Special Session 1
Session Chair
Mr. Willy Stephane Ngaha
Department of Electrical Engineering
Vaal University of Technology (VUT), South Africa
Email: willyn@vut.ac.za / 2492558@students.wits.ac.za
Special Session 1: Power System Stability & Emerging Technologies, Energy Storage & Conversion
Online Submission System: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icpes2026 (Choose Special Session 1)
The increasing penetration of renewable energy resources, inverter-based generation, and distributed energy systems is transforming modern power grids. While these technologies contribute to decarbonization and sustainability goals, they also introduce significant challenges related to system stability, inertia reduction, frequency regulation, and grid resilience.
This Special Session aims to bring together researchers, academics, industry experts, and practitioners to discuss the latest advances in power system stability, low-inertia power systems, emerging grid technologies, and the role plays by energy storage and their conversion systems. The session will provide a platform to present innovative methodologies, practical applications, and future research directions for sustainable and resilient energy systems.
The session encourages interdisciplinary contributions addressing theoretical developments, modeling, simulation, experimental validation, and industrial applications.
Topics of Interest
Power System Stability & Emerging Technologies:
- Power System Stability and Control
- Small-Signal Stability Analysis
- Transient Stability Assessment
- Low-Inertia Power Systems
- Grid-Forming Inverters (GFM)
- Grid-Following Inverters (GFL)
- Virtual Synchronous Generators (VSG)
- Virtual Oscillator Control (VOC)
- Renewable Energy Integration
- Smart Grids and Microgrids
- Artificial Intelligence Applications in Power Systems
- Power System Protection and Resilience
- Wide-Area Monitoring and Control
- Digital Twins for Power Systems
- Cybersecurity in Smart Grids
Energy Storage & Conversion:
- Flywheel Energy Storage Systems (FESS)
- Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS)
- Hydrogen Energy Storage
- Supercapacitor Energy Storage
- Hybrid Energy Storage Systems
- Energy Management Systems
- Power Electronics and Energy Conversion
- Converter Control and Optimization
- Electric Vehicle Grid Integration
- Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) Technologies
- Model Predictive Control for Energy Storage
- Energy Storage for Frequency Regulation
- Grid Support Services
- Sustainable Energy Conversion Technologies