Three days at Messe Wien bringing together European utilities, grid operators, technology providers and policymakers around decarbonisation, grid innovation, digitalisation and storage.
Enlit Europe is the annual European energy transition exhibition and conference, formed from the merger of European Utility Week and POWERGEN Europe and run by Clarion Events. The 2026 edition takes place from 10 to 12 November in Vienna, at the Messe Wien exhibition and congress centre. The organiser reports more than 700 exhibiting companies and over 15,000 attendees from 140 countries. Content covers decarbonisation, power generation, grid innovation, digitalisation and AI, electric mobility, hydrogen, energy storage, nuclear, smart water networks and European Union funded projects.
Enlit is the utility sector's event. Where ADIPEC belongs to hydrocarbon producers and European Hydrogen Week belongs to policy, Enlit belongs to the companies that run the grid: transmission and distribution operators, generators, retailers and the technology suppliers who serve them. The transition here is treated as an engineering and investment programme, with concrete subjects such as grid congestion, flexibility markets, substation automation, metering, distributed energy resource management and interconnection queues.
The exhibition floor is organised by technology domain, with national and corporate pavilions. Content runs across a summit-level programme for executives and a wide set of hub stages on the floor covering technology domains, alongside a European projects zone where Horizon-funded consortia present results. An initiate programme for early-stage companies sits inside the show. Networking is organised around country and sector communities rather than left to chance.
Enlit Europe moves city each year, which is deliberate: hosting rotates around European energy markets so the local utility and regulator community changes with it. Vienna hosts in 2026. That rotation is worth planning around, since the regional composition of the audience shifts with the host country.
Yes, in lineage. Enlit Europe was created by merging European Utility Week with POWERGEN Europe under one brand, and inherits the audience of both.
Clarion Events, which also operates Enlit editions in Africa and Asia under the wider Enlit World banner.
Enlit Europe is the largest edition and focuses on European grid and utility questions. Enlit Africa and Enlit Asia serve their own markets with different regulatory and infrastructure conditions.
Messe Wien is Vienna's main exhibition and congress complex, in the Prater district and connected to the city by U-Bahn, with a co-located congress centre that hosts the conference stages.
The European utility sector's own gathering, where grid operators, not oil majors, set the agenda and where the transition is discussed as an engineering programme.
Registration runs through the official Enlit Europe website. Previous editions have offered free exhibition and hub-stage access to qualified industry visitors registering in advance, with paid passes for the summit-level conference programme. Exhibitor and pavilion packages are quoted by Clarion Events. The 2026 tier structure is published on the visitor pages.
10 to 12 November 2026 at Messe Wien, Vienna, Austria.
The organiser reports attendance from 140 countries, though the buying audience is predominantly European.
Yes. Enlit Europe rotates host city annually across European energy markets, which changes the local composition of the audience.
| Official website | https://www.enlit-europe.com/ |
| Visitor information | https://www.enlit-europe.com/visit |
| Enlit World | https://www.enlit.world/ |