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system, and Dsos will see a new set of
roles and duties:
✔ Distributed generation, connected to distribution networks,
is expanding very rapidly.
✔ To cope with increasingly fluctuating volumes of supply, such
as solar energy and wind farms,
the potential of demand response
has to be used.
✔ electric vehicles will constitute
mobile customers.
✔ The development of decentralized
storage, connected to distribution
networks, is also anticipated.
Local distribution systems will become much more complex as local grid
constraints occur more frequently. Dsos
are nevertheless expected to continue to
operate their networks in a secure way
and to provide high quality to their customers at the best economic conditions.
The article addresses a number of
fundamental questions:
✔ Is a change in system architecture needed?
✔ what types of system services
are needed at distribution level
and how can they be procured?
✔ how can distribution systems
provide services to the transmission system?
✔ how should the regulatory framework be developed?
The specific features of the european power system (such as an integrated
energy market, the fast development of
renewable energy sources, and the unbundling of energy segments) are presented as well as their consequences on
the future distribution system.
Finally, we conclude with a general
article, written by Lorubio and schlosser,
on the possible policy of the eu in the
energy sector and the required innovation.
The authors explain that the 2020
policy feels like tomorrow for a sector that invests in long-lived generation and grid assets. This is arguably
why the european Commission has
developed the energy roadmap 2050
and more recently published a green
paper to kick start a discussion with
member states and stakeholders on the
optimal policy for 2030, with a view
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competing scenarios for possible 2030
eu energy policy pathways.
The article then ranks the developed
options based on a set of indicators
derived from the official eu energy
policy, as outlined in its reference document "an energy policy For europe,"
with two new policy imperatives: innop&e
vation and affordability.

of adopting a new and comprehensive
regulatory framework before the end of
the next commission mandate.
as a contribution to this new discussion, this article first reviews and
assesses the coherence of the existing
eu energy policy (including its innovation instruments) and its impact on the
energy industry, before developing six

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