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

01.07.25 - 01.07.2025

Ordem Dos Engenheiros

Lisboa, Portugal

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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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