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Distribution Grid Digitalisation – benefits, policy, cost & funding

December 14, 2022 by Gridspertise

About a third of European grids are over 40 years old. A rapid physical overhaul would be impossible, so the addition of a layer of digital technologies is the key to preparing them for the distributed and intermittent generation from renewable sources, the increased electricity demand from transportation, heat pumps and other sectors, and for ensuring energy efficiency at all levels. It’s why the EC expects about €584bn of investment in Europe’s … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Grids Tagged With: DER, Digitalisation, efficiency, Enel, EU, Europe, EVs, grids, Gridspertise, HeatPumps, investment, Italy, SmartMeters, solar, spain

Event summary: “45% RES by 2030: EU’s latest investment challenge to DSOs”

July 5, 2022 by Sara Stefanini

Sara Stefanini provides a written summary of our panel discussion held on Thursday June 30th 2022. It’s a full summary of the 90 minute discussion (including audience questions), but it begins conveniently with a summary of the highlights. Investment in and the modernisation of the electricity distribution grid is one the biggest challenges the EU has to overcome in the next decade. It’s a €400bn investment challenge by 2050 says Eurelectric, an … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Grids Tagged With: Automation, buildings, Digitalisation, DSO, EU, EVs, flexibility, grids, industry, innovation, investment, markets, modernisation, smartgrids, SmartMeters, solar, transport, TSO, wind

Manifesto: fit-for-purpose flexible grids for the clean electrification of Europe

June 13, 2022 by Eurelectric

The integration of new clean generation sources on top of the increase in electrification of industry, e-mobility, and heating and cooling means grid investment must be made a priority. Anything else will leave deployment-ready solutions waiting, slowing down the transition. The backdrop is that over one third of the EU’s grids are already more than 40 years old. Eurelectric has produced a manifesto, “Connecting The Dots”, that estimates … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Grids Tagged With: congestion, DERs, Digitalisation, electrification, emobility, Eurelectric, EVs, flexibility, grids, jobs, SmartMeters, solar, wind

District Heating Roundtable: Policy across RED, EED and EPBD “must take account of conditions in all Member States”

February 17, 2022 by Sara Stefanini

Sara Stefanini provides a written summary of our panel discussion held on 10th February: District Heating under the "Fit for 55" package: challenges and opportunities. Under the “Fit for 55” package, the EC proposed several regulatory changes that, combined, are meant to decarbonise district heating in Europe. But are these options workable for all? The participants raise questions over the support for district heating, whether the multiple … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Buildings, Climate policy, Debates, Energy, Energy efficiency, EU Policy, Expert Panel, HVAC Tagged With: biomass, buildings, CHP, coal, cogeneration, Digitalisation, district, efficiency, electricity, FitFor55, gas, heating, HVAC, NZE2050, policy, renewables

Critical Raw Materials for the energy transition: Europe must start mining again

January 10, 2022 by Frank Umbach

A ramp up of the supply of critical raw materials (CRMs) is essential for the world’s energy transition. Wind and solar, batteries, digitalisation, transport and hydrogen cannot meet their targets without it. The EU defines 30 minerals as critical. To give one example, the global deficits in lithium supplies could surge more than 60-fold to 950,000 tons by 2030. Frank Umbach at EUCERS takes a thorough look at the issue. Europe represented just 5% … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Policies, Resources Tagged With: batteries, China, cobalt, CRMs, Digitalisation, EU, Europe, hydrogen, lithium, magnesium, mining, recycling, solar, transport, Vanadium, wind

Distributed Energy Resources and Smart Grids: an opportunity or a distraction?

November 23, 2021 by Doyob Kim and Alyssa Fischer

Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) are poorly understood by the utilities, explain Doyob Kim and Alyssa Fischer at the IEA. Part of the problem is that new innovations and solutions are coming fast, and policy-makers aren’t creating the incentives and frameworks to make them an imperative. But, done right, the successful integration of DERs into the grid will accelerate electrification, address grid stability, and reduce spending on expensive … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Grids, Smartgrids Tagged With: batteries, DERs, Digitalisation, electrification, EVs, grids, infrastructure, rooftop, smartgrids, solar, stability, VPPs

Energy efficiency is the “first fuel”, making decarbonisation easier for all other sectors

March 31, 2021 by Alyssa Fischer

To set up our upcoming online event “China: Carbon Neutral by 2060 -EFFICIENCY FIRST” we look at the profound importance of efficiency to the global energy transition. Energy efficiency is the “first fuel”, meaning success here will make the decarbonisation of all the other sectors and technologies easier, faster and cheaper. Basically, use and waste less energy. Alyssa Fischer at the IEA starts by noting that their Sustainable Development … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Buildings, Energy, Industry Tagged With: behaviour, buildings, Digitalisation, efficiency, heating, HVAC, industry, jobs, SDS, transport

Improving grid response to support climate targets and increased renewables [Energy Post event video]

