GCRI · Platform
Energy Nexus
Energy systems, transitions, reliability and cross-sector dependencies that sustain society. Energy Nexus is an established platform of The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation.
On the map below
- Night lights
- VIIRS Black Marble (VNP46A2)12 Oct 2026
- Fires and flares
- VIIRS NOAA-20 375 m (FIRMS)13 Oct 2026
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Energy use and outages
Fires and gas flares
Solar resource
Heat and cooling demand
Hydropower water
3D columns: nexus exposure per hexagon
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NASA GIBS / EOSDIS · ASTER GDEM (METI, NASA) · Natural Earth
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Night lights, power plants, fires and gas flares, sunlight, heat and hydropower water from NASA satellites, each dated.Satellite and model products as NASA publishes them and the 2021 WRI power plant database; indicators, not measurements of supply, access or outages.
Data: NASA GIBS · ASTER GDEM · Natural EarthSources and licences
- We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA’s Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA’s Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into hexagonal cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
- VIIRS Black Marble night-time lights, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; distributed by the NASA Level-1 and Atmosphere Archive and Distribution System (LAADS DAAC); imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into hexagonal cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
- Global Energy Observatory, Google, KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Enipedia, World Resources Institute. 2018. Global Power Plant Database. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. CC BY 4.0
- NASA Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS), VIIRS 375 m active fire product, NASA LANCE; vector tiles via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into hexagonal cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
- MERRA-2 reanalysis, NASA Global Modeling and Assimilation Office; distributed by the NASA GES DISC; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into hexagonal cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
- MODIS and VIIRS atmosphere products, NASA LANCE and LAADS DAAC; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into hexagonal cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
- VIIRS near-real-time products (flood, land surface temperature, snow cover, corrected reflectance), NASA LANCE; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into hexagonal cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
- GPM IMERG precipitation, NASA Precipitation Processing System; distributed by the NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC); imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into hexagonal cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
- ASTER GDEM is a product of METI and NASA (ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model V003, NASA LP DAAC); imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into hexagonal cells where shown (modified). Cite as: NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Spacesystems and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team (2019). ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model V003. doi:10.5067/ASTER/ASTGTM.003. NASA open data
- Made with Natural Earth. Free vector and raster map data @ naturalearthdata.com. Public domain
- Hexagon cells: Uber hexagonal (h3-js, Apache-2.0), computed at build time.
Layers and dates
- Night-time lights, daily: VIIRS Black Marble (VNP46A2), NASA LAADS DAAC · 12 Oct 2026
- Power plants of 300 MW and more, by fuel and capacity: Power plants: Global Power Plant Database v1.3.0 (2021), World Resources Institute and partners, CC BY 4.0 · 2 Jun 2021
- Active fires and thermal anomalies: VIIRS NOAA-20 375 m (FIRMS), NASA LANCE FIRMS · 13 Oct 2026
- Incoming sunlight at the surface over land, monthly mean: MERRA-2, NASA GMAO / GES DISC · July 2026
- Daytime cloud fraction: MODIS Terra, NASA LANCE · 13 Oct 2026
- Aerosol optical depth, daily: MODIS Terra and Aqua value-added AOD, NASA LANCE · 13 Oct 2026
- Land surface temperature, day: VIIRS NOAA-20, NASA LANCE · 13 Oct 2026
- Snow cover: VIIRS NOAA-20 NDSI, NASA LANCE · 13 Oct 2026
- Precipitation rate, daily mean: GPM IMERG, NASA GES DISC · 12 Oct 2026
What the work is read against.
The platform does not set standards. It reads its evidence against the frameworks that competent bodies have adopted, so a finding can be placed where a decision-maker already works.
