Session 2.1: Anticipating and Managing Disruptions

Disruptions to energy systems are becoming more frequent and more costly across Asia and the Pacific. This session examines the range of technical, financial, and operational strategies that utilities, governments, and development institutions are deploying to anticipate and manage disruptions.

Presenters will draw on concrete experience from across the region, including how financial derivative instruments can provide an economic cushion for Pacific Island economies highly exposed to fuel price volatility, how advanced grid control technologies such as grid-forming inverters and synchronous condensers can maintain stability in low-inertia renewable power systems, and lessons from India's experience of renewable energy curtailment in 2025—where rapid expansion has exposed system inflexibility as a key barrier to resilient, high-renewable grids—as well as from post-cyclone power sector recovery in disaster-prone coastal communities.