Electricity and fuel systems are the infrastructure on which every other sector depends, and they are being rebuilt during the energy transition while exposure to heat, storms, drought and cyber attack rises. This section of the Energy and critical infrastructure subsite defines records for assets, outages, supply adequacy and transition risk so that grid operators, regulators and investors can trace a cascade from a hazard to an outage to dependent services with evidence that is comparable across systems and borders. Every artifact of the area carries a UNI (Unique Nexus Identifier), which identifies and never certifies.
NXS-STD-DC-000003Nexus Standards (2026). Energy risk standards: area brief, Energy and Critical Infrastructure (PROPOSED). https://nexustandards.com/energy-infrastructure/energy-risk-standards/ · UNI NXS-STD-DC-000003. Last reviewed 2026-10-17.
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The nexus domains section of Energy and Critical Infrastructure. Scope as the area context entry states it (PROPOSED).
In scope 5
Out of scope 3
Jurisdictions No jurisdiction note is recorded for this area yet; jurisdiction narrows what applies and never implies that a Nexus profile satisfies a law.
Each coupling names the mechanism that links this area to another; select a card on the canvas to trace it. Mechanisms are stated in the context bank (PROPOSED).
Fig.RUNNING marks the area you are reading; DONE an area in the same subsite, QUEUED an area elsewhere and GATE a subsite reached. Tags give reading order only, never a status. Design, not a record.
Hazards and threats 6
Sectors 4
Relations are register entries (NS-14), never conformance or equivalence statements; hover or focus a relation for its meaning. Names of standards bodies and their standards belong to their stewards and are used only to identify the documents; no text of an external standard is reproduced here.
Indicator names and codes as their stewards publish them; values appear only from a governed GRIx source, never typed into a page.
Sources the area reads or proposes. Delivery follows GRIx first; a source is shown live only after an owner decision admits it for public pages.
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.
Global Power Plant Databasepending admission
World Resources Institute · static release (v1.3.0)
CC BY 4.0
GRIx governed readregister 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
EIA Open Data APIpending admission
U.S. Energy Information Administration · hourly to annual
U.S. Government work, public domain
build-time snapshotproposed 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
The Nexus Standards the area context entry lists; the registry row lists NS-0, NS-1, NS-3, NS-9, NS-10, NS-11. Every one is proposed or specified; none is adopted by an authority.
Status proposed · 12 rules stated. Read NS-0 · The rules for this area
Status proposed · 10 rules stated. Read NS-1 · The rules for this area
Status proposed · 0 rules stated. Read NS-3 · The rules for this area
Status proposed · 5 rules stated. Read NS-9 · The rules for this area
Status proposed · 7 rules stated. Read NS-10 · The rules for this area
Status proposed · 6 rules stated. Read NS-11 · The rules for this area
Closed or paywalled standards appear by name and link only; any compatibility profile of one is built on simulated data and kept on protected pages until an institutional arrangement with the issuing body is recorded. Nexus Standards is not affiliated with, endorsed by or certified by any standards body named here.
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.
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.
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.
Each institution decides under its own rules what it reads as evidence; no pathway is an approval, a readiness statement or investment advice.
Version and feed state per standard; every row reads source feed pending admission until a register row admits a feed.
Today · in your browserPick a sector, hazard family, capability and artifact type; the registry routes the standards and says why.
Today · a draft in your browserMix standards and clauses into a profile draft with citations; YAML or JSON; nothing is submitted.
A console computes from the registry and shows its reasons; it never decides, approves or certifies.
Outage, asset-exposure and transition-risk records and the dependency graph linking energy to other critical services.
No working group is chartered yet; a community may charter this one under NS-13 through a docket.
This area has a row in registry/subsites.yaml (status planned), so it carries five depth pages and the register crosswalk of its domains.
The rules of each listed standard, read through the specification reader.
Depth · CrosswalkEvery register entry in the area's domains, by relation, with the crosswalk graph.
Depth · Records and schemasScope, record, schema explorer and how a UNI resolves.
Depth · ConformanceClauses, evidence and attestations; no step is a certification.
Depth · ReadinessThe area beside the three pathways, as a matrix.
