Are our nation's energy infrastructure and operational processes prepared for a combination of unprecedented meteorological events and patterns of human behavior associated with climate, technological, and social change? We tend to prepare for the last disaster, not the next one. We are already experiencing an increasing incidence of “extraordinary” disasters responsible for deleterious impacts on the nation’s energy infrastructure. As meteorologists and climate scientists working in and with the energy sector, how can we use our knowledge, insight, and expertise to better inform government, the private sector, and policy makers on how to (better) prepare for future extreme events that have no precedent in our lifetimes or in the historical record (e.g., Pacific NW heatwave of 2021; Hurricane Harvey; Western Megadrought; prolonged renewable energy droughts/dunkelflaute)? Our ability to anticipate and accurately forecast such events will help the energy industry operate more efficiently and with improved resiliency as we transition to the new energy economy.