The 11^th IEEE PES & IAS PowerAfrica Conference (PAC 2024) will be hosted in South Africa from October 07 to 11, 2024. The conference theme is Towards Ensuring Energy Security in Africa.

PowerAfrica 2024 is the leading conference on the African continent focused on addressing its power and energy challenges. The conference provides a forum for researchers, engineers, policy makers and practitioners from Africa and beyond to share and discuss research findings, innovative ideas, emerging technologies and solutions to pressing challenges in the African energy sector. We invite researchers who work outside of the continent to come learn from the energy innovations emanating from Africa and share innovations and experiences from other regions of the world.

1. Full papers

Full papers report on original research in full. Literature reviews relevant to the conference themes may also be considered. Full papers may be up to 5 pages in length following the IEEE conference paper format. Final manuscripts exceeding the page limit by up to 3 pages will be allowed, but will incur a charge of US$50 per additional page.

2. Short papers

Short papers are limited to 3 pages in length and may present early or complete research results, case studies, best practices and perspectives relevant to the conference themes. Practitioners, policy makers and private sector actors are encouraged to use this as a venue to share best practices, case studies and perspectives from practice in the field.

3. Postgraduate forum papers

Papers submitted to the postgraduate forum should follow the same guidelines as full papers. The postgraduate forum is designed to create an environment in which postgraduate students (or recent graduates), primarily at the masters and PhD level, can share their on-going research with peers and experienced researchers. The forum will be organized as a poster session however, high quality submissions to the postgraduate forum of more mature research will be considered for publication in IEEE Xplore.

Renewable Energy and Conversion Systems/Technologies

• Renewable energy
• Energy harvesting, power electronics, off-grid systems
• Power electronics in renewable energy systems.

Use of Data Science and AI in Power and Energy Systems

• Application of artificial intelligence in energy system studies
• Predictive modelling for power system planning and operation
• Applications of remote sensing techniques to power system planning and measurement.

Nexus of electricity and other infrastructure systems

• Integrated planning and operation of electricity, water, agriculture and other infrastructure systems
• Complementarity of infrastructures and services in enabling socio-economic development such as productive use and social services
• Climate change impacts and mitigation at the nexus of energy, water and agriculture

Power Systems and Energy Storage Systems

• Power generation, transmission, and distribution technologies
• Power system stability, failure analysis in power grids, energy prediction, electric fault forecasting
• Security in Smart grid networks
• Energy storage technologies for renewables integration
  

Electric Mobility

Distributed Energy Systems, Micro-grid Systems and Energy Access in Africa

• Strategies and initiatives towards SDG7 in Africa
• Geospatial electrification planning
• National grid interconnection within and between regional African power pools
• Energy integration and emerging technologies
  
• Grid integration of off-grid systems
  
• Grid encroachment policies
  

Control and Cyber-physical Systems in Power and Energy Systems

• Power line communication
• Control strategies
• Digital twin in power systems
• Security in Smart grid networks
• Energy conservation in connected vehicles
• DCS/SCADA system design

Other topics on Energy and Applications 

• (including Green Hydrogen, Decarbonisation of mining and industrial processes …)

Postgraduate forum

Short papers (case studies, technical findings, finance, safety …)

All papers will undergo a thorough peer review process. Accepted full and short papers that are presented at the conference will be published in IEEE Xplore. Excellent work submitted to the postgraduate forum will also be considered for publication. Publishing through IEEE provides authors with a reputable, global platform on which to share their research with an audience which includes corporate researchers, academia and government.

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