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Our Powering Net Zero Conference offers an exciting opportunity to showcase your work and raise your profile across the engineering community.

Renewable Power Generation and Future Power Systems conference track is working with the IET RPG Journal, and successful authors may be invited to extend their submission in a special issue or in the main journal.

Author registration

If your full paper has been accepted into the PNZ 2024 programme, you are required to register for the conference by Friday 1 November 2024. When registering please ensure you enter your paper number.

Best paper and poster awards will be announced at the drinks reception after conference day one.

Key dates

Author registration deadline Friday 11 October 2024
Presentation submission deadline Friday 8 November 2024

Accepted as an oral presentation?

What you need to do…

  • Register for the conference by Friday, 11 October 2024
  • Create a PowerPoint presentation at the conference and upload to submission system by Friday, 8 November 2024
  • Refer back to the programme at regular intervals as it is subject to change

PowerPoint presentation instructions

PowerPoint submission deadline: Friday, 8 November 2024.

  • Presentations are allocated 10 mins in the programme. Your presentation must not last more than 10 mins and there will be a joint Q&A at the end of each session
  • Please log into the submission system to upload your PowerPoint file by no later than Friday, 8 November 2024
  • The slides will be loaded onto the session laptop by the organisers prior to the relevant session
  • Authors should bring a copy of their slides on a USB with them to the conference as a back up

PowerPoint presentation guidelines

When completing your presentation please ensure you consider the following:

  • Presentations must be in 16:9 ratio
  • Do not use colours that will make text or diagrams difficult to read once projected
  • Avoid blocks of text on a slide. Use short bullet points, not paragraphs
  • Avoid using hand drawn scanned images
  • Present the relevant information in the clearest way possible. Tables, graphs and diagrams can help at times
  • There is no set template for PowerPoint presentations, you may use a personal or company template. Logos and branding must be of a modest size and must not obstruct the presenting content

Accepted for a poster presentation?

What you need to do…

Poster presentation instructions

Poster submission deadline: Friday 8 November 2024

  • In addition to your written paper included in the conference proceedings, authors selected for a poster presentation will be asked to produce and bring a printed poster for display in the poster area at the conference.
  • At the conference in the catering / exhibition area there will be a board with a poster header listing your paper title for you to display your poster on.
  • We will will provide Velcro to stick them to the boards.
  • During the breaks and at lunch time or dedicated poster session you are required to spend some time at your poster as it is your opportunity to discuss your work with other delegates.
  • A digital version of your poster will also be viewable to attendees in our digital poster gallery.
  • The poster board size is portrait A0.

You should clearly display the following information on your poster:

  • The title of your paper
  • The authors’ names and their affiliations
  • Your usual contact details (e.g. an email address) to allow delegates to follow up discussion

Poster pitch

Each poster author is allocated 2 mins within the poster pitch session to present 1 slide to encourage delegates to visit their poster on display.

The template for the slide can be downloaded.

The session chair will be monitoring the time and will end your pitch when your two minutes has ended.

Once you have completed your slide please ensure you upload it to the submission system by Friday 8 November 2024.

Useful tips

  • Your display should consist chiefly of keywords, diagrams, photographs, etc.
  • Diagrams and graphs should have clear captions
  • All text should be easy to read
  • Use colour to emphasise important features
  • All graphs and diagrams should be drawn with thick lines (preferably 1mm or more in width)
  • Handwritten text or diagrams are not recommended

Remember…

  • The display should be visually appealing and should contain the essence of your paper in a form that is easy to understand
  • Try to attract the registrants to your poster. Unless they come to it, you cannot expect to have a discussion with them
  • The poster can contain visuals that were not present in your paper
  • The poster display is important. It is recommended that as much time and effort with its preparation as you did with our written paper

Tell people about your presentation

Tell your colleagues and social media followers about your upcoming presentation at PNZ 2024 with a short video. It’s really easy to put together – just film yourself saying a few words about your talk on your phone, add the information card, and post it!

