Why Climate Resilience Matters
Europe’s electricity and gas networks are under pressure – and climate change is turning up the heat. Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and severe, exposing vulnerabilities in energy infrastructure and...
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Why Climate Resilience Matters
Europe’s electricity and gas networks are under pressure – and climate change is turning up the heat. Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and severe, exposing vulnerabilities in energy infrastructure and raising the spectre of cascading failures across interconnected systems. Despite mounting risks, EU and national regulatory frameworks are still struggling to capture the value of resilience investments, putting households, businesses, and critical services at risk of climate-driven disruptions.
The Regulatory Gaps
After providing an overview of the climate-related risks to energy infrastructure, this issue paper explains that resilience has not been systematically implemented in regulatory practice, either at the EU or the national level. Concentrating on transmission and distribution system operators (TSOs and DSOs), the analysis reveals that, although EU policy and regulation acknowledge resilience, concrete regulatory tools rema
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