Connecting Energies 2024: Civil Society Training Series

An Introduction to Electricity Grid Technologies, Flexibility, and Pricing in a Green Energy Future

 

The Renewables Grid Initiative invites you to Connecting Energies 2024, an expert-led training series designed to equip civil society with the knowledge needed to advocate for a decarbonised, renewables-based and affordable energy system. This three-part webinar series will cover fundamental aspects of the electricity system, including grid technologies, load balancing, flexibility, and electricity metering and pricing. Participants will gain key insights into how grid infrastructure, technologies and market mechanisms are evolving to support the energy transition. 

The sessions will provide a deep dive into the physical components of the grid; key technologies and approaches enabling the integration of renewable energy and ensuring that green electricity is delivered at every hour, every day of the week (24/7); and the challenges and opportunities related to metering and pricing. Each session will focus on practical concepts that NGOs can leverage in their advocacy efforts to drive faster renewable energy adoption and to support grid development and expansion. Whether you are new to energy systems or looking to deepen your understanding, this training will provide essential knowledge to support the shift to a net-zero future.


Connecting Electrons

Online│29 November 2024│10:00 - 11:30 CET

This session will explore the fundamental components of the electricity grid—substations, transformers, lines, and cables—and how different electricity grid technologies (such as smart grids) can be deployed to support and allow for a broad participation in the energy transition. Participants will learn about the challenges related to modernising grid infrastructure and supply chains constraints, essential for embracing the complexity of the energy transition.


Balancing Connections

Online│6 December 2024│10:00 - 11:30 CET

Dive into technologies and approaches that allow electricity grid operators to manage demand and supply in an energy system with increasing shares of variable renewables. NGOs will gain critical insights of the related opportunities and challenges and explore the implications of demand-driven decarbonisation initiatives, such as 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy (CFE), that aim at sourcing carbon-free energy in a time and location-matched manner.


Connecting Consumers

Online | 13 December 2024 | 10:00 – 11:30 CET

This session covers modern electricity metering, including smart meters, and the pricing structures that determine consumer costs. Participants will learn about emerging trends in dynamic pricing and data monitoring and how these changes can unlock flexibility offered by individual consumers. Learn how these insights can strengthen NGOs’ efforts for fair and inclusive energy transition.


Connecting Energies 2023

In 2023, RGI invited members of European civil society organisations to an enlightening three-part training series, Connecting Energies 2023, where we explored the intricate relationship between electricity grids, the energy transition, and biodiversity.

In the first two online sessions, we delved into the role of electricity grids in the energy transition, the role of interconnectors between Member States in delivering the EU’s climate and energy targets, and how policy frameworks can be used to reach climate neutrality.

The final session, held in Berlin, uncovered the critical connection between electricity infrastructure and bird conservation. Participants were invited to apply insights from the previous sessions to the challenge of protecting biodiversity along grid infrastructure and provide input to a shared outcome document which was disseminated publicly.


Contact

Eston McKeague
Manager - Communication

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t: +49 157 3461 9264
eston@renewables-grid.eu

Dr. Andrzej Ceglarz
Director - Energy Systems

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t: +49 30 233211014
andrzej[at]renewables-grid.eu

Alexandros Fakas Kakouris
Senior Manager - Energy and Policy Systems

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t: +49 30 2332 11021
alexandros[at]renewables-grid.eu

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Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the LIFE Programme. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.