ELECTRA N°347
August 2026

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Editorial

The Challenge of Affordability: Making One Grid Everyone's Grid

By Konstantin O. Papailiou, President of CIGRE
Global Leadership Perspectives

What’s Missing For the Energy Transition?

Life of the association

CIGRE Annual Report 2025

Global connections

The Trust Ceiling: What Stakeholder Engagement Programs Miss

One grid

Virtual Power Plants (VPP)… Defining the future operations of Distribution networks?

CIGRE sponsors

Global Connections

Decentralised Electrification, Clean Cooking and the Global Ecology of Energy Transition – a Business Opportunity?
The Trust Ceiling: What Stakeholder Engagement Programs Miss

One Grid

Eliminating Centralized DC Dynamic Braking Systems: A Novel Distributed Dissipation Approach for Large-Scale Offshore Wind HVDC Transmission
Grid-Forming Converter Deployment in Korea: From Pilot Demonstration to Market Mandate
Pre-Fabricated Ultra-Precision Stringing: A Technical Innovation for 500kV HVDC Lines
Regulating Cybersecurity for Electric Power Systems: Preliminary Findings from CIGRE WG D2.54
Digital Twins for Modern Power Utilities: From Asset Monitoring to Intelligent Grid Operations
Power Quality Analytics in Modern Electrical Power Systems
Virtual Power Plants (VPP)… Defining the future operations of Distribution networks?

Global Leadership Perspectives

No Longer Future-Proof: Leading the Energy Industry Toward Future Readiness

What’s Missing For the Energy Transition?

Life of Association

Women in Energy Portugal - Conference Women in STEM in the 21st century
Building a CIGRE Women in Energy Community: The Swiss Experience
CIGRE Australia A2 power transformers and reactors workshop
CIGRE CNC First International Forum on Large Electric Systems (IFLES 2026)
CIGRE SC A3 Advisory Group Meeting in Bratislava 2026
CIGRE Energy Forum 2026 – AltaLink Brings Global Energy Leaders to Calgary, Alberta, Canada
In Memoriam - Mircea Eremia
CIGRE Annual Report 2025

Awards

CIGRE Medal 2026 Recipients
CIGRE Fellows 2026 Recipients
CIGRE Honorary Members 2026
CIGRE Women in Energy Award 2026
Next Generation Network Significant Contribution Award 2026

Annual Reports

SC  C2
Power system operation and control
SC  C3
Power system sustainability and environmental performance

Technical Brochures

TB 988 JWG B4/B1/C4.73

Surge and extended overvoltage evaluation of HVDC cable systems for testing

TB 989 WG D2.56

Interdependence and Security of Cyber-Physical Power System (CPPS)

TB 990
WG D2.51
Implementation of Security Operations Centers (SOC) in the Electric Power Industry as Part of the Situational Awareness System
TB 991
WG B1.86
Assessment, Prevention and Mitigation of Safety Risk in Cable Systems
TB 992
WG B4.71
Application guide for the insulation coordination of Voltage Source Converter HVDC (VSC HVDC) stations
TB 993
JWG B3/A3.60
User Guide for Non-SF6 Gases and Gas Mixtures in Substations
TB 994
WG B1.76
Enhancing QA/QC Procedures for HV and EHV Cable Systems
TB 995
JWG A2/D2.65
Digital twins for power transformers – Concept and future perspectives

CIGRE Symposium 2027

CIGRE International Symposium Heidelberg 2027: Call for Papers

Events

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RSEEC 2026 - Constanta
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IEEE PES ISGT Europe 2026 - Budapest
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CIGRE Symposium 2027 - Heidelberg

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