DPSP 2012 - Protecting the Smart Grid

Conference scope

The DPSP 2012 organising committee welcomes contributions in the general areas of Developments in Power System Protection.

Contributions can range from research concepts and ideas to technical issues and industrial applications, and are encouraged from, but not limited to, the themes and topics in the following areas:

Engineering Protection for the Smart Grid

• Smart grids and low carbon networks
• HVDC supergrids
• Protection and control for electric traction
• Asset management strategies
• Utility experiences
• System integrity protection schemes
• Wide-area protection and wide-area situational awareness
• Cybersecurity in protection and control
• New algorithms and software solutions

Engineering the Smart Substation

• Design and application of integrated systems
• Effect of integration on reliability, availability and maintainability
• Compatibility with existing systems
• Experience of IEC 61850 schemes
• Testing strategies

Engineering the Smart Device

• Future device technologies
• Advances in hardware design
• Advances in software design
• Software quality management
• Impact of new sensors

See also

• Author information
• Journals