ICEM 2025 Workshop: Resilience across timescales

Workshop Title: Resilience across timescales
When:(Day 2) Wednesday 4th June 2025 – 16:15-18:00 CEST
Where: Galzignano Terme Spa and Golf Resort, Sala TBC

Session description:

Resilience is generally defined as the capacity to prepare, absorb, restore and adapt to major disruptive events and evolving conditions.

Both meteorological variability and climate change pose many challenges to the energy sector, from the increasingly frequent and severe impacts of localized extreme weather and anomalous seasonal conditions, to gradually evolving large-scale climatic changes.

The goal of this workshop is to provide a deeper understanding of what being resilient means for power systems, to describe most effective approaches based on different geographical contexts and time scales, and to identify gaps in weather and climate information that need to be addressed to increase the capacity of power systems to face and recover from meteorological hazards, currently and in the future.

To this end, the workshop will include a series of speakers and a follow-up discussion addressing the following questions:

How to define resilience to meteorological disruptions? Which types of events or changing conditions are most concerning? What are the relevant spatial and temporal scales?

What are the current practices to confront these challenges (i.e., from infrastructure planning to response to immediate threats)? Against which events or combination of events do companies build their resilience strategy? What meteorological data is available and used to make resilience studies and actions plans, and implement measures? How is it communicated? What is the value of this information in economic terms and for energy security?

What are the gaps across temporal and spatial scales, and data types? Can we imagine being resilient against tipping points or unseen events? What are missing data, knowledge gaps (e.g., attribution and predictability) and science/industry communication gaps? What is the benefit of addressing these gaps?

Session leads: Laurent Dubus, RTE & WEMC, Laura Di Bernardo & Mario Ciancarini (ENEL) and Annarita Mariotti (NOAA)