European Data Protection Supervisor recommends energy data minimisation
The opinion of the European Data Protection Supervisor of 9 September 2026, the full text of which is available in the Judykatura database, recalls that the digitalisation of the electricity grid does not justify the unrestricted circulation of detailed energy-consumption data. It sets out the conditions under which those data may be used for primary and secondary purposes and points to the need to define transparently the responsibilities of entities participating in such processing.
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