The DPSP conferences are the most important conference series dedicated to power system protection. We’re looking for power system protection specialists at all career stages to be part of the DPSP Global 2026 conference programme.

As an author, you’ll be in a prominent place to showcase your knowledge to your industry, present new results, and have your voice heard by over 250 international engineers. All papers selected for the programme are published by the IET and indexed in IEEE Xplore, IET Inspec, EI Compendex, and Scopus, giving you international reach and citation that extends beyond the conference itself.

Technical scope:

Evolving technologies and future networks

• New protection principles and algorithms
• New software solutions for protection systems
• Digital substations: protection aspects and architectures
• Application, design, and best practices for timing and synchronisation in protection systems
• Application, design, and cyber security for protection communications and integrated systems
• IED functional integration and impact on reliability, availability, and maintainability
• Roadmap for protection and control systems: centralised protection, virtualisation, digital twins, and new operating principles
• Protection-focused condition monitoring and situational awareness
• Conventional and non-conventional instrument transformers: experience and lessons learned
• Protection implications for future networks with emerging technologies: heat pumps, electric vehicles, energy storage
• Impact of the energy crisis on protection technology evolution

Protection of networks

• High-voltage and ultra-high-voltage transmission networks
• Distribution and low voltage networks
• Offshore networks
• Microgrids and islanded networks
• DC networks and point-to-point DC links in AC networks
• Converter-dominated networks with reduced fault current and lower inertia
• Impact of grid codes and standards on network operation and protection
• Impact of energy crisis on network operation and protection
• Impact of weather on network operation and protection

Industrial network protection

• Asset protection
• Protection-focused monitoring and diagnostics
• Load shedding and load balancing schemes
• Bus transfer schemes

Applications

• System integrity schemes and wide area protection
• Protection of generation systems and grid interconnections
• Protection issues during black start and network restoration
• Plant and substation protection
• Protection of electric transport systems
• Configuration management and maintenance and obsolescence strategies for protection systems
• Human aspects in protection and control
• Commissioning and testing procedures and tools