Improve planning, procurement rules to boost EU grid manufacturing, lawmakers say
By Eleonora Rinaldi ( September 23, 2025, 16:26 GMT | Insight) -- European manufacturers of power grid components should benefit from more transparent long-term network planning, a committee of European lawmakers said Tuesday. Lead times to buy network equipment have doubled, making it more difficult to support the necessary power-network expansion, they warned. Procurement rules for materials should also be simplified, transmission system operator representative ENTSO-E added.European manufacturers of grid components should benefit from more transparent long-term grid planning and simplified procurement rules to boost value-chain capacity, lawmakers and industry representatives said at a hearing of the European Parliament’s energy committee on Tuesday....
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