PowerAfrica 2018: 2018 5th IEEE PES & IAS PowerAfrica Conference Tshwane University of Technology Cape Town, South Africa, June 26-29, 2018 |
Conference website | http://ieee-powerafrica.org |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=powerafrica2018 |
Abstract registration deadline | January 22, 2018 |
Submission deadline | January 22, 2018 |
The IEEE PES-IAS PowerAfrica Conference 2018 will be hosted by Tshwane University of Technology (www.tut.ac.za) in River Club, Cape Town, South Africa, during June 26-29, 2018.
The IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) and Industrial Applications Society (IAS) have joined forces to coordinate the latest international forum on clean and affordable energy pathways in support of the sustainable development goals (SDGs). The conference will emphasize affordable and clean energy solutions pursued and deployed in African settings, as enabled by suitable system integrations, business models, technological advances, policies, and regulatory stances.
The conference venue is the Mother City of South Africa, Cape Town, which is well established as a world class tourist destination with local attractions including: Table Mountain, Lions Head, Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden, Robben Island, Cape Point with Cape of Good Hope, the Penguin Colony at Simons Town, Wine Route, Hermanus the home of Whales, and beautiful beaches both in Atlantic and Indian Oceans (http://www.capetown.travel/).
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Papers are limited to six (6) pages and must conform to the IEEE two-column format for conference papers. Up to two (2) additional pages may be included, but authors will be required to pay additional charges. Submissions exceeding eight (8) pages will not be accepted.
List of Topics
The conference theme covers African applications or relevant international experience in the following five key topic areas and indicative sub-topics:
- Infrastructure Advances: Automating, Auditing, and Data Analytics; Systems for payment collection, outage reporting, condition monitoring; Analytics for diagnosis, energy theft detection, customer creditworthiness; New techniques and technologies for asset management and maintenance; Transactive energy frameworks
- Energy Access Frameworks and Policies: Tariff and market design, regulation, and the role of global institutions; Local growth: skills, jobs, investors, and lenders; Financial case studies: options for financial instruments, investor/lender arrangements; Monitoring and evaluation of rural and peri-urban infrastructure projects
- Transforming and Renewing Centralised Systems: Technical design for reliability, communications and security, protection; Business design for investment, non-technical loss reduction; Grid-integration and grid code for distributed generation; Operation and planning techniques for uncertainty
- Resilient Services from Energy, Water and Health: Energy/water nexus: projects and analysis; Economic, environmental, and social effects of electrification; Rural energy poverty alleviation; Definitions and evaluation of infrastructure resilience
- Innovation in Components and Systems: Hybrid energy systems and microgrid design and operation; Energy storage: advances in diagnostics, cell technology, and management; Conversion: power electronics, machines, and actuators; Delivery: materials research and techniques for aging or novel equipment
Committees
Program Committee
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Organizing committee
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Publication
Registered and Presented papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases.
Venue
The conference will be held in Tshwane University of Technology (www.tut.ac.za) in River Club, Cape Town, South Africa
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to Barry Rawn Technical Program Committee Chair @ barry.rawn@brunel.ac.uk or Dr. Abraham Gebregergis General Chair for Power Africa 2018, @ abraham.g.us@ieee.org