The Summit drew attention to and highlighted the extreme importance of smart grid infrastructure projects for achieving EU goals in integrating renewable resources, demand-side energy efficiency and flexibility. Smart grid investments, however, require changes in approaches and perception of the future of energy systems and their transformation. Therefore, all smart grid PCI projects that received EU co-financing had to overcome, in addition to technological and development challenges, organisational and corporate challenges of merging, coupling, and upgrading the investments of energy companies from different functional and state environments. Nevertheless, compared to other energy investments, one of the essential advantages of smart grid projects is their short implementation time. Therefore, the European institutions want to encourage the application of good practice from the projects presented at the Summit for further quality improvement and development in future projects. The EU needs even more high-quality smart grid projects of common European interest to reach the EU 2030 targets successfully.

The event attracted the attention of more than 70 experts from all over Europe.

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