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 technologies of decarbonisation and climate response and the risks they carry: energy storage, hydrogen, advanced nuclear including small modular reactors and fusion, and carbon dioxide removal with its measurement and permanence.
The model
From a learning rate to a cost per megawatt-hour: how deployment prices a storage technology
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The model From a learning rate to a cost per megawatt-hour: how deployment prices a storage technology
The subtopics its courses and labs teach.
Courses in development extend the scope to further subjects: Carbon removal, hydrogen and storage risk; Advanced nuclear safety, security and safeguards.
For engineers, investors, regulators and analysts who need to understand how storage, hydrogen, advanced nuclear and carbon dioxide removal work, how each fails, and how their performance and permanence claims are verified.
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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).
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Open scholarly sources searched with the subject terms of Climate and energy technologies.
Search termsClimate and energy technologies; Energy storage and battery safety; Hydrogen production, storage and safety; Small modular and advanced reactors; Fusion research and its timelines; Carbon dioxide removal methodsDerived from the Risk Academy page on Climate and energy technologies.
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Recent developments in climate and energy technologies, each with its source; sources checked on 16 October 2026.
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