World Energy Council Portugal: Energy Consumption Resilience: Lessons from the Blackout

Energy Consumption Resilience: Lessons from the Blackout 

Organised by the World Energy Council Portugal

On Tuesday, 1 July 2025, from 8:00 am - 6:30 pm at the Ordem Dos Engenheiros, Lisboa, Portugal.

This event includes 5 sessions dedicated to the topics:

• Guaranteeing Supply in Adverse Cenários
• Consumer Perspective
• System Resilience
• Minimum Services and Financing Models
• Contribution to Regulation and Public Policies

To frame the sessions, there will be two keynote speeches, at the beginning of the morning and the afternoon, about:

• Legal and regulatory framework
• Isolated Electrical Systems of the Azores – Learned Learning

After a lively and enlightening debate, we can conclude that:

• The integration of Various forms of energy and weapons is essential to increase the resilience of the system.
• Cooperation and integration between the various sectors are essential.
• Companies and management entities of essential services adopt measures to ensure their continuity.
• Contingency plans and equipment training for crisis situations will help operationalisation during the shutdown, but adjustments needs have been detected.
• The increase in the use of telecommunication affects its resilience, which tends to be registered as higher traffic during the passage of the year.
• The transport sector was quite impacted, not least not that it respects the traffic signals in large urban centres;
• The water supply registers a lower impact due to the fact that the power is turned off, and the reserves will be found.
• The systems are dimensioned globally for redundancy, but there is no possibility of a power failure at the Iberian level;
• Consumers will increase their interest in energy issues, as well as the availability of clear information regarding the shutdown.
• Learning from this event possible to have more adequate preparation, both at the level of contingency plans and at the regulatory level.

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