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This vision of the 'energy transition;' is built around the modernisation of the electrical grid, with the gradual development of smart grids, which use information and communication technologies (ICT) to manage electricity more efficiently while adding new nodes to the electrical grid such as Renewable Energy Sources (RES), thus turning households into a consumer-producer-hybrid. The promise of the smart grid is to enable a new paradigm with a reduced energy cost and the environmental benefits of RES<ref>See the [[:Category:Technological Dimension]]</ref>.
==What is the smart grid?Breaking it down==
* Intelligent and digitised energy network
* Two-way dialogue: Electricity and Information