Hydrogen’s impact on grids
Flexibility, both from short-term and long-term perspectives, will get even more crucial for the
secure and efficient functioning of an integrated energy system applying a “one system view”. This flexibility shall
also come from sector integration: linking the various energy carriers – electricity, heat, cold, gas, solid and liquid
fuels – with each other and the end-use sectors, such as buildings, transport or industry. The secure and reliable
operation of the coupled vectors “as a whole” is of utmost importance and priority for the grid operators, whose
role will increase, especially during their sustainable integration.