Partners A common integrated ICT platorm to implement Europe’s Smart Grid Highlights othe EU Smart Grids project INTEGRAL Being smart and sustainable is the key to the uture power networks oEurope. Being a Smart Grid means to be able to integrate and manage large numbers odistributed energy resources (DER) in real time. Renewable energy sources such as PV, wind, CHP and μ-CHP, as well as electrical cars and smart appliances in homes and ofces - they all contribute as components oa Smart Grid. The dynamic coordination oactive distribution networks, energy trading markets, and active loads oend customers: that’s what makes a grid into a Smart Grid. To implement the uture Smart Grids oEurope, inormation and communication technologies (ICT) play a crucial role. How to achieve this is the contribution othe EU project INTEGRAL. It has built and demonstrated a reerence solution or the aggregation, distributed control and optimal coordination odistributed energy resources. INTEGRAL has shown the practical validity oits Smart Grids ICT solutions by three feld demonstrations in dierent countries - the Netherlands, Spain and France - that together cover the ull range ooperating conditions: normal, critical, and emergency conditions. INTEGRAL, an EU project co-unded by the European Commission (No. FP6-038576), with partners rom the Netherlands, France, Greece, Spain and Sweden, started late 2007 and fnished in March 2011. Highlights and fnal results are summarized in this brochure.