2027 IEEE Electric Ship Technologies Symposium (ESTS)

The technical program covers energy-storage controls and applications; security; system performance, safety, and degradation; markets, standards, and policy; energy and device management systems; power-conversion systems; storage technologies; and long-duration energy storage. Accepted papers are presented orally or as posters and published in IEEE Xplore. The conference is sponsored by the IEEE Energy Storage and Stationary Battery Committee, part of IEEE PES, with Sandia National Laboratories as an organizing partner.

The symposium covers power electronics in aerospace and naval systems, grid applications, industrial automation, renewable energy integration, power semiconductor devices, hardware-in-the-loop systems, electric drives, and simulations. The event also includes industry tutorials, industry demonstrations, and technical panels. Its focus spans power electronics technology and innovation from materials to systems, bringing together industry, academic, and government participants. Co-sponsored by UConn CONPEX and the IEEE PELS/PES Joint Student Chapter.

The conference brings together offshore energy, maritime, defense, and technology industries around shared infrastructure, capabilities, and supply chains. Its preliminary program will examine offshore energy and autonomous systems, ports and vessels, subsea infrastructure, and maritime security, alongside market developments and opportunities for established companies to apply their expertise across emerging ocean technology markets. Related sectors include offshore wind, shipbuilding, manufacturing, engineering, marine robotics, grid innovation, and advanced manufacturing. The agenda is in development, with additional sessions and speakers to be announced.

The annual IEEE PES General Meeting is a forum for power engineers and academics to share research and developments in electrical power engineering. Its broad focus includes power systems and energy technologies, challenges facing electric grids and utilities, and technical direction and standards within IEEE PES.

An in-person technical conference on land- and sea-based transportation systems, propulsion, mobility, and energy systems. The program covers internal-combustion engines, including off-road, rail, marine, light-duty and heavy-duty systems; fuels, lubricants, carbon management; combustion, emissions control; and powertrain modeling and simulation. Electrification topics include batteries and light-duty EVs, heavy-duty and off-road vehicle electrification, hybrid and alternative powertrains, and rail and marine electrification. A sustainability and policy area addresses lifecycle assessment of transport modes, components, critical automotive materials and minerals, and low-carbon fuels and energy carriers. Additional tracks cover AI and machine learning for engines, powertrains, vehicle systems and thermal management; connected and automated systems, including vehicle safety, cybersecurity, sensing, freight transportation, predictive control and software-defined vehicle architectures. Technical posters provide for work-in-progress, research results and practical case studies across the conference topics.

Theme: “Grid Modernization: Scaling the Grid for Emerging Demand.” The IEEE PES flagship annual conference provides a forum for power engineers and academics to share research and innovations in power systems and energy technologies, discuss grid and utility challenges, establish technical directions and standards, and connect academia, industry, utilities, and government.

FutureGrid brings together researchers, utilities, industry leaders, technology developers, and policymakers to shape the future of the electric grid. The conference focuses on technologies, challenges, and solutions transforming power generation, transmission, distribution, and grid operation, including renewable and distributed energy resources, inverter-based resources, energy storage, transmission expansion, microgrids, HVDC, grid stability and control, protection, reliability, resilience, and grid modernization. The program also explores forces reshaping the grid, including AI and machine learning, data centers and large loads, electrification, cybersecurity, power electronics, and energy markets. Through technical papers, industry panels, GridSchool tutorials and workshops, special sessions, and an expanded expo, the event connects academia, utilities, and industry around a reliable, resilient, intelligent, and sustainable grid. It is sponsored by the IEEE Industry Applications Society, Industrial Electronics Society, Power & Energy Society, and Power Electronics Society.

The conference focuses on the customer-utility interface, including planning, demand management, distributed energy resources, storage, DERMS, energy efficiency, interconnection, standardization, scalability, AI, data center growth, and next-generation loads. The program includes tutorials, technical tours, welcome and opening remarks with a keynote, breakout sessions, exhibits, stage presentations, startup lightning pitches, a poster session, and a closing session. Super Sessions address generation mix and grid reliability; data center growth and the AI economy; flexible load management; AI for planning, operations, and reliability; and asset management for an affordable grid. The program also includes an invite-only Innovation Challenge and brings together utility engineers, planners, consultants, developers working on large-load interconnections, AI and data-center leaders, DER providers, policymakers, regulators, and researchers in data, cybersecurity, and grid-edge systems. PacifiCorp is the host utility.

The program includes symposia on AI, machine learning, and data science across electrochemical systems; energy storage and battery materials; and the translation of battery materials into manufacturable electrodes and cells. Battery topics include fast charging, electrolyte and interphase engineering in lithium- and sodium-ion batteries, solid-state battery benchmarking, and beyond-lithium-ion chemistries such as lithium-sulfur, lithium-air, sodium-ion, magnesium and multivalent-ion, and redox-flow batteries. Manufacturing themes include scalable synthesis, coating and drying, in-line metrology, quality assurance, pilot-line scale-up, cost models, reliability testing, and raw-material processing. Other symposia address industrial electrochemistry and process intensification, including reactor scale-up, techno-economic analysis, life-cycle analysis, commercialization, and hybrid process systems; water electrolysis, hydrogen, renewable fuels, and fuel cells; and carbon nanostructures for energy conversion and storage. Additional listed topics include corrosion, semiconductor materials and processing, and electrochemical systems for energy conversion.