ELECTRA August 2026

Editorial by Konstantin O. Papailiou, President of CIGRE: The Challenge of Affordability: Making One Grid Everyone's Grid

Global Connections

• The Trust Ceiling: What Stakeholder Engagement Programs Miss
• Decentralised Electrification, Clean Cooking and the Global Ecology of Energy Transition – a Business Opportunity?

One Grid

• Virtual Power Plants (VPP)… Deˆning the future operations of Distribution networks?
• Power Quality Analytics in Modern Electrical Power Systems
• Digital Twins for Modern Power Utilities: From Asset Monitoring to Intelligent Grid
• Operations Regulating Cybersecurity for Electric Power Systems: Preliminary Findings from CIGRE WG D2.54
• Pre-Fabricated Ultra-Precision Stringing: A Technical Innovation for 500kV HVDC Lines
• Eliminating Centralized DC Dynamic Braking Systems: A Novel Distributed Dissipation Approach for Large-Scale Offshore Wind HVDC Transmission
• Grid-Forming Converter Deployment in Korea: From Pilot Demonstration to Market Mandate

Global Leadership Perspectives

• What’s Missing For the Energy Transition?
• No Longer Future-Proof: Leading the Energy Industry Toward Future Readiness

Life of Association

• CIGRE Annual Report 2025
• In Memoriam - Mircea Eremia
• Women in Energy Portugal - Conference Women in STEM in the 21st century
• Building a CIGRE Women in Energy Community: The Swiss Experience
• CIGRE Australia A2 power transformers and reactors workshop
• CIGRE CNC First International Forum on Large Electric Systems (IFLES 2026)
• CIGRE SC A3 Advisory Group Meeting in Bratislava 2026
• CIGRE Energy Forum 2026 – AltaLink Brings Global Energy Leaders to Calgary, Alberta, Canada

CIGRE Awards 2026

• CIGRE Medal 2026 Recipients
• CIGRE Fellows 2026 Recipients
• CIGRE Honorary Members 2026
• CIGRE Women in Energy Award 2026
• Next Generation Network Significant Contribution Award 2026

Annual Reports

• SC C2 - Power system operation and control
• SC C3 - Power system sustainability and environmental performance

Technical Brochures

• TB 988 - JWG B4/B1/C4.73: Surge and extended overvoltage evaluation of HVDC cable systems for testing
• TB 989 - WG D2.56: Interdependence and Security of Cyber-Physical Power System (CPPS)
• TB 990 - WG D2.51: Implementation of Security Operations Centers (SOC) in the Electric Power Industry as Part of the Situational Awareness System
• TB 991 - WG B1.86: Assessment, Prevention and Mitigation of Safety Risk in Cable Systems
• TB 992 - WG B4.71: Application guide for the insulation coordination of Voltage Source Converter HVDC (VSC HVDC) stations
• TB 993 - JWG B3/A3.60: User Guide for Non-SF6 Gases and Gas Mixtures in Substations
• TB 994 - WG B1.76: Enhancing QA/QC Procedures for HV and EHV Cable Systems
• TB 995 - JWG A2/D2.65: Digital twins for power transformers – Concept and future perspectives