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Official UNFCCC Side Event: Implementing D-Grids (Resilient and Intelligent Grids Enabling Electrification)

Name: Official UNFCCC Side Event: Implementing D-Grids (Resilient and Intelligent Grids Enabling Electrification)
Start: 2026-11-18T16:45:00.000+03:00
End: 2026-11-18T18:15:00.000+03:00
Location: UNFCCC Blue Zone Side Event Room Purple

REA @ COP31

UNFCCC Blue Zone Side Event Room Purple

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About Event

Implementing D-Grids: Resilient and Intelligent Grids for Electrification

The COP31 Presidency's D-Grids Initiative makes grids central to reaching 35% electrification by 2035. Delivering it will look very different from one market to the next. This session brings together the COP31 Presidency, utilities and grid operators from established and emerging markets to ask what it will really take: what needs to be built, how to make grids resilient and smart enough to carry rising demand, and what each market can learn from the other.

Part one: The D-Grids Initiative. What the Presidency is aiming for, and why grids are the deciding factor.

Part two: Making it happen. Practical lessons on implementing the D-Grid Initiative from different markets.

Speakers

Representative, COP31 Presidency
Utilities for Net Zero Alliance (UNEZA)
Secretary General, German Federal Environmental Foundation (Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt – DBU)
Christian Schröder, Head of Renewable Energy Solutions, Delta Electronics Foundation 台達電子文教基金會
Bui Power Authority, Ghana
Renewable Energy Association (Moderator)

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