Power, fuel, telecommunications, water and transport are interdependent networks: an outage propagates through them faster than any one operator can see. This subsite relates the asset, reliability, continuity and critical-entity standards that make those dependencies explicit and recordable. Every artifact of these areas carries a UNI (Unique Nexus Identifier), which identifies and never certifies.
Nexus Standards (2026). Energy and Critical Infrastructure: master subsite of the Nexus Standards (PROPOSED areas). https://nexustandards.com/energy-infrastructure/. Last reviewed 2026-10-17.
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Every area of the subsite with its tier, status, the Nexus Standards it lists, the open standards it names, its feeds and its couplings. Area entries are PROPOSED; registry rows are named where they exist.
Area index3 of 5 areas have a registry row; the rest are proposed areas with a full context entry and no registry row yet. Feed counts include sources pending admission.
43 coupling rows join this subsite's areas to 9 other subsites, counted from the systemicContext rows of the area context bank in both directions. Select a card on the canvas to trace it.
Fig.Edge labels count coupling rows. GATE marks a subsite, DONE and RUNNING an area of this subsite. Tags give reading order only. Design, not a record.
| Coupled subsite | Rows | Example mechanism |
|---|---|---|
| Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction | 14 | Common driver: geomagnetic storms induce currents that damage transformers and disrupt GNSS timing used in grid synchronisation.Energy risk standards to Space weather, spectrum and timing risk standards |
| Digital, Cyber and AI | 9 | Grid control depends on telecom networks and telecom sites depend on grid power and backup fuel, a two-way dependency that turns a single outage into a cascade.Energy utilities and grids to Digital, telecom and platforms |
| Industry, Trade and Supply Chains | 7 | Fuel logistics and electrified transport tie supply disruption to mobility and freight continuity.Energy utilities and grids to Transport, logistics and supply chains |
| Water and Food Systems | 4 | Common driver and cascade: low river flows and high water temperatures curtail hydropower and thermal-plant cooling, while grid outages stop pumping and treatment.Water risk standards to Energy risk standards |
| Finance, Insurance and the Economy | 3 | Transition risk on fossil assets and physical risk on grid assets enter bank and insurer exposures through utility balance sheets.Energy utilities and grids to Finance, insurance and capital markets |
| Cities and the Built Environment | 2 | Cascade: failure of power, water or transport networks in a city propagates across dependent services.Cities and urban systems risk standards to Critical infrastructure and critical entities |
| Climate and Earth Systems | 2 | Feedback: transition changes the energy system and its vulnerabilities.Climate adaptation and transition risk to Energy risk standards |
| Governance, Security and Society | 1 | Cascade: geopolitical shocks move energy prices.Geopolitical and security risk to Energy risk standards |
Open Earth observation layers framed on europe, as an example geography for energy and critical infrastructure: context for where its records live, never an assessment and never a statement of where the standards apply. Layers, dates and credits are on the map.
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Night-time lights, fires and gas flares, sunshine and heat, the signals of energy use, supply and demand, framed on Europe.Satellite and model products as NASA publishes them, each with its own date; indicators, not assessments of any place; claim ceiling INTEGRATED.
Layers and dates
Provider, licence, delivery path and register status for each source. A source is live on a public page only after an owner decision admits it; until then it reads pending admission.
No legal register row admits any of these sources for live display on public pages yet, so nothing is read from them here. A register row that exists records the source for the governed GRIx path; admission for public pages is a separate owner decision.
GDACS global disaster alerts (events API, RSS, CAP)pending admission
European Commission JRC and UN OCHA · near real time
European Commission reuse policy (CC BY 4.0 for EC content)
GRIx governed readregister row exists
Global Human Settlement Layerpending admission
European Commission JRC · multi-year epochs
CC BY 4.0 under the Commission reuse policy
GRIx governed readregister row exists
Global Power Plant Databasepending admission
World Resources Institute · static release (v1.3.0)
CC BY 4.0
GRIx governed readregister row exists
Global Power Plant Database v1.3.0pending admission
World Resources Institute · static (2021)
CC BY 4.0
build-time snapshotregister row exists
NASA Black Marble night-time lights (VNP46)pending admission
NASA Goddard / LAADS DAAC · daily
NASA Earth science data and information policy (open)
GRIx governed readregister row exists
OECD Data Explorer (incl. Creditor Reporting System, insurance and pension statistics)pending admission
OECD · varies by dataset
CC BY 4.0 unless otherwise stated
GRIx governed readregister row exists
OpenStreetMap planet and replicationpending admission
OpenStreetMap Foundation and contributors · minutely
ODbL-1.0
GRIx governed readregister row exists
World Development Indicatorspending admission
World Bank · annual with quarterly updates
CC BY 4.0
GRIx governed readregister row exists
EIA Open Data APIpending admission
U.S. Energy Information Administration · hourly to annual
U.S. Government work, public domain
build-time snapshotproposed register row
eMARS Major Accident Reporting Systempending admission
European Commission JRC (Major Accident Hazards Bureau) · event-driven
European Commission reuse policy; licence to be recorded by Legal
browser-direct readproposed register row
Ember electricity datapending admission
Ember · monthly
CC BY 4.0
build-time snapshotproposed register row
ENTSO-E Transparency Platformpending admission
ENTSO-E · hourly
ENTSO-E transparency terms and conditions; licence to be recorded by Legal
build-time snapshotproposed register row
PubChem compound, hazard and GHS classification recordspending admission
U.S. National Library of Medicine (NCBI) · continuous
Public domain for NCBI content; per-source terms for contributed data
build-time snapshotproposed register row
Standards that applyA filled cell means the area's context entry lists that Nexus Standard. Context entries are PROPOSED; no cell is a conformance, certification or readiness statement.
