=== The technological dimension ===
* both electricity and information are exchanged
* ensuring interoperability in smart power grids
* reporting energy usage to increase efficiency
* are microgrids a possibility?
In a smart grid system, both electricity and information are exchanged, which is why interoperability within smart power grids has to be ensured. The reporting of energy usage would increase the efficiency of energy distribution. The European Commission has come forward with various possible systems for managing the data recorded in a smart grid. This includes delegating the responsibility of market facilitation to DSOs, introducing third party market facilitators and an independent central hub as well as solving the problem through [[Data Access Point Managers]].<br />
=== The environmental dimension ===
* pushing decarbonisation* Consumers As consumers would be more likely to install renewable sources of energy (e.g. solar panels)* in a smart grid system, democratising energy distribution pushes decarbonisation even further. Additionally, consumers have a greater , more active influence on the amount of renewable energy used in Europe's energy mix.
== The Actors: Who is involved ==
*EU Commission & DG on Energy
== Measures in Place: What has been done ==
Questions to be answered:
What are sources of knowledge EU citizens to look into at the moment?
What are microgrids and how do they work?
=== Clean Energy Package ===
* https://ec.europa.eu/commission/priorities/energy-union-and-climate_en
=== SETDIRECTIVE 2009/72/EC: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-Plan =content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32009L0072&from=enThe European Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET-Plan) aims to accelerate the development and deployment of low-carbon technologies. It seeks to improve new technologies and bring down costs by coordinating national research efforts and helping to finance projects.
=== TENThe [[European Strategic Energy Technology Plan]] (SET-Plan) aims to accelerate the development and deployment of low-E ===carbon technologies. It seeks to improve new technologies and bring down costs by coordinating national research efforts and helping to finance projects.<br />The [[Trans-European Energy Networks ]] (TEN-E) – are programmes set up by the EU for the implementation of the European Single Market. The Trans-European Networks aim at "linking island, landlocked and peripheral regions with the central regions of the community”.
== A final outlook ==
* https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/energy-as-a-common-good/2017/02/22
* http://energyandcarbon.com/digitalisation-energy-implications/
* http://www.ceer.eu/portal/page/portal/EER_HOME/EER_PUBLICATIONS/CEER_PAPERS/Electricity/Tab3/0C9D9B1CD9645A0EE050A8C03C2F585D
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