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{{Quote|text=‘Energy '''transition'''’, ‘electrical grid '''transformation'''’, ‘Power '''Shifts'''’; what is all that buzz?|sign=confused participant of Power Shifts and really cool person}}
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<refname="technology_dimension">See the [[:Category:Technological Dimension]]</ref>.
[[File:Energy_systems_trends.png|thumbnail|[http://iee-empowering.eu/en/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/2-Recent-Policy-Initiatives-by-the-European-Commission_M.SANCHEZ.pdf Source]]]
==Breaking it down==
* COM(2014) 356 Benchmarking Report on Smart Metering & accompanying SWDs
==Challenges==
It is evident from the above trends that innovative and transformative changes are not about one specific technology or energy source, but rather require long-term, system oriented goals.<ref follow="technology_dimension">See 'Ways forward'</ref>
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The smart grid is a 3-piece structure that combines power, communication and information technologies for a more efficient, reliable and manageable power infrastructure [3]; it is a complex system made up of interrelated systems.
