The intention of the organisers is to give an opportunity to academics, scientists, engineers, manufacturers and users from all over the world to come together in a pleasant location to discuss recent development in the areas of Renewable Energies and Power Quality.

Topics

Renewable Energies

• Wind Energy, Small Hydro Energy, Solar Energy, Photovoltaic Energy, Ocean Energy, Geothermal, Biomass,…
  
• Classical and special electrical generators: Theory, design, analysis, losses, efficiency, heating and cooling, vibration and noise, modelling and simulation, control strategies, protection systems, maintenance, mechanical behaviour, new methods of testing, parallel operation, stability,...
  
• Power plants. Distributed generation. Fuel cells. Co-generation. Hybrid Systems. Original solutions,...
  
• Energy conversion, conservation and energy efficiency.
  
• Energy saving policy. Energy storage. Batteries,...
  
• Energy and the environment. Ecological balance. Ecosystem,...
  
• Application of the renewable energy. Best practice projects.
  
• Legislation in the area of renewable energies.
  
• Biomass combustion techniques. The energy use of agricultural and forest residues. Production and the energy exploitation of bio-gas. Environment. Social importance…
  
• Interconnection and transport problems.
  
• Planning and control of the power system take into account the renewable energy. Stability. Protection…
  
• Economic analysis of the power system take into account the renewable energy.
  
• Regulation/des-regulation of the power market. Influence of the renewable energy.
  
• Models and simulation of the power systems. Models and estimation of loads. Software tools.
  
• Application of the telecommunications, internet, artificial intelligence for the renewable energy.
  
• Security assessment and risk analysis in renewable energy
  
• Technical and economic issues of the large-scale integration of renewable energies
  
• Recent advances in transmission technologies (AC and DC)
  
• Electric vehicles.
  
• Power electronics. Control strategies.
  
• Sensors and actuators.
  
• Renewable Energies Teaching
  

Power Quality

• Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC)
  
• Power Quality in Transport and Distribution.
  
• Economic Studies of the Power Quality
  
• Low-frequency conducted disturbances: Voltage deviations, voltage fluctuations/flicker, voltage dips and short interruptions, harmonics and inter-harmonics, transient over-voltages, voltage unbalance (imbalance), temporary power-frequency variations.
  
• Sources, effects and mitigation methods of the disturbances.
  
• Measurements of the power quality in networks, industrial installations and Laboratories. Equipment, procedures and measurement methods. Standards.
  
• Modelling and simulation of the power quality. Software tools.
  
• Transmission of the disturbances
  
• Filtering techniques
  
• Power factor compensation. Capacitor switching techniques
  
• Optimization techniques
  
• Telecommunication, internet and artificial intelligence.
  
• Permanent monitoring techniques and online diagnosis
  
• Intelligent energy delivery systems. Uninterrupted power supplies
  
• Expert systems applications
  
• Devices, equipment and power systems. Control centres
  
• Specific problems and studies cases
  
• Power quality influence in deregulated markets
  
• High frequency disturbances (radiated)
  
• Data security and electromagnetic pulses.
  
• Protection against natural and intentional EMI