How to enhance utility resilience through digital transformation

Recent energy crises, coupled with extreme weather and technology shifts, have highlighted the vulnerabilities in Europe’s energy infrastructure, as well as the need for system resilience, preparedness and agility.  

To achieve the level of resilience required in the face of rising electricity demand, ageing grid infrastructure and an increasing number of major events, utilities must strategically redesign their system architecture and make use of advanced technologies. 

In this episode of the Energy Transitions podcast, Lobna El Gammal, Energy Transition Technology Consulting Director at EY, and David Cashman, Energy Transition Consulting Partner at EY, explain to Pamela Largue  how utilities should go about this strategic shift, preparing to secure infrastructure, cybersecurity and supply chains. 

Cashman and El Gammal also highlight lessons learned from various utility resilience case studies, providing best practices to navigate an age where disruption is the new normal.    

In this episode of the Energy Transitions podcast, you will learn more about: 

• What resilience means and why utilities must prepare now; 
• Where the greatest resilience risks are within the system; 
• What constitutes a major event and how utilities need to prepare for these; 
• Case studies demonstrating where utilities got it right or didn’t; 
• The role of digitalisation in maximising preparedness; 
• How utilities get started on building resilience effectively and strategically; 
• How and why to ensure people are as prepared as the systems. 

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EY supported the Think Tank workshop about resilience at Enlit Europe 2025 as a knowledge facilitator. In Enlit’s 2026 industry report, titled Rethinking resilience: From risk to readiness in energy systems, EY shares more insights on utilities’ response to major events. The report will be launched on Enlit World on Wednesday, 29 April. 

Listen to previous episodes:

Strengthening European resilience to combat energy shocks
What is holding back the renewables sector in Italy?

More about resilience:

Rethinking UK grid resilience in response to energy shocks
Energy crisis is resilience catalyst: Schneider’s Godemel