Global Reference Center on Powershoring
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ABOUT THE RESEARCH AGENDA
What is Powershoring?
Powershoring is a business-led industrial location and development strategy that reorganizes global value chains around the geography of abundant, reliable, scalable, competitively priced clean energy. It turns a physical constraint into an economic opportunity: electricity is costly to store and transmit over long distances, yet can be traded efficiently when embodied in goods such as green steel, aluminum, chemicals, fertilizers, and fuels. By locating energy- and carbon-intensive activities where clean-energy advantages converge with logistics, skills, infrastructure, and sound institutions, powershoring accelerates global decarbonization while substantially reducing its costs. The gains are mutually reinforcing: firms strengthen competitiveness and resilience; host economies attract investment, capabilities, jobs, and exports; and importing economies secure lower-carbon inputs. Powershoring thus integrates climate, trade, competitiveness, and development within a commercially grounded framework for investment and business strategy.
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Why Green Finance Matters for Powershoring
Powershoring requires massive capital investments to build the necessary renewable energy infrastructure, industrial facilities, and logistics networks. To mobilize these resources at the speed required for the energy transition, a highly sophisticated green finance ecosystem is essential. Powershoring projects are ideal candidates for green finance instruments because they offer clear, measurable environmental benefits and reliable long-term cash flows. Understanding how to access and structure these instruments is crucial for governments, developers, and investors looking to accelerate a low-carbon industrial economy.
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Universidade de Brasilia (UNB) - Brazil
Institutional home for powershoring research and teaching, hosting graduate courses on global labor economics and economic development in the digital age.
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Fundação Don Cabral (FDC) - Brazil
Research partnership on the geopolitics of powershoring and the implications of the energy transition for global value chain restructuring.
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