The electric grid has entered a new era. Utilities are balancing unprecedented load growth, increasingly severe weather, aging infrastructure, and rising customer expectations—all at the same time. Reliability remains the industry's benchmark, but today's greatest challenges are no longer measured only by what happens on ordinary days.

In these opening remarks, Kumar Chandran will explore why resilience has become the defining characteristic of modern grid performance and why the industry's next chapter will be shaped by its ability to anticipate disruption, adapt in real time, and recover quickly when conditions change. As utilities prepare for an increasingly dynamic future, resilience is emerging not as a replacement for reliability, but as the capability that makes reliability possible.

Speaker: Kumar Chandran, Senior Director – Market Strategy & Business Development, S&C Electric Company