Our Work Cited
1 | “There is also an urgent need for federal and state policymakers, the Pentagon, and utilities to coordinate grid investments that mitigate power outage risks for military installations and the defense communities and industries that they depend upon.” → Converge Strategies, Transmission Expansion for National Defense
2 | “It spends more than $16 billion a year on electricity and fuel, and close to $5 billion of that powers domestic installations.” → Converge Strategies, Unleashing the Grid: Energy Dominance for National Defense
3 | “Most of the federal recommendations for strengthening the program have gone unimplemented, and the DOD and DOE still have not operationalized the partnership the 2020 memorandum promised.” → Converge Strategies, Unleashing the Grid: Energy Dominance for National Defense
4 | “When Winter Storm Uri forced Texas grid operators into rolling blackouts in February 2021, twelve of the state’s fifteen military installations lost power for several days.” → Converge Strategies, quoted in Utility Dive, “As US defense facilities face rising outage risks…”
5 | “The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) noted in its primer for state commissioners that there is still no standard, repeatable practice for prioritizing or funding defense energy resilience investments.” → Converge Strategies, Regulatory Considerations for Utility Investments in Defense Energy Resilience
6 | “NARUC piloted such a dialogue in Florida at Eglin Air Force Base, convening the electric and gas utilities that serve the base to identify priority areas for coordination and investment.” → Converge Strategies, Defense Energy Resilience Engagement Framework for Utility Regulators
7 | “The department could act as an ‘anchor tenant’ for grid expansion that would directly benefit defense facilities, communities, and industries, attracting lower-cost financing by providing early, long-term commitments to use grid capacity.” → Converge Strategies, Powering the Fight: Lessons from the Grid at War
Media Contacts.
Authors.
Chuck “Chim Chim” Dockery is a 2025-2026 Veterans Advanced Energy fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center and leads Schneider Electric Federal’s Department of the Navy global account portfolio.
Wilson Rickerson is president and co-founder of Converge Strategies where he leads efforts to safeguard the energy systems that underpin America’s security and economy. He works with the military, state and local leaders, utilities, and emergency managers to confront a rising set of risks — from cyber threats and extreme weather to aging infrastructure and geopolitical shocks
Morgan D. Bazilian is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center and the director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy and professor at the Colorado School of Mines. Previously, he was lead energy specialist at the World Bank and has over two decades of experience in energy security, natural resources, national security, energy poverty, and international affairs.
Media. Adair Douglas, adouglas@convergestrategies.com
