How to Contribute

2010

Details on the preferential subjects for the 2010 Session are now available. Please click here

*** NEW *** To help with the preparation of papers please look at the following information

Synopses timetable
Guidance note

I now have some further information on the likely timescale for the submission process:

End of January 2009: Guidance notes to UK members on:
a) preparation of synopses
b) scoring principles to be used by paper selection committee
30th March 2009: deadline for submission of synopses to Cigre UK
End April 2009: final synopses selection
Mid May 2009: UK synopses sent to CIGRE Central Office
July 2009: Authors notified
January 2010: Full papers submitted

If you might be interested in submitting a paper, and would like advice from a senior Cigre member on preparing it, then please contact me on chris.dent@ed.ac.uk (if you haven't already done so). Cigre UK and the NGN have set an ambitious target of 5 full papers from NGN members, so we'd like to have as many abstract submissions as possible.

Cigre UK intends once again to offer financial support to younger delegates attending the Paris Session. While it is too early to determine the level of support, or the number of subsidised places, accepted papers are likely to be a significant factor in allocating this support.

 

2008

The following information is for archive only. Keep your eyes open for the next Paris Session

NGN members are invited to submit a technical paper on the theme of ‘Power System Networks for the 21st Century and Beyond'. It is intended to be a broad-ranging topic so that all members of the NGN are able to contribute whilst also enabling NGN members to present their ideas of what future power systems will look like and how they will operate. The Paper Selection Committee will then select papers for presentation in poster format during the event.

Note: The Paper Selection Committee will select papers according to the quality of work presented and degree of creative ingenuity demonstrated.

Example titles include:

  • Generation: Impact of Renewable and Alternative Fuel.
  • Emerging Technologies: What will be their role in future networks.
  • Personnel power: opinions on management, structural changes, competition and vertically integrated markets.
  • Climate Change and Power System Networks.
  • Education: how to encourage school/college students to work in the electrical industry.

Call for Papers (PDF file; Right Click and Save As)

GUIDELINES FOR PAPER SUBMISSION

  • Main author must be an NGN member.
  • One free registration place (for NGN member) for each successful paper. There can be more than one author for each paper and not all authors have to be NGN members.
  • Comments from Paper Selection Committee will be sent to all NGN members who submit a paper.
  • Papers and posters must be in English.
  • Papers can be submitted in either Word or PDF format.
  • Papers presented at the NGN event must be of strictly scientific or technical character, and not carry any advertising connotation. Consequently, names of manufacturers must not appear in the body of the text, nor in tables or figures. Names of Companies or Universities should only appear at the top of the first page (title page), under the authors' names.

Sample Paper Template (Word document; Right Click and Save As)

Sample Poster Template (Powerpoint document; Right Click and Save As)

NGN MEMBER FUNDING

  • For the 2008 event, the CIGRÉ-UK Executive agreed to sponsor twelve free registration places for NGN members who present a poster.
  • NGN Members were responsible for funding their own accommodation, food and transport.

 

Enquiries and papers should be sent to paris2010@cigre-ngn-uk.org .