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Accelerating Speed to Power for National Defense by Converge Strategies
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) should ensure that its initiatives to accelerate speed to power support national defense. Explore our comments on how to improve grid resilience and energy security for critical defense missions, defense communities, and the defense industrial base.Featured
Powering the Fight Lessons from the Grid at War
“Powering the Fight Lessons from the Grid at War” identifies a path forward for policymakers, defense leaders, utility owners, and grid operators to strengthen the power grid, ensuring the U.S. military's future success.Podcasts
Project Vanguard Podcast: The Grid Is a Battlefield, and Veterans Are Built for It
In this conversation, Army veteran and energy security leader Jonathon Monken lays out what’s changing, why it matters, and where veterans can lead next.New Releases
Unleashing the Grid: Energy Dominance for National Defense
The "Unleashing the Grid” framework orients defense stakeholders to current electricity infrastructure trends and explores opportunities where defense input could strengthen and expand the electric grid.Press Releases
Press Release: National Security Advisor Will Rogers Joins Converge Strategies Team
Will Rogers, former U.S. Army Senior Advisor and Congressional National Security Advisor, has joined its team.New Releases
Defense Energy Resilience Engagement Framework for Utility Regulators
The Defense Energy Resilience Engagement Framework for Utility Regulators is a flexible guide for the electricity industry and national security enterprise to collect, examine, and document regulatory considerations for defense energy resilience.New Releases
Concepts to Align Transmission Expansion For National Defense (TREND)
TREND presents concepts for aligning transmission grid investment with national defense, encouraging conversation between the electricity industry and the national security enterprise on expanding our nation’s transmission system.Featured
Our nation’s security requires a modern electric grid
Converge Strategies Principal Jonathon Monken writes in Stars and Stripes that the U.S. electric grid is failing national defense and that incremental fixes won't cut it. Monken makes the case for comprehensive, long-term transmission planning as the essential foundation for both military readiness and national security in an era of surging energy demand and intensifying extreme weather.Case Studies
Retrofitting Existing Solar with Emerging Technologies [RESET]
Converge Strategies helped the military determine if its solar energy systems could be used for resilience to improve mission readiness across the DoD enterprise.Case Studies
Regional Identification of Gaps for Operational Resilience [RIGOR] Process
Converge Strategies, in partnership with Idaho National Laboratory (INL), developed the first process to work with utilities and communities to prioritize resilience solutions and find funding.Case Studies
Resilient Infrastructure and Secure Energy [RISE] Consortium
Converge Strategies, in partnership with ATI, established the Resilient Infrastructure and Secure Energy (RISE) Consortium to connect energy and climate innovators with federal partners. Since launching in 2021, the RISE Consortium has grown to more than 600 members.Case Studies