| Framework or standard | Body | What it sets |
|---|---|---|
| Sustainable Development Goal 7 and its indicators | United Nations | Targets and indicator definitions for electricity access, clean cooking, renewable share, energy intensity and international support |
| Paris Agreement and nationally determined contributions | UNFCCC | Economy-wide mitigation and adaptation commitments in which energy supply and demand are central components |
| NERC Reliability Standards | North American Electric Reliability Corporation, under FERC oversight | Mandatory requirements for bulk power system planning, operation, emergency preparedness, restoration and critical infrastructure protection |
| EU network codes on system operation and on emergency and restoration | European Commission, ACER and ENTSO-E | Operational security limits, frequency control, system defence plans and restoration plans for the interconnected European grid |
| IEEE 1366 guide for distribution reliability indices | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | Definitions of interruption duration and frequency indices used by utilities and regulators |
| IEC 61850 and IEC 62443 | International Electrotechnical Commission | Communication for power utility automation, and security of industrial automation and control systems |
| ISO 50001 energy management systems | International Organization for Standardization | Requirements for establishing, operating and improving energy performance in organisations and industrial sites |
| IEA emergency response system and oil stockholding obligation | International Energy Agency | Member obligations to hold emergency oil stocks and to coordinate response to severe supply disruptions |
| IAEA Safety Standards | International Atomic Energy Agency | Safety principles, requirements and guides for nuclear installations, radiation protection and emergency preparedness and response |
| Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction | UNDRR | Targets that include reducing disaster damage to critical infrastructure and disruption of basic services |
Model Energy Nexus as a system. Run the cascade.
Assembled from the Nexus Standards area profile Energy risk standards: the hazards it names, the systems and sectors that carry the loss, the controls that dampen it and the data that observe it. Choose the components, pick an initiating hazard and step through the cascade. The Map view places the run on an example geography with open data. Every coupling weight is a stated assumption you can change. A teaching model, not a forecast, an assessment or a certification. To model a place of your own choosing, open the full System Builder.
Hazards
- Heatwave
- Windstorm
- Widespread power outage (set off downstream)
- Large forest disturbance (set off downstream)
- Wildfire (set off downstream)
- Extreme fire weather (set off downstream)
- Heat-driven grid stress (set off downstream)
- Agricultural drought (set off downstream)
- Flash drought (set off downstream)
- Snow drought (set off downstream)
- Ground-level ozone episode (set off downstream)
- Meteorological drought (set off downstream)
- Extreme night-time heat (set off downstream)
- Lake and river heatwave (set off downstream)
- Cooling-water curtailment of power plants (set off downstream)
- Heat-induced track buckling (set off downstream)
- Shoreline ice shove (set off downstream)
- Seiche (set off downstream)
Systems and couplings
- Energy risk standards
- Water risk standards Common driver
- Critical infrastructure and critical entities Cascade
- Climate risk standards Feedback
- Space weather, spectrum and timing risk standards Common driver
Controls
NS-0Constitution and principlesNS-1The UNI and the artefact catalogue (grammar v0.2: domain, sector, region and environment segments)NS-3Risk record UNIs (grammar, legacy crosswalk, allocation authority)NS-9Contextual UNIs (deployments, instances, programme instances)NS-10Policies and clauses (machine-readable obligations: definition, binding, evaluation and enforcement)NS-11Verification and monitoring (evidence, attestations, zero-trust conformance observation)NRS-H84Hazard family: Energy system instability and shortfall (NHS-1 infra.energy)NRS-H61Hazard family: Cascading failure (NHS-1 sys.cascade)NRS-U8Universe platform profile: Energy NexusNRS-H48Hazard family: Utility and communication network outage (NHS-1 infra.utilities)NRS-H109Hazard family: Energy-transition technology failures (NHS-1 tech.energy-transition)NRS-H54Hazard family: Signal and platform disruption (NHS-1 cyber.platform)
Observation
- Global Power Plant Database (listed for reference)
- NASA Black Marble night-time lights (VNP46) (listed for reference)
- Ember electricity data (listed for reference)
- ENTSO-E Transparency Platform (listed for reference)
- EIA Open Data API (listed for reference)
- Proportion of population with access to electricity
- Renewable energy share in total final energy consumption
- Number of disruptions to basic services attributed to disasters
- Damage to critical infrastructure attributed to disasters
Example geography
- Europe: 113 hexagonal cells
- Surface air temperature, daytime (AIRS), NASA GIBS
- Rain rate, last half hour (IMERG), NASA GIBS
- Night lights tonight, outages (VIIRS Day/Night Band), NASA GIBS
- Vegetation disturbance alerts, 30 m (OPERA DIST-ALERT), NASA GIBS
The questions this field works on.
