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

Advanced Signal Processing for Smart Grids, Measurements and Instrumentations

Carbon Economy in Smart Grid Operations

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

Computational intelligence and for Smart Grid: big data analytics, evolutionary computing, fuzzy logic, neural networks, and swarm intelligence and other 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 potential 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 technologiesEnergy Market, Policies and Economics: big data, business models and intelligence, e-markets, incentives, and smart markets

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

Next Generation Control Centers: generation, T&D control centers and system operators

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

Power Systems Communication: power line communications, wireless, metering, and monitoring

Power Systems Security and Reliability: SCADA and EMS cyber security, physical security

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

Smart Grid Engineering Education: development for industry, professionals, and workforce

Synchrophasors, T&D systems monitoring, situational awareness/ intelligence

Wide Area Systems: monitoring, protection and controlT3: Control Systems and Applications

Special Sessions: Proposals are sought from those wishing to organize a special session, a tutorial or workshops