A quiet but consequential shift is underway in how technical standards are produced for the global electric power industry. Through the IEEE’s “entity” standards development process, organizations, rather than individual engineers, can write and ballot standards that may ultimately be treated as globally applicable. While this method is common in some sectors, it is relatively new in the power and energy space, where standards have historically been shaped by North American utilities, manufacturers, and technical committees.

Because oil and gas underpin production, transportation, and logistics, higher energy costs will gradually move through supply chains—meaning the most significant economic consequences may not appear for months.

“The effects move slowly and appear in places people do not connect to energy,” says Tibor Besedes, professor in the School of Economics at Georgia Tech.

“Oil and natural gas are part of the cost structure for an enormous range of goods.”

ATLANTA, GA / ACCESS Newswire / March 30, 2026 / Drawdown Georgia today announced the launch of the Drawdown Georgia Climate Outlook Maps, a new tool designed to help civic, business, and community leaders understand and visualize how Georgia's climate may change between now and 2050-and what those changes could mean for infrastructure, agriculture, public health,

AI’s growing power demands and grid instability are turning electricity from a background utility into a strategic risk that directly threatens uptime, security, and business continuity.Ann Dunkin, a four-time enterprise CIO, including the U.S. Department of Energy and EPA, and Distinguished Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, outlined how energy reliability now belongs on the CIO agenda alongside cybersecurity and operational resilience.

In the mid-1990s, a Department of Energy-funded project helped catalyze one of the most transformative breakthroughs in American energy history: the development of a horizontal drilling bit capable of withstanding the extreme conditions of shale formations.