This E.DSO Policy Brief addresses the definition of open data as well as the benefits and tradeoffs involved in deciding whether to make data openly available. To illustrate the possibilities of open data, actual uses cases are added as well as building blocks of an indicative open data framework.

EDSO reached out to Members of the European Parliment's ENVI Committee ahead of the vote on the POPs Regulation.

In October 2018, EDSO replied to the European Commission's consultation on a Strategy for long-term EU greenhouse gas emissions reductions.

EDSO confirms its support for open data as a valuable resource for the European economy and society. As neutral market facilitators, DSOs are in a position to gather, collect and make available data that is useful for the wider public. Ahead of the ITRE vote on the recast of the Public Sector Information (PSI) Directive, EDSO publishes a number of key messages on this important file.

The Commission asked stakeholders at the Florence Forum on 31 May to provide their views on a number of open questions on energy storage, with the aim to outline future EU actions in this field. This document outlines EDSO's views on the questions presented by the Commission.

EDSO replied to the online consultation that CEER held on its 3D Strategy and its 2019 Work Programme.

In this document, EDSO identifies its 4 priorities to continue shaping smarter grids for your future: - Be the trusted voice of DSOs in Europe - Establish the DSOs as the neutral facilitators of the energy transition - Promote and support open innovation and forward-looking regulation - Place citizens and customers at the heart

EDSO believes that the Clean Energy Package is a real opportunity for DSOs to contribute to and successfully meet the challenges of a flexible, decentralised and highly digitised energy system – particularly as this transition is mostly affecting distribution grids at local level. As the inter-institutional debates on the Electricity Market Design are entering the trilogue phase, we are presenting our views on the most important points in the Electricity Directive and Regulation.

The KORRR methodology proposal, following the implementation of Guideline System Operation (GL SO) article 40.61, was submitted by all TSOs to all NRAs for approval on 14 March 2018. The KORRR preparation process is clarified in the figure below, with the current stage of the process highlighted in green colour. The EU associations representing DSOs – CEDEC, EDSO for smart grids, eurelectric and GEODE – are convinced that the KORRR methodology proposal still contains several parts that conflict with EU legislation and risk the benefit of the system as a whole. We have requested the NRAs to consider the legal consistency and reasonability of the proposed KORRR methodology.