Filming hints and tips:

  • Please film in landscape
  • Film in good light, and try to make sure that the light source is behind you, as this will avoid casting shadows on your face
  • Place the phone so you are looking directly in to it, and not up or down
  • Please smile, be expressive and don’t be afraid of small gestures
  • Play back your video before posting it. If there are any external sounds loud enough to be picked up on your video, have another go
  • Videos that are 60 seconds or less usually have the most impact on social media

What to say?

"Hello, my name is…. and I work for…."

"I‘ll be giving a presentation at the IET’s PNZ conference, taking place in Birmingham 4-6 December 2024."

"My talk is about…"

"I hope I’ll see you there!"

Creating your final video

There are lots of video editing Apps available to help you with this.

Please include the conference hashtag #PNZ when you post your video. If possible, please tag the IET as well:

X: @IETevents
Linkedin: @IET Events and Conferences
Facebook: @TheInstitutionofEngineeringandTechnology
Instagram: @theiet

Technical scope
Energy storage

Energy storage for decarbonisation of transportation

  • Terrestrial
  • Maritime
  • Aerial

Energy storage integration with power grids and sector coupling

  • Grid stability
  • Centralised control systems
  • Ancillary services
  • Aggregation of distributed energy storage systems
  • Black start and backup
  • Microgrids
  • Smart home/buildings
  • Hybrid storage systems
  • Virtual power plant

Emerging battery technologies

Chemistry

  • Sodium ion
  • Solid state
  • Thermochemical storage technologies
  • Ammonia
  • Other chemistries

System management

  • Thermal
  • Safety
  • Advanced sensors and actuators
  • Other emerging technologies

Circular economy in energy storage

  • Secondary life of battery
  • Recycling of end-of-life batteries
  • Remanufacturing of other energy storage materials

Energy storage market, regulation and policy

  • Market size analyses
  • Value and cost of energy storage
  • Optimisation of services
  • Support mechanisms

Energy storage infrastructure and supply chain

  • Supply chain analyses
  • Charging infrastructure for electricity, heat, cooling, hydrogen, etc
EVI: charging ahead

Electrical vehicle charging

  • Smart charging, including bidirectional charging
  • Charging efficiency
  • Conductive charging infrastructure
  • AC charging infrastructure.
  • DC charging infrastructure
  • Charging standardisation and interoperability
  • Wireless charging (static and dynamic)
  • Infrastructure deployment, installation, commissioning case studies
  • Public charging deployment case studies
  • Mobility and user experience
  • Heavy duty and fleet innovations
  • Geospatial planning
  • Digital application and modelling in relation to EV charging
  • Connectivity and System Integration aspects
  • Cyber security considerations           

EV grid integration and power supply

  • Grid capacity, connections, flexibility, and planning concerning EV
  • Geospatial planning of the network
  • Grid implications
  • Demand management
  • Electric vehicle for energy services (eV4ES), technology, business models, applications, V2H, V2B, V2X
  • Project deployment case studies
  • Energy security and system resilience concerning EV charging and associated infrastructure
  • Computer simulation and “digital twins” concerning grid power supply to support EV charging

Connected and autonomous vehicle infrastructure

  • V2X communication and network architectures
  • Big data integration and analytics for mobility insights
  • Autonomous vehicle perception and localisation
  • Cooperative vehicle automation and Platooning
  • Cybersecurity and privacy challenges in connected infrastructure
  • Ethical considerations and regulatory frameworks for automated mobility
  • Infrastructure design and integration for automated vehicles
  • Smart charging and grid integration for electric vehicles
  • Sustainable transportation planning and policy integration
  • Human-machine interaction and public acceptance

EV adoption, integration and impact

  • Consumer and market adoption analysis, including education, demonstration, and motivation analysis
  • EV human-machine interaction and public acceptance
  • Global or local strategies for market development
  • Legislature and policy initiatives at the global, country/UK or local level
  • Government project deployment case studies
  • Supply chain analysis
  • Customer journey experience
  • Environmental and social equity analysis
  • EV and associated infrastructure and services impact the net zero transition, industry and society
  • Digital application and modelling concerning EV adoption
  • Economic studies and cost/benefit analysis       
  • Standards and regulations including those relating to safety aspects
Hydrogen

