Assessment of system issues in the presence of uncertainty or unbundling

• Power system planning and operation

• Asset management

• Massive integration of renewable energy resources

• Distributed storage systems

• Power system economics, energy markets and regulation

• Power system reliability and security

• Uncertainty and risk management methods

Modelling and analysis of power system performance and control

• Blackout prevention, system resilience and restoration

• Control centre technologies and advanced operator tools

• Wide-area monitoring and control

• Power system dynamics

• Power system protection

• Power systems as part of multi-energy systems

• Power systems and electro-mobility

• Distribution system monitoring, operation and control

• Aggregation of distributed energy resources

• Flexible demand

• Power electronics and HVDC as part of a power system

• Electro-magnetic transients on a system

• Power quality

Integrated modelling and operation of information and communication technologies (ICT) in power systems

• Cyber security in power systems operation and control

• ICT-driven intelligent and autonomous controls

• Modelling of cyber-physical energy and communication systems

Data analysis and computation applied to power systems

• Data-driven modelling techniques

• Machine learning, statistics and computational intelligence

• Management and utilization of big data

• Mathematical and computational issues in modelling and simulation

• Forecasting methods

• Condition monitoring and diagnostics

THE TECHNIQUES CONSIDERED INCLUDE:

• Modelling and simulation

• Optimization and mathematical programming

• Uncertainty & risk management methods

• Control theory

• Communication technology

• Signal processing

• Computational intelligence including evolutionary techniques, Artificial Neural Networks etc.

• Machine learning and statistics

• Semantic web technologies