18th National Power Systems Conference
18th - 20th December, 2014
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati - 781039
CALL FOR PAPERS
About the Conference
Important Dates
The National Power System Conference (NPSC) is the premier conference in India in
the area of Power Systems. The first NPSC was held in the College of Engineering,
Osmania University, Hyderabad in the year 1981. It is a biennial conference, and
provides a platform for researchers and engineers from Academia, Industry and Utility
to exchange their knowledge, expertise and experience and deliver on challenges of the
present and future power systems.
Paper submission opens
: January 15, 2014
Last date for paper submission
: May 15, 2014
Last date for notification of acceptance : September 30, 2014
Last date for final submission of paper : October 31, 2014
Start of online Registration
: October 15, 2014
Last date for online registration
: November 15, 2014
Technical Program
Conference Topics
Conference welcomes papers on the following themes. However papers related to
other areas of electrical power not specified in the undermentioned categories
are also invited:
Smart grid
Wide area monitoring and network control
Network communication and control
Signal processing applications in power systems
Design, development and placement of smart sensors
in power system
Next generation control centre: EMS/SCADA, state
estimation and cyber security
Storage resources for grid with uncertain resources
Grid optimization
Static and dynamic component modeling
Power system stability and control
Impact of distributed generation on security and
reliability of power system
Challenges with integration of renewable energy
sources
Grid challenges: Planning, interconnection,
operation and control
Transmission planning under market and regulatory
uncertainty
Flexible grid planning under uncertainty
Protection, special schemes and control integration
Design of power components and systems
Intelligent monitoring of high voltage power
equipments
Black-out prevention and restoration
Power system restructuring
Power system economics
Distribution system restructuring
Power electronics and drives
FACTS controllers
Power quality monitoring and mitigation
Chairman
Ratnajit Bhattacharjee , Head Department of EEE, IIT Guwahati
Convener
Praveen Tripathy, Department of EEE, IIT Guwahati
Treasurer
Sisir Kumar Nayak, Department of EEE, IIT Guwahati
Advisory Committee
A K Pradhan, IIT Kharagpur
A M Kulkarni, IIT Bombay
Biswarup Das, IIT Roorkee
G B Shrestha, IIT Guwahati
Joy Thomas M, IISc Bangalore
K S Swarup, IIT Madras
Krishna Vasudevan, IIT Madras
Mahesh Kumar, IIT Madras
N P Padhy, IIT Roorkee
P K Bora, IIT Guwahati (Chair)
R K Panday, IIT BHU
Sivaji Chakravorti, Jadavpur University
S N Singh, IIT Kanpur
Sukumar Mishra, IIT Delhi
Somanath Majhi, IIT Guwahati
Registration Fee
Delegates from Industries/ Utilities/
R&D organization
Delegates from academic institutions
Student delegates
Delegates from abroad
: Rs 8000
: Rs 5000
: Rs 2500
: US $ 300
Please Note:
Patron
G. Biswas, Director, IIT Guwahati
G. Barua, Ex-Director, IIT Guwahati
Technical Committee
Paper presentations
Panel sessions/ plenary talks
Industries/ Utilities/R&D presentations
Tutorials
A K Sinha, IIT Kharagpur
Anjan Bose, Washington State University, USA
Arindam Ghosh, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Bhim Singh, IIT Delhi
Chanan Singh, DLCE, Texas A&M University, USA
D Thukaram, IISc Banglore
G S Raju, Former Director, IIT BHU
K R Padiyar, Emeritus Professor, IISc Banglore
Kankar Bhattacharya, University of Waterloo, Canada
M Ramamoorty, Former Director General, CPRI
Nagaraja Ramappa, Managing Director, PRDC Pvt. Ltd.
P R Bijwe, IIT Delhi
Pradeep Kumar Singha, NEEPCO, Executive Director
R N Nayak, Chairman & Managing Director, PGCIL
R P Singh, Former Chairman & Managing Director, PGCIL
S C Srivastava, IIT Kanpur
S K Soonee, Executive Director, PGCIL
S P Singh, IIT BHU
Shri Mata Prasad, Advisor, Powergrid and EMCO, India
S A Khaparde, IIT Bombay
S S (Mani) Venkata, Alstom and University of Washington, USA
Venkataramana Ajjarapu, Iowa Sate University, USA
At least one author has to register online before last date for final
submission pf a paper. A discount of 20% will be available for online
registration of IEEE members.
Information for Authors
The authors have to submit the full paper in the IEEE double column
format, restricted to a length of six (6) pages. Last date for paper
submission: 15th May,2014. Detailed instructions and guidelines
regarding paper submission will be made available at the URL
http://www.iitg.ernet.in/npsc2014
Please note that only papers electronically submitted through the
above web portal will be considered for review.
Invitation to Sponsor
Financial sponsorship to 18th NPSC-2014 are welcomed under the
following categories. Prospective sponsors are requested to visit the
conference website “http://www.iitg.ernet.in/ npsc2014” to get more
details about the type of sponsorship and the associated benefits.
They are also requested to contact convener, NPSC-2014 for further
details
.
Platinum Sponsors
Gold Sponsors
Silver Sponsors
Bronze Sponsors
: Rs 5 Lakhs
: Rs 3 Lakhs
: Rs 2 Lakhs
: Rs 1 Lakshs
Contact us:
Convener NPSC-2014
Department of Electronics & Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
Guwahati - 781039
Email: npsc2014@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: +91-361-258-2528
Fax:+91-361-258-0762
http://www.iitg.ernet.in/npsc2014
Technical Co-Sponsor “IEEE Kolkata Section”