ENTSO-E’s RDIC publishes three major reports on TSO’s RDI planning, activity and monitoring:
RDI Roadmap outlines the long term methodology that TSOs are using for their RDI policy in response to the EU climate and energy objectives.
RDI Implementation Plan paves the way for the key milestones of the RDI Roadmap to become reality.
RDI Monitoring Report assesses the ongoing RDI activities of the TSOs against the ENTSO-E RDI Roadmap and the RDI Implementation Plan.
Besides these ENTSO-E’s RDI Committee releases position papers and technical reports
Roadmap 2024–2034
The success of the deep transformation of Europe’s energy system requires a massive ramp up of research, development and innovation efforts, encompassing activities ranging from new concepts and computer modelling solutions to both small-scale and large-scale demonstrations. The ENTSO-E RDI Roadmap 2024 – 2034 proposes innovation missions and milestones for the core TSO activities in response to the EU climate and energy objectives. It is a Roadmap to accelerate the development of the future power system, a system that needs to be sustainable, flexible, digitalised and at the core of the European energy system of systems.
The world of energy has changed drastically since 2020 as the effect of a global pandemic and the geopolitical turmoil have disrupted the availability of energy sources, materials and equipment crucial for the European energy sector.
In response, the European Commission’s REPowerEU action plan sets the tone to accelerate the clean energy transition, improving energy independence while increasing the sustainability of the industrial ecosystem as a whole, towards an affordable, secure and sustainable energy for Europe.
The grand challenges entailed by the energy system decarbonisation and the present international situation call for outstanding solutions to keep the power system reliable and resilient. The ENTSO-E Research Development and Innovation Roadmap 2024 – 2034 (ENTSO-E RDI Roadmap 2024 – 2034) lays down missions for the next 10 years to overcome these challenges and implement the power system for a carbon-neutral Europe.
The ENTSO-E RDI Roadmap is a legally mandated document that outlines key research, development and innovation priorities for modernising the power grid over the next decade. It targets a broad audience, including decision-makers within electricity Transmission System Operators (TSOs), the companies and organisations interacting with the grid, policymakers and anyone else involved in the future evolution of the power grid.
Implementation Plan
The “Research, Development and Innovation (RDI) Implementation Report 2026-2030” translates missions and milestones of the ENTSO-E Research, Development and Innovation (RDI) Roadmap 2024–2034 into high-level guidelines for innovation project proposals. Its purpose is to transition the strategy defined in the Roadmap to concrete, implementable, Project Concepts. It serves as a catalyst for transformative change across Europe’s power sector, fostering collaboration led by European Transmission System Operators (TSOs), and supporting the modernisation of the European electricity system.
The plan defines 13 Project Concepts focus on system resilience, system stability, system simulations, AI applications, digital twins, forecasting solutions, flexibility services, HVDC, hydrogen and other.
Each Project Concept includes detailed information that clearly outlines its motivations, scope, expected outcome and the evolution of the Technology Readiness Level (TRL). The Implementation Plan promotes close collaboration between TSOs and other energy sector stakeholders to support adoption of innovative solutions in the power system. State-of-art of each Project Concept is backed by an ongoing or recently completed, TSO projects demonstrating already attained TRLs.
The Implementation Plan promotes close collaboration between TSOs and accounts for the role of other energy sector stakeholders in addressing barriers that currently slow deployment of innovative solutions in the electricity grid.