Energy saving and improved energy efficiency is a major issue for drives and generator systems development. Power electronics technology is the key for energy efficient variable speed drives. Applications range from the low power area e.g. in home appliance over medium power in industrial and automotive up to the large MW power in the field of generation. There is still progress in electrical machines motors and generators that are going to be more efficient, lighter and more robust.

The main types of variable speed drives have been industrial drives where the competition between many players has been strong and pushed the technology to have a high power density with high performance at still lower costs. New variable/adjustable speed generation technologies are key issue for improve­ment of electricity generation industry. An emerging SiC technology, applied to power electronic devices, brings another revolutionary change in system performance and efficiency.

The ECPE Seminar is presenting research and technology trends including emerging technologies and new applications. The goal of the seminar is to offer high level education and information exchange.

Prof. W. Koczara (Warsaw University of Technology) will chair the seminar together with Michel Arpilliere (Schneider Toshiba Inverter Europe) and Thomas Harder (ECPE).

All presentations and discussions will be in English.