Work Group 4 addresses the use and impact of the Information and Communication Technologies as a pervasive tool along the entire value chain of the power generation, transportation and use. The communication layer is one of the pillars of the smart energy system, enabling system observability, monitoring, control and protection, specifically enabling a radical change in the relation between the final user and the energy system. New digital tools (i.e. from smart meters to social networks) linked to the Internet of Things will aim to favour Customer participation in all stages of the development and expansion of the energy system thanks to the analysis of big data generated. The widespread use of digital technologies however needs to be accompanied by suitable measures for data and information protection from malicious intrusions and attacks (cybersecurity) and from uncontrolled use of customers data (data privacy). In particular, WG4 follows on:

• The full digitalization of both the transmission and the distribution networks with new ICT infrastructures Cybersecurity issues linked to Use of big data, IoT and High Performances Computing;
• ICT infrastructures and technologies that will allow the involvement of the end customers and the retail market players;
• The retail electricity markets empowering customers (favourable environment to choose electricity suppliers and to better control consumptions through new services provided by new market players);
• The Improvement of public awareness of long-term energy challenges and the need to build and protect transmission infrastructure to increase the social benefit of energy use.

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Chair: Elena Boskov-Kovacs Blueprint Energy Solutions Co-chairs: Antonello Monti RWTH Aachen University Chavdar Ivanov gridDigIt WG members: Aleksandr Novykh University of La Laguna Anja Langer Jacquin DEPsys Antonio Moreno-Munoz Universidad de Cordoba Antonios Papaemmanouil Lucerne University of Applied Sciences & Arts Aris Evangelos Dimeas National Technical University of Athens Baron Marco Enel Barry Hayes University College Cork Bernard Istasse EISIS Bertrand Cornélusse University of Liège Boštjan Blažič University of Ljubljana Christian Feisst Greencom Christian Lechner ENV Daniel Mugnier TECSOL Dominik Engel Salzburg University of Applied Sciences Emre Zengin GOSB – GEBZE Induatrial Park Management Center Eric Suignard EDF R&D Esther Hardi Energiecooperation2030.nu Faisal Bouchotrouch CENER Georg Rute Elering George Huitema TNO Georges Kariniotakis MINES ParisTech / ARMINES Guillaume Giraud RTE Hengxu Ha GE / T&D EUROPE Jan Pedersen AGDER ENERGI Jan Roschek Greencom Jean-Luc Dormoy VESTA-SYSTEM Jeff Montagne ENEDIS Jesús Fraile-Ardanuy Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Jos Blom Koolen Industries Juan Francisco Vico Zafra REE Juha Röning University of Oulu Julián Romero Chavarro Instituto Tecnológico de la Energía Kari Mäki VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Natalia Kiselnikova Enel Laurent Schmitt Digital4Grids Lenin Guillermo Lemus-Zúñiga  Universitat Politecnica de Valencia Liam Beard VODAFONE Group Liliana Ribeiro EDP Distribuição – Energia Lola Alacreu Grupo ETRA Ludwig Karg B.A.U.M. Consut Lukovic Slobodan University of Lugano Maher Chebbo General Electric –  ESMIG Manolis Vavalis University of Thessaly Marco-Robert Schulz SIEMENS Marcus Meisel Sprecher Automation Mark McGranaghan EPRI Markos Romanos Pylon Network Massimo Bertoncini Engineering Ingegneria Mathias Uslar OFFIS- Institute for Information technology Miguel Sánchez Fornié  Comillas Moamar Sayed Mouchaweh High National Engineering School of Mines – MINES PARITECH Nerea Ayestarán Cipitria Ikerlan Norela Constantinescu ENTSO-E Olivier Genest Trialog Omid Alizadeh-Mousavi DEPsys Paula Carroll UCD Energy Institute Peep Siitam VOOL EE Peter Fröhlich AIT Austrian Institute of Technology Peter Nemcek cyberGRID & Co. KG Philippe Desbats CEA TECH / LIST Pieter Vingerhoets ENERGYVILLE Rémy Rousset Wivaldy Ricardo Cartaxo R&D Nester Risto Kosonen Aalto University Rolf Apel SIEMENS / T&D EUROPE Sandra Riaño TECNALIA Santiago Otero Peña Enel Silke Krawietz SETA Network Theo Borst DNV GL Yan Zhang University of Oslo Yiannis Vlachos National Technical University of Athens Zhong Fan Keele University