How Enhancing Grid Cybersecurity: Impacts on Energy Communities in the Spanish Demo

How can stronger grid cybersecurity support the growth of energy communities and enable resilient energy systems?

Join this hybrid workshop showcasing the Spanish demonstration of the eFORT project, a Horizon Europe initiative working to strengthen the resilience and cybersecurity of European power grids. The event will explore how secure and modernised electricity networks can build trust with users, support energy communities, and unlock flexibility services that contribute to a more resilient energy system.

📅 11 March 2026
⏰ 10:00 – 12:00 (CET)
📍 Event type: Hybrid Workshop
📍 Location: Granada, Spain & Online

The session will begin with an overview of the eFORT and ESTELAR projects, followed by a presentation of the Spanish demonstration site and the challenges and opportunities at the intersection of cybersecurity, energy communities, and flexibility services.

Three expert panels will then explore key topics shaping secure and community-driven energy systems:

• The User at the Center of the Energy Community – building trust, improving engagement, and ensuring digital tools support users
• Creating and Scaling Energy Communities – pathways to replicate and expand resilient community initiatives
• Flexibility Services and Cybersecurity – how flexibility can support operational resilience and help manage cyber threats

The workshop will conclude with an extended Q&A session, giving participants the opportunity to exchange views with experts and discuss implications for innovation, deployment, and policy.

This event is designed for energy communities and citizen groups, DSOs/TSOs, aggregators and flexibility providers, cybersecurity and digitalisation experts, technology providers, researchers, policymakers, and other stakeholders interested in resilient, community-driven energy systems.