Mine Energy Resilience Gap Assessment Template

This template operationalizes energy resilience as the capacity of a mining operation’s power generation, distribution, storage, and control systems to anticipate, absorb, recover from, and adapt to disruptive events—including grid outages, fuel shortages, extreme weather, equipment failures, and cyber intrusions. It integrates quantitative metrics (e.g., uptime duration, backup runtime, renewable penetration ratio) with qualitative assessments (e.g., maintenance maturity, vendor dependency risk, emergency response protocol completeness) across multiple infrastructure layers: primary supply (grid/diesel/solar/wind), on-site microgrids, energy storage (batteries, flywheels), power electronics (inverters, SCADA), and governance (policies, training, monitoring). The assessment follows a gap-driven methodology: first establishing target resilience criteria aligned with ISO 55000 (asset management), IEC 62443 (cybersecurity), and industry-specific frameworks like ICMM’s Climate Risk Guidance; then scoring current-state performance across defined dimensions (e.g., 'Redundancy', 'Diversity', 'Autonomy'); and finally calculating weighted gap scores to inform prioritized capital and operational interventions. Crucially, it supports scenario-based stress testing—such as simulating 72-hour grid loss or diesel supply chain disruption—to validate system behavior and expose latent interdependencies.