News and Insights

Alaska Runs on Microgrids. What Does the Toughest Proving Ground Teach Us? Grid Chats with Dr. Jeremy Kasper

Michael Wu, Converge Strategies, chats with Dr. Jeremy Kasper, Director of the Alaska Center for Energy and Power, about the grids that keep Alaska's communities and military bases running on their own, why the state might be the toughest proving ground for energy and national security, and what it takes to share those lessons across the electric north.

Resilience Begins Outside the Fenceline: Delivering TA to Defense Communities

Converge Strategies partnered with the National Laboratory of the Rockies to identify opportunities to expand or modify Department of Energy technical assistance programs to better support the unique energy needs of defense communities.

Defense Industrial Base Requires Energy Security

In the September issue of National Defense Magazine, Leah Emanuel and Will Rogers draw from "Powering the Fight: Lessons from the Grid at War" to explore the role of the power grid as part of America’s strategic deterrent and what history can tell us about navigating this moment to fortify and expand America’s transmission infrastructure for national defense.

Millions of Devices Live at the Grid Edge. Can They Make Us Resilient? Grid Chats with Apoorv Bhargava

Michael Wu, Converge Strategies, chats with Apoorv Bhargava, CEO and Co-Founder of WeaveGrid, about the millions of EVs and home batteries already sitting in homes across the country, why the grid's most overlooked layer might be its best shot at resilience, and what it takes to secure a system that's only getting more connected.

Powering Growth and Affordability The Role of Transmission in Economic and National Security

Expanding the transmission can save customers billions of dollars, improve reliability, and strengthen national security.

Virginia’s power grid is approaching its limit. Here’s what that means for national defense.

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.

Small Nuclear Reactors on Horizon as Pentagon Programs Eye 2028 Goal

Will Rogers draws on his experience as the former senior climate advisor to the Secretary of the Army to assess the Pentagon's advanced nuclear power strategy and provide insights on what's still needed to succeed in developing a reactor that supports enough of the load at military bases to make grid disruptions a non-issue.

Electricity Demand Is Rising. The Rules for Protecting Defense-Critical Power Haven’t Kept Up.

Chuck "Chim Chim" Dockery, Wilson Rickerson, and Morgan D. Bazilian reflect on nearly twenty years of measuring, defining, and classifying the extent to which the military has become dependent on civilian power and what’s still needed to recognize the electric grid as an extension of the weapons system platform, not a separate utility concern.

The First Stop for Resilient Infrastructure. What’s the Model? Grid Chats with Brandi Colander

A green bank isn't a bank in the conventional sense, and it isn't a grant program either. Brandi chats with host Michael Wu about what it means to be a mission-based institution built to de-risk investment in resilient infrastructure across the community it serves.

Minnesota Grid Data Sharing Framework

The Minnesota Grid Data Sharing Framework provides a standardized data request template and a modular request and review process with built-in optionality that will support more secure, transparent, rapid, and consistent grid data sharing practices in Minnesota.

Energy and Emergency Planning Integration Crosswalk (EEPIC) Framework

A Midwestern Governors Association (MGA) effort to give states a structured way to assess policy goals, regulatory authorities, and planning processes to support multi-stakeholder energy security planning at scale.

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.