Webinar – Strengthening Energy Systems
On Wednesday, May 13, 2026, Arya Fazilat, Advisor for Digitalization of System Operations and MCCS Labs at 50Hertz spoke – in a webinar hosted by IPFA – together with:
- Pasquale Capizzi, Associate Director, Europe Resilience, Security and Risk Leader, Arup
- Gerda Diniute, Loan Officer, Project Finance, Western Europe, European Investment Bank
- Juliet Mian, Global Resilience Skills Leader, Director of Climate & Sustainability Services, Arup
- Valentina Tamburini, Head of Strategy, A2A Group
About strengthening energy systems as power systems face growing pressure from extreme weather, cyber threats, geopolitical uncertainty, and rapid technological change, resilience has become mission critical to delivering secure, affordable, and reliable electricity. Focusing on resilience, risk and readiness they together explored how:
- physical and dynamic risks are assessed across the energy system.
- digital tools are strengthening system-wide resilience through improved visibility and real-time optimization.
- operators balance immediate operational pressures with long-term resilience investment.
- resilience is assessed and financed in practice, and what signals lenders look for.
Find the full webinar here: Resilient Grids: Strengthening Power Systems in an Age of Disruption
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30 March 2026
Podcast - Mirko Pracht & Walter Geelen on Powering the Future
In this podcast, Mirko Pracht from 50Hertz and Walter Geelen from Elia join Mandana White from Smart Grid Forum on her Podcast Powering the Future to discuss the daytoday reality of the energy transition for European TSOs—and how Elia Group is addressing these challenges with cooperation and digitalization. -
16 March 2026
Open Source-New Opportunities and Challenges
Sven Fritzsche is Open Source Program Office (OSPO) Lead for Elia Group. In this article, he discusses the general context and specific opportunities of following an open source philosophy at 50Hertz and Elia: As our digital maturity increases and our internal software development advances, we encounter new opportunities and challenges. One of them being open source technologies. -
12 February 2026
Open Source, Open Minds: Utility Perspectives on Digital Collaboration
This high-Level panel at the LF Energy Summit 2025 in Aachen explores how Open Source offers new ways of efficient and scalable cooperation in the space of digitalization within utilities.
