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Third Industrial Revolution Consulting Group
of a smart energy system that interconnects these energy sources. Although, as outlined above,
many demonstration projects are already developed (or under development), none of them has
a significant scale with an integrated solution that combines the requirements of all the
stakeholders.
The scale of such a demonstration project should be at least 100,000 end users, both
commercial & industrial (C&I) and residential, before it would provide sufficient proof to both
the EU, and especially to the DSO that need to optimize the solutions, and evaluate the
effectiveness of such solutions on their networks. Before implementing this throughout Europe,
significant and hard evidence is required.
Luxembourg should take on this experiment and demonstrate this new market model for
Europe (i.e., the first nationwide smart grid). This, in turn, would establish Luxembourg as the
first mover and attract many new, smart energy businesses. European funds (e.g., Horizon
2020) would surely be available to support this initiative and, ultimately, European energy
policymaking would benefit from the scale of the evidence base provided.
In addition, the scale of this experiment would aid in catalyzing Luxembourg’s journey towards
commercializing the smart energy business. Luxembourg would effectively become the smart
energy transaction hub for Europe, enabling many new smart energy FinTech products for
export throughout Europe.
Summary of TIR Proposals for Energy
The following summarizes our proposals for the TIR roadmap for Energy. We have organized
them into two broad groups:
1. Building Block Proposals. The Building Block Proposals summarized in this section build
from the work initiated by the Energy WG, and discussed in detail in the preceding
sections. These proposals represent our recommended subset of priority actions (within
the next 10-15 years) in which Luxembourg can, and should, take a leadership role.
These priority actions (building blocks) represent prerequisites for many of the other
actions, some of which will largely be directed by initiatives and influences occurring
outside of Luxembourg’s control and/or jurisdiction (such as global technology
innovations).
2. Innovation Proposals. The Innovation Proposals summarized in this section are
conceptual ideas to foster the vision, goals, and actions described in the TIR roadmap
for Energy. These Innovation Proposals are predicated on the assumption that, over
time, Luxembourg would apply increased research and development investments into
targeted measures, rather than in general studies. Furthermore, Luxembourg’s aim to
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