Important Dates

The 10th IEEE Southern Power Electronics Conference, SPEC 2025, offers an ideal opportunity for researchers, engineers, academics, and students from all over the world to bring the latest technological advances and applications in Power Electronics to the Southern Hemisphere, network, and promote the discipline.

Cutting-edge researchers in this field will present keynote speeches during a four-day programme featuring tutorials and technical sessions on theory, analysis, design, testing, and advances in power electronics.

The conference venue, University of The Witwatersrand, is in the vibrant city of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. Conference delegates can anticipate a beautiful ‘clean & green’ landscape and a social programme with exciting outdoor activities, scrumptious food and fine South African hospitality. Scholarships are offered for students, and the papers presented at the conference will be included in the IEEEXplore Digital Library.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• • Wireless charging
  • Energy harvesting and wireless power network
  • AC-DC converters
  • DC-AC converters
  • AC-AC converters
  • DC-DC converters
  • High power converters
  • Multilevel converters
  • Permanent magnet and reluctance machines: design, control and applications
  • AC machines: design, control and applications
  • Sensorless motor drives
  • Smart, AC, DC and micro/nano grids
  • Power electronics in HVDC, HVAC and FACTS
  • Power quality issues, harmonic problems and solutions
  • High density power converters
  • Renewable energy sources: grid integration and stand-alone operation
  • Energy storage and power-to-X systems
  • Active and passive devises for power electronics
  • Fault tolerant and diagnostic techniques and applications
  • Power electronics in mechatronics and robotics
  • Power electronics in transportation and mobility
  • Power electronics in bio-medical applications
  • Emerging topics in power electronics
  • AI, big data and cybersecurity issues in power electronics

Prospective authors are invited to submit a digest explaining the problem addressed by the paper, the author’s contribution, how it differs from the closest existing literature, the significant results obtained, and their significance. Please click here for detailed guidelines regarding digest preparation and submission.