Introduction

Ten years of national grid management

Full power ahead for TenneT

For ten years now, TenneT has been working to ensure a strong and stable national electricity grid. During that period issues like increasing internationalisation, ongoing integration of energy markets, continued infrastructural expansion, rising demand for sustainable energy, and grid innovation have set out the course for TenneT. Together these developments have created the dynamic, fast-paced environment in which TenneT now operates. This has prompted us to choose 'Full power ahead' as the theme of this year's Annual Report.

Since its establishment in 1998, TenneT has developed from a 'lean and mean' grid company into a versatile organisation undertaking a wide range of activities and projects on the national and international stage. Cases in point include the establishment of the TenneT subsidiary CertiQ for the management of 'green electricity certificates', the development of trilateral market coupling with Belgium and France, and growing interconnection with other electricity markets, with the completion of the NorNed cable as the latest milestone. TenneT is also actively involved in several European initiatives, such as the development of offshore wind farms and the realisation of an integrated energy market for north-western Europe, including closer collaboration with Germany.

What connects these wide-ranging themes and developments is their ultimate goal: a reliable supply of electricity, 24 hours a day. Society depends on electricity and demand for it continues to rise. It is TenneT's challenge to keep meeting that demand. TenneT: full of energy - for everyone.

This year's theme of 'Full power ahead' is expressed in three 'lines' that run through the Annual Report:

• the development of TenneT's national grid management activities over the past ten years;  
• the vision of several prominent individuals on the theme of '24-hour energy';
• a timeline of future developments in the energy supply sector

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