6 Nexus Standards · 4 domains · 48 external standards · 33 issuing bodies · 2 consumers. Relations are register entries (adopt, profile, crosswalk, cite), never compliance claims; names belong to their stewards.
Crosswalk graph93 nodes and 126 links from registry/external-standards.yaml, registry/subsites.yaml and registry/consumers.yaml. Relations (adopt, profile, crosswalk, cite) are register entries, never compliance claims.
The registry holds no geography for the area itself: areas are not places. The one geography it implies is where the bodies that issue the area's external standards sit.
| Body | Seat | Register entries |
|---|---|---|
| NIST | Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States | 7 |
| ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 | Geneva, Switzerland | 3 |
| GHG Protocol | Washington, District of Columbia, United States | 2 |
| IEC TC 57 | Geneva, Switzerland | 2 |
| IEC TC 65 | Geneva, Switzerland | 2 |
| ISO/TC 207/SC 7 | Geneva, Switzerland | 2 |
| ISO/TC 268 | Geneva, Switzerland | 2 |
| ISO/TC 299 | Geneva, Switzerland | 2 |
| OASIS Cyber Threat Intelligence TC | Woburn, Massachusetts, United States | 2 |
| European Commission Joint Research Centre | Ispra, Italy | 1 |
| European Parliament and Council | Brussels, Belgium | 1 |
| FIRST CVSS Special Interest Group | Cary, North Carolina, United States | 1 |
| IEC TC 65 with ISA (ISA/IEC 62443) | Geneva, Switzerland | 1 |
| IEEE | Piscataway, New Jersey, United States | 1 |
| IETF | Wilmington, Delaware, United States | 1 |
| Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change | Geneva, Switzerland | 1 |
| International Sustainability Standards Board (IFRS Foundation) | Frankfurt, Germany | 1 |
| ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 39 | Geneva, Switzerland | 1 |
| ISO/TC 251 | Geneva, Switzerland | 1 |
| ISO/TC 301 | Geneva, Switzerland | 1 |
| ISO/TC 59/SC 13 | Geneva, Switzerland | 1 |
| ITU-R | Geneva, Switzerland | 1 |
| ITU-T SG15 | Geneva, Switzerland | 1 |
| Network for Greening the Financial System | Paris, France | 1 |
| North American Electric Reliability Corporation | Atlanta, Georgia, United States | 1 |
| Science Based Targets initiative | London, United Kingdom | 1 |
| World Resources Institute and WBCSD (GHG Protocol) | Washington, District of Columbia, United States | 1 |
1 subsites: no geography in the registry (areas, not places) · 2 consumers: repositories, no geography · 19 Nexus Standards: documents, no geography · 6 issuing bodies without a fixed public seat, listed not drawn: IOC-UNESCO Global Ocean Observing System; UNFCCC; International Atomic Energy Agency; International Civil Aviation Organization; International Maritime Organization; United Nations General Assembly · Programme regions of the ecosystem coverage register: named, not drawn (no coordinates in the registry)
Standards globe27 issuing bodies with a public seat, 48 register entries, H3 cells at resolutions 1 to 4. Seats are city coordinates, not registry fields; subsites, consumers and standards have no geography, so none is drawn. Plate carrée still map; globe with script.
| Area on the sites | Artifact kinds | Governing standards | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Energy (GCRI Canada field gateway; GRF and GRA counterparts) | data, dataset, report, map, documentation | NS-1, NS-3, NS-3b, NS-4, NS-5 | therisk.global/fields/energy/ |
| Food, water and energy insecurity; grid instability | data, dataset, model, map, report | NS-1, NS-3, NS-3b, NS-5 | therisk.global/challenges/ |
From the ecosystem coverage register: what the GCRI Canada, The Global Risks Forum (GRF) and The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) sites publish on this area, as claimed there and not evaluated here.
Peer-reviewed sources and published statistics on the publishers' own domains, as the context entry cites them. No Risk Academy faculty pathway is linked to this area yet; one is linked when a faculty publishes a pathway that fits.
Risk Academy disciplines that teach Energy risk standards, 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.
Propose a change, join the working group 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.