The ECPE Network Meeting offers a networking platform for exchange and discussion of trends and future topics in the ECPE power electronics community of Member companies and Competence Centres. This year's meeting will focus on the role of power electronics in the upcoming energy transition.

Due to the strategic topic of a sustainable and green energy supply in Europe ECPE will invite stakeholders from the concerned EC directorates as well as representatives from the European Technology Platforms, Research Initiatives and Joint Undertakings active in this field.

Power electronics will have an increasing importance in the future energy systems especially with respect to the energy transition towards an electricity grid dominated by power electronics on the generation side as well as on the load side. The transition from fossil fuels with centralized generation to renewable energies with decentralized generation is already discussed since many years but now we are approaching a transition point where fluctuating renewables are dominating. The stabilization and control of such grids without strong 50Hz backbone provided by conventional generation is one major challenge.
Another major transition in energy systems is the digitalization e.g. driven by the fusion of power electronics and information & communication technologies (ICT). This will, for example, raise the problem of cybersecurity of energy systems.

The Network Meeting is organized as a joint event with the Bavarian Power Electronics Cluster managed by the ECPE e.V. office in Nuremberg.

All presentations and discussions will be in English language.