Infrastructure, Energy and Industry
The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
Illustrative: a transmission grid, its load flows and a cascading outage
Risk Academy, led by the Nexus Consortium · Infrastructure, Energy and Industry
The discipline covers the reliability, security and transition of the systems that produce, store and deliver power, heat and fuels: generation, grids and interconnection, storage, hydropower and nuclear interfaces, and the risks of a fast transition.
Map energy systems and the energy transition on a real place
The model
From a reserve margin to hours of lost load: how adequacy is counted
DataModelGateDecisionStandard it teachesStandard it relies onNeighbouring discipline
The model From a reserve margin to hours of lost load: how adequacy is counted
The subtopics its courses and labs teach.
Courses in development extend the scope to one further subject: Energy, water and cities under heat and drought.
For energy planners, grid and market analysts, utility risk managers and policy staff who need to assess security of supply, grid disruption and restoration, and the transition risks that fall on energy companies and the systems they run.
Each method is listed with what it assumes and where it fails.
Bodies and standards are named so learners can find and apply their published work; the Academy teaches their use and links to the publisher, and no affiliation is implied.
Energy systems and the energy transition's own model, as a live chart: move each parameter and read how the outputs respond.
Search any place or open the world; the layers and generators follow energy systems and the energy transition on the planet map, the globe and in 3D.
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Select corners to build a signature, then hover a line to read what each sector gives and receives.
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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
The Nexus Standards the discipline teaches toward, grouped by master standard, with the disciplines that teach each.
Nexus Standards at the AcademyThe Academy proposes how each discipline teaches toward the Nexus Standards; the mapping is open for review by the editors of the Nexus Standards.
Open scholarly sources searched with the subject terms of Energy systems and the energy transition.
Search termsEnergy systems and the energy transition; Energy security; Power grids and interconnection; Grid disruption and restoration; Renewables and storage; Hydropower and waterDerived from the Risk Academy page on Energy systems and the energy transition.
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Research and preprints as they are published, by discipline, with the faculty's other tools.
The hub lists the newest research and preprints for Energy systems and the energy transition, each with its source and date. Open the research hub
From the Academy's risk taxonomy: the discipline's own entries and those of its primary courses, with how many courses teach each.
Recent developments in energy systems and the energy transition, each with its source; sources checked on 16 October 2026.
Courses with this as their primary discipline.
Courses with this primary discipline1 course open
Each course has its primary discipline elsewhere and teaches this field as part of its scope.
From connected disciplines1 course open
| Lab | What you do in it | Courses using it |
|---|---|---|
| Network lab | Build dependency graphs, find critical nodes, trace cascades | 3 |
| Map lab | Read hazard, exposure and boundaries on real maps | 2 |
| Exposure lab | Overlay people and assets with hazard footprints | 1 |
Nexus Foundry system pages describe what each system and its rooms are designed to do; the courses teach the methods these systems apply.
Start with Cherp, then Billinton, then Kundur.
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The catalogue lists each course with its outcomes, labs, hours and level.