DPSP is a leading forum for industry, academic and business leaders to meet, publish results and share knowledge in the power system protection and control systems sector.

The conference regularly attracts an international audience of over 200 delegates from more than 30 countries, drawing in engineers, consultants and academics involved in the application, ownership, management, design and development of system protection and control systems.

Successful authors at DPSP 2016 will receive an oral or interactive presentation slot in the conference programme, plus significant publication opportunities including indexing on IET Inspec and the IET Digital Library and submitted for indexing on IEEE Xplore.

Technical Scope

1. Smart grids and microgrids
2. Embedded and point to point HVDC grids
3. Distribution and LV networks
4. Condition monitoring and situational awareness
5. Utility and vendor experiences (domestic and international)
6. New algorithms and software solutions
7. System integrity and wide area protection
8. Transmission protection (including EHV and UHV)
9. Protection of conventional generation
10. Railway protection
11. Renewable energy protection
12. Protection against network instability and low inertia
13. Petrochemical industry protection
14. Design and application of communication and integrated systems
15. Effect of integration on reliability, availability and maintainability
16. Testing procedures and tools
17. Measuring transformers impact on protection