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Puerto Rico 2024 Symposium on Microgrids
The 18th annual Symposium on Microgrids will be held in Puerto Rico on 3-6 December 2024 at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez. The format of the Puerto Rico Symposium is similar to prior years. Attendance is by invitation only, and attendees will be cutting edge researchers, research managers, and policymakers from around the globe.
Our goal for the Puerto Rico 2024 Symposium on Microgrids is to continue our exchange of results from microgrid research, demonstration, and deployment worldwide with an emphasis on recent results and areas of potential international cooperation. Recent natural disasters have highlighted the need to develop an integrated systems approach to manage infrastructure assets. An integrated systems approach involves all the stages of the resiliency cycle (preparedness, response, recovery, and re-adaptation) to address the needs of our communities. Energy supply and access are major priorities for economic development, community life, environmental quality, and social wellbeing. The conference will focus on advances in research and capacity building to improve infrastructure resiliency. In addition to microgrids, the conference’s focus will also include multiple hazards, extreme natural events, and the reconstruction of Puerto Rico after late natural disasters during the past decade and beyond.
As before, each region invites eminent speakers to present their work, and there were additional short summaries of each region’s research program. In addition to these prepared presentations, group discussions will be engaged.
The format of the Puerto Rico 2024 Symposium on Microgrids will be similar to prior ones. Attendance is by invitation only, and attendees, including speakers, will responsible for their own travel and accommodation expenses. The organizers took the responsibility to host the main symposium without any registration fee. The Symposium will be held from Tuesday to Friday, 3-6 December 2024. There were two full days of presentations on 3 & 4 December at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez which is also the official venue for the Symposium.
The International Microgrid Symposium Steering Committee (ISC) welcomes you
You’ve reached the home of the International Microgrid Symposium series. The purpose of the symposiums is to exchange information internationally, yet informally, on the current state of microgrid research, and to identify key technical, economic, and policy issues that should be addressed by future work.
The symposiums approximately rotate around three regions: Europe and Africa, The Americas, and Asia and Oceania. The past 15 editions have been Berkeley 2005, Montreal 2006; Nagoya 2007, Kythnos 2008, San Diego 2009, Vancouver 2010, Jeju 2011, Evora 2012, Santiago 2013, Tianjin 2014, Aalborg 2015, Niagara-on-the-Lake 2016, Newcastle 2017, Bucharest 2018, and Fort Collins 2019. All have been highly productive and enjoyable and you can find all of their posters and presentations on this site. Each region organizes a session, choosing its speakers and chairs. There is usually an additional session on remote applications, as well as panel sessions and poster teasers and display. Our emphasis is on current microgrid demonstrations, although fundamental research and policy presentations are also welcome. Attendance is by-invitation-only and usually about half of the attendees are from the host region while the other half is approximately evenly split between the remaining regions. We are particularly interested in attracting attendance from currently under represented countries. If you are interested in learning more about the next symposium, please contact us at singapore@microgrid-symposiums.org.
