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Media Partnership - Enabling Framework for Grid Investments

17-03-2026

Media Partnership - Enabling Framework for Grid Investments

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Europe’s electricity consumption is projected to rise by 2030 with continued renewables development. The Commission’s Grids Package aims to modify planning (including TEN-E revision), streamline permitting, and provide practical grid connection guidance, with a strong emphasis on digitalisation, flexibility, and storage/hybrid projects—areas critical to unlocking investments and integrating renewables at pace.

Together with PGE S.A. we invite you to join us for a strategic discussion to unpack the European Commission’s European Grids Package — its legislative proposals and guidance — and to discuss how it can accelerate grid investments, permitting, and connection processes. The event will spotlight investment priorities in distribution and transmission readiness, digitalisation, and flexibility solutions.

Organised by: PGE
Media Partner: Euractiv

Location

Permanent Representation of Poland to the EU
Avenue de Cortenbergh 16, 1000 Brussels

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Schedule

10:00 – 10:30 – Registration & Networking Coffee

10:30 – 10:45
– Welcome and Opening Remarks

o Arkadiusz Plucinski, Permanent Representative of Poland to the EU

o Wojciech Wrochna, Government Plenipotentiary for Strategic Energy Infrastructure and Secretary of State, Ministry of Energy, Poland

10:45 – 11:00 European Grids Package – Keynote by Lukasz Kolinski, Director for Green Transition and Energy System Integration, DG Energy

11:00-12:15 Panel Discussion “European Grids Package and its delivery”

Moderated by Dave Keating, Euractiv

o Joachim Balke, Head of Unit, Infrastructure and Regional Cooperation, DG Energy

o MEP Tsvetelina Penkova, Vice-Chair ITRE Committee, European Parliament

o Sonya Twohig, Secretary General, ENTSO-E

o Charles Esser, Secretary General, E.DSO

o Marcin Laskowski, Vice-President for Regulatory Affairs, PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna

12:15 – 12:30 Q&A

12:30 Networking Lunch

Contact

Sébastien de Decker
sebastien.dedecker@euractiv.com