It is with great pleasure that the School of Electrical Engineering and the DIT Electrical Power Research Centre (EPRC) and the Dublin Energy Lab (DEL) invite you to the 48th International Universities Power Engineering Conference (UPEC 2013) at the Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland. UPEC is a long-established conference and provides a major international forum for the presentation, discussion and exchange of information concerning new trends in electrical power engineering. The conference is very popular with young researchers, PhD students and engineers from the electrical power industry.