NASEO-NARUC State Energy Security Academy Agenda

NASEO and NARUC leadership will welcome participants, frame the goals of the two-day Academy, and preview how the in-person sessions compliment the online State Energy Security Academy and Certificate Program.

A federal perspective on the current energy security risk and threat landscape, including which mitigations offer states the most cost-effective and durable value.

A practical session on bottom-line-up-front communication with decision-makers and energy emergency responders. Participants will practice getting leadership the decision it needs in the opening minutes of an energy emergency: what is at stake for health and human safety, economic security, and national security, what action will mitigate or avoid it, and how to convey uncertainty candidly without sensationalizing.

This session will instruct participants on how to identify, access, and interpret the electricity-sector data that matters most during steady-state monitoring and emergency response. This session will help translate the meaning of data for planning and response purposes as it pertains to cases such as large loads, peak demand, mission critical facilities, and critical interdependent infrastructure. Participants will learn where this data lives, what its limitations are, and how to translate raw feeds into a usable situational picture for leadership.

This session will teach participants how to identify, access, and interpret the natural gas and liquid fuel data that matters most during steady-state monitoring and emergency response. The session will cover the supply-chain indicators states most often need during a fuel disruption and where each can be tracked publicly or through informal avenues. Participants will learn where this data lives, what its limitations are, and how to translate raw feeds into a usable situational picture for leadership.

Participants will receive a current threat briefing over lunch and discuss what the reported threat picture means for their own states and systems.

This hands-on session uses a real state energy dashboard as a working template, guiding participants through the process of adapting it to monitor their own state or region's electric, natural gas, and liquid fuels systems. Participants will leave with a practical framework for turning available data sources into a dashboard that supports day-to-day monitoring and emergency decision-making.

This session covers how to turn threat information into a working understanding of risk to your own infrastructure, drawing on critical infrastructure studies and publicly available data sources. Participants will discuss how to determine which assets are critical and why, which analytic resources are available to support that judgment, and how mitigations can be applied to specific systems and assets to most beneficially reduce risk.

This session will feature closed-door conversations with industry representatives on how to engage their members effectively and develop meaningful partnerships that support a collaborative, whole-of-community approach to energy security. Panelists will speak candidly about what earns industry's trust, what wastes its time, and how states can build standing relationships before an event rather than during one. Representatives from the electricity, natural gas, propane, and liquid fuels subsectors will be invited so participants hear across all fuels.

States must consider emerging technological threats to energy infrastructure to effectively plan, mitigate, and respond. This session will provide insight on how energy systems are responding to these advancing risks, and connect technological change to the nation's current and future energy security posture.

A short recap of Day 1 themes and a preview of the Day 2 focus on building and sustaining state energy security programs.

A brief reorientation to Day 2, which shifts from data and situational awareness toward institutionalizing energy security programs and developing capabilities and capacity.

This session gives participants the tools to design and run an exercise at home, not just participate in one. Participants will learn how to apply formal guidance, into what a state actually needs to plan a credible exercise: setting objectives, convening relevant partners, asking the right questions, and implementing meaningful improvement plans. By the end, participants should be able to walk back to their office with the knowledge to design and host an energy emergency exercise of their own.

This session looks ahead at how state energy assurance roles, requirements, and landscapes are evolving, and how modern planning and response paradigms can be forward-looking. Discussion will cover the policy, regulatory, systemic, and geopolitical trends driving that shift, and what each means in practice for state energy security plans and programs. Participants will consider what energy security should look like in five to ten years and what policy and regulatory groundwork is needed now to prepare for it.

This session focuses on institutionalizing energy security and resilience within your State Energy Office or Public Utility Commissions, including building relationships and frameworks that outlast any one staff member's tenure. It covers how to communicate the value of energy security work to leadership, funders, and external partners.

This session will close out the in-person Academy and give participants a preview of the virtual Learning Management System, which will launch in 2027. The preview will walk through course structure, individual lesson formats, and how cohorts will progress through the Certificate Program, so participants leave knowing how to enroll and what to expect.