TESS 2027 PROGRAM STRUCTURE & CONFERENCE THEMES

TESS 2027 Conference Themes

Continuing from ISUW

• AI and Digital Superintelligence for Grid Management — Demand Forecasting, Autonomous Grid Control, Digital Twins and Predictive Maintenance
• Smart Microgrids and Resilient Power Systems — For Critical Infrastructure and AI
• Demand-Side Flexibility — Smart Meters, Time-of-Use (ToU) Tariffs, Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) and AI-Managed Smart Buildings and Campuses
• The Cooling Challenge — Cooling as a Service through District Cooling Systems (DCS) and Enhanced Flexibility for the Distribution Grid
• New Architecture and Control Systems for the Green Grid — With Multidirectional Power Flows
• Digital Energy Grids — Where Customers (and Smart Appliances/EVs/Drones/Robots) can Buy Electricity from the Greenest and Cheapest Source through P2P Transactions
• New Loads and New Customers — GW-Scale AI Data Centres, MW-Scale EV Charging Stations, and Billions of Humanoid Robots and Trillions of AI Agents
• Grid-Scale and Long-Duration Energy Storage — LFP Batteries, Pumped Hydro, Flow Batteries, Thermal Storage, Iron-Air and Gravity-Based Energy Storage Technologies
• Nuclear Renaissance — Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) for Firm, Dispatchable, Carbon-Free Power
• Offshore and Floating Wind — Unlocking New Resource Frontiers
• Green Hydrogen — Long-Duration Storage and Decarbonisation of Hard-to-Abate Industries
• Enabling Policies, Regulations and Skilled Workforce — With Gender Balance for the Energy Singularity Era

New for TESS 2027

Reflecting the AI-energy convergence at the heart of Energy Singularity:

• "Everything to the Grid" Energy Systems — For the "Reimagined Grid"
• Advanced Transmission Infrastructure — HVDC, FACTS, Grid-Forming Inverters and Superconducting Cables
• Powering Data Centres — On Land, in Orbit and Under the Sea
• Wired and Wireless Charging — Of EVs, Drones, Humanoid Robots and Flying Cars
• Agentic AI-Based VPP–ESS Interconnections — For Grid Flexibility
• Room-Temperature Superconductors and AI-Driven Materials Discovery
• Next-Generation Solar — Perovskites, Bifacial Modules and Agrivoltaics
• Nuclear Fusion — AI-Accelerated Path to Commercial Fusion Power
• Advanced Power Electronics — Wide-Bandgap Semiconductors (SiC and GaN) for a More Efficient Energy Conversion Chain
• Quantum Technologies and Quantum Algorithms — For Power Flow Control and Optimization in Real Time
• Biomimicry and Artificial Photosynthesis
• Cyber Security — Quantum-Safe and Lattice-Based Cryptography
• Emerging Space Technologies — Architecture and Energy Systems for Colonising the Moon and Mars, and Autonomous, Zero-Pollution Mobility
• Autonomous and Zero Emission Vehicles