Smart Grid

Call for Papers and Participation

The third annual Great Lakes Symposium on Smart Grid and the New Energy Economy (GLS), co-sponsored by the IEEE Power and Energy Society (http://www.ieee-pes.org) and Robert W. Galvin Center for Electricity Innovation (http://www.iitmicrogrid.net) at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), will be held September 23-25, 2013 at the historic IIT Campus. GLS will feature keynote and plenary sessions, technical presentations, and tutorials by international experts on smart grid applications. The theme of the 2013 GLS (http://www.greatlakessymposium.net) is the microgrid planning, design, control, and operation.  GLS is a one-of-a-kind event that breaks new ground in smart grid design and development and showcases smart grid best practices along with new technologies and ideas that are spurring innovation, growing state economies, reducing emissions and empowering consumers to conserve and save. 

Topics:
The GLS Organizing Committee invites researchers and practitioners worldwide to submit papers for review and possible presentation. The scope of the third annual GLS covers the following general topics:

Microgrids (planning, design, control, and operation)

Distributed Energy Resources (sustainability, integration, off-shore wind in Great Lakes)

Smart Grid Communication and Control (wide area protection, cyber-physical systems, hierarchical control systems)

End-use Customers (economics, demand response, appliance control, storage, electric vehicle charging)

Smart Grid Education and Workforce Development (energy industry, K-12 teachers, labor unions, colleges, veterans)

Smart Grid Automation (buildings, homes, community load aggregation)

Advanced Metering Infrastructure (hardware technology, security, privacy, data management)

Smart Grid Devices, Smart Grid System Architecture, and Distributed Software Applications

Smart Grid Policies, Regulatory Issues, and Standards

Smart Grid Demonstrations and Best Practices (utilities, military, communities, campuses, test beds)

Manuscript Submission:
Full technical papers, due June 21, 2013, are to be submitted via email to papers@greatlakessymposium.org (maximum length 6 pages in a two-column IEEE format http://www.ieee-pes.org/publications/information-for-authors.) The presented papers will appear in IEEE Xplore (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/guesthome.jsp). 

Important Dates:  

Full Paper Submission Deadline: June 21, 2013

Authors’ Notification of Acceptance: July 30, 2013

Final Paper Submission Deadline:  August 16, 2013

Early Registration Deadline:  September 2, 2013

Symposium Registration and Accommodation:
The information on hotels and symposium registration will be available at http://www.greatlakessymposium.net..