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ENERGY SYSTEM R ecent weather disasters serve as a stark reminder that natural hazards such as extreme wind, flooding and hail can cause a wave of dam - age and destruction to various types of infrastructure across the energy system. Therefore, it is important that stakehold- ers within the industry have a shared understanding of the risks and impacts associated with natural hazards to ensure people and infrastructure are protected. While many natural hazards can impact infrastructure, there is a varying degree of understand- ing surrounding each specific hazard. Both coastal flooding and extreme rainfall have been widely recorded and many people NETWORK / 18 / APRIL 2019 Improving energy infrastructure resilience Mott MacDonald recently delivered research in collaboration with EDF Energy and the Met Office for the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) to identify how natural hazards can be characterised to help improve energy system infrastructure design. Here, Sun Yan Evans - technical director at Mott MacDonald – discusses some of the key lessons learned. know about their impact. Space weather and marine biological fouling – the accumulation of mi- croorganisms on wetted surfaces – also pose a risk but there is less research into their impact. There was clearly a need for research into the characteristics In the UK, some of the most damag- ing natural hazard events in recent times have been caused by storms.