Strategic Focus: Roadmap To Energy Resilience
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Executive Summary
The well-established approaches corporate leaders have used to manage energy risk – centred on reactive contingency planning, grid dependence and short-term cost optimization – are undergoing a fundamental metamorphosis. Long designed to protect operations from isolated outages and incremental price volatility, energy strategies are now being re-engineered to address systemic disruption, grid fragility and accelerating electrification, with energy resilience emerging as a core executive priority. Increasingly, leaders are redesigning governance models, investment decisions and operational practices to safeguard business continuity, protect revenue and stabilize costs. They are achieving this through diversified supply, on-site generation and storage, and digitally enabled energy management. This report outlines what energy resilience looks like for firms in 2026, from a strategic and operational perspective. Senior executives should use it to inform enterprise risk management (ERM), capital allocation and long-term energy transition strategies.About the Authors
Connor Taylor
Principal Analyst
Connor is a Principal Analyst at Verdantix. He focuses on delivering research to help senior executives navigate decarbonization decision-making and build effective strategies...
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Ryan Skinner
Research Director
Ryan is a Research Director at Verdantix, where he leads a team of analysts delivering research, data and advisory services that help clients navigate the fast-evolving landsc...
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