CAMPUT
Moderator Francis Bradley is the CEO of Electricity Canada. Anna Lafoyiannis is Climate READi Senior Team Leader at EPRI. Doyle Sam is EVP of Operations & Engineering at FortisBC. Jonathan MacIntosh is Director of Enterprise Asset Management at Nova Scotia Power.
Extreme weather events can devastate utility infrastructure. This panel on Weathering the Storm (Resilience and Extreme Weather) at Canada's prestigious energy regulatory conference CAMPUT 2025 discussed resilient, cost-effective strategies for safeguarding energy systems while exploring critical questions on responsibility and costs in the face of extreme weather.
On the panel were Moderator and Electricity Canada CEO Francis Bradley, EPRI Climate READi Senior Team Leader Anna Lafoyiannis, FortisBC EVP of Operations & Engineering Doyle Sam, and Nova Scotia Power Director of Enterprise Asset Management Jonathan MacIntosh. Enjoy these excerpts.
Moderator and Electricity Canada CEO Francis Bradley: We're going to be talking about extreme weather events. We've had to change how we talk about weather because the frequency and severity of weather events has increased at such a pace that we need a new lexicon to describe some of these things: derecho, thunder snow, firestorm, atmospheric rivers, atmospheric lake, bomb cyclones, and firenado.
The one we hear more in Europe than here but is gaining ground, is dunkelflaute, which is German, and sometimes referred to as an anti-cyclonic gloom. But that we must create new words because the weather is getting so extreme is indicative of how serious this is.