Onshore and offshore wind technology –fixed and floating
- Sensors and condition monitoring.
- Offshore platforms and foundations for offshore transmission systems.
- Offshore cable systems for array and grid connection systems.
- Smart strategies for wind power plant operation.
- Wind power plant modelling and control.
- Offshore electrical grid assets and systems.
- Condition monitoring, operations, maintenance and control.
- Power conversion and grid interaction.
- Life extension, repowering and end-of-life strategies.
- Hybridisation of wind with solar, storage, hydrogen.
- Future of interconnectors and offshore hubs.
Solar PV (and solar thermal) and integration
- PV system design - including integration.
- Power conversion and advanced inverters (including grid forming).
- Solar resource forecasting and modelling.
- Condition monitoring, operations, maintenance and control.
- Off-grid applications.
Clean fuel, thermal and marine
- Renewable energy electrolysis hydrogen production technology.
- Hydrogen storage and transportation technology.
- Fuel cell technology (stationary and mobility applications).
- Geothermal.
- Biomass/biofuel.
- Hydroelectric.
- Low carbon/alternative fuels (eFuels, hydrogen, biomass, biofuels, CCUS).
- Solar thermal.
- Ocean energy.
- Renewable energy-driven water treatment technologies.
- Low-temperature heat source utilisation.
Clean Hydrogen
- Hydrogen storage and transportation technology.
- Hydrogen fuel cell technology.
- Synergy between hydrogen energy and carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS).
- Integration of hydrogen energy with the power grid.
Grid Integration
- Low inertial power system operation, management and planning.
- Hybrid power plants.
- Generator protection and resilience.
- Power quality.
- Grid-forming inverters and future grid code requirements.
- Ancillary services from renewable energy generation.
- HVDC for renewable power integration.
- Demand side management.
- Energy storage for integration.
- Alternative transmission systems - low-frequency transmission, GIL, etc.
- Long-term infrastructure planning and investment.
- Impact of distributed generation, demand response and storage on distribution systems.
- Economic, social and environmental policy aspects.
- DC/DC conversion and DC distribution systems.
- Resilience improvement devices for power systems dominated by renewable energy sources.
- Flexible interactive devices between source, grid, load, and storage in power systems dominated by renewable energy sources.
- Microgrids.
EV Charging
- High-power charging technology.
- Wireless charging technology.
- Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) Technology.
- Charging infrastructure planning and grid synergy.
- Synergy between electric vehicle charging and smart grids.
Network planning and technologies
- Long-term infrastructure planning and investment.
- Grid-forming inverters.
- Grid enhancing technologies.
- HVDC for renewable power integration.
- DC/DC conversion and DC distribution systems.
- Alternative transmission systems - low-frequency, GIL, etc.
- Innovative/New technologies to develop long-life, reliable and resilient network equipment.
Network operation
- Low inertial power system operation, management and planning.
- Power quality.
- Generator protection and resilience.
- Compliance with system security and quality standards.
- Operation, management and planning of power system with low grid strength.
- Dynamic management and optimisation of networks.
Digitalisation
- IT, automation and control.
- Cyber and system security.
- Asset and IT interoperability.
- Automation scalability.
- Quantum computing and its applications to future power systems.
- Advanced techniques for reliability and risk assessment in modern power systems.
Power demand and storage
- Integration of renewable energy with energy storage.
- Demand flexibility and response.
- Demand side management.
- Power-to-X.
- Consumer behaviours.
- Load forecasting.
- Electrification rate modelling.
- Intra-day forecasting.
- Long-term forecasting.
- Advanced battery technology.
- Energy storage for microgrids.
- Optimisation and configuration of energy storage.
- Control strategy and management of energy storage systems.
- Fault monitoring and diagnostic technologies for energy storage systems.
- Testing and evaluation of energy storage systems.
Policy, market design and consumers
- Regulations, incentives, policies affecting renewable energy systems.
- Future grid code requirements - compliance and assessment.
- Economic, social and environmental policy.
- Supply chain assessment.
- New energy market design and operation, including ancillary service markets.
- Investment, funding and finance.
- Social acceptance and permitting.