This year's IEEE PES Transmission and Distribution Conference & Exposition scheduled for October 9-14, 2005 in New Orleans, Louisiana, will offer attendees the most comprehensive technical and business program of any event serving the power-delivery marketplace this year.

This year's program consists of more than 240 technical poster sessions, nearly 30 focused technical panel sessions, four super sessions, instructional tutorial sessions, special interest sessions, an educational track, a special short course, a collegiate program and an exhibition that features hundreds of manufacturers who will display the most up-to-date technology and equipment available in the market place today. The event also provides technical and companion tours designed to enrich the conference and exposition experience.

Panel Sessions

Highlighting the panel session program are: Project Evaluation and Selection; Rethinking T&D Architecture for DER Environment; Stray Voltage -- Causes, Impacts and Mitigation; Insulator Selection for Icing Performance; DER Impacts on Distribution Systems Analysis; Market Simulators for the Open Electricity Market; PQ Standards Roadmap with IEEE/IEC Coordination; Wide Area Protection and Control; Development of Guidelines for Distribution Voltage Quality; Outsourcing T&D Infrastructure Projects. A complete list of the technical panels is available at the event website at http://www.ieeet-d.org.

The poster session schedule features technical subjects that are important to the power delivery professional. Included in the program are sessions focused on the following:

Modeling and Computation
Wind and Distributed Generation
Dynamics and Control
Distribution Apparatus
Lightning, Insulators, and Insulated Conductors
Power Electronics; DC and FACTS
Power Quality and Reliability, Protection, Planning and Implementation
Substations and Grounding and Switchgear

A more detailed list of the poster sessions is available at the event website at http://www.ieeet-d.org.

Super Sessions

The four super sessions are focused on Transmission Investment, Wind Energy, Reactive Power and Cyber Security. The four sessions will take place on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, October 10, 11 and 12. Each session will explore each one of these topics in-depth.

Tutorials scheduled for Sunday and Tuesday feature sessions on: What Can Be Done About Reliability (Sunday, October 9, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.), Grounding Safety: An Examination of Standard 80 (Sunday, October 9, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.) and a Special Short Course focusing on Power System Basics for Non-Engineering Professionals (Tuesday, October 11, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.).

This year's educational track is scheduled for three days, and focuses on Fundamentals of Electric Power Systems for Engineers. The purpose of the program is to provide refresher materials for attendees. The educational program is scheduled Monday, October 10, Tuesday, October 11, and concludes on Wednesday, October 12.

Special Interest Sessions

The conference is also offering Special Interest Sessions that are focused on in-depth issues that are both timely and have a high level of interest to attendees. The special interest sessions include: Increasing Transmission Capacity Using Real-Time; Cascading Failures and Blackouts; The Impact of Rising Material Costs on the Power Delivery Industry; Broadband Over Power Lines and Engineering Ethics for Today's Power Engineer.

The event also offers students seeking to join the power engineering profession a special collegiate session where they can interact with power-delivery professionals from around the world.

Special meetings being conducted during the conference include: an Insulated Conductor Meeting scheduled for October 12-14; a T&D Committee Meeting on October 13-14; and a special joint meeting of CIGRE and the IEEE PES focusing on Congestion Management in a Market Environment.

Thousands of attendees are expected to participate in this year's event. To find out more and to register for the most important event in the power delivery industry this year please go to http://www.ieeet-d.org.