At CIGRE Paris 2026, we met the people, ideas and technologies shaping the grid of the future. Transmission and distribution can no longer be viewed as two separate worlds.
The future is ONE GRID. And it begins with new partnerships.
The message we bring from CIGRE Paris 2026 is clear: the future of energy will not depend on how much electricity we can generate, but on how quickly we can build the networks.
By 2040, the world needs to build or refurbish more than 80 million kilometres of power grids — effectively another global grid.
This is not only an energy challenge. It is one of the greatest infrastructure undertakings of our time.
