Europe is electrifying. With Europe’s push to become the world’s first climate-neutral continent by 2050 as part of the European Green Deal1, this should come as no surprise to the reader. This push for a clean and sustainable energy transition has been further exacerbated by the recent European energy crisis caused by the escalations in the Russo-Ukrainian war, which has also added European energy security into question.
However, as Europe rises through one energy crisis, another looms in the form of local grids unable to accommodate for the increased need for electricity in end-user sectors and management of decentralised energy assets. There is a silver lining though, and that is that this potential crisis is predictable, and can be prevented if Europe optimises the use of energy resources at a local level.
