The Summit

‘In the Netherlands we drive innovations for the energy transition in a public private partnership. Governments, businesses and knowledge centres are working together to build our carbon free energy future’

"How disruption will destroy the value chain of utilities? What new sources of value will emerge from the death of existing business models? Will the dark side of the force prevail?”

We are on a journey towards a new energy world, a world full of new and exciting opportunities.  This transformation is being driven by three global trends: Decarbonization, decentralization and digitalization. The world’s concerns about climate change are shifting the generation landscape to a more well balanced mix of fossil and renewable sources such as wind and solar. The classical energy landscape with a few large power plants and central downstream systems is disappearing. Our ongoing integration of renewables requires a new sy stemic approach. Millions of small, decentralized generating units require a new form of management and new technologies, such as efficiently linked emerging microgrids. "Digitalization is the new normal and is driving the Internet of energy with millions of smart and decentralized energy generation units. But to build a sustainable, affordable and reliable grid we must also embrace a new mindset, called “Agility in energy”"