The workshop is for people who work with, depend on or make decisions about electricity and critical functions in society. We are looking for a mix of perspectives, including:

• grid operators and energy companies
• industry and other large electricity users
• transport, telecommunications and other critical infrastructure
• emergency preparedness and civil protection
• municipalities, the county and national authorities
• consumer and civil society organisations
• research and academia

You do not need to be an energy specialist. The point of the day is to put different ways of seeing the problem side by side, and that only works if the room is not full of people who already agree.

We aim for around 40 to 50 participants. To keep a good balance between sectors, places are confirmed by email after you register your interest.

Resilience planning tends to happen inside each organisation, with its own definitions and its own list of what matters most. This workshop is a chance to see how the same disruption looks from the other side of the table.

As a participant, you will:

• work through realistic disruption scenarios together with people from sectors you rarely plan alongside
• see where your organisation’s priorities match those of others, and where they collide
• help shape the basis for a regional framework for resilience planning in Trøndelag
• receive a summary of the findings after the workshop

The day is built around discussion and group work, not a row of presentations.

The programme is preliminary and will be refined as speakers are confirmed. Your input in the registration form helps us shape the sessions.

09:30 Registration and coffee

10:00 Introduction
The Trøndelag case, how regional and national resilience fit together, and the tensions that shape planning: energy security, sustainability, public acceptance and fairness.

10:20 Stakeholder perspectives
Short presentations from different parts of the energy system and society, followed by a discussion of where their views overlap and where they pull apart.

11:15 Session 1: Defining resilience
Group work on what resilience means in your own context. In plenary, we place the definitions side by side and look for common ground and real differences.

12:15 Lunch

13:00 Session 2: Critical demand under pressure
Groups work through scenarios ranging from short outages to prolonged disruptions and extreme weather. Which needs are critical, how flexible are they, and how long can they wait? We then compare results across groups and scenarios.

14:30 Conclusions and next steps
The main findings of the day, and how they can feed into further research and regional resilience planning.

15:00 End

Different actors understand resilience in different ways. Rather than assume one definition that fits everyone, the workshop takes those differences as its starting point. We will look at questions such as:

• How do different actors define resilience, and where do their views differ?
• When does electricity demand become critical, for whom, and under which conditions, such as duration, scale, season or temperature?
• How does a disruption affect critical infrastructure, industry, public services and households differently?
• How should regional actors work within national frameworks, and how should competing goals be weighed against each other?

The aim is not necessarily to agree on one answer. It is to understand where perspectives align, where they diverge, and what that means for planning and decision-making.