IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT North America 2025)

Key Topics

• Technologies and processes for democratized participatory grid
  • Distribution markets and system platforms (DSP, DSO, etc.)
  • Innovative grid architecture
  • Smart buildings including measuring energy use, pinpointing operations and maintenance problems, automating lighting and thermostats, and tracking building performance
  • Smart transportation that integrates electrification and digitization including automated and electric vehicles (EVs) and EV charging infrastructure
  • Synthetic inertia from inverter-based generation, and their interface with customer`s EMS
  • Transactive Energy Systems and emerging hardware/software technologies (Internet of Things-IoT, Blockchain, etc.) as well as tradable products, and incentive-compatible market design
  • New regulatory and business models
  • Applications of Big Data, advanced analytics and artificial intelligence techniques
  • New planning processes that incorporate decarbonization, resilience, energy equity, or similar objectives
  • Grid cybersecurity
• Technologies and processes for grid decarbonization
  • Renewable energy technologies
  • Environmental issues and regulations
  • Platforms and systems supporting grid integration with high DER adoption
  • New DER technologies
  • Operational metrics for a decarbonized grid
  • Reliability and resilience considering a changing relationship between the bulk power system and distribution systems
  • Energy storage
  • Power electronics and inverter-based resources
  • Verification and validation of new technologies
• Decentralized and distributed decision and control technologies
  • Smart controls and sensors in end-use devices
  • Edge computing, control, and analytics
  • Coordination of distributed, grid-edge functionality
  • Smart Cities grid interactions such as Smart Street Lighting, and data analytics that analyze data generated by sensors and monitors to monitor and manage energy use, pedestrian safety, traffic flows, air quality
  • Autonomous grid control technologies
  • Distributed systems and architectures for grid control
  • DER modeling, forecasting, and flexible loads
  • Opportunities for convergence with related areas, for example, with Internet of Things
  • Provision of grid services from grid edge assets and systems
  • Microgrids
  • Applications of augmented reality in the power industry
  • Emerging substation and distribution automation technologies (advanced FLISR, Volt-VAR Optimization, outage management, restoration, etc.)
  • Testbeds, datasets