From Passive to Active: Rebuilding Europe's Energy Grids

When people hear all-electric society, they usually picture electric vehicles, heat pumps or solar panels on rooftops, but that's really just the visible surface, isn't it? From your perspective, what's the bigger idea behind this concept?

So the bigger idea behind the All Electric Society, as the name says, is not simply replacing individual technologies with electric versions, such as EVs, heat pumps, solar panels, as you mentioned.

It's about creating a fully connected, intelligent, and flexible energy system.

So in which generation, storage, consumption, and so on, is digitally controlled in real time.

And what is important also behind the scene is that operators and utilities receive real-time insights from the field for more efficiency and for more control.

Of course, everything according to GDPR with one goal for better prediction and forecast in real time.

And on other sites, at the same time, users become active participants in the grids, in the system, managing our own energy from home, from the sofa, if you want, from building and from industrial sites.

So what if, the question is, what if the future grid becomes fully programmable, flexible, and ready to welcome new users in new clusters? And this is also where we need all this, we will need for tomorrow challenges.

So I would say in one word, Oratory Society is a mission.

And the mission's goal is that electricity becomes the clean, flexible energy carrier connecting many parts of our daily and industrial life.

Let's zoom in on the why.

I mean, there are many different forms of energy.

Why would you say is electricity emerging as the central form of energy for the future, especially when we look at industry, infrastructure and mobility?

So there is a simple reason behind the future energy system must not only generate, transport and distribute power, but there is a deep need to measure, control, protect.

And we all will need this flexibility in the shift of energy, as mentioned.

And all this is especially important because solar and wind are more decentralized and variable than traditional generation.

And just imagine for industrial example, factories and machines can become much more flexible and controllable within the loads.

And of course, they can also be competitive responding to the grid signals and support the demand response models.

And here we see a lot of, let's say, new kits on the block, new technologies, high-voltage GC transmission, solid-state transformers, different kinds of sensors, communication, and so on.

So, of course, one of the technologies is also mobility.

Coming in the next wave, we are talking about bidirectional charging impacts, where electric vehicles are no longer only consumers of electricity, but through bidirectional charging, they can also become a mobile storage resource.

Andrei, I think there you're touching on things that many people, I at least suspect, get wrong.

Can we achieve the all-electric society simply by building more wind farms and solar parks, by generating more renewable energy, or does the entire energy infrastructure underneath need to change? You already mentioned a couple of aspects there.

Sure.

No, the answer is clearly no, Mustafa.

When people hear all-electric society, they usually picture electric vehicles, heat pumps or solar panels on rooftops, but that's really just the visible surface, isn't it? From your perspective, what's the bigger idea behind this concept?

So the bigger idea behind the All Electric Society, as the name says, is not simply replacing individual technologies with electric versions, such as EVs, heat pumps, solar panels, as you mentioned.

It's about creating a fully connected, intelligent, and flexible energy system.

So in which generation, storage, consumption, and so on, is digitally controlled in real time.

And what is important also behind the scene is that operators and utilities receive real-time insights from the field for more efficiency and for more control.

Of course, everything according to GDPR with one goal for better prediction and forecast in real time.

And on other sites, at the same time, users become active participants in the grids, in the system, managing our own energy from home, from the sofa, if you want, from building and from industrial sites.

So what if, the question is, what if the future grid becomes fully programmable, flexible, and ready to welcome new users in new clusters? And this is also where we need all this, we will need for tomorrow challenges.

So I would say in one word, Oratory Society is a mission.

And the mission's goal is that electricity becomes the clean, flexible energy carrier connecting many parts of our daily and industrial life.

Let's zoom in on the why.

I mean, there are many different forms of energy.

Why would you say is electricity emerging as the central form of energy for the future, especially when we look at industry, infrastructure and mobility?

So there is a simple reason behind the future energy system must not only generate, transport and distribute power, but there is a deep need to measure, control, protect.

And we all will need this flexibility in the shift of energy, as mentioned.

And all this is especially important because solar and wind are more decentralized and variable than traditional generation.

And just imagine for industrial example, factories and machines can become much more flexible and controllable within the loads.

And of course, they can also be competitive responding to the grid signals and support the demand response models.

And here we see a lot of, let's say, new kits on the block, new technologies, high-voltage GC transmission, solid-state transformers, different kinds of sensors, communication, and so on.

So, of course, one of the technologies is also mobility.

Coming in the next wave, we are talking about bidirectional charging impacts, where electric vehicles are no longer only consumers of electricity, but through bidirectional charging, they can also become a mobile storage resource.

Andrei, I think there you're touching on things that many people, I at least suspect, get wrong.

Can we achieve the all-electric society simply by building more wind farms and solar parks, by generating more renewable energy, or does the entire energy infrastructure underneath need to change? You already mentioned a couple of aspects there.

Sure.

No, the answer is clearly no, Mustafa.