Panel Discussion: Scaling Grid Innovation: Lessons from Europe’s Largest Energy Demonstrators
EU flagship and Horizon-funded energy projects play a vital role in validating advanced grid technologies, digital twins, and system-level innovations at scale. However, technical success alone rarely guarantees operational deployment or market uptake. Drawing on concrete case studies, including Digital Twin for Europe, this session explores the technical, regulatory, and organisational conditions that determine whether grid innovations progress beyond the pilot phase and deliver real-world impact.
- Extract technical and system-level insights from large-scale EU energy demonstration projects
- Identify the key barriers that prevent validated grid technologies from scaling into real-world operations
- Examine how regulation, standardisation, and system architecture interact to enable—or constrain—deployment
- Translate pilot-phase learnings into strategic guidance for designing projects with long-term deployment and market integration in mind
Tuesday 19 May 15:55 - 16:30 Central Grid
Industrial AI and Digitalisation
Moderator
Founder, DKNrgY Consulting
