Annual Report

RGI in 2025 Preparing Europe’s grids for a complex and rapidly changing energy future

Published 28 September 2026

In 2025, RGI worked with grid operators, NGOs, policymakers, and communities to make grid planning more transparent, bird and marine protection more practical, and public engagement more structured. From European system scenarios to the Grids Package, discover how in our 2025 Annual Report.

The Renewables Grid Initiative (RGI) is pleased to present its 2025 Annual Report, where we continued to systematically address emerging challenges while developing solutions and pathways. Deepening our understanding of an increasingly complex energy system, we strengthened our onshore and offshore work, scaled up global Nature- and People-Positive activities, and explored the power of approaching the energy transition collaboratively.

As CEO Antonella Battaglini writes in her foreword:

Our activities in 2025 focused on four areas:

Grids & Energy Systems, addressing the growing complexity of grid planning through a holistic approach, focused on optimising the system rather than tackling issues in isolation.

Energy & Nature, strengthening our onshore and offshore work by broadening our scope and expanding our communication and event activities

Global Initiative for Energy, Grids and Renewables (GINGR), moving from ambition towards measurable delivery with four Technical Working Groups.

Energy & Society, working with key stakeholders to ensure public engagement is meaningfully integrated into grid planning, while also continuing to explore the challenges of the energy transition with impactful events.

RGI’s Annual Report 2025

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Stephanie Bätjer

Stephanie Bätjer is leading the Renewables Grid Initiative’s communication and event activities as Programme Manager – Communication. She is also heavily involved in RGI’s policy work and all activities that look at social engagement around grids. She previously worked in the communications team of the European Climate Foundation. Stephanie has studied at the Universities of Marburg and Hamburg, Germany, and the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. She holds degrees in political science and journalism.

Wilm Lindenblatt

Wilm Lindenblatt

Wilm joined RGI in October 2024 as Junior Manager in the Communication team where he works as a graphic designer part time. If he isn’t working at RGI, he is creating children’s books and working as a freelance illustrator. Wilm studied graphic design and illustration at the FH Design in Münster.