EU market design must tackle innovation gap in power networks

ENTSO-E and EDSO for Smart Grids call for an innovation push in the European power system. “System operators are in the starting blocks to plug in the reservoirs of flexibility that demand response, storage, digitalisation and link up between distribution and transmission represent”, stated ENTSO-E Chair of the Board, Bente Hagem as she opened in Brussels the EU conference on innovation in grids, InnoGrid2020+. “We count on the Commission to anchor innovation in its upcoming legislative proposal. It’s a necessity”. ….