Energy security
Supply adequacy, access and reliability.
TopicPower grids and interconnection
Transmission, distribution and system dependencies.
TopicRenewables and storage
Storage technologies and weather variability.
TopicHeat and cooling
Cooling requirements and extreme heat.
TopicHydropower and water
Hydropower, drought and cooling water.
TopicIndustrial energy systems
Industrial demand and resource pathways.
TopicNuclear energy and the safety interface
Energy science and regulated nuclear-safety boundaries.
TopicGrid disruption and recovery
Outages, black-start and critical service restoration.
TopicRadiological and nuclear risk
Nuclear and radiological safety context and independent regulatory role.
The sector signature of Energy Nexus.
The sectors Energy Nexus touches and how strongly they depend on each other: what a study has to observe and model together.
Signature
Energy and its partners
Energy gives power for transport and telecoms to infrastructure (0.8), pumping and treatment to water (0.5) and fertiliser, machinery and cold chains to food (0.5).
W · E · I · F · H · B
- Sectors
- 4 of 6
- Relations
- 6 of 15
- Coupling
- 0.46 share of total
Strongest relations in play
- Energy → Infrastructure · power for transport and telecoms0.8
- Water → Energy · cooling water and hydropower0.6
- Water → Food · irrigation0.8
- Infrastructure → Water · pipes, dams and treatment works0.6
What Energy Nexus does.
Energy security is the uninterrupted availability of energy at a price society can bear, and it depends on adequate supply, reliable grids, diverse fuels and routes, and access. Energy Nexus covers generation and fuels, grids and interconnection, storage, heat and cooling, hydropower, industrial demand and the interface with nuclear safety, and traces how energy failures reach water, health, communications and finance.
Its community
Grid engineers; utility operators; energy scientists; infrastructure planners; energy economists.
Its methods
Load and adequacy models; outage and asset resilience; storage analyses.
Its outputs
Energy resilience scenarios; grid-dependency briefs; transition evidence.
How Energy Nexus is modelled, measured and tested.
The model, its assumptions, its data and its uncertainty, in the form a scientist or engineer would check. Structures follow published methods. The values drawn are illustrative, not findings.
System model
The couplings between the systems in Energy Nexus: signs of influence, a reinforcing and a balancing loop, and cross-links where stress jumps.
Uncertainty bands
How far the outlook for Energy Nexus could spread, shown as ranges rather than a single line.
- Central estimate
- median of the ensemble
- Ranges
- likely and very likely, in IPCC calibrated language
- Ensemble
- members, scenarios and initial conditions stated
- Read with
- the sensitivity of the result to each input
What Energy Nexus does, and what stays with energy authorities.
Energy Nexus studies energy systems as engineered networks under weather, market and security stress, and helps countries build the capability to test their own systems. It operates no grid, sets no reliability standard, regulates no utility, licenses no plant and advises no investment; system operators, regulators, nuclear safety authorities and ministries hold those roles.
Grid models and scenarios on these pages are illustrative or synthetic unless stated, never a forecast or an assessment of a real network. Restricted network detail stays with its owner. Readiness is not authority, and national energy agendas, data and decisions stay national.
Where energy couples to the other domains, and where findings are designed to go.
| Coupling | Where it is examined | Series designed to carry it |
|---|---|---|
| Energy and water: cooling, hydropower, pumping | Hydropower and water | Regional Systems |
| Energy and health: hospitals, cold chains, heat | Heat and cooling with Health Nexus | Scenario and Stress-Test |
| Energy and food: fertiliser, mechanisation, processing | Industrial energy systems with Food Nexus | Global Sector Risk and Resilience |
| Energy and security of supply | Energy security | Strategic Systems |
Energy models used in studies are designed to carry model cards, and supply series record identifiers, under the proposed Nexus Standards.
What engineers, operators and researchers can add.
- Disturbance records: published outage and disturbance investigations.
- Data: demand, generation and weather series for regional studies, under terms.
- Methods: adequacy and restoration models with their validation.
- Corrections: through corrections.
Energy is the system other systems quietly assume.
Water treatment, hospitals, payments, telecommunications, food cold chains and data centres all assume that power and fuel arrive on demand. That assumption rests on physical systems that must balance supply and demand continuously, across networks that span countries.
