At EPRI European Workshop Week in Prague (26 March 2026), the HVDC‑WISE consortium used its time for the most important phase of the project: turning years of technical work into recommendations that organisations can apply—and inviting stakeholders to challenge them before publication. 

HVDC‑WISE has spent over 3½ years developing approaches for a future HVDC‑ and renewables‑dominated power system across the EU and Great Britain, spanning planning methodologies for reliability and resilience, model standardisation, architectures, and control/protection considerations. The Prague workshops were explicitly framed as an “advanced participant review,” designed to gather feedback that will confirm, refine, and complement the final deliverables due later in 2026.  

The conversations consistently came back to a simple question: what has to change for hybrid AC/DC grids to be studied and governed—with confidence? On modelling, the focus was on making exchange more trustworthy and repeatable through clearer conformity expectations and better interoperability support. On planning, the emphasis was on moving beyond siloed studies toward more integrated, resilience‑aware workflows that reflect how HVDC actually interacts with AC systems under stress.  

Regulation discussions highlighted a growing gap: today’s HVDC rules largely address DC connections to AC grids, while the industry is moving toward multi‑terminal, multi‑party DC systems that require clearer coordination and resilience expectations.  

Finally, the roadmap dialogue tackled adoption head‑on: how to keep useful tools and methods alive and used beyond the project lifecycle.