Flexibility, intelligence and resilience: A path to European energy security

In a recent interview, Paul Domjan Founder and Chief Policy and Government Affairs Officer at ENODA, explains that real energy security is about having enough energy to power the economy and keeping it affordable enough to support growth and prosperity. 

Domjan explains: “The only real durable route to energy security is a resource like renewable energy that can be produced domestically, that can be secured and distributed domestically, and that’s available at a price that’s not determined by an international market.”

Building a resilient system isn’t just about producing power, it’s about investing in the grid technology to distribute that energy and ensuring that the system is stable and secure day to day. 

Solar and wind fluctuate, nuclear provides steady baseload, and new electrified demands like AI, EVs, heat pumps, and industry can actually help balance the grid. Properly managed, these loads become tools for energy stability rather than risks.

“The future of energy is much more defined by flexibility on the demand side, by loads that can adjust their consumption to match the power that's available, rather than the legacy system in which all of the security and stability was provided by generation,” Domjan explains.

AI and flexibility

On the topic of AI, he adds that the sector is seeing AI and energy security as potentially a tension: "They’re seeing the growth of AI as a tremendous new source of load that needs to be served without necessarily plans to do that, and they’re very worried that AI is going to be able to suck up all the power it can possibly gain.

"But actually, one of the attractive things about AI is that most of the computational power that goes into interacting with an AI model isn’t being consumed in the moment you interact with it, it’s being consumed in training that model, in processing the data to support it, and all of that can become a process that actually is flexible.”

Domjan concludes: "The future of energy is much more defined by flexibility on the demand side, by loads that can adjust their consumption to match the power that’s available, rather than the legacy system in which all of the security and stability was provided by generation.” 

Watch the full interview to see why Domjan believes resilience, flexibility, and intelligent, distributed energy are now central to securing Europe’s energy future.

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**This interview was filmed in November 2025 at Enlit Europe in Bilbao, Spain.