The European Utilities Telecom Council (EUTC) argued that allocating spectrum for utilities for intelligent communications networks, such as Smart Grids, would support other community goals, especially energy targets, and the Copenhagen Agenda. EUTC was participating in the first multi-annual Radio Spectrum Policy Summit hosted by the European Commission and the European Parliament 22-23 March in Brussels.

EUTC also challenged the EU and EuroParl to consider the carbon implications of spectrum allocation decisions, which currently appears to be overlooked. EUTC was represented by its Director, Peter Moray, and its Special Spectrum Advisor, Adrian Grilli, Managing Director of the Joint Radio Company (UK). The chairman of the new European Radio Spectrum Policy Group comprising national telecoms regulators was on the platform, plus various dignitaries from national governments, including the Belgium Minister for Telecoms as the host nation, the Spanish Minister for Telecoms representing the Presidency, plus the Swedish State Secretary for telecoms. The joint hosts were the Digital Agenda Commissioner Mrs. Neelie Kroes (Netherlands) on behalf of the Commission, plus various MEPs from across Europe who shared the Parliament's role. Read more »

The European Utilities Telecom Council (EUTC) recently presented the first formal review to the European Commission of its Information Communications Technology for Smart Distributed Generation (ICT4SMARTDG) project.

Together with work packages leaders Jesus Garcia Martin from Iberdrola, Isidro Cabello Medina, from Telefonica, Fabio Tassara from Samares and David Wilkinson from Alcatel-Lucent – EUTC Director Peter Moray presented the work achieved so far by the project to Pierre Chastanet, project officer at the European Commission, and three independent reviewers. The review occurred on March 24th. Read more »