REALISEGRID includes three main areas of activities:

1) identification of performances and costs of new grid technologies aimed at increasing capacity, reliability and flexibility of the transmission infrastructure;
2) definition of long term scenarios for the EU power sector, characterized by different evolutions of demand and supply;
3) implementation of methods and tools to assess the different benefits of transmission expansion investments.

Main outputs of REALISEGRID activities are:

• roadmap for the incorporation of new transmission technologies (including WAMS, FACTS, HVDC) into the electricity networks;
• analysis of the impact of different scenarios on the future electricity exchanges between European countries;
• evaluation of the benefits provided to the pan-European power system by the development of transmission infrastructure;
•testing of such cost-benefit analysis to specific transmission projects, namely, nine electricity projects of European interest concerning the Trans European Network priority axis EL.2.

Twenty European partners coming from eight Member States of the European Union and from the Russian Federation have participated in the project coordinated by RSE. The consortium includes four Transmission System Operators, five industrial partners and eleven research institutes and universities.

REALISEGRID provided valuable contributions to the European Commission in the framework of the revision of the TEN-E Guidelines and the elaboration of the Infrastructure Package (Communication: “Energy infrastructure priorities for 2020 and beyond”).