In another significant stride within the Lighthouse Project on Smart Distribution Grids, international experts, members of the ISGAN Executive Committee, and the Lighthouse Project Team congregated in Copenhagen, Denmark, to exchange knowledge and insights aimed at fostering the development of smart distribution grids – a critical facilitator of the global clean energy transition.
Hosted by the Danish Energy Agency, the workshop facilitated dynamic discussions among approximately 30 experts from Europe, the USA, Africa, and Australia. The dialogues revolved around elucidating the roles, objectives, and strategic challenges faced by different actors with complementary responsibilities for developing and maintaining local and regional distribution grids, including network operators as well as decision-makers at different levels. The primary objective of this interactive co-creation workshop was to deepen mutual comprehension of the hurdles confronting actors on the journey towards realizing the digital distribution grids of the future, while also eliciting feedback on the necessary mechanisms and support for achieving their respective objectives.
Looking ahead to upcoming activities in the Lighthouse Project, we seek to source additional insights from distribution grid actors globally, both through a survey and through a series of online workshops focusing on the preconditions and development needs of distribution grids in countries and regions in different parts of the world.
A significant milestone on the horizon is the presentation of initial findings in conjunction with the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM15) meeting in Brazil, scheduled for October this year. Through this contribution, ISGAN aims to highlight key policy priorities for enabling smart distribution grids to contribute to meeting the global community’s pledges to triple renewable energy capacity and efficiency, as articulated during the COP28 conference in Dubai last year.
