A Special section for the IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery
Guest co-editors-in-chief:
Gerald T. Heydt
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
Arizona State University
PO Box 875706
Tempe, AZ 85287-5706
Email: heydt@asu.edu Telephone: 480 965 8307
Siddharth Suryanarayanan
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523-1373
Email: sid@colostate.edu Telephone: 970 491 4632
Editor in chief: Dr. Wilsun Xu
Electric power and energy engineering is driven by growth, policy, economics, and new engineering ideas. The latter driver, namely the new ideas, is actually elements of research in engineering. This special section deals with the general topic of long term innovative topics for research in power delivery engineering.
Some engineering ideas are in the short term and these might be characterized as implementation and commercialization of well-understood existing technologies. Other ideas are somewhat longer in their inherent time frame, and these might be termed ideas for development and incremental innovation. Still longer term concepts fall into an area that may be high risk, may be controversial, and may have potentially problematic commercialization. These latter high risk ideas may have concomitant high impact and long lasting influence.
This special section is intended to provide examples of innovative research topics in power delivery engineering within the scope of IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, and these are the topics that fall into the highly innovative, high risk type of long term concepts in this field.
The peer-reviewed articles will showcase potentially high impact research topics or directions.
In addition to encouraging interest among the readership, an objective is to identify the main characteristics of research that make the research innovative in the long term. It is not an objective to discuss topics of questionable or impossible physics. Instead, the objective is to identify topics that are likely to result in a noteworthy impact on power industry in the next 30 to 50 years. Example topics of interest to this special section are
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Groundbreaking concepts in power system protection, power electronic apparatus, advanced instrumentation, and other innovative technologies in power transmission and distribution engineering
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New paradigms for power distribution including inventions to encourage customer participation
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Novel technologies and apparatus for bulk power transmission

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Creative integration of new technologies such as satellite based systems, electronic components, high-speed computing, and direct digital control
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Innovative applications of modern mathematical methods for power delivery engineering.
Timeline / procedure
This call for paper does not require the submission of extended abstracts. The deadline for full paper submission is March 21, 2016. Papers must be submitted as per the IEEE Power and
Energy Society Authors’ Kit found at:
http://www.ieee-pes.org/meetings-and-conferences/calls-for-papers/pes-authors-kit
Papers should be submitted at the usual submission site for the IEEE Transactions on Power
Delivery, https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tpwrd-pes
After logging in proceed to the ‘Authors center’ and then to ‘Click here to submit a new manuscript’. You will then be prompted through a seven step process to submit a paper. At the first step, please select the paper type option “Special issue: Innovative Research Concepts for
Power Delivery Engineering”.
Any changes on deadlines or other updates related to this special section will be announced in the PWRD resource site: http://sites.ieee.org/tpwrd/call-for-papers-news/
Reviews
All papers will be rigorously reviewed as any IEEE PES transactions paper. The publication date for the special section is targeted in approximately the September-October 2016 time frame.