Friday. 27 October 2017
Minutes of the Aachen Workshop Now Available OnlineThe minutes of the Central Region’s Workshop in Aachen, as well as all presentation slides, are now available here: /events/regional-workshops/central-region/

Thursday. 19 October 2017
REGISTRATION OPEN: ETIP SNET Northern Region Workshop December 7-8, RigaThe European Technology and Innovation Platform for Smart Networks for Energy Transition and the Institute of Physical Energetics are hosting the ETIP SNET’s Northern Region Workshop, to be held on December 7-8 in Riga, Latvia. Are you a representative of: a university, a technology center, an energy utility, a distribution or…

Wednesday. 18 October 2017
New Sulfur Flow Battery for Affordable Long-Term Grid StorageThe high cost of batteries still prevents them from being used to store renewable energy for times when the wind dies down or there’s no sun. Pumped hydroelectric storage is the cheapest known energy-storage technology today, but is limited by geography. With a new battery, researchers at MIT say they have found the sweet spot…

Wednesday. 11 October 2017
REGISTRATION OPEN: Joint Research Centre and ETIP SNET Workshop on Smart Grids R&I Priorities, November 23-24, CyprusThe European Commission Joint Research Center (JRC), the European Technology and Innovation Platform for Smart Networks for Energy Transition (ETIP SNET) and the FOSS Research Centre for Sustainable Energy of the University of Cyprus will host a Workshop on Smart Grids R&I priorities, to be held on November 23-24…

Thursday. 05 October 2017
National Stakeholders meet in Amsterdam and discuss how to better liaise EU and national levelsOn 4 October the members of the NSCG, the grouping of national actors (technology platforms, ministry representatives, funding agencies, research centres, experts from regulators) linked to the ETIP SNET, gathered to exchange on best practices in various EU countries. At the meeting ENEDIS presented the successful national technology and…

Thursday. 05 October 2017
ETIP SNET Implementation Plan: Setting Europe’s research priorities for a smarter Energy TransitionThis week, the European Technology and Innovation Platform Smart Networks for Energy Transition (ETIP SNET) presents the short-term key priorities to enable the transition towards a reliable and sustainable European electricity system with a high share of renewables. Amsterdam, 5th of October 2017, ETIP SNET – which prioritises…

Wednesday. 04 October 2017
Registration for South-Eastern and Northern Regional Workshops to open soon!Mark your agendas: the European Technology and Innovation Platform Smart Networks for Energy Transition will organize 2 more Regional Workshops until the end of 2017. Four more Workshops planned for 2018. As with the previous ones in Aachen and Lisbon, the workshops aim to present national and regional R&I projects of significant added…

Tuesday. 03 October 2017
WEBINAR: Ensuring European Energy Transition: key research and innovation actions needed for the next 5 yearsETIP SNET chairman Konstantin Staschus and Intensys4EU technical project coordinator Sophie Dourlens to present ETIP SNET Implementation Plan through 2nd free real time webinar course on 9 October 2017. The Leonardo Energy initiative will hold a second free ETIP SNET Webinar session entitled “Ensuring European Energy Transition: key…

Monday. 02 October 2017
Workshop Presentations from ETIP SNET Central and Western Region available onlineETIP SNET, in collaboration with regional partners E.ON Energy Research Center, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and EDP Distribuição held its first two successful workshops in Aachen, Germany and Lisbon, Portugal in September. Together they gathered over 220 participants from all over Europe to share knowledge on local…

Tuesday. 26 September 2017
European Roadmap Electrification of Road Transport 2nd EditionThe European Roadmap on the “Electrification of Road Transport”, recently published jointly by the European Technology Platforms ERTRAC, EPoSS and ETIP SNET (namely its predecessor ETP Smartgrids), provides background information and R&D&I roadmaps for the electrification of the different vehicle categories. It has been the…
