Referred topics include, but are not limited to:

• Advanced Metering: practical utility applications and new technologies, SCADA systems, and metering system reliability

• Advanced Signal Processing for Smart Grids

• Carbon Economy in Smart Grid Operations

• Control Center Applications: big data, situational awareness, real-time control and applications, visualizations

• Computational Intelligence and Paradigms for Smart Grid: big data analytics, evolutionary computing, fuzzy logic, neural networks, and swarm intelligence and other computing/machine earning algorithms and paradigms

• Cyber Security of the Smart Grid

• Electric Transportation and Smart Grids: electric vehicle charging/discharging strategies, grid interface and impacts, resilience, sustainability

• Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) and Smart Grids: Effects, impacts and potenital solutions

• Energy Efficiency and Consumption: business models, incentives, markets, policies and frameworks, and smart customers, loads and meters

• Energy Harvesting and Conversion: smart power electronics, resilience, and sustainability

• Energy Storage Devices and Systems batteries, fuel cells, super-capacitors, sustainable technologies

• Energy Market, Policies and Economics: big data, business models and intelligence, e-markets, incentives, and smart markets

• Measurements and Instrumentations

• Micro-grids and Nano-grids: ac/dc systems, control and optimization, dynamic energy management, storage

• Next Generation Control Centers: generation, transmission & distribution control centers and system operators

• Power System Analysis, Modeling, Control and Stability, Protection and Operations

• Power Systems Communication: power line communications, wireless technologies, and applications in control, metering, and monitoring

• Power Systems Security and Reliability: SCADA and EMS cyber security, physical security for facilities, regulartory compliance

• Renewable Energy Systems: biomass, hydro, solar, wind and other renewable technologies and systems

• Smart Grid Engineering Education: innovative education for industry, professionals, university and workforce development

• Synchrophasors in Smart Grids: distribution and transmission systems monitoring, situational awareness/ intelligence

• Wide Area Systems: monitoring, protection and control