The complexity of the electricity system is increasing due to various transitions and events taking place within and outsideof the electricity market such as increased loads from distributed power supplies. The risk for various disturbances may increase withthese transitions and events, including non-electricity system related disturbances like climate change. There is an urgent need to improveresilience of the electricity system so that it can handle also low probability and high impact disturbances. The objective of this paper isto analyse seven resilience principles, originally developed for socio-ecological systems, and interpret them for the electricity system.Results from the analysis indicate that the resilience principles can be seen to represent different categories in the socio-technical systemthat is the electricity system. These categories are technology, learning, information, stakeholder, organisation, and governance. Theresilience principles enable a holistic view of the electricity system, and they can function as a support during the work to increaseresilience of the electricity system.