Protection, automation and control specialists from industry and academia around the world are invited to submit abstracts on the following topics:
- The Future of the electric power grid – PAC challenges of today and tomorrow
- PAC and Smart Grid
- System analysis
- Standardization and harmonization of system models
- Wide area monitoring, protection and control systems (WAMPACS)
- Wide area disturbances analysis and lessons learned
- Visualization, situational awareness
- Synchrophasors, applications and benefits
- Communications and their applications
- IEC 61850, tools, applications and benefits
- Standard protocols and common data formats
- Cyber security
- Multifunctional Protection IEDs and their applications in transmission and distribution systems
- Advanced protection, automation and control functions and applications
- Centralized Substation Protection and Control
- Adaptive protection
- System Integrity Protection Schemes (SIPS)
- Testing of intelligent devices, distributed functions and systems
- Power quality
- Automatic fault analysis
- Substation automation
- Distribution automation
- Smart metering and Home automation
- Impact of wind power on PAC
- Distributed Energy Resources integration – wind, solar, EV, storage
- Asset management and condition monitoring
- Engineering of protection, automation and control systems
- Protection operation analysis and lessons learned
- Power system education challenges for professionals and administrators
- Standardization of protection, automation and control systems
- Artificial Intelligence applications in PAC systems
- Any other protection, automation and control related topic
Download the call for paper details pdf document
All abstracts should be around 500 words. The authors should indicate which topic the paper addresses and keep in mind that the focus of their papers should be on presenting challenges, applications, solutions and ideas related to the above topics in a non-commercial and practical manner. Preference will be given to papers that discuss the functionality and performance requirements of the application, the communications requirements and how the application fits within a distributed multi-domain smart grid architecture and interacts with other applications in the smart grid hierarchy.
Abstracts should be submitted at https://pacworld.regfox.com/pacwc26-c4p
The submission page can also be reached by scanning this QR code
Papers accepted for oral presentation will be included in the program. Papers accepted for the poster session will also be included in the proceedings of the conference and used as backup for oral presentation.
Important dates (strictly enforced):
• Abstracts deadline: 15 January 2026
• Acceptance notification: 15 February 2026
• Papers submission: 1 May 2026
