Eight ways grid resilience was prioritised in 2025

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Eight ways grid resilience was prioritised in 2025

Yusuf Latief

Posted on: 15 December 2025

Here’s how grid resilience was prioritised by utilities and energy companies across the world in 2025.

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The April blackout that hit Spain, Portugal and parts of France made one thing clear across the globe: grid resilience must be a key priority. Here are eight grid resilience initiatives from across the world over across 2025.

Spain passes royal decree to boost power system resilience

The April blackout hit Spain the hardest, leading its Council of Ministers to approve a Royal Decree designed to increase the resilience of the electrical system.

The decree, initially rejected for political reasons, focuses on increasing energy storage capacity, electrification and facilitating the repowering of existing plants.

Portugal to invest €137m in grid upgrades following April blackout

Portugal too was hard hit by the blackout, and similarly issued a series of measures to strengthen its power system.

Among these was €137 million ($158.5 million) aimed at bolstering the resilience of the power grid, divided into three technical components: two shunt reactors that will control the network's voltage profiles; two STATCOMs that will provide automatic and instantaneous voltage control through reactive power regulation; and a synchronous compensator that also serves for automatic voltage regulation through rotating masses.

EDF signs €500m loan with EIB for Enedis’ network resilience programme

Over in France, EDF signed the second tranche of a €1 billion loan with the European Investment Bank (EIB) to improve network resilience in France.

This second phase, the first tranche was signed in 2024, will partially finance the connection of 7GW of renewable generation capacity and the burying or replacement of 2,500km of power distribution lines to improve network resilience to climate challenges.

Enedis unveils €250m climate resilience plan for Marseille grid

Staying in France, Enedis also launched the Marseille Network programme, a €250 million ($287.9 million) investment.

The plan addresses three priorities: strengthening the grid’s resilience to the effects of climate change; supporting the decarbonisation of transport, particularly in the maritime sector; and supporting the urban and industrial development of a rapidly transforming region.

Old Port and Basilica of Notre Dame - Marseille, France.

Europe’s TSO Innovation Alliance calls for climate-resilient power grid solutions

Europe’s TSO Innovation Alliance was launched earlier this year and issued its first open call for solutions to help build a climate-resilient power grid.

Swissgrid, Elia Group, 50Hertz, TenneT, Terna, RTE, Red Eléctrica and Amprion make up the alliance, which is actively reaching out to technology providers, start-ups, scale-ups, research institutes and established companies for collaboration.

CurrENT releases maps to track innovative grid tech deployment across Europe

CurrENT, the European association of innovative transmission and distribution system companies and their suppliers, released an interactive online tool aimed at increasing the transparency around grid performance.

The map also tracks the level of deployment of innovative grid technologies across the continent’s power grids and CurrENT is using the map as a call for Europe to illuminate benefits and push to deploy more innovation into the grid.

Google inks demand response deal with Midwest US utility to support grid reliability

Looking across the pond, Hyperscaler Google reached an agreement with Indiana Michigan Power (I&M) that could serve as a model for future demand response structures between utilities and large load customers.

Google will leverage “new capabilities” that allow it to make machine learning (ML) more flexible, allowing the company to reduce or shift electricity demand to carry out non-urgent tasks during hours when the electric grid is under less stress.

Weather-related grid resilience rule issued in Australia

Down under, Australia’s Energy Market Commission (AEMC) made a rule to bolster grid resilience and reduce the risk of power outages caused by extreme weather events.

The draft grid resilience rule, formally issued in May, recognises distribution network resilience in the national electricity rules, to support Distribution Network Service Providers (DNSPs) in efficiently reducing these risks.

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