Hydrogen uses and applications

  • H2 as a feedstock for ammonia, methanol, or ethanol
    • Decarbonized/low emissions agriculture (fertilizer)
    • Blending fossil fuels with methanol
  • Industrial decarbonisation in the energy intensive foundation industries (metals, ceramics, glass, chemicals, paper and cement)
  • Developments in ‘green steel’ production using hydrogen for direct iron reduction (DRI).
  • Power generation
  • Combustion of H2
  • Applications in transport: on-road, aerospace, rail and maritime
  • Novel uses and application

Hydrogen production

  • Energy conversion
  • ML and AI in production systems analysis
  • Infrastructure for large-scale hydrogen production
  • Hydrogen National Transmission Network (HyNTS)
  • Use of fresh water for hydrogen production
  • Salt-water electrolysis
  • Lifecycle carbon intensity
  • Levelized cost of hydrogen
  • Natural hydrogen
  • Nuclear co-generation
  • High-temperature electrolysis
  • Low carbon hydrogen production from methane or biomass, e.g., ATR+CCS, SMR+CCS, methane pyrolysis, biomass to H2.
  • Low and medium-temperature electrolysis advances
  • Power to X

Hydrogen storage

  • Geologic hydrogen storage
  • Liquid Organic vectors
  • Metallic hydride
  • Other storage solution
  • Pressure storage (including new tanks, materials, presures,...)
  • Liquid hydrogen

Hydrogen hardware and equipment

  • Electrolysers
  • Fuel cells
  • Compressors - HP for refuelling stations and high volume for transmission networks
  • Storage tanks – both gaseous and liquid
  • Dispensers, heat exchangers (for very low or high T operations), pipes.
  • Smart grids

Hydrogen infrastructure

  • Power demands
  • Life cycle
  • Hydrogen purification
  • Pipelines vs freight versus distributed production
  • Long distance oversea H2 transport technologies e.g., NH3, liquid H2, LOHC
  • Hydrogen refueling stations (HRS)

Carbon capture, utilization and storage

  • Enabling hydrogen production with CCUS
  • Economics and life cycle analysis comparison
  • Hydrogen purification
  • Membrane gas separation
  • Process modelling and simulation
  • Safety and risk management/ monitoring
  • Direct air capture

Hydrogen monitoring and risk management

  • State of the art for H2 monitoring and scaling up problems
  • Challenges and omitted areas in monitoring
  • Risk assessment for the entire lifecycle and parts: production, movement, etc.

Policy and regulatory considerations

  • GHG reduction goals by governments
  • Incentives
  • Regulatory processes, permitting.  
  • Taxing hydrogen production
  • Moving hydrogen across borders
  • Pore space access and rights
  • Public perception
  • Education/ skills and training
Renewable power generation and future power systems

Renewable power generation

  • Wind
    • Turbine and system design including wake effects
    • Floating wind turbines
    • Offshore electrical grid assets and systems
    • Condition monitoring, operations, maintenance and control
    • Power conversion and grid interaction
  • Solar PV
    • PV system design - including integration
    • Power conversion and grid interaction
    • Condition monitoring, operations, maintenance and control
  • Thermal power plant
    • Geothermal
    • Biomass/biofuel
    • Low-carbon/alternative fuels (eFuels, hydrogen, biomass, biofuels, CCUS)
    • Solar thermal
  • Other renewables
    • Wave
    • Tidal
    • Hydropower 

Future power systems

  • Network planning and technologies
    • Long-term infrastructure planning and investment
    • Grid-forming inverters
    • 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 & 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

  • Demand flexibility
    • Demand side management
    • Demand response
    • Power-to-X
    • Consumer behaviours
  • Load forecasting
    • Electrification rate modelling
    • Intra-day forecasting
    • Long-term forecasting
  • Energy storage
    • Grid-scale storage and network planning
    • System balancing - technology suitability
    • Connection process
    • Vehicle-to-grid charging

Policy, market design and consumers

  • Role of the Future System Operator
  • Future grid code requirements - compliance and assessment
  • Economic, social and environmental policy
  • Supply chain assessment
  • New energy market design and operation - incl. Ancillary service markets
  • Investment, funding and finance
  • Social acceptance and permitting