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Unleashing Virginia

Virginia's defense load — the power that keeps its military bases, defense communities, and defense industry running — is approaching the limit of what the grid can reliably deliver.

Energy Security’s Strategic Shift. What Will It Take To Lead? Grid Chats With Dr. Nathan Johnson

Building the grid now means securing everything from raw material extraction through midstream processing to the finished components in generators, transformers, and transmission lines. Chat about what it will take for the U.S. to lead.

Speed to Power Is Within Reach. What Gets Us There? Grid Chats With Rachel Ross

Chat about the technologies that could ease the grid's capacity crunch and the challenges that have kept them from scaling.

The Hidden Security Challenge: Responding to Grid Capacity Constraints and Their Impacts on Military Installations

“The Hidden Security Challenge" examines how grid capacity constraints threaten defense infrastructure and what Department of War (DoW) and state policymakers can do to ensure installations can stay “mission ready."

Energy Security Is National Security. Who’s Making That Partnership Work? Grid Chats with Jennifer DeCesaro

Chat about how partnerships have filled the policy gap for electric utilities to prioritize national security in their planning. Learn more about the relationship between America's investor-owned electric companies and the U.S. military what look like and why they matter.

March Inland Port Airport Authority and March Air Reserve Base Installation Readiness Tabletop Exercise

Regional stakeholders from western Riverside County convene for a community-installation-utility tabletop exercise to strengthen regional energy resilience.

Load Growth Isn’t the Whole Story. What’s Hiding Behind It? Grid Chats with Jonathon Monken

Chat about what's really driving the surge in electricity demand, why data centers are only part of the picture, and what needs to change before the grid falls further behind.

Powering Defense: Energy Resilience for the Defense Industry

NDIA New England and Converge Strategies explored the intersection of energy resilience and national security during "Powering Defense: Energy Resilience for the Defense Industry" alongside defense, energy, and government leaders across New England.

Nuclear’s Missing Piece. What Needs to Change? Grid Chats with Liz Ramsay Dalton

Chat about what's actually standing between the U.S. and the Trump administration's goal to 4X nuclear power by 2050, why the supply chain is a national security story, and what the next few months will decide.

The Grid Can’t Keep Up. What Happens Next? Grid Chats with Jon Powers

Conversation on what's happening to the U.S. power grid, why your electric bill is going up, and why the answer is already being built.

Microgrid Industry State of Play

Migdalia Blanco captures the state of play on microgrids at the intersection of power engineering, infrastructure resilience, and energy policy.

Powering the Fight: Published by the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS)

The Naval Postgraduate School selected Converge Strategies' Powering the Fight: Lessons from the Grid at War for publication at its 23rd Annual Acquisition Research Symposium, "Accelerating Warfighting Capabilities."