Accepted papers will be submitted for publication in IEEE Xplore Digital Library provided that they are presented at the virtual conference. Instructions on how to prepare for a virtual presentation will be provided shortly and sent to the authors separately.
The virtual conference will provide an interactive experience of high quality for all participants.
We invite the submission of original, unpublished technical papers on topics including but not limited to:

• Industry experience in deploying smart grid technologies for power generation, transmission, distribution, energy conversion, and storage.
• Smart grid planning, design, and operation.
• Information and communication technologies for smart grids, interoperability, and cyber-security.
• Wide area monitoring, protection, and control.
• Power electronics, control, and protection systems for smart grid applications.
• Demand response and real-time pricing.
• Electric vehicles and interactions with the grid.
• Smart multi-energy infrastructures and the environment
• Field trials, user acceptance, and experience
• Large-scale integration of renewable energy and virtual power plants
• Multi-domain energy systems
• Power quality and power electronics application and control
• Sensors, advanced metering, data acquisition, and monitoring
• Innovative hardware and components for smart grids
• Smart grid maintenance and asset management
• Costs, risks, and benefits associated with smart grid technologies
• Big and open data
• Business modeling, smart grid market models, including CO2
• Economics of smart grids
• Institutional design for smart grids
• Market design and regulatory issues
• Diagnostics, self-healing, and reliability of smart grids
• Education and training on smart grids