Thursday. 02 February 2017
How to plan for the expansion of Solar and Wind energySpurred by ambitious national commitments, international agreements and rapid technological progress, governments are increasingly choosing renewable energy to expand their countries’ power infrastructures. Read more…
Friday. 27 January 2017
Significant Growth Expected in Energy Storage Deployments in Emerging MarketsA new report commissioned by IFC and ESMAP finds that energy storage deployments in emerging markets are expected to grow 40 percent annually over the coming decade, resulting in about 80 gigawatts of new storage capacity. This will be a significant increase upon the less than 2 GW of capacity currently in place. Read more…
Wednesday. 18 January 2017
New Research & Innovation Roadmap Smart Networks for Energy Transition: 2.5 billion euros investment in R&I over next 10 years to help manage Europe’s Energy TransitionThis week the European Technology and Innovation Platform Smart Networks for Energy Transition (ETIP SNET) presents long term key priorities to enable the transition towards a reliable and sustainable European electricity system with very high shares of renewables. Overall the roadmap estimates that 2.5 billion euros investments in Research and…
Thursday. 12 January 2017
How the Internet of Things empowers intelligent energy storageThe Internet of Things (IoT) is becoming a major technological phenomenon. In fact, there will be 24 billion internet-connected devices online by 2020. Individuals, businesses, and governments alike are learning about what it means to live in a technologically integrated society created by the IoT. Read more…
Wednesday. 21 December 2016
Call for expertsThe European Technology and Innovation Platform Smart Networks for Energy Transition (ETIP SNET) is aiming to elaborate a vision and roadmap for R&I activities for smart networks, storage and other sources of flexibility in integrated energy systems. For this reason ETIP SNET is now seeking experts to take an active part in five of the six…
Wednesday. 14 December 2016
New European Platform Smart Networks for Energy Transition R&I kicks off six Working GroupsA call for Working Groups experts is about to be launched over the next month The new European Technology and Innovation Platform Smart Networks for Energy Transition (ETIP SNET) just launched its activities this week and will be seeking experts from mid December 2016 until mid January 2017 to take an active part in its six Working Groups…
Tuesday. 15 November 2016
INTENSYS4EU Project supports the European Technology and Innovation Platform Smart Networks for Energy TransitionINTENSYS4EU – Integrated Energy System: a pathway for Europe, a project financed under the Horizon 2020 Programme of the European Commission will to promote the work done by the European Technology and Innovation Platform Smart Networks for Energy Transition (ETIP SNET). The project has a global budget of more than 4.3 million euros and will last…
Tuesday. 12 July 2016
ENTSO-E Secretary-General to chair new EU research platform for smart networksOn 11 July 2016, the European Technology and Innovation Platform for Smart Networks for the Energy Transition (ETIP SNET) gathering actors from electricity, storage and ICT but also heating, transport and gas adopted Konstantin Staschus, ENTSO-E Secretary-General, as Chair. The mission of the platform is to guide research, development and…
On August 27th, ETIP SNET hosted a side event during CIGRE 2024 in Paris, focusing on the technical impact of energy communities on the grid, incorporating perspectives from both Distribution System Operators (DSOs) and Transmission System Operators (TSOs). Following the recent paper “Energy communities’ impact on grids” published by ETIP SNET,…
ETIP SNET is pleased to welcome Emin Selahattin Umdu as the ETIP SNET vice-chair representing the storage sector.Over the past few months, ETIP SNET Secretariat contacted the three main European battery associations (EASE, HEA, and EUROBAT) to inform them of the opportunity to nominate a candidate for the ETIP SNET vice-chairmanship. EASE has…
