Thoughts on an Electricity System and Grid Paradigm Shift in Response to the EU Energy Transition and the Clean Energy Package

Olivier Lavoine, member of Confrontations Europe’s energy working group, analyses the electricity system and grid paradigm shift in response to the EU energy transition and the clean energy package*. Highlights :  The EU Clean Energy Package aims to facilitate the transition to low carbon energy system based largely on renewable energy sources, while furthering the completion of the internal energy market. The achievement of such “double goal” implies a profound paradigm shift in the way the electricity system is developed and operated. The growth of distributed energy resources, on both the generation and demand side, cannot be neglected anymore. On the contrary, such resources connected to the distribution grids must be fully integrated and subject to grid codes that ensure a level playing field. The operation of transmission and distribution grids must change and adapt to the new dynamics introduced by the growth of distributed energy resources. Transmission and distribution