Energy Sector Scope and Key Topics

Priority hot topics will provide a focus for development of relevant products and services across the IET, including (although not limited to) events, communities, publishing, standards and qualifications.

Nuclear new build and safety:

• control and safety - nuclear:
  global deployment of new nuclear and safety critical systems

Demand - transport

• electric vehicles and their charging: vehicle technologies and capabilities, charging infrastructure and electricity system implications of electric vehicles

Generation

• renewables:
  technical and capability developments in all current and emerging renewable energy technologies

Networks - electricity distribution

• future networks
• smart grids, new network technologies, applications and management techniques and smart metering

Networks - electricity transmission

• HVDC - offshore interconnectors: technologies and systems, particularly multi terminal applications

Networks - energy storage

• energy storage:
  storage technologies and the role of storage in future energy systems

Networks - heat distribution

• District Heating
• Combined Heat and Power (CHP)

Power system planning and operation

• offshore power systems and systems with high levels of variable renewable generation:
  techniques for systems heavy in non-dispatchable generation and in less flexible generation, maximising power system capability given uncertain future system requirements and constrained availability of route corridors

Technology impacts on markets and regulation

• generation and demand response technologies: the interaction between these technologies and the design, operation and regulation of power markets