Caroline Field leads The Resilience Shift’s work on resilient energy systems and writes here on energy policy for climate resilience and on varying levels of country preparedness as suggested by The International Energy Agency (IEA)’s Climate Resilience Policy Indicator.
Lessons learned from two different crises – severe winter storm, and wildfires – both involving many impacts and major power outages, show strong parallels.
Celebrating best practice for resilience, Wood and The Resilience Shift launch the Resilience Realized Awards
New awards programme and showcase launched by Wood and The Resilience Shift, to share inspiring examples of resilient infrastructure and the pioneering teams behind them who chose to do things differently.
We were thrilled to be involved in a number of events this week for London Climate Action Week, providing expert insight on panel discussions, and showcasing one of our own initiatives.
Resilience First, in partnership with Intel, have published a whitepaper on “Decarbonisation and the role of technology’, outlining how technology and innovation can be harnessed to cut emissions and accelerate the path to net-zero.
The call to action is clear, but how do you make change happen? Peter Hall is one of those helping to reshape Wood as it evolves further towards embedding sustainability and resilience across everything it does. He tells us about the journey so far.
The multiple drivers of change currently facing ports require a whole-systems approach before low-carbon, resilient ports transformations can be realised says a new report from The Resilience Shift. “This is the right time to catalyse the urgent action that needs to be taken by the whole ports-value chain to transform ports into low-carbon, resilient gateways”.
Following its launch, we are delighted to support this valuable work by the Coalition for Urban Transitions, that sets out investment priorities for national governments post Covid to boost their economies today and progress toward long-term resilience and prosperity tomorrow.
Global technology company Siemens is using retrofitting to create a microgrid test site at their research and development facility in Princeton, New Jersey
The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the importance of being prepared for so called ‘black sky’ events that disrupt infrastructure on a global scale. EARTH EX is a simulated exercise that gives you the opportunity to test your readiness for such events.
There are many synergies and connections between water and energy systems and sectors. We asked Mathaios Panteli, Eduardo Alejandro Martínez Ceseña and Julien Harou from University of Manchester to tell us more about the opportunities and challenges in jointly planning and developing water-energy systems.
Since September 2019, bushfires in Australia have burned through some 10 million hectares of land. The fires have made headlines globally. With many months to go in the fire season, what does this mean for Australia’s infrastructure, and are there wider lessons for the resilience shift?
Organisations and individuals are often unprepared for extended power failures. Now they can test these scenarios by participating in the EARTH EX black sky simulation. Xavi Aldea explains why this matters and how it can help to better prepare for resilience.
This primer introduces the elementary principles of resilience relevant to the electric utilities sector and is part of a body of knowledge intended to help those responsible for the financing, planning, design, delivery, operation and maintenance of critical infrastructure systems.
Lord Harris discusses the issues and implication of a significant power outage. Is your organisation prepared?
How UK Power Networks prepares for ‘high impact, low probability’ events such as a major power outage
A desk-based review that examines definitions, methodologies and current practice relating to resilience engineering and performance-based engineering in the energy, transport and water infrastructure sectors.
