Joint declaration on the upcoming EU Action Plan on digitalising the energy sector

As the European Commission stated in March 2020 with the EU industrial strategy, Europe must leverage the potential of the digital transformation, which is a key enabler for reaching the Green Deal objectives. The energy industry, represented by the Associations E.DSO, EHPA, ESMIG, Eurelectric, smartEn, SolarPower Europe and, Wind Europe recognises the enabling role of digital technologies for the green transition and to increase Europe’s digital sovereignty. The upcoming Action Plan on digitalisation of the energy sector, should be the new sectorial EU digital initiative and technological framework enabling trustful and digitally enabled interactions. For this reason, the energy industry elaborated key recommendations on the main drivers of digitalisation of the power sector, and sent them to the EU Commission1, which can support to further digitalise the sector and we recommend including concrete actions.