The annual Smart Grid Technology, Economics and Policies conference provides an opportunity for academic researchers, industry and legal practitioners, and policy makers to network and discuss latest developments in Smart Grid and sustainable energy research. The conference focuses on the intersection of Smart Grid engineering, business opportunities, legal and policy issues.

Sustainable energy systems of the future will need more than efficient, clean, low-cost, renewable energy sources; they will also need new incentive mechanisms and tactics that motivate sustainable energy consumption as well as a better real-time alignment of energy demand and supply. The development of new Smart Grid technologies will depend on public policies such as subsidies, patents and licenses, environmental and energy laws.

Our conference provides a uniquely broad interdisciplinary forum to discuss these issues. We invite paper submissions in all areas of energy, engineering, economics, management science research, energy policy and law; and specifically encourage submissions related to the following areas:

Key areas:

Demand response and demand side management (awareness and control)

Dynamic pricing and revenue management

Distributed energy resources

Distributed control

Distributed storage

Environmental policy and law

Emission reductions

Finance

Forecasting (loads and sources)

Markets and economics

Methods and algorithms for real-time analysis

Microeconomics

Optimization, placements and scheduling

Optimal power flow

Operations research

Planning, operation and control

Plug-in vehicles (G2V and V2G)

Renewable energy

Research methodology

Smart Grid Standards

Smart micro-grids

Smart sensing, sense-making and situational awareness

Smart Metering

Smart Markets

Technology

Wide area monitoring, control and protection

Visualizations for control centers

Grid Security and Information Security Issues