Topics

The main challenge of the major transitions in our society is massive, cleaner and more sustainable electrification. The United Nations’ 7th Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) calls for commitments to enable a clean electrification future while maintaining reliability and affordability. The EPE’25 conference in Paris will focus on the energy transition as well as on the SDG 7 demonstrating how research can empower and accelerate it.

Electricity was established first as a major qualitative energy vector and then, together with power electronics, as a quasi-exclusive vector of information and communication systems whose massive digitalization is underway. Nowadays, limiting global warming involves a future sustainable decarbonized energy mix based mainly on renewable sources whose natural variability requires the implementation of new means of managing the supply/demand balance involving flexibilities and storage systems. With regard to mobility, the electrification of future aircraft, ship, and road vehicles has intensified over the past 10 to 15 years, with the “more electric transport”. Furthermore, work is being carried out on batteries and in particular on new thermal management and aging prevention systems up to recycling, improving fuel cell efficiency, and the use of multi-source systems where the design of energy management becomes central. The increasing use of electricity, assuming that it is produced in a green manner, with processes with a low environmental footprint over their entire life cycle, contributes to the decarbonization of energy and therefore has a beneficial impact on the environment. Across all the domains cited, there are many scientific challenges and often at the interfaces of several sciences: electrical, mechanical, thermal-energy, fluidic, physics and chemistry, digital, automatic, computer science, etc. Research will have to focus on understanding multi-scale phenomena (spatial and/or temporal), moving from upstream concepts developed under laboratory conditions to industrial level, combining experimental, theoretical and numerical approaches, introducing multiparametric studies requiring diagnostic approaches, statistical tools and those derived from artificial intelligence. All the above challenges require rethinking the technological options available to us in order to reconcile needs, sobriety and reduction of environmental impact. With the user at the heart of these questions, the humanities and social sciences have a major role to play. Therefore, current research integrates new challenges at the crossroads of electric energy and related sectors in hard sciences but also humanities, economic sciences, and environmental sciences.

The EPE’25 conference in Paris will specifically focus on the following challenging topics, not only in dedicated lecture and dialogue sessions of the conference but also in keynotes, the exhibition, panel discussions, tutorials, and technical visits. Paper submissions in line with these Focus Topics are highly encouraged.

• • Topic 1: Electromobility – the Powerful Factor in Reducing CO₂
  • Topic 2: Smart Grids and Renewable Energy
  • Topic 3: Energy Storage Systems
  • Topic 4: Digitalization: the Powerful Fusion of AI and IoT for Sustainability
  • Topic 5: Sustainable and Affordable Power Electronics
  • Topic 6: Energy Transition and Societal Change