4. PRIORITY THEMATIC AREAS

Smart grids deployment: adoption of smart grid technologies across the Union to efficiently integrate the behaviour and actions of all users connected to the electricity network, in particular the generation of large amounts of electricity from renewable or distributed energy sources and demand response by consumers. Member States concerned: all; Electricity highways: first electricity highways by 2020, in view of building an electricity highways system across the Union that is capable of: accommodating ever-increasing wind surplus generation in and around the Northern and Baltic Seas and increasing renewable generation in the East and South of Europe and also North Africa; connecting these new generation hubs with major storage capacities in the Nordic countries, the Alps and other regions with major consumption centres; and coping with an increasingly variable and decentralised electricity supply and flexible electricity demand. Member States concerned: all; Cross-border carbon dioxide network: development of carbon dioxide transport infrastructure between Member States and with neighbouring third countries in view of the deployment of carbon dioxide capture and storage. Member States concerned: all.

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