On behalf of the IEEE PowerTech International Steering Committee and the Local Organising Committee I cordially invite you to attend the 12^thIEEE Power and Energy Society PowerTech Conference, PowerTech Manchester 2017. The conference is co-sponsored by the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) and hosted by the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the University of Manchester, UK.

PowerTech is the IEEE PES anchor conference in Europe and has been attended by hundreds of delegates from around the world. It will be an international forum with exciting programme for individuals working in industry and academia, to network, exchange ideas, and discuss the results of their research and development work. The conference will be the largest gathering of international researchers and practitionersworking in the general area of electrical power engineering outside the USA in 2017 and possibly the largest such conference ever held in the UK and certainly the largest to be held in the UK for a generation.