Backup Power and Redundancy Systems in European National Resilience
Ensuring continuity of government, critical services and defence operations under hybrid and high-intensity disruption
Backup power and redundancy systems have moved from being technical infrastructure details to becoming a core national resilience capability within NATO and the European Union. In a security environment characterised by hybrid attacks, cyber operations, kinetic strikes and energy coercion, the decisive vulnerability is not only the initial loss of grid power but the inability to sustain assured electricity to mission-critical nodes under prolonged stress. This analysis examines how microgrids, uninterruptible power systems, distributed generation, energy storage and hardened control architectures must be engineered and tested as a system-of-systems to preserve command continuity, secure communications, cyber defence and essential civilian services. It evaluates performance thresholds, supply-chain dependencies and industrial bottlenecks that will determine whether European states can translate resilience commitments into physically enforceable operational continuity through 2035.