Advisory Chair Zhe Chen, Aalborg University, Danmark (IEEE Fellow) Conference Chairs Zhirong Zhang, Hexi University, China Haiying Dong, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, China (Member, IEEE PES) Ting Yang, Tianjin University, China (Member, IEEE) Philip W. T. Pong, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA (Senior Member, IEEE PES) Hartmut Hinz, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany Conference Co-chair Xin Li, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, China Licheng Wang, Zhejiang University of Technology, China (Member, IEEE PES) Kui Chen, Southwest Jiaotong University, China Technical Program Chair Guangya Zhu, Sichuan University, China (Member, IEEE PES) Xiping Ma, State Grid Gansu Electric Power Corp., China Zhanhong Wei, Lanzhou University of Technology, China Yue Zhou, Cardiff University, UK (Member, IEEE PES) Zhonglei Li, Tianjin University, China (Member, IEEE PES) Yu Wang, Chongqing University, China (Senior Member, IEEE PES) Technical Program Co-chair Yi