Stakeholder Engagement

Water and power utilities are interdependent, subject to many of the same natural and manmade hazards, and critical for the well-being of communities and society. In May 2025, PNNL hosted a workshop in Alexandria, Virginia, that brought together stakeholders from federal agencies, researchers from academia, national laboratories, and national academies, water, wastewater, and energy utilities, districts and municipalities, and private industry, non-profits, and consultants. Attendees co-developed solutions to improve and accelerate the resilience of our national energy and water systems in the face of emerging challenges, including those that stem from large demand growth from data centers. This workshop built on the virtual April 2021 workshop that explored a vision for coordinated and resilient water and electric utilities of the future and identified barriers and strategies for increased coordination and integrated planning between water and power utilities.

table of themes from project workshop held in May 2025 — The 2025 Resilience Workshop focused on three themes: operational coordination for resilience, planning for infrastructure resilience, and data centers and demand growth; attendees developed regional and national opportunity areas within these sectors.

Workshops

Resilience of Energy and Water Systems Workshop, Alexandria, Virginia, May 13-14, 2025 | View Summary
Water and power systems — Coordination and planning for resilience, virtual workshop, April 13–14, 2021 | View Summary