Topics

The Technical Program will focus on the following broad areas:

• Power Reliability, Quality & Safety

• Energy Resources

• New Technologies

• Improved Measurement and Control Techniques

• New Market Structures

• Planning, Interconnection and Operation of Transmission and Distribution Systems

 Including the following specific subjects:

Power Reliability, Quality & Safety

• Modification of existing power plants and substations

• Life extension of aging infrastructures

• Power quality and system harmonics

• Coping with the increasing magnitude of interconnected electric power systems

• Power systems blackouts

• Security concerns

• Operating strategies under different contingencies

Energy Resources

• Use of biomass/biofuels for generation

• Renewable sources of energy, such as solar, wind, tidal, geothermal, biomass, fuel cells

• Growth of coal generating plants

New Technologies

• Development of transmission lines (EHV/UHV, underground cable, DC)

• Superconductive power applications

• Micro grid/Smart Grids

• Underground substations

Improved Measurement and Control Techniques

• Advanced protection algorithms, system modeling, economic dispatch

• Detection (fault locations and system oscillations)

• Optical sensing, non-standard instrument transformers

• Software tools (load flow, fault tolerance, risk assessment, economic analysis)

New Market Structures

• Advantages and disadvantages of new market approaches

• Role of standards in a deregulated electricity market for maintenance, operation, security and economics

• Future of power utilities

Planning, Interconnection and Operation of T&D Systems

• Substation automation and SCADA/EMS/DMS

• Regional interconnections and power exchanges

• Technical losses and non technical losses

• Cyber security in power systems

• Power system protection

• Distributed generation

• Power system stability

• Emerging tools for electrical systems analysis

• FACTS

• Electromagnetic surges in T&D systems

• Diagnosis and maintenance of T&D equipment

• Energy conversion and electric machinery

• Power system communications