The Australian Power Quality and Reliability Centre (APQRC) at the University of Wollongong (UOW) is pleased to host the 25th Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference 2015 (AUPEC 2015). The conference will be held in Wollongong from 27-30 September 2015 at the Novotel Wollongong Northbeach. For more information see venue and hotel information. AUPEC is an annual conference with a well established history of over 20 years and today sees researchers and practising power engineers from both academia and industry throughout the Australasian region connecting together to share research and ideas for the advancement of Power Engineering for the benefit of the power industry and consumers. The conference theme for AUPEC 2015 is Challenges for Future Grids. The conference will provide an opportunity to not only explore the challenges facing the power grid of the future, but also to share a vision for solutions to those challenges. For the scope of topics for papers for AUPEC 2015 please see the call for papers and read about paper submission information for authors.