An electricity system has very little storage relative to the energy it carries, so generation must match consumption second by second. Frequency and voltage stay within narrow bands only because operators hold reserves, protection systems isolate faults and interconnections share support across regions. When a large plant trips or a transmission line fails, the system has seconds to minutes to respond before automatic protection begins disconnecting load to save the rest of the network.
Failures cascade because the same networks that share support also share stress. A line that trips pushes its flow onto neighbouring lines, which may overload in turn. Loss of power then reaches pumping stations, telecommunications sites and fuel terminals, some of which are needed to restore the grid itself. Extreme heat raises demand for cooling while reducing the capacity of lines, transformers and thermal plants. Drought lowers hydropower output and the cooling water available to thermal and nuclear stations. These are common-cause events: one hazard degrades several defences at once.
The energy transition changes the physics as well as the fuel mix. Wind and solar generation is variable and connects through power electronics rather than spinning machines, which alters how systems keep their inertia and stability. Electrifying heat and transport increases dependence on the grid at the moment its operation is changing fastest. Understanding these shifts is a scientific task before it is a policy one.
Evidence on reliability, transitions and dependencies, with its limits stated.
Energy Nexus studies energy systems as engineered, economic and social systems at once. Its work is designed to produce three kinds of output, each published with its methods, data sources and uncertainty.
Energy resilience scenarios
Structured, plausible stress cases such as prolonged heat, low wind and low water together, used to test adequacy and restoration assumptions rather than to forecast.
Grid-dependency briefs
Maps of which services depend on which parts of the energy system, and which parts of the energy system depend on those services in return.
Transition evidence
Analysis of how changes in technology, demand and system operation affect reliability, cost exposure and the people who rely on the system.
Methods include load and adequacy models, outage and asset-resilience analysis and storage studies. Energy Nexus does not operate grids, set tariffs, license plants or approve projects.
Grounded in named methods, linked across the three institutions.
Every finding rests on methods with a canonical page in the STEM Commons: power systems engineering, energy generation, storage and grid technology, reliability and resilience engineering, optimisation and operations research, forecasting and time-series analysis, network science and contagion, materials science and chemistry and process and industrial safety engineering.
GCRI studies the field as science. Disaster and Crisis Governance at The Global Risks Forum (GRF) convenes institutions on how authorities prepare for and govern infrastructure crises. At The Global Risks Alliance (GRA), Insurance Nexus and Development Finance Nexus build shared industry understanding of how energy risk reaches balance sheets. All counterparts are listed on counterparts across the Consortium, and the wider field is mapped on the Energy field gateway.
The areas of energy this platform takes on.
Energy Nexus studies the energy systems that every other system runs on: generation and fuels, transmission and distribution grids, storage, heating and cooling, industrial demand, and the regulated boundary where energy science meets nuclear safety. Its pages set out how adequacy and reliability are measured, how weather, water, heat and equipment failure propagate through grids into water, health, communications and finance, and what evidence operators, regulators and ministries use. Every value is labelled by its evidence.
Energy security
Adequacy of supply, fuel stocks, import dependence and access to modern energy for households and essential services.
Grids and interconnection
Transmission, distribution and cross-border links, and the operating rules that keep frequency and voltage within limits.
Renewables and storage
Variable wind and solar output, the weather that drives it, and the storage and flexibility that balance it.
Heat and cooling
Heating and cooling demand under temperature extremes, and the strain coincident peaks place on supply and health.
Hydropower and water
Hydropower, drought and the cooling water thermal plants need, where energy and water stress arrive together.
Industrial energy
Industrial demand, process heat, fuel switching and the material and mineral pathways of the transition.
Disruption and recovery
Outages, black start, restoration sequencing and the critical services that depend on the grid coming back.
Nuclear safety interface
The boundary between energy system science and the independent regulation of nuclear and radiological safety.
Built on named science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Every claim on Energy Nexus rests on methods with a canonical page in the STEM Commons, so readers can see what a finding depends on and where its limits lie.
How work moves in this field.
A question becomes evidence, a governed build, an organised community, a controlled test, a reviewed publication and, finally, a decision taken by the competent authority under its own rules.
