Activity Report 2012 - Eurelectric
Activity Report 2012 - Eurelectric
Activity Report 2012 - Eurelectric
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Electricity Highways<br />
EURELECTRIC DSOs are a partner in the consortium of<br />
a three-year R&D project looking into the long-term<br />
development of the pan-European transmission network<br />
The ‘E-Highways’ project involves EnTSO-E, TSOs, associations<br />
and RTD performers. The project aims at<br />
delivering a top-down methodology to support the<br />
network planning from 2020 to 2050. EURELECTRIC will<br />
ensure that the role of European DSOs is duly taken<br />
into account when an overlay grid is planned.<br />
Smart Grids Projects<br />
On 17 October, EURELECTRIC organised its first Smart Grids<br />
Projects Academy. The Academy is a new initiative consisting<br />
of a series of ‘hands-on’ workshops through <strong>2012</strong><br />
and 2013, each of them focusing on a specific smart grid<br />
functional area, including ‘smart integration’, ‘smart<br />
cus tomers’, ‘smart metering management’, ‘smart dis tribution<br />
network’ and ‘distribution-transmission inter face’.<br />
The first workshop brought together an exclusive set of<br />
30 experts from industry, research and policy insti tutions<br />
that reflected on a handful of selected projects (from SSE,<br />
RWE and GRID4EU) and discussed the policy needs for<br />
further developments in the field of smart integration.<br />
The Academy provides the perfect industry platform for<br />
practitioners to share results of deployed projects and to<br />
create synergies which will be critical for future success.<br />
The outcomes of the first workshop are summarised<br />
in a ‘smart integration’ leaflet, part of a larger paper<br />
that will outline the innovative actions taking place in<br />
distribution networks today. Meanwhile, the EU can<br />
continue to facilitate the learning process by bundling<br />
information on pilot and demonstration projects, as<br />
it already does in collaboration with EURELECTRIC on<br />
www.smartgridsprojects.eu.<br />
In addition, EURELECTRIC published the ‘Smartness<br />
Barometer’ report to help potential investors assess<br />
smart grids investments. The work was carried out in<br />
close collaboration with the Commission’s Joint Research<br />
Centre and the InovGrid project developed by Portuguese<br />
DSO EDP Distribuição.<br />
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