Energy policy is a plan of action for tackling issues related to energy supply, demand, development of energy related industry and trade and consequences of energy activities. (This definition is from Merriam Webster dictionary.)
National energy policy may include one or several of the following measures:
Often the dominant issue of energy policy is the risk of supply-demand mismatch (see: energy crisis). Current energy policies emphasize also the environmental issues (see: climate change).
Some governments issue energy policy statements, but, declared or not, each government practices some kind of energy policy.
Even within a state it is proper to talk about energy policies in plural. Influential actors, such as municipal or regional governments and energy industries, will each exercise his own policy. Policy measures available to these entities are lesser in sovereignty, but may be equally important as national measures.
see main article Energy policy of USA
"Communism is the rule of soviets plus the electrification of the whole country." Vladimir Ilich Lenin
"Our decision about energy will test the character of the American people and the ability of the President and the Congresstogovern this Nation. This difficult effort will be the “moral equivalent of war,” except that we will be uniting our efforts to build and not to destroy". Jimmy Carter, address to the nation on the energy problem, April 18, 1977.
"Our nation is a Pacific country, as well. And that's why the OPEC conferences are so important." George W. Bush
