Energy Transitions Podcast: Redefining resilience for a modern power system

Posted on: 6 June 2023

Pamela Largue has a candid conversation with Kristian Ruby, Secretary General of Eurelectric, about the impact of the war in Ukraine and the importance of protecting our grids.

It has been a tumultuous time in Europe’s power sector, with a variety of internal and external shocks impacting energy markets and the progress towards net zero.

In this episode of the Energy Transitions podcast, your host Pamela Largue has a candid conversation with Kristian Ruby, Secretary General of Eurelectric, about whether we are on track to meet the 1.5 degree goal, the impact of the war in Ukraine and the importance of protecting our grids from physical, military, and cyber threats.

If it was just about integrating renewables and connecting a lot of heat pumps, that was the challenge a few years ago. Now on top of that we have a military threat dimension...
— Kristian Ruby

Ruby unpacks the new threat landscape and the radical resilience needed to mitigate these threats and talks about how to unlock a significant uptick in investments needed to speed up the pace of change in the energy sector.

Security of supply is the new prerequisite for delivering on net zero – system reliability becomes a critical climate objective...
— Kristian Ruby

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