The use of a long-term approach to investment to ensure efficiency: Paper anticipatory investments
On 24 February, DSO Entity’s Task Force in Investment Funding and Finance (TF FIN) released its paper “Anticipatory Investments: an initial regulatory discussion”. This paper explores the crucial role an approach to planning based on anticipatory investments could have in achieving the European Union’s ambitious net-zero goals. Considering the urgent need to accelerate the energy […]
DSO Entity launched its Technical Vision
DSO Entity presented before the holiday break its Technical Vision, with which it aims to establish unified framework and common language among DSOs, to guide a new system-of-systems to emerge that not only serves customers with a reliable, affordable and sustainable system but also strengthens the competitiveness for European industry. As the EU Green Deal […]
DSO Entity publishes its Guidance on the EU permitting-related provisions on grid and renewable energy projects
On 9 January, DSO Entity published its Permitting Paper providing guidance on EU permitting-related provisions on grid and renewable energy projects. As part of the Fitfor55 package and the RePowerEU, new provisions were introduced to simplify and accelerate permitting procedures in the EU in order to speed up the deployment of renewables in Europe. Yet, […]
Implementation of Action 7 in the EU Action Plan for Grids
DSO Entity and ENTSO-E are pleased to report on their joint efforts to develop a strategy for promoting technology uptake for smart grids and network efficiency via new tool “DSO/TSO Technopedia” to be launched in 2025. In its Action Plan for EU grids released in November 2023, the EU Commission has identified a series of […]
DSO Entity together with a coalition of 16 other European cross-sectoral (energy) associations collectively calls for putting distribution grids at the center of attention of the European agenda for the next five years
Collective call for a greater focus on distribution grids in the next EU agenda for 2024-2029 A coalition of 16 European cross-sectoral (energy) associations calls for putting distribution grids at the center of attention of the European agenda for the next five years. In the statement the coalition explains that Distribution System Operators (DSOs) are […]
Explore the first-ever EU DSO map providing the state of play of distribution grids across the EU-27!
DSO Entity launches an original ‘EU DSO map’ providing for the first time on a single chart a state of play of distribution grid in the EU, highlighting the diversity of DSOs and their key role as the technical enablers of the Fit for 55 Package. By displaying a set of data collected from DSO […]
DSO Entity and ENTSO-E approved the Joint Work Plan for 2024
DSO Entity and ENTSO-E are pleased to announce the publication of their Joint Work Plan for 2024-2025. The plan demonstrates the ambition to deliver on the requirements of our legal mandates from Regulation (EU) 2019/943 and to enhance further our cooperation in our common mission as enablers of the energy transition. The Joint Work Plan […]
DSO Entity toward the integration of Gas: where we are and next steps
On 21 May, the Council adopted the Electricity Market Design Reform (EMD) and the Decarbonised Gas and Hydrogen Market Package. The Decarbonised Gas Regulation of the package is highly relevant for DSO Entity as it provides for the integration of gas (and hydrogen) DSOs within DSO Entity (see Art. 39-41). This means that DSO Entity will be […]
Taking stock of the Grid Action Plan
What is the Grid Action Plan? 2023 was the year of the “Grid momentum”, which welcomed initiatives and declarations at the European level acknowledging the relevance of grids in reaching the energy and climate targets. During the 4th PCI Energy Days held in Brussels on 28-29 November, the European Commission presented its Communication “Grids, the […]
Delivering the Fit for 55: How to face the grid capacity challenges? | Take-aways from DSO Entity’s 12 April webinar
On 12 April, DSO Entity hosted the first webinar of its series dedicated to the outcomes of its paper entitled “DSOs fit for 55: Challenges, best practices and lessons learnt on connecting renewables to the grid”, published in November 2023. The webinar focused on the grid constraint challenge identified, in DSO Entity’s paper and the […]