ETIP SNET has published a new set of papers at the end of 2025, offering strategic insights and guidance on key challenges for the transition towards a resilient, decarbonised, and digitalised European energy system. The publications address district energy storage, artificial intelligence (AI) in smart grids, and enhanced system supervision and control.
The strategic position paper Unlocking the potential of AI and generative AI in European smart grids explores how AI and generative AI (GenAI) can transform the operation and management of European smart grids. It outlines how AI can enhance grid efficiency, flexibility, reliability, and resilience through improved forecasting of renewable energy sources, predictive maintenance, demand response, and cybersecurity. The paper also highlights the added value of GenAI, particularly in synthetic data generation, decision support, and human–AI collaboration, while acknowledging the complexity of deployment challenges that must be addressed to fully realise these benefits.
The District Storage Paper, by Working Group 2, highlights the crucial role of District Energy Storage Systems (DESS) as an enabling technology for deep decarbonisation, grid stability, and local energy resilience. The paper underlines that scaling up DESS from pilot projects to widespread industrial deployment requires a coordinated approach across policy, finance, technology, and societal engagement. By addressing regulatory, financial, technical, and social barriers together, district storage can become a cornerstone of a decentralised, renewable-based energy system.
Enhanced system supervision and control, written by Working Group 4, focuses on the evolving supervision and control needs of power systems with high shares of variable renewable energy sources. It provides an overview of current developments in hardware, control equipment, and system functionalities at both transmission and distribution levels, including energy management systems, advanced distribution management systems, distributed energy resources management systems, wide area monitoring, advanced metering, and flexibility platforms. The paper highlights how enhanced system supervision is essential to ensure secure and efficient system operation in an increasingly complex electricity landscape.
By covering district energy storage, the use of AI in smart grids, and enhanced system supervision and control, these publications provide insights and guidance to support the ongoing development of a more efficient and decarbonised European energy system.
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