Call for Papers

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The Next Generation Grid

Focused on Power Systems Operation, Planning, Policy, Markets, Analysis, and Control

Building on the success of the inaugural PSCE in 2004 (New York), and the follow-up in 2006 (Atlanta) the 2009 IEEE PES Power Systems Conference & Exhibition (PSCE) is a major power systems event that will again provide an exceptional venue for discussing issues and developments as well as for highlighting key vendors with products and services essential to the multifaceted field of electrical power systems.

PSCE will bring together an international group of practicing power systems engineers, operators, planners, policy makers, economists, academics and others with interest in the profession.

The conference will begin with a timely and valuable plenary session and will also include tutorials on the most up-to-date topics on power systems. Paper, panel and poster sessions will be scheduled, with top papers drawn from all committees to be featured in Super Sessions on the following current and important topics:

System-Wide Events and Analysis Methods
Integrating Wind Energy
Emerging Software Needs for the Restructured Grid
Control System Robustness Today and in the Future
The Smart Grid and the Internet

Papers are invited on topics related to power systems, and especially for the Super Sessions topics with the following focus:

Super Session 1: System-Wide Events and Analysis Methods

Generation, transmission, distribution, forecasting and integrated resource planning
Wide area monitoring and control, PMUs, special protection systems (SPS)
Dynamic and static security assessment and control
Computational methods, visualization, intelligent systems
Market interactions during system-wide events

Super Session 2: Integrating Wind Energy

Resource planning with wind and other stochastic and/or distributed resources
Forecasting wind and other stochastic resources
Systems operations issues with wind and other stochastic resources
Transmission access for wind
Dynamic simulation of wind power generation

Super Session 3: Emerging Software Needs for the Restructured Grid

Economics, market organization, cost structures, pricing, and information security
Ancillary services
Financial settlement
Merchant power
Standardization

Super Session 4: Control System Robustness Today and in the Future

SCADA / EMS / DMS
Substation and distribution automation
Cyber security issues
Effective computational techniques and analytical methods for planning, operation, and control
Teaching robustness to the next generation of engineers

Super Session 5: The Smart Grid and the Internet

Information technology for energy automation
Demand side management and customer choice
Communications and control infrastructure for distributed grid control
Asset Management
Internet tools for better understanding of power systems

Manuscript Submission: Papers must be prepared in accordance with the procedures outlined in the PES Publications Guide, which is part of the PES Authors Kit available at the PES web site (www.ieee.org/power). Complete manuscripts are to be submitted electronically via the PES 2009 Paper Submission web site, which will be accessible from this website and can also be linked from the PES web site (www.ieee.org/power).

The submission site will be available for paper submissions beginning the week of July 21, 2008 through the week of September 8, 2008. Authors will be notified of the decision regarding their paper by October 15, 2008.

At least one author of each paper must register for the meeting and pay the appropriate fee before an accepted paper will be released for publication in the 2009 PES PSCE Proceedings or scheduled for presentation during a Super Session, or panel, paper, poster sessions.

Summary of Important Dates

Paper Submission Website Opens	week of July 21, 2008
Paper Submission Website Closes	week of September 8, 2008
Authors Notified (Accept, Reject or Revise)	October 15, 2008
*Proceedings and Panel Revised Papers Due	October 25, 2008
*Proceedings and Panel Revised Paper Authors Notified	November 10, 2008
Author Registration Deadline	December 15, 2008

*Papers may be revised and resubmitted ONLY at the request of the Technical Committee Program Chairs (TCPCs).