Trondheim Symposium 2025

The International Symposium hosted by the Nordic Regional Council of CIGRE (NRCC) in Trondheim, Norway on May 12–15, 2025. The CIGRE NRCC 2025 symposium in Trondheim will be on the theme: 'Changes Needed in The Power System - for the Energy Transition'. 

 

Participating CIGRE Study Committees (SC): SC A3 Transmission and distribution equipment, SC B1 Insulated cables (co-lead), SC B2 Overhead lines, SC B3 Substations and electrical installations, SC B4 DC systems and power electronics, SC B5 Protection and automation, SC C2 Power system operation and control, SC C3 Power system sustainability and environmental performance, SC C4 Power system technical performance (co-lead), SC C6 Active distribution systems and distributed energy resources, SC D2 Information systems telecommunications and cybersecurity.

 

SYMPOSIUM THEME

 

PS1: Integration of renewable energy resources to the grid

 

• Environmentally friendly power grid and its equipment
• New applications and technologies applied to AC and DC onshore and offshore grid
• AC and DC onshore and offshore grid
• AC grid development, protection of the future meshed AC and DC system
• Sector integration including hydrogen, EV, energy hubs, DER
• Services/operation applied to AC and DC onshore and offshore grid
• Monitoring the system applied to AC and DC onshore and offshore grid
• Maintenance and Services applied to AC and DC onshore and offshore grid

 

PS2: Technologies supporting the power grid for energy transition to carbon neutral energy production

 

• Requirements for power grid and its equipment
• Inverter based control interacting with existing system and Converter stability issues (resonance stability, converter driven stability)
• Coordination between AC and DC networks
• Grid forming
• Multivendor interoperability
• New modelling tools
• Planning and operation of lower inertia system
• System analysis (technical)
• Black start and resilience aspects including DER integration
• Optimize and increase the capacity of the energy transmission network
• Reliability and security – critical infrastructure

 

SYMPOSIUM VENUE

 

Trondheim is the 3rd largest city of Norway. The university NTNU together with the SINTEF research institute leads the world in many technology-based research areas. Nidaros Cathedral is one of Trondheim's most famous tourist attractions and is worth a visit.

The venue for the Symposium will be Clarion Hotel Trondheim. 19 meeting rooms - with a capacity of 1800 participants for the largest one – make Clarion Hotel one of Scandinavia's largest convention centers. Discover the view on the fjord, enjoy the modern Nordic design and the vibrant atmosphere.

 

SUBMISSION OF SYNOPSES

 

Participants wishing to present and publish papers should submit synopses by following the instructions on https://cigrenrccsymposium2025.com/, where the synopses and paper templates are also available. All synopses, papers, and presentations must be in English. Please note that at least one author should present the paper at the symposium.

 

COMMITTEES

 

Symposium Steering Committee:

 

Chair	CIGRE Technical Council Chair	CIGRE Secretary General
Rannveig S. J. Løken	Marcio Szechtman	Philippe Adam

 

Organising Committee (NRCC):

 

Chair NO	Rannveig S. J. Løken
Member FI	Liisa Haarla
Member SE	Bo Westman
Member DK	Claus Leth Bak
Member EE	Ivo Palu
Technical Co-Chair	Marta Val Escudero
Technical Co-Chair	Geir Clasen

 

Technical Organising Committee:

 

Co-Chair SC C4	Marta Val Escudero
Co-Chair SC B1	Geir Clasen
Member SC A3	Nenad Uzelac
Member SC B2	Pierre Van Dyke
Member SC B3	Koji Kawakita
Member SC B4	Joanne Hu
Member SC B5	Rannveig S. J. Løken
Member SC C2	Jayme Macedo
Member SC C3	Mercedes Vázquez
Member SC C6	Kurt Dedekind
Member SC D2	Victor Tan

 

PROGRAMME

 

The technical program will open with Tutorials and Workshops on Monday May 12th followed by the Welcome reception on Monday evening. The symposium has two full days on Tuesday and Wednesday, May 13th and 14th with parallel sessions. Thursday May 15th will offer a technical tour. Individual Study Committee and Working Group meetings will take place from May 9th to 15th.

Next Generation Network (NGN) and Women in Energy (WiE) sessions are part of the symposium. Information on these sessions as well as social program and program for companions will be available on the webpage.

 

PAPER PUBLICATION

 

Papers will be available to download one month in advance of the symposium for registered participants as described in the webpage. One month after the symposium, CIGRE members can download, and other can purchase papers on www.e-cigre.org. CIGRE Science & Engineering (CSE) journal will publish the best papers selected from the symposium. The Symposium Technical Committee will produce a summary report of the symposium for publication in Electra.

 

REGISTRATION

 

Registration will be opened on 1st June 2024. Together with preliminary program information, synopsis and paper templates will be available on the webpage.

 

KEY DATES

 

Call for papers	March 18, 2024
Registration starts	June 1, 2024
Deadline for Synopses in ConfTool	August 12, 2024
Selection of synopses by SCs and information to authors	October 7, 2024
Deadline for full papers	February 3, 2025
Acceptance and other feedback to authors of full papers	March 3, 2025
Final papers to ConfTool	April 7, 2025