Virtual Learning

The Virtual Learning webinars aim to provide an efficient and effective way for the energy community, including the energy industry, decision-makers, students, and the general public, to continuously enhance and update their technical skills in the field of smart grids.

The webinars present the latest information on new and emerging topics, challenges, recent developments, best practices, novel methodologies, and smart grid theory, applications, and deployment.

Our webinars reach smart grid experts from over 150 countries.

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Upcoming webinars

June 11th – Hydrogen sector impact on power grid: production / storage / transport: CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

ISGAN Lighthouse: Implementation (last week of June)

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Lighthouse Project Webinars

Led by experts from ISGAN Working Groups, the Lighthouse Project webinar series explores key aspects of the long-term planning and implementation of smart distribution grids, with the help of the new framework developed in Phase 1 of the Lighthouse Project.

Title	Date	Link
ISGAN Lighthouse Foresight and Strategic Decision Making	2025-09-10	YouTube video
ISGAN Lighthouse Foresight and Strategic Decision Making – The Solutions	2025-10-01	YouTube video
ISGAN Lighthouse Webinar on Long-term Planning	2025-10-29	YouTube video
ISGAN Lighthouse: Assessment & Decision Support	2026 (tbd)
ISGAN Lighthouse: Implementation	Last week of June 2026

Virtual Learning Webinars

Flexibility tools and platforms

Title	Date	Link
GDBN: A Digital Grid Data and Business Network to support the Flexibility-Centric Energy Value Chain	2026-04-09	YouTube video
Managing Collective Self-Consumption and Local Flexibility with RECreation platform	2025-06-18	YouTube video
Flexible Operation of Energy Communities under Uncertainty in Energy Markets	2024-11-28	YouTube video
Storage technologies for transport and insular systems in the SINNOGENES project	2024-07-03	YouTube video
Revolutionising Renewable Energy: Exploring the Biomass-fired Top Cycle (BTC) Plant	2024-05-21	YouTube video
Approaching 5G-based Edge-Cloud Computing: Fostering the digital transition of the energy industry	2024-02-22	YouTube video
Development of Digital Twin Capability in the UK energy sector	2023-11-23	YouTube video
Bridging the Gap between Energy Operators and Research Outcomes	2023-11-15	YouTube video
Optimal bidding and operation of DVPPs under uncertainties	2023-10-18	YouTube video
Sustainable Peak Load Transformers	2022-07-07	YouTube video
Smart management of the grid: exploiting line temperature and load forecasts	2022-04-07	YouTube video
Overview of the FlexPlan project. Focus on EU regulatory analysis and TSO-DSO planning practice	2020-09-09	YouTube video
Smart4RES – Data science for renewable energy prediction	2020-06-05	YouTube video
Assessment of smart grid initiatives: the ISGAN smartgrideval toolkit	2020-04-23	YouTube video
Multicriteria and cost benefit analysis for smart grid projects	2018-09-04	YouTube video
Comprehensive On&Off-Grid Planning For Universal Access. The Reference Electrification Model	2018-06-13	YouTube video
Planning of Distribution Systems in the Era of Smart Grids	2018-06-19	YouTube video
Augmented reality applications for Smart Grids	2017-12-18	YouTube video
TSO Reliability Management: a probabilistic approach for better balance between reliability & costs	2017-10-02	YouTube video
Generally Accepted Reliability Principle with Uncertainty modelling and through probabilistic Risk assessment	2017-05-24	YouTube video
Reference Network Models	2017-03-03	YouTube video

Awards of Excellence

Title	Date	Link
ISGAN Awards 2023: Excellence in Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Smart Grid	2023-11-28	YouTube video
ISGAN Award 2022 – Excellence of EV Integration in Smart Grid	2023-04-20	YouTube video
ISGAN Award 2019 – Excellence of the Local Integrated Energy Systems – Microgrids	2019-09-17	YouTube video
ISGAN Award 2018 – Coordinating Power Control	2019-01-10	YouTube video

Flexibility in the power system

Title	Date	Link
Storage technologies in multi-energy carriers and industrial environments in the SINNOGENES project	2024-05-22	YouTube video
Aggregator in digitalised power systems	2024-03-11	YouTube video
Enhancing cross-border power connections: the FARCROSS & TRINITY experience	2023-06-15	YouTube video
Demonstration of close to real time cross border flexibility market	2022-04-21	YouTube video
Optimizing the value of storage in power systems and electricity markets-Smart4RES	2021-12-09	YouTube video
Dynamic Virtual Power Plant to combine flexibilities RES – the POSYTYF project	2021-11-18	YouTube video
FARCROSS project – Innovative solutions for increased regional cross-border cooperation	2021-03-01	YouTube video
INTERPRETER – Local flexibility solutions leveraged by RD&I projects as system stability solutions	2020-11-06	YouTube video
Flexibility needs at system level and how RD&I projects are leveraging these solutions	2020-11-10	YouTube video
New business models for distribution grid stakeholders under high penetration of DER	2020-05-19	YouTube video
CoordiNet- Large scale demonstrations for TSO-DSO Cooperation	2019-12-05	YouTube video
Flexibility needs in the future power system	2019-11-06	YouTube video
Dynamic Line Rating: Principles – Applications – Benefits	2019-07-29	YouTube video
Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) Energy Services	2019-05-06	YouTube video
How to Replicate solutions for the flexibility challenge? ReFlex Guidebook presentation	2019-02-20	YouTube video

Knowledge Transfer Projects

Title	Date	Link
Long-Term Planning & Implementation of Smart Distribution Grids	2024-12-03	YouTube video
The grid planning process as an enabler for the energy transition	2023-09-13	YouTube video
Regulatory Sandboxes for Smart Energy Systems	2021-06-10	YouTube video
Outcomes of the ISGAN Knowledge Exchange Project on experimental sandboxes	2019-06-12	YouTube video
Perspectives on ISGAN KTP in Mexico, Genk and Bengaluru	2018-04-23	YouTube video

New challenges in smart grids

Title	Date	Recordings
How to Integrate Energy Communities into the Electricity System	2024-06-25	YouTube video
Navigating Australia’s Grid Transformation – A Postcard from the Future	2024-02-28	YouTube video
Enticing residential consumers to become electricity flexibility providers	2023-10-25	YouTube video
Recommendations to pave the way for harmonised European flexibilities markets	2022-07-05	YouTube video
Open exchange on TSO-DSO coordination activities, approaches, and solutions	2022-06-13	YouTube video
Demonstration of grid forming capabilities and synchronisation services	2022-04-05	YouTube video
Osmose project contribution to the enhancement of the IEC61850 standard	2022-01-28	YouTube video
System Challenges and Opportunities in Electric Vehicle Integration	2021-10-27	YouTube video
Advanced weather forecasting for renewable energy applications – Smart4RES project	2021-03-23	YouTube video
Extracting value from data sharing for RES forecasting: Privacy aspects & data monetization	2020-12-17	YouTube video
The need to model coupled energy networks to transition to a decarbonized future	2020-02-27	YouTube video
Cybersecurity for Smart Grids: Technical Approaches to Improve Cybersecurity	2017-09-11	YouTube video
Cybersecurity for Smart Grids: Vulnerabilities and Strategies to Provide Cybersecurity	2017-06-28	YouTube video

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