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JRC Smart Electricity Systems

Our role and products

Our role and products

We assess research, development and innovation issues for the deployment of solutions enabling the integration of renewables, storage and electric vehicle (EV) solutions in the energy system. 

This page hosts analyses and insights from the JRC rolling reviews of smart grid projects, performed in cooperation with policy, regulatory, industrial and research partners since 2011. Some previous editions were accompanied with visualisation tools tracking progress on smart grid projects. The JRC also produced smart grids reports in the context of the Clean Energy Technology Observatory (CETO), targeting specific smart grid tehcnologies (e.g. smart meters, power electronics for HVDC, etc).

Please note that the JRC smart grid scanning exercises cannot be directly paralleled a.o. for the following reasons: the classification/clustering of projects changed over time; selected projects were promoted - and thus added to the database - later in their lifetime or even after their completion; some projects faced modifications during their execution (in terms of budget, end dates etc.) and therefore have had to be duly updated.

The following maps display data gathered for the 2017 JRC smart grid report. The 2017 JRC smart grid projects outlook includes a total of 950 smart grid projects, launched from 2002 up until 2015, amounting to €5 billion investment.