Zurich Resilience Solutions Launches ZRS Energy Advisory in Canada

Zurich Resilience Solutions, the commercial risk advisory and services unit of Zurich Insurance Group (Zurich), is proud to announce the launch of ZRS Energy Advisory in Canada, a comprehensive service designed to safeguard the nation's critical energy infrastructure. As Canada swiftly moves towards increased renewable power generation to meet climate goals, ZRS Energy Advisory provides essential expertise and Zurich’s proprietary data to ensure a safe, stable, and secure electricity supply for homes, businesses, and communities.

“At Zurich Resilience Solutions, we know that renewable energy infrastructure is increasingly vulnerable to extreme weather,” said Denise Gaeta, Head of ZRS Canada. “Our ZRS Energy Advisory is designed to provide energy producers with expert analysis, strategic insights, and tangible solutions, helping them navigate the complex landscape of renewable energy with confidence and resilience.”

ZRS Energy Advisory offers a bespoke, end-to-end resilience solution that addresses key challenges faced by energy producers, from portfolio level impacts down to asset level. The service provides expert analysis on project feasibility, bankability, and investment cases, assessing physical risks across existing portfolios due to current and future impacts of extreme weather and climate change on energy generation, transmission, distribution, and storage assets. By benchmarking assets against peers, ZRS Energy Advisory helps identify a customer’s risks relative to the industry, as well as risks between assets within the portfolios. This process, coupled with financial impact metrics, allows prioritization of adaptation measures. The residual risks transferred to the insurance carrier is thus quantified, facilitating selection of the best insurance coverage. The service supports in site selection for new projects and the management of risks through the construction phase, through meticulous planning and supply chain selection.

Key features of ZRS Energy Advisory include:

• A holistic, end-to-end resilience solution, from portfolio to asset and equipment levels
• A client-first approach that does not compromise on output quality
• Proprietary extreme weather, future-looking climate data and financial loss models, based on 150 years of asset-level data, combining claims and risk engineering data
• 170 on-the-ground experts in Canada and around the world
• Deep knowledge of Canada’s energy sector based on 100 years of experience, data, and relationships

“Our comprehensive approach empowers energy producers to make informed, resilient decisions in a changing climate,” added Gaeta. “Trust us to keep your clean energy resilient against the harshest conditions Mother Nature has to offer.”

For more information about ZRS Energy Advisory and how it can help safeguard your renewable energy infrastructure, please visit https://www.zurichcanada.com/en-ca/risk-services

To read Powering Through: Building Climate Resilience into Canada’s Energy Future, please visit: https://www.zurichcanada.com/en-ca/about-zurich/media-and-news/press-center-landing-page/2025/energy-advisory-report