{
  "id": 16217311,
  "title": "NASA, Virginia Launch Power Partnership for Energy Security",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/23/nasa-virginia-launch-power-partnership-for-energy-security-16217311",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-23T17:50:21.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "NASA",
    "slug": "nasa",
    "url": "https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/langley/nasa-power-energy-partnership/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "NASA and the Virginia Department of Energy have formed a partnership aimed at enhancing energy security in Virginia. The collaboration, announced at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, will leverage NASA's atmospheric science expertise to assist Virginia Energy in energy planning, resiliency studies, resource analysis, and long-term energy planning.\n\nDeputy Director Allen Kilgore of NASA Langley and Director Vince Maiden of Virginia Energy signed a Space Act Agreement during a ceremony, expressing enthusiasm for the partnership's potential to benefit Virginians. NASA will provide solar, meteorological, and future weather risk datasets for energy system modeling and planning. These data will help state officials anticipate energy demands, prepare for extreme weather, and understand factors affecting electricity generation, leading to a more reliable and resilient energy system.\n\nThe partnership will incorporate NASA's Prediction of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) data into Virginia Energy's modeling system. POWER information will support energy generation system designs and predictions of energy production using validated data products from NASA's Earth Science to Action program. The exchange of data will be streamlined through a digital pipeline, allowing Virginia Energy to directly access NASA's POWER web platform for specific datasets.",
  "summary": "NASA is helping to foster long-term energy security in Virginia. NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, is partnering with the Virginia Department of Energy to support informed decisions for effective energy generation, delivery and use by providing solar, meteorological, and future weather risk datasets for energy system modeling and planning purposes. Under a new […]",
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}