Renewable energy - Integration of renewable energy sources into the
electricity supply system – technology and wider institutional and policy
frameworks.

Renewable Energy Industry development - Technology, market, financial and
institutional drivers of this industry’s development, policy options to
maximise and direct its growth.

Power system operation - Theoretical and computational approaches for
coordinating the operation of emerging power systems with independent
participants and distributed resources.

Energy industry restructuring - Electricity market structures and pricing
for investment and operation. Cooperative, competitive and strategic
participant behaviour, market frameworks at the distribution system level,
competition and distributed resources.

Distributed, renewable and demand-side resources - Operational
characterisation and modelling of renewables, novel small-scale generation,
distributed energy storage and demand-side options.

Renewables applications - Large-scale wind power developments, Building
integrated PV, RAPS systems. Renewable options for the developing world

Distributed Artificial Intelligence - Evolutionary computation, intelligent
agent approaches for complex, uncertain, problem domains.