ENARD Contributes to the International Debate on the Crucial Importance of Electricity Networks
ENARD has played its full part in the ongoing debate about the future pivotal role of electricity networks, in the achievement of energy policy objectives. Particular highlights here have included ENARD’s representation at the European Technology Platform SmartGrids 3rd General Assembly in Brussels, 8th-9th October, its contribution to the IEA’s End Use Working Party (EUWP) Workshop on Long Term Technology Perspectives, held Berlin, 16th October, and its participation in the Renewable Energy Technology Deployment (RETD) Implementing Agreement workshop in Copenhagen, 22nd October.Speaking at the EUWP Long Term Technology Perspectives Workshop in Berlin, John Baker, ENARD Annex I Operating Agent, highlighted the crucial role of electricity networks as key enablers in the delivery of energy policy objectives and the challenges to be addressed, both in accommodating a vastly different generating mix then ever envisaged, even 10 years ago, the emergence of a new generation of “prosumers” and the profound implications of such developments on investment and renewal strategies.