and economic crisis, but national economic stimulus packages triggered by the downturn offer ideal vehicles for locking green growth into the energy sector., Strains are already visible in the transmission and distribution networks that carry the world's electricity. More capacity and flexibility are now needed to keep pace with policies to curb climate change and address energy price issues. Networks must cater for electricity's expanding role as an energy carrier. How must society's crucial electricity arteries evolve to integrate more energy efficiency, distributed generation, renewable energy sources, energy storage and flexible demand systems?, Coal provides some 25% of the world’s primary energy. It accounts for more than 60% of primary energy in China. Plentiful, low-cost coal has contributed greatly to the nation’s impressive economic growth. But heavy reliance on coal carries environmental and climate-change penalties., Switzerland has become a Contracting Party to the Implementing Agreement for Co-operation on Technologies and Programmes for Demand-Side Management (IEA DSM).