March 10, 2021 by Arasan Aruliah

We present our video of the online discussion from February 24, 2021 on smartgrid response. Digital, automated, data-driven smart response systems can play a key role in grid security and stability going forward. This makes asset monitoring and controllability - underpinned by the Smart Grid Indicator which is now part of the EU Electricity Directive (Article 59) - a vital link in the chain. Taking part were Vera Silva, COT, General Electric and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Grids Tagged With: AI, demand, Digitalisation, ENTSOE, EU, grids, Intermittency, renewables, response, smartgrids

A marketplace for energy data will enable Europe’s grid expansion

February 10, 2021 by Veronika Spurná and Helena Uhde

The growth of the decentralisation of energy generation and storage combined with the digitalisation of the metrics of supply and demand is pointing towards a marketplace for energy data, explain Veronika Spurná and Helena Uhde at the EU-China Energy Cooperation Platform. Such a marketplace will monetise the data itself, in recognition of its vital role in enabling the intelligent distribution of energy and investment. There will also be a place … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Grids Tagged With: data, decentralisation, Digitalisation, DSO, electricity, emobility, EU, grids, heating, prices, prosumers, rooftopsolar, SmartMeters

Clean Trucks are coming: a review of battery, hydrogen, synthetic fuels and more

January 18, 2021 by Sören Amelang

New EU fuel efficiency rules are forcing truck makers into a race to get their low emission vehicles onto the roads. From 2025, newly registered trucks must have 15% lower emissions, and from 2030 it’s 30%. Battery-electric drivetrains are most likely to dominate, assisted in their evolution by the assured progress and charging infrastructure of EVs. Hydrogen fuel cells and synthetic fuels are also in the game, though hindered by the inevitable … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Transport and energy Tagged With: Amazon, batteries, biofuels, buses, BYD, catenary, Daimler, DHL, Digitalisation, EU, EVs, freight, fuelcells, Germany, hydrogen, Mercedes, Paris, Pepsi, Poland, Rivian, Scania, Tesla, transport, trucks, UPS, Volvo, Walmart Canada

A new EU Gas Market must expose it to all clean energy solutions, not just gas-on-gas

January 15, 2021 by Simon Skillings and Lisa Fischer

Towards the end of this year the EC is expected to issue new proposals for gas legislation, a once in a decade market reform. Simon Skillings and Lisa Fischer at E3G highlight the big difference between the design of gas and electricity markets for Europe. The electricity market is growing, the gas market needs to shrink. The authors quote figures showing that the EU's 55% emissions reduction target for 2030 means natural gas use will reduce by … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Markets, Oil, Gas & Coal Tagged With: biofuels, Digitalisation, EC, efficiency, electrification, gas, GreenNewDeal, hydrogen, JustTransition, markets

Decarbonising end-use sectors: buildings, transport, industry. Which strategies are best?

October 16, 2020 by IRENA

The rapid pace of change in the energy sector is a positive sign for the transition. But the disruption it causes creates another big problem. It makes it harder to predict what will happen next. That makes strategies and pathways harder to design, and increases the risk of stranded assets. To try to come to grips with that future, Sean Ratka, Paul Durrant and Francisco Boshell summarise the findings of IRENA's 4-day “Innovation Week” held last … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Buildings, Energy, Industry, Transport and energy Tagged With: biomass, buildings, CCS, Digitalisation, electrolysers, hydrogen, industry, innovation, investment, renewables, transport

DSOs can use digitalisation to empower all grid stakeholders

May 4, 2020 by Harry Taylor, Chris Collins and Erik Rakhou

Distribution System Operators (DSOs) are in charge of operating, maintaining and developing the distribution network to ensure that electricity is delivered to end-users in a secure, reliable and efficient manner. Harry Taylor, Chris Collins and Erik Rakhou at Baringa Partners spell out what DSOs need to do to take full advantage of digitalisation technologies and processes to make them fit for a rapidly transforming energy system. A growing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Grids Tagged With: Austria, CleanEnergyPackage, Digitalisation, DNOs, DSOs, electricity, Finland, grids, Netherlands, Portugal, prosumers, regulators, renewables, UK

Cybersecurity: the knock-on cost of digital efficiency

July 26, 2019 by Energy Post Premium

The oil and gas market slump of 2015 brought extra pressure to bear on majors to reduce their breakeven barrel price. The quest for deeper efficiencies included a tidal shift toward digitalisation. According to Gaurav Sharma, vulnerable systems are in urgent need of upgrading and require constant protection at an estimated cost of $40 billion plus per annum. With existential external factors already putting the squeeze on investment, the growing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Oil, Gas & Coal, PREMIUM Tagged With: cybersecurity, Digitalisation, energy majors, Misrosoft, oil and gas, profitability

Is Blockchain a disruptor? Or the solution to an already-disrupted energy sector

May 16, 2019 by Peter Bronski

The global energy sector is already facing multiple, concurrent disruptions that are fundamentally transforming electricity markets around the world: digitalisation, decarbonisation, decentralisation, and electric mobility. It’s creating residential prosumers, with their solar panels, electric vehicles, smart thermostats (the list is growing) and a predicted global installed distributed energy resources (DERs) capacity of 530 GW by 2026, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blockchain, Energy Tagged With: blockchain, decarbonisation, decentralisation, DERs, Digitalisation, electricity, EVs, prosumers, smartgrids

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