Flexibility Workshop of IEA EUWP

The IEA EUWP (Working Party on Energy End-Use Technologies) is organising a workshop about “Flexibility for a sustainable energy system” and ExCo Chair Karin Widegren will discuss at the Round Table about “Flexibility from the network and storage”.

Power Forward Challenge

Natural resources Canada (NRCan) and The Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS), UK launched the Power Forward Challenge

Social costs and benefits of smart grid technologies

This Discussion Paper maps and reviews existing literature about costs and benefits of smart grid projects and identifies gaps in current guidance. The report also includes an analysis of how network regulation affects costs and benefits of smart grid technologies. The report allows selecting models/methods to be used by the Swedish Smart Grid Forum in order to assess different smart grid projects and applications. It also provides input for further work on the topic of decision making for smart grid technologies.