Indicator names and codes as their stewards publish them; values appear only from a governed GRIx source, never typed into a page.
Energy risk standards · GCRI Canada may treat outage and asset-exposure records with source releases and correction history as evidence for cascade research; GCRI Canada decides under its own evidence and research rules, and no approval is implied.
Energy utilities and grids · Outage and restoration series with asset UNIs and source releases become readable as evidence for GCRI Canada cascade research, which applies its own admissibility rules.
Critical infrastructure and critical entities · GCRI Canada may admit interdependency and outage records as research evidence on infrastructure cascades; GCRI Canada decides under its own evidence and research rules, and no approval is implied.
2 more areas state what this pathway reads; each area page has its own line.
Energy risk standards · GRF may record grid operators and regulators adopting the outage record profile as a cross-border dialogue item; GRF decides under its own recognition rules, and no recognition or endorsement is implied.
Energy utilities and grids · A grid operator that publishes continuity clauses and attestation history provides GRF with a record trail; recognition remains a GRF decision.
Critical infrastructure and critical entities · GRF may record operators sharing interdependency records as a dialogue item; GRF decides under its own recognition rules, and no recognition or endorsement is implied.
2 more areas state what this pathway reads; each area page has its own line.
Energy risk standards · GRA may use transition-risk and physical-exposure records when it examines energy project pipelines; GRA decides under its own capital-readiness rules, and no approval, rating or investment view is implied.
Energy utilities and grids · Grid-hardening and transition projects can present verified exposure and continuity baselines to GRA, which assesses capital readiness under its own rules.
Critical infrastructure and critical entities · GRA may read resilience measure records when it considers infrastructure investment; GRA decides under its own capital-readiness rules, and no approval, rating or investment view is implied.
2 more areas state what this pathway reads; each area page has its own line.
Each institution decides under its own rules what it reads as evidence; no pathway is an approval, a readiness statement or investment advice.
Each area proposes a working group with a scope, deliverables and liaison targets; a liaison is sought, never claimed, until the body confirms it in writing.
| Area | Working group scope | Deliverables | Liaison sought |
|---|---|---|---|
| Energy risk standards | Outage, asset-exposure and transition-risk records and the dependency graph linking energy to other critical services. | 3 | 4IEA Technology Collaboration Programmes, ENTSO-E, IRENA, World Bank Energy Sector Management Assistance Program |
| Energy utilities and grids | Profile outage, adequacy and operational-technology incident records and crosswalk them to grid-security and critical-entity instruments. | 3 | 4International Energy Agency, ENTSO-E, North American Electric Reliability Corporation, IEC TC 57 |
| Critical infrastructure and critical entities | Records for critical entities, interdependencies and resilience measures across sectors. | 3 | 4UNDRR Principles for Resilient Infrastructure team, Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure, ENISA, OECD… |
| Technological and industrial hazard standards | Accident, sensor and Natech records with causal analysis and calibration lineage. | 3 | 4OECD Working Party on Chemical Accidents, European Commission JRC Major Accident Hazards Bureau, UNECE Industrial… |
| Business continuity and resilience | Records for critical activities, dependencies and tested recovery. | 3 | 4Business Continuity Institute, Disaster Recovery Institute International, ISO/TC 292, ENISA |
Pick an area above, adopt its proposed charter and file it as a docket under NS-13; editors decide with written reasons. Develop a standard
Every area entry is PROPOSED: a pull request against the area context bank names the change and its source, peer-reviewed or published statistics.
Propose a feed with provider, licence and delivery path; Legal/IP records the terms and the owner decides admission. Agents never admit a source.
Contribute to an external standard through its own body's channels; the outcome comes back here as a register change. Movement and contribution
Peer-reviewed sources and published statistics as the area entries cite them, newest first within each type.
The Nexus Risk Standards read in Energy and Critical Infrastructure, the NHS-1 hazard domains it carries and its library: scope, codes, schemas, conformance, governance, templates, crosswalks, change log and how to contribute.
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NHS-1 infra13 families
LibraryRisk Academy disciplines that teach Energy and Critical Infrastructure, with their courses; the GCRI Canada, The Global Risks Forum (GRF) and The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) subsites that carry those disciplines; and the Nexus Foundry systems the standards name. Mappings are proposed for review (Risk Academy standards map, 2026-10-17); a link says a page on the same subject exists, never an endorsement or a conformance statement; framework names in course titles are named and linked, never reproduced.
Charter a working group, correct a brief or name a source. Area entries are PROPOSED content for the Nexus Standards registry; a UNI identifies and never certifies, and nothing on this site is a certification, an approval or a readiness statement.
Nexus Standards documents CC BY 4.0 · tooling Apache-2.0 · counsel review pending (DEC-2026-10-16-NEXUS-STANDARDS-OPEN-LICENCE). External standards are named and linked under their own licences; a UNI (Unique Nexus Identifier) identifies, it never certifies. · Generated from the Nexus Standards corpus at commit 437ae044c5cb (2026-10-17); proposed and open.