Distributed Generation and Energy Management

• Microgrids, nanogrids modeling, simulation, and data management
• Peer-to-peer energy sharing 
• Building energy management system 
• Advanced distribution management system 
• Demand-side management, ancillary services from microgrids 
• Multi-energy systems, including combined heat and power 
•  Automation of smart/innovative homes, cities, communities 
• Hybrid systems and applications

Power System Protection, Operation & Control

• Power system modeling, dynamics, and control
• Power system protection, digital substation, and automation
• Load/generation forecasting (solar, wind, hybrid resources, hydro inflow, etc.)
• Scheduling practices, unit commitment, economic dispatch
• Resilience, security, reliability
• Wide area monitoring system and its applications
• Power system operation with FACTS/HVDC
• Advance metering, synchrophasor measurements, state estimation
• Effective visualization tools for power system operation
• Black start and restoration in high renewable resource power system
• Application of grid forming inverter

HV engineering and Power System Planning

• New materials for high voltage applications
• Transmission expansion planning
• Distribution system planning
• Planning towards net-zero system and grid
• New energy storage technology
• Pumped storage hydro
• EV infrastructure

AI, ML, Big Data and Cyber Security

• Computational intelligence in power and energy systems
• AI, ML, and game theory applications
• Cyber-physical system, threat, security, and privacy in grid applications
• IoT application to the power system, data handling
• Cloud computing
• Cyber security systems
• Blockchain technologies

Renewable Energy and Grid Integration

• Renewable power generation and clean energy technologies
• Policy, grid code, and regulatory framework for renewable energy integration, and operation
• EV charging technologies and their impact on grid operation
• Stability and power quality issues
• Flexibility, inertial control
• Demand-side management and ancillary services for large-scale integration of renewables
• Grid-connected energy storage systems and their control
• Grid-forming and grid-following controls
• Power converters for renewable energy integration at transmission and distribution levels
• Battery, hydrogen, and fuel cell storage system

Power Electronics, Drives and Machines

• Analysis, control, and design of electrical machines and drives
• Emerging converter topologies, modeling, simulation, and control
• Design and applications of wide band gap power electronic devices (SiC, GaN)
• Motor drive technologies for industrial applications
• Power converters for EV chargers and power-train
• Battery management systems, fuel cell
• Health monitoring, predictive maintenance of electrical machines, and power converters

Economics, Electricity Markets, and Regulatory Framework

• Market design and regulation to integrate new participants and renewable resources
• Coupling of gas and electricity grids
• Market designs for reliability and resilience in power systems with high renewable penetration
• Flexibility through markets – Intra-day markets and ramping products
• Expanding ambit of ancillary services – essential reliability services from renewables
• Wholesale and retail level competition with new actors – aggregators, distribution system operators
• Risk management in the electricity market
• Sector regulation and tariff design in the face of technological disruption
• Techno-economic analysis