- Stability and security analysis and improvements of power systems in a deregulated environment
- Optimal and secure energy management, and load and electricity price forecasting in competitive electricity markets
- Power system planning in a competitive environment
- Simulation and analysis of energy systems with multiple energy carriers
- Modeling, simulation, analysis and control of microgrids
- Demand side management
- Simulation, modeling and analysis of Flexible Alternating Current Transmission System (FACTS) controllers and High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) in power systems
- Network/distributed and web-based programming applications in power systems
- Smart Grid
- Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) and Electric Vehicles (EVs)
Market interests
These issues are of great interest to the Independent Market Operators (IMOs) and private Hydro One of the world, i.e. transmission system operators and planners.