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* Europe’s current electricity networks are ageing, and, as already indicated by the International Energy Agency, many of them will need to be modernized or replaced in the decades to come.

* The growing impact of energy trading also needs to be taken into account. <ref name=egmont>Egmont Institute, Tania ZGAJEWSKI, [http://www.egmontinstitute.be/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/new-egmont.papers.74.U2334_16x24.pdf Smart electricity grids: A very slow deployment in the EU]</ref>