Topics:

• Industry experience in deploying smart grid technologies for power generation, transmission, distribution, energy conversion and storage

• Transmission system technologies, HVDC and FACTS

• Distribution system and substation automation

• Information and communication technologies for smart grids, interoperability and cyber-security

• System integration of distributed energy resources, islanding and microgrids, hosting capacity and power quality

• Planning and management of smart grid assets

• Electric vehicle technologies and interactions with the grid

• Power electronics, control and protection systems for smart grid applications

• Smart grid monitoring and advanced metering infrastructures

• Diagnostics, maintenance, risks, reliability, vulnerability and self-healing of smart grids

• Demand side management, home automation and ambient intelligence

• Uncertainty management in smart grid planning, forecasting and operation

• Regulations, standards and codes for smart grids

• Computational intelligence and data analytics

• Smart grid impacts on electricity markets, pricing and incentive/penalty schemes

• Smart multi-energy infrastructures and the environment