Europe is moving toward a significantly more electrified energy system — but electrification alone doesn’t determine the outcome. What matters is how that demand is orchestrated: which signals consumers can respond to, who coordinates that flexibility, and how it can create value for both end-users and the wider system.
Our latest LCP Delta study, sponsored by The Mobility House Energy, explores the future of flexible demand in Europe. It sets out to answer three central questions — from the medium-term factors shaping its evolution, to the markets set to provide its main source of value, to who coordinates its activation, and what that means for end users and the system.
Drawing on EU policy, LCP Delta’s market data and forecasts, and interviews with smartEn members, the report maps the interaction of five pillars of the electricity system — regulation, markets, demand, generation, and networks — producing three distinct scenarios for 2035. The gap between these scenarios is significant, and the direction gets set now.