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Author information - submitting a full paper, special session or tutorial 

Those wishing to present at Powering Net Zero 2025 are to submit a full paper or special session proposal for consideration by the Conference’s Organising and Technical Programme Committees.

Papers should focus on real business case studies/scenarios, innovative tools and techniques and report on work completed or nearing final stages, or efforts that have concluded with an important outcome of interest.

Special sessions will be incorporated into the main conference programme and offer insight into new and innovative technologies and projects aligned to and/or impacting the themes of Powering Net Zero.

Please do not submit any sales pitches as they will be rejected. If you are interested in sponsorship opportunities, please email JessicaGriffiths@theiet.org

Successful paper authors will have their paper(s) published on the IET Digital Library and IEEE Xplore and submitted for indexing in IET Inspec, Ei Compendex and Scopus, increasing citations and influence that extends beyond the conference.

We aim for a 16-week turnaround time from conference end date to publication, providing all authors submit the requested documentation by the deadlines provided.

The working language of the conference is English.

PNZ Global 2025 will be in a physical format; all authors will be expected to attend the conference to present. There will be no virtual presentation options.

Key dates

Paper submission deadline Thursday, 31 July 2025
Author notification W/c 15 September 2025
Author registration deadline Monday, 29 September 2025
Presentation submission deadline Monday, 27 October 2025

Preparing your paper

Before submission, make sure that the following material is ready

  • Ensure you have your full paper file ready, converted into PDF file format.
  • Have read and agree with the Assignment of Copyright Agreement. You will be asked to confirm your agreement during submission.
  • If the paper is Crown or US Government copyright please email ietnetzero@theiet.org to request the appropriate publishing form.
  • Abstracts must be submitted by 31 July 2025 if they are to be considered for the conference. No extensions will be granted.

Submitting your paper

<<SUBMIT YOUR PAPER>>

If you are submitting more than one abstract you can use the same email address and password for each abstract.

  • Enter the online submission system.
  • Enter your email address, if you're a new user the system will ask you to fill in your name and password. If you have used the system before you will just have to login.
  • Once you are successfully logged in follow the on-screen instructions and complete all fields.

Submitting a Special Session Proposal

<<SUBMIT SPECIAL SESSION PROPOSAL>>

Written papers are not required, but there is the option to include a formal paper if routes to publish are desirable – special session papers will be treated in the same way as a standard PNZ paper including peer review and the aforementioned publishing and indexing.

Materials presented in the Special Sessions will not be included in the conference proceedings (unless a formal paper is submitted). Sessions will be between 45 and 120 minutes long, subject to the conference programme schedule and proposed content.

All special session proposals must be submitted here. If accepted your proposed speaker/s will be asked to submit either a full paper for publication or an abstract (depending on your preference) to be reviewed and including more detail.

The Organising Committee welcome proposals for special sessions which offer an interactive format.

Poster presentation instructions

Poster pitch

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
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
Nuclear

Small and Advanced Nuclear Reactors

  • Gen III SMR
  • Gen IV AMR

Nuclear as low carbon solution

  • Nuclear and the baseload
  • Grid connection/compliance

New Technologies and Digitalisation

  • Advanced sensors
  • Automation, and artificial intelligence (AI)
  • Digital Twins
  • Robotics
  • Advanced manufacturing

Nuclear fuel cycle and waste management

  • High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium (HALEU)
  • Future long term storage solutions

Standards and regulations

  • Standardisation approaches within the nuclear industry
  • Standards for SMR
  • The ONR and international cooperation
  • Nuclear safety
  • The regulatory approval process    

Cybersecurity

  • Regulatory Compliance
  • Supply Chain Security
  • Global collaboration and cybersecurity standards
  • Monitoring and threat mitigation

Public Perception, Policy, and Social Acceptance

  • Regulatory processes, permitting
  • Siting new nuclear power stations
  • Education/ skills and training

Security

  • Physical security for nuclear sites

Nuclear Hydrogen Production and Industrial Decarbonization

  • Role of nuclear in hydrogen production as a decarbonisation tool
  • Nuclear energy’s application in heavy industry and transport sectors
  • Feasibility studies and pilot projects on nuclear hydrogen production

Nuclear energy to power AI data centres

  • Regulatory frameworks for nuclear energy adoption in the technology sector
  • Safety, security, and reliability of nuclear-powered data centres
  • Cybersecurity threats and protection of critical infrastructure

Fusion as a Long-Term Net Zero Solution

  • The role of fusion in electricity generation, hydrogen production and industrial heat
  • Current Technical challenges
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

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