Resilience aspects, to which extent are they relevant for municipal energy planning?
This question was explored by Marcel Wickart, Head of the Municipal Energy Planing of the City of Zurich, and Martin Jakob, TEP Energy, coordinator of the case study Zurich of SWEET’s research project SURE. They concluded that resilience aspects are partly similar and partly different to those at the national scale. Similarly, the provision of the urban energy system should be resilient against shocks such as heat waves, energy security hazards, energy price shocks, disruptive public opinions. Next to the current and the future energy system, also the transformation process should be resilient. At the urban scale, particularly in Zurich, the concrete implementation of resilience measures differs from the national scale, e.g. organisational structuring, reduction of interdependencies, financing aspects, securing sites for energy plants including storage, mitigation against heat waves.
