9. Believes further that the considerable divergences in the political and economic systems, demographic and social trends, and foreign policy outlooks of the BRICS should inform, and be reflected in, a nuanced EU policy towards these countries aimed at creating synergies with individual BRICS countries and other emerging countries and at discouraging the creation or consolidation of potentially cohesive alternative groups of States in foreign policy t ...[+++]erms; urges the EU and its Member States, in this context, to discourage the entrenchment of and strategic competition between blocs of emerged and emerging powers, respectively; contends that, in order to promote international collective action and the reform of global governance, the EU must leverage a diverse range of bilateral, multilateral and non-state interactions, and harness issue-based coalitions that cut across the emerged/emerging world divide;

For electricity networks, the goals of transforming the current electricity grids into a resilient and interactive (customers/operators) service network, removing the obstacles to the large-scale deployment and effective integration of renewable energy sources and distributed generation (e.g. fuel cells, microturbines, reciprocating engines) and improving the quality of supply (in terms of voltage quality and energy delivered) will also necessitate the development and demonstration of key enabling technologies (e.g. innovative ICT solutions, storage technologies for RES, electronic metering and Automated Meter Management systems, power electronics ...[+++]and HTS devices, ICT control systems for active networks management, efficient work force management, etc. ).

For electricity networks, the goals of transforming the current electricity grids into a resilient and interactive (customers/operators) service network, removing the obstacles to the large-scale deployment and effective integration of renewable energy sources and distributed generation (e.g. fuel cells, microturbines, reciprocating engines) and improving the quality of supply (in terms of voltage quality and energy delivered) will also necessitate the development and demonstration of key enabling technologies (e.g. innovative ICT solutions, storage technologies for RES, electronic metering and Automated Meter Management systems, power electronics ...[+++]and HTS devices, ICT control systems for active networks management, efficient work force management, etc.).