- Question Universe National, regional or institutional priority. Question in Energy Nexus
- Evidence Foundry STEM foundation of the platform. Evidence in Energy Nexus
- Build Foundry Foundry. Build in Energy Nexus
- Organise Universe Nexus ecosystem. Organise in Energy Nexus
- Test Universe Universe (independent site). Test in Energy Nexus
- Publish Reports Reports. Publish in Energy Nexus
- Decide Competent authority Competent authorities and institutions, through NXS-RLS (participants, agreements and handoffs). Decide in Energy Nexus
- Renew Universe Corrections and the next annual agenda. Renew in Energy Nexus
Each step of the cycle in the pillar it runs in; the decision stays with the competent authority, outside the programme.
- Labs
- Foundry
- Universe
- Nexus Standards
- Reports
- Risk Academy
- Competent authority (outside the programme)
How this works across the six pillars.
Energy Nexus works through six pillars of one annual programme, led by the Nexus Consortium, with GCRI, GRF and GRA each contributing in its role: explore, experiment and prototype in Labs, build, simulate and prepare in Foundry, convene and test in Universe, codify, correct and apply in Nexus Standards, publish in every format in Reports, teach in the open in Risk Academy.
handoff in playrecorded handoffno direct handoff
Programme yearAll phases
Route
The whole programme
Every pillar hands its work to another; together they close the year’s feedback loops.
L · F · U · S · R · A
- Pillars
- 6 of 6
- Handoffs
- 18 of 18
- Loops
- 17 closed
Handoffs in play
- F01Universe → Foundry · Admitted mission becomes a cycle project with a decision caseReadiness preparation
- F02Foundry → Universe · Core Build Report and go or no-go evidenceControlled build
- F03Foundry → Reports · Sealed observations and indicator series behind a profileCloseout
- F04Universe → Reports · After-action and scenario findings for chapters 10 and 13After-action review
and 14 more
- LabsWhere questions become experiments and prototypes: new methods, data and tools are tried in the open, with their limits on record, before the Foundry builds them, under the Nexus Consortium.Labs
- FoundryWhere methods, data and models become reproducible builds, each run with its inputs, version and limits on record.Energy Nexus in FoundryFoundry
- UniverseWhere a build is tested under controlled conditions with independent evaluators, so a method’s skill is measured, not assumed.Energy Nexus in Universeuniverse.nexus
- Nexus StandardsWhere methods, identifiers and data schemas are codified in the open and corrected when a test finds a fault.Energy and Critical Infrastructure in Standardsnexustandards.com
- ReportsWhere findings are published with their method, uncertainty and evidence class, and corrected as new versions.Energy Nexus in ReportsReports
- Risk AcademyWhere methods and systems are taught on real data and real places, by working the case, on Risk Academy.Faculty of Infrastructure, Energy and Industry in Academyrisksacademy.com
The same field, seen three ways.
GCRI studies a field as science, GRF governs it and GRA builds shared financial understanding of it. Energy Nexus links to its counterparts so that work on one side is visible on the others.
- Diplomacy NexusInstitutionGRFShared fieldClimate and hazards
- Climate and Nature GovernanceInstitutionGRFShared fieldClimate and hazards
- Disaster and Crisis GovernanceInstitutionGRFShared fieldCritical infrastructure
- Insurance NexusInstitutionGRAShared fieldClimate and hazards
- Banking NexusInstitutionGRAShared fieldClimate and hazards
- Asset Management NexusInstitutionGRAShared fieldClimate and hazards
- Development Finance NexusInstitutionGRAShared fieldCritical infrastructure
- Reinsurance and CatastropheInstitutionGRAShared fieldClimate and hazards
Where this page’s references lead.
The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.
- Tracking SDG 7: The Energy Progress Report 2025 (IEA, IRENA, UNSD, World Bank and WHO, 2025)
- World Energy Outlook 2025 (International Energy Agency, 2025)
- Outcome of the first global stocktake, decision 1/CMA.5 (UNFCCC, 2023)
- IAEA Fundamental Safety Principles, SF-1 (IAEA, 2006)
- Nexus Standards, the proposed NS series (nexustandards.com)
Pages in Energy Nexus.
Mandate and publisher
PageField overview
PageResearch and evidence
PageInnovation and practical technology
PageProgrammes and projects
PageData and technical methods
PageSpecialist community
PageLearning and professional development
PageEvents and technical dialogues
PageResearch and publications
PageParticipation paths
PageContact the specialist team
PageTrust, rights and status
PageSTEM foundation of Energy Nexus
PageChapters
PageHow work moves in this field
PageBuild in Foundry
PageTest in Universe
PagePublish in Reports
PageThe same field across the Consortium
PageTopics
Where this page leads across the Consortium.
Questions and answers.
Who publishes Energy Nexus?
Is Energy Nexus active?
How can I contribute?
Where are findings published?
Which values on this platform are real?
How do I report an error?
Does Energy Nexus advise on specific projects or investments?
Why does a science platform cover nuclear safety?
Contribute evidence from this page.
Reports is the Consortium’s quarterly publication. What you know about this subject can become evidence, a case or a correction in the next edition, credited to you and published under CC BY 4.0 where it is your own work.
- EmailGateway GW-GCRISend it from this pageEvidence, a correction, a case, a method, a review, a translation or profile input. It arrives tagged with this page, so the editor who owns it receives it.
- ZenodoOpen depositDeposit it and submit to the communityPublish your own record on Zenodo with your ORCID iD, then submit it to the Reports community there. Curators review it; the DOI stays yours.
- ReportsGCRISee every way to contributeThe contribution types, how each is reviewed, what credit you receive, the licence and what is never accepted.
Never send personal data, sensitive infrastructure detail or anything you have no right to share. A contribution is reviewed before use; sending it confers no authorship or editorial rights, and sponsorship never buys a finding.
How Energy Nexus works.
Choose a view and press Play to follow the platform’s process, its programme year, the standards it applies and how its findings are published. The outline shows how the work is designed to run, not the status of any decision.
Energy Nexus
How Energy Nexus works
Platforms · Programme year · Standards · Reports
A platform joins a field to named methods, labelled evidence and the outputs it publishes, without becoming the authority it serves.
01 Scope
- 01Field and familiesStart · The platform leadThe home states the field, its families and who it serves.
- 02Topic dossiersRecord · Platform authorsTopics explain the subject with labelled evidence.
02 Evidence
- 03Evidence labelsRecord · GCRIEach value is labelled: observed, published statistics, estimated, modelled, scenario or unknown.
- 04MethodsStep · Method ownersMethods come from the STEM Commons, each with one canonical page.
03 Work
- 05Scenarios on the systemsModel · Foundry pillarScenarios run on the Nexus systems, labelled as scenario.
- 06Standards that applyRecord · Nexus StandardsThe platform names the standards that apply. A validator report is evidence for review.
04 Publish
- 07EditionsRecord · ReportsFindings are published through Reports with their limits.
- 08Authority decidesOutcome · The competent authorityDecisions and execution stay with the government, operator or licensed institution.
Energy Nexus home · Platforms · Shared methodsAn outline of how the work is designed to run; it does not report the status of any decision or record.
Take part in Energy Nexus.
Start from who you are. Answer an open call. Or form and lead a competence cell on the Energy Nexus platform.
National institutions
Ministries, statistics offices and agencies: a national desk and chapter, and a seat in the working groups. National chapters
Sectors and professions
Operators, regulators, banks, insurers and professional bodies whose work touches Energy Nexus. Participate
Learning
Courses and practice, with a record of every course completed. Free to study. Open learning
Standards
Draft, review and adopt the methods and data standards with the working groups. Working groups
Communities and research
Universities, civil society and individual experts: projects, data and review. Write to the team
| Open call | Seeks | Closes |
|---|---|---|
| Founding call for experts to the working groups CALL-FOUNDING-EXPERTS | expert, editor, chair | 2026-12-15 |
| Open nomination for the three independent expert seats of the Global Standards Council CALL-GSC-IND | council-member | 2026-12-01 |
| Nominations of interim regional members (applies only if the transitional provision is decided) CALL-GSC-REG | council-member | 2026-12-15 |
| Review of the wave-1 risk core outlines (C1, C2, C3, C4, C8, C10, C11) CALL-REVIEW-WAVE1 | contributor | 2027-01-31 |
| Experts for the core standards of risk science: uncertainty and evidence grading, scales, structured expert judgement, tolerability, extremes and compound events, catastrophic and existential risk, ethics and equity, units and measurement (NRS-C17 to NRS-C24) CALL-CORE-SCIENCE | expert, editor, chair | 2027-01-31 |
| Independent reviewers for the families of the hazard atlas, three from at least two regions for each family (NHS2-R19), priority families first CALL-ATLAS-REVIEW | expert | 2027-03-31 |
| Members of the interim Frontier Safety Review Panel and red-team reviewers (biosafety and biosecurity, AI safety and security, critical-infrastructure security); applications treated in confidence CALL-FRONTIER-SAFETY-REVIEW | expert | 2026-11-30 |
| Experts in ontology, metrology, software verification and conformity assessment for the requirement register, the NHS-2 machine representation, the conformance test suites and the conformity assessment scheme CALL-CONFORMANCE-ONTOLOGY | expert, editor | 2027-01-31 |
Calls past their closing date are hidden automatically. Every call, proposal and route: open areas and calls.
Gather the cell
Bring together three to seven people with complementary skills: data, field practice, policy and communication.
Register it
Write to the team with the cell’s name, members, area and region. You receive a reference and a contact. Write to the team
Choose a charter
Pick one focus: research and evidence, data and maps, standards review, or community preparedness.
Learn together
Follow shared study paths at Risk Academy, with practice and a record of every course completed. Hazards and resilience
Lead and report
Hold regular sessions. Publish what the cell learns through Reports. Bring findings to the working groups. Working groups
What a national team or a local community can do on The Global Risks Index (NXS-GRX) today.
Your country’s profile
Open risk profiles for 195 countries, with sources and licences on every value. Open the Index
Correct or reply
Correct a value or reply for your country. The change is logged with its effect. Open the Index
Offer data
Offer a dataset. It enters through the licence gate, with your credit. Open the Index
Every figure on this page is indexed: hazards, climate, conflict, the world.
The Index is the Consortium’s indexing system for risk data. Every indicator, hazard, series and country profile carries its Nexus Standards identifier, its source and its licence, so what this page shows can be traced, corrected and reused.
- 01 · Sources205 registered sourcesEvery value keeps its source and licence; withheld values are counted.Data and licences
- 02 · Nexus StandardsNIS-1 and NHS-1451 indicators, 905 hazards; every record carries a UNI.Nexus Standards
- 03 · The Index54 series, 195 country profilesComputed on the standards; no value is published until an edition is released.The Global Risks Index
- 04 · This pageEnergy NexusMaps, figures and feeds read the Index in the context of hazards, climate, conflict.Public API
Series in this context hazards, climate, conflict
- GLBGlobal SystemsThe state of interdependent global risk: the twenty domain indices aggregated to the world, the five core systems (water, energy, food, health, biodiversity) and their couplings, the global tail register and the gap…NXS-GRX-AR-000002Hazards · Climate · Conflict
- THDisaster Risk Intelligence (DRI)Signals, observations, event streams, geospatial layers and scenario packs turned into structured risk intelligence for preparedness and planning.NXS-GRX-AR-000111Hazards · Climate · Conflict
- GSGlobal CitiesUrban exposure, heat, flooding, informal settlement, service dependency and the economic weight of cities at risk.NXS-GRX-AR-000068Hazards · Infrastructure · Climate
- GSGlobal ClimateChronic and acute physical climate hazard, transition exposure, adaptation gaps and scenario pathways to 2030, 2050 and 2100.NXS-GRX-AR-000065Climate · Hazards · Finance
Country profiles the world
Every country profile carries the source and licence of each value. Correct a value or reply
Hazard domains NHS-1
- Atmosphere and weatherNXS-GRX-AR-000135
- Solid EarthNXS-GRX-AR-000138
- Systemic and compound eventsNXS-GRX-AR-000148
Geodata and API open
Open layers on an equal-area hexagon grid, shown as densities per km² or as symbols: People · GHSL 2025People · WorldPop 2025Built-up areaPortsAirportsRoadsRailwaysRivers and lake centrelines
/api/v1/public/grix · https://nexustandards.com/uni/{uni}
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