diff --git a/config/config.default.yaml b/config/config.default.yaml
index 0fd6e986..22a5ac2b 100644
--- a/config/config.default.yaml
+++ b/config/config.default.yaml
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ co2_budget:
 # docs in https://pypsa-eur.readthedocs.io/en/latest/configuration.html#electricity
 electricity:
   voltages: [200., 220., 300., 380., 500., 750.]
-  base_network: entsoegridkit
+  base_network: osm-prebuilt
   gaslimit_enable: false
   gaslimit: false
   co2limit_enable: false
diff --git a/doc/release_notes.rst b/doc/release_notes.rst
index 48c10ea6..caf73292 100644
--- a/doc/release_notes.rst
+++ b/doc/release_notes.rst
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ Upcoming Release
 
 * Enable parallelism in :mod:`determine_availability_matrix_MD_UA.py` and remove plots. This requires the use of temporary files.
 
-* Added new major feature to create the base_network from OpenStreetMap (OSM) data (PR https://github.com/PyPSA/pypsa-eur/pull/1079). Note that a heuristics based cleaning process is used for lines and links where electrical parameters are incomplete, missing, or ambiguous. Through ``electricity["base_network"]``, the base network can be set to "entsoegridkit" (original default setting, deprecated soon), "osm-prebuilt" (which downloads the latest prebuilt snapshot based on OSM data from Zenodo), or "osm-raw" which retrieves (once) and cleans the raw OSM data and subsequently builds the network. Note that this process may take a few minutes.
+* Added new major feature to create the base_network from OpenStreetMap (OSM) data (PR https://github.com/PyPSA/pypsa-eur/pull/1079). Note that a heuristics based cleaning process is used for lines and links where electrical parameters are incomplete, missing, or ambiguous. Through ``electricity["base_network"]``, the base network can be set to "entsoegridkit" (now deprecated), "osm-prebuilt" (default, downloads the latest prebuilt snapshot based on OSM data from Zenodo), or "osm-raw" which retrieves (once) and cleans the raw OSM data and subsequently builds the network. Note that this process may take a few minutes.
 
 * Updated pre-built `weather data cutouts
   <https://zenodo.org/records/12791128>`__. These are now merged cutouts with