Shaping the Future Grid: Challenges in Control, Security, and Acceptance

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Shaping the Future Grid: Challenges in Control, Security, and Acceptance

16 September 2025, Thor Central - Genk

We are pleased to invite you to the Second Annual Belgian Energy Transition Workshop, taking place on 16 September 2025 at Thor Central, Genk.

As Belgium accelerates its energy transition, this year’s workshop—“Shaping the FutureGrid: Challenges in Control, Security, and Acceptance”—will bring together experts from the industry and academia to explore the evolving landscape of our power system.

 

Organized by Etch, the Energy Transmission Competence Hub, and supported by the Flemish government, this full-day event will address:

  • Increasing public acceptance of transmission grid expansion projects

  • Strategies for building a resilient and secure grid

  • Innovations in control systems for future power networks

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  • Thor Central
  • Genk, Limburg
  • Belgium
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Agenda

Preliminary agenda:

  • 9h00 – 9h30 Welcome and registration​

  • 9h30 What is Etch?​

  • 9h45 Keynote 1: Resilience​

  • 10h15 Coffee​

  • 10h30 Parallel sessions:

    • Increasing infrastructure acceptance  

    • Planning a resilient grid  

  • 12h15 Lunch and poster sessions​

  • 14h15 Keynote 2: Control of future power systems​

  • 14h45 Parallel sessions:

    • To grid form or not to grid form?  

    • Technology for grid security  

  • 15h45 Coffee​

  • 16h00 Parallel sessions: discussion​

  • 16h45 Closing session: moderators summary of the parallel sessions ​

  • 17h00 Reception