the tax base that supports local services, and the infrastructure that allows a community to compete for its future.
Americans work across the U.S. energy economy, spanning fuels, power generation, transmission, distribution and storage, energy efficiency, and motor vehicles.
U.S. Department of Energy, 2024 U.S. Energy and Employment Report (actual, reported figure).
Payroll jobs are located across nine industries closely connected to NAEC's mission.
NAEC calculation using corresponding U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics industry categories.
Annualized current-dollar value added generated by those nine industries in the first quarter of 2026.
NAEC calculation using U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis current-dollar value-added data.
Projected openings across seven occupational families essential to building, operating, financing, and modernizing the American economy, 2024–2034.
NAEC estimate based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics occupational projections.
Behind every number is a person building a career, supporting a household, operating a small business, maintaining critical infrastructure, financing growth, or preparing a community for its future.
When responsible investment advances, families can gain opportunity, businesses can gain customers, and communities can gain infrastructure and a stronger economic foundation. When investment stalls, or when development proceeds without adequate preparation, communities can lose both opportunity and confidence.
NAEC's work is centered on helping leaders understand these connections earlier.
The economic figures above draw on nine industries closely connected to NAEC's mission: mining and resource extraction, utilities, construction, manufacturing, wholesale trade and industrial distribution, transportation and warehousing, information and technology infrastructure, finance and insurance, and professional, scientific, engineering, and technical services.
Baseline reporting is drawn from federal sources, including the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Where federal data for 2025 or later is not yet available, NAEC applies a forecasting approach based on the prior five years of reported economic growth for the relevant industries, rather than assuming figures that have not yet been published.
NAEC's internal data analysts have reviewed the source data and the statistical methodology used to produce these figures and consider both credible and methodologically sound.
Experience Across the Public and Private Sectors
NAEC's leadership executive team brings experience across mass communication, broadcasting, data analytics, economic development, manufacturing, energy sources, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, public policy, government relations, and public relations.
That breadth matters because the decisions shaping America's energy and commerce economy are rarely confined to one discipline. Major investments require financial judgment, public-sector understanding, organizational leadership, trusted communications, workforce preparation, and knowledge of how communities evaluate risk and opportunity.
NAEC is being developed around that whole-outcome perspective.
Media, Broadcasting, and Public Communications
Experience in mass communication, broadcasting, and public relations, translating complex issues into credible messages for national audiences.
Data Analytics and Economic Development
Applying data analytics and economic development experience to identify opportunities and evaluate the readiness of major projects.
Manufacturing and Energy Industry Operations
Direct experience across manufacturing operations and energy sources, understanding how facilities are built, powered, and run.
Private Equity, M&A, and Corporate Finance
Understanding the financial considerations, diligence requirements, and risks that shape private equity, M&A, and corporate finance decisions.
Public Policy and Government Relations
Experience working with public officials, institutions, policy environments, and issues that cross government and industry.
National Partnerships and Community Leadership
Building relationships, explaining complex issues, and recognizing that regional knowledge and community participation are essential to durable growth.
NAEC's leadership approach reflects the reality of the work: private enterprise, public leadership, capital, workforce, and communities must understand one another earlier.
National Leadership CouncilWhy NAEC
"America has never moved forward because every leader agreed on every issue. It has moved forward when serious people recognized a shared responsibility and remained committed to the work.
Throughout my career, I have seen promising initiatives lose momentum when business, government, capital, workforce, and community leaders entered the conversation too late or worked from different information and expectations. NAEC was created to improve that starting point.
We will not promise easy answers. The work is complex. Responsible progress requires candor, patience, discipline, and persistence. What we can offer is a serious platform for credible information, productive working relationships, and earlier understanding of the risks and responsibilities that shape major investment.
Our measure of progress is practical: better-informed decisions, stronger readiness, prepared workers, informed communities, and more durable economic opportunity for American families.
We are building NAEC with confidence in America's ability to solve hard problems, and with the resilience to remain engaged when the work becomes difficult."
Built Around the Conditions That Determine Whether Progress Lasts
A Whole-Outcome Perspective
We examine how energy, infrastructure, industry, capital, workforce, public leadership, and communities affect one another.
Intelligence Designed for Better Decisions
NAEC is developing research and executive intelligence intended to clarify risks, dependencies, developments, and opportunities across sectors.
Working Relationships With Purpose
Our focus is not passive networking. It is relevant introductions, shared context, structured dialogue, and continued collaboration. Not more contacts. Better working relationships.
National Perspective. Local Relevance.
National growth ultimately occurs in specific states, regions, and communities. Local knowledge and civic leadership are essential to responsible development.
A Platform for the Leaders Who Influence the Outcome
NAEC is built for organizations and leaders working across the full energy and commerce economy, including:
Energy producers, utilities, and grid organizations
Infrastructure developers and project owners
Manufacturers, technology companies, and industrial suppliers
Investors, lenders, insurers, and financial advisers
Engineering, construction, legal, and professional service firms
Workforce, training, and educational institutions
Public officials and economic development leaders
Community, civic, regional, and business organizations
Each participant brings a different responsibility, form of expertise, and understanding of risk. NAEC's value comes from bringing those perspectives into a more informed and productive working environment.
Engage With NAEC
Explore how to participate, whether through membership, the National Leadership Council, corporate partnership, or a direct conversation with our team.