We invite the submission of original, unpublished technical papers on topics including but not limited to:

Industry experience in deploying smart grid technologies for power generation, transmission, distribution, energy conversion, and storage
Smart grid planning, design, and operation
Information and communication technologies for smart grids, interoperability, and cyber-security
Wide area monitoring, protection, and control
Power electronics, control, and protection systems for smart grid applications
Demand response and real-time pricing
Electric vehicles and interactions with the grid
Smart multi-energy infrastructures and the environment
Field trials, user acceptance, and experience
Large-scale integration of renewable energy and virtual power plants
Multi-domain energy systems
Power quality and power electronics application and control
Sensors, advanced metering, data acquisition, and monitoring
Innovative hardware and components for smart grids
Smart grid maintenance and asset management
Costs, risks, and benefits associated with smart grid technologies
Big and open data
Business modeling, smart grid market models, including CO2
Economics of smart grids
Institutional design for smart grids
Market design and regulatory issues
Diagnostics, self-healing, and reliability of smart grids
Education and training on smart grids