Strategic Roadmap for Digitalisation and AI in the Energy Sector

Practical information

• Composition of the Study Group
• Konstantina ANGELOPOULOU (administrator), Baiba SPUNDE (assistant)
• TEN Section meeting: 7 December 2026
• EESC Plenary session: 16-17 December 2026
• Contact
• The EU Youth Test at the EESC was applied to this opinion. Human Development Research Initiative  was chosen by a group of interested youth organisations to represent all of them during the opinion-making process.

Background

The Strategic Roadmap for Digitalisation and AI in Energy will leverage the potential of digital and AI technologies for the energy system, while mitigating the associated risks and enable the decarbonisation and competitiveness of the EU economy, which have been identified as the first and second pillars of the Competitiveness Compass for the EU.

Digital technologies (including AI) have huge potential to accelerate the EU’s transition to a cleaner and more decentralised energy system, while improving energy efficiency and system reliability. The Strategic Roadmap will address five main objectives:

• Accelerate the deployment of digital and AI solutions in the energy system
• Foster research, innovation and coordination to prepare the energy system of tomorrow
• Sustainably integrate data centres’ electricity demand into the energy system
• Enhance transparency and risk oversight
• Establish a coordination and governance framework.

The Strategic Roadmap will be a Commission communication but will identify a list of measures (possibly legislative proposals) to be carried out in the future.