IEEE Power Electronics Magazine - June 2019 - 87

by Lan Dongdong

NUS Student Branch Chapter and KIIT
Organize the First International
Conference on Sustainable Energy

he IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Energy
Technologies and Systems
(ICSETS) is a new international conference. It is designed to bring together professionals and executives in the
energy sector, electrical power companies, manufacturing industries,
research institutes, and educational
institutions to share and exchange
ideas and information pertaining to
sustainable energy technologies. The
first ICSETS was held at the Kalinga
Institute of Industrial Technology
(KIIT), Bhubaneswar, India, from 26
February to 1 March 2019.
The conference was organized
jointly by the IEEE Industry Applications Society/Power Electronics
Society (IAS/PELS), the National University of Singapore (NUS) Student
Branch Chapter, and KIIT. There were
158 papers submitted from 16 countries, of which 64 were presented at
the conference in 10 technical sessions. The conference's scope covered a wide range of sustainable energy technologies and systems, such as
photovoltaic and thermal energy, wind
energy, fuel cells, energy storage systems, energy efficiency in utilization,
energy harvesting, power electronics and energy conversion, intelligent
energy transmission and distribution,
smart grids, demand response, power
management for smart homes, electric
vehicle integration, and environmental issues.
In the opening ceremony, Prof.
Sanjib Kumar Panda, from NUS and
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FIG 1 Prof. Sanjib Kumar Panda, together with Prof. C.K. Panigrahi (the organizing
cochair), Dr. Sanjib Kumar Sahoo (technical program chair), the KIIT president, and keynote speakers, released the conference proceedings. (Source: KIIT; used with permission.)

the organizing chair, gave background
information on the conference and announced its commencement. ICSETS
then started with a one-day-long tutorial program, which included lectures
by international scholars and local
professionals. Their shared knowledge
and experience ranged from power
electronic converters to utility grids.
Together with Prof. C.K. Panigrahi
(organizing cochair), Dr. Sanjib Kumar
Sahoo (technical program chair), the
KIIT president, and keynote speakers, Prof. Panda released the conference proceedings (Figure 1).
Prof. Frede Blaabjerg of Aalborg
University, Denmark, and Prof. Mahinda
Vilathgamuwa of Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia,
delivered the keynote speeches. Prof.
Blaabjerg presented a detailed discussion, "Power Electronic Technologies
for Renewable Energy System Integration." Prof. Mahinda Vilathgamuwa gave
a thorough explanation in "Degradation
Conscious Li-Ion Battery Modeling and
Management." The technical sessions
were divided into three tracks: sustainable energy, power electronics, and
power systems. Under the 20 session

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chairs' supervision, the sessions were
a success, with some excellent presentations over the 10 sessions. The
technical program committee plans
to select the top 20% of the presented
papers and forward them to IEEE
Transactions on Industry Applications
to be considered for publication.
The social visit and banquet dinner hosted all of the participants after
the technical sessions on 28 February,
and included a visit to Chandrabhaga
Beach at Konark and the light and
sound show at Konark Sun Temple.
The banquet dinner was held at Toshali resort in Puri. The technical tour
on the conference's final day took the
participants to the Trisulia Solar Power Plant, a 10-MW solar power plant.
The enormous success of the first
IEEE ICSETS would not have been
possible without the support of the
conference committee, organizing
committee, technical program committee, conference volunteers, and all
of the participants. The ICSETS 2019
organizing committee would like to
convey its gratitude to all participants
and hopes to see them again at the upcoming ICSETS.
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