True to the spirit of IEEE being a global professional body, PES in its endeavor opened up its wings to fly to Berlin, Germany and Singapore in the last decade to have one of its two annual Power Meetings, Summer and Winter as used to be called earli...
True to the spirit of IEEE being a global professional body, PES in its endeavor opened up its wings to fly to Berlin, Germany and Singapore in the last decade to have one of its two annual Power Meetings, Summer and Winter as used to be called earlier. However, subsequently few years back while deciding to hold a single General Meeting annually, North America was made the obvious choice. At the same time due importance was given for the holding of Regional Conferences, like, POWERTECH in Europe, POWERCON in Asia Pacific, etc. besides Transmission & Distribution Conferences and Expositions also region-wise. Accordingly next international Conference on Power System Technology 2008 (POWERCON2008) is scheduled to be held during October 12-15, 2008 in New Delhi, India. This biennial conference started in 1998 in Beijing, China. The subsequent conference venues were Perth, Australia, in 2000, Kunming, China, in 2002, Singapore in 2004, and more recent one, in Chongqing, China in 2006. The POWERCON was co-initiated by CSEE (Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering) and IEEE PES (Power Engineering Society). The previous POWERCONs were either fully sponsored or co-sponsored by the IEEE PES, USA. In other words, POWERCON today is an important PES Conference in IEEE Region 10 (Asia Pacific). POWERCON2008 is being organized by the Joint Chapter of PES and IAS (Industrial Applications Society) of IEEE Delhi Section. On the other hand in 1990 a Conference entitled Power India was held under the patronage of PES and organized by the then PES India Chapter operating from Delhi. After a lapse of one and half decades, at the behest of PES Asia Pacific Region, joint Chapter of IEEE PES and IAS in Delhi and IEEE Delhi Section came forward to organize the second IEEE Power India Conference in April 2006. Keeping this too in mind for the first time both the Conferences, POWERCON2008 and 2008 IEEE Power India Conference are being jointly organized from October 12 to 15, 2008 in the hotel InterContinental The Grand, New Delhi with PES as the Sponsor and with the support of co-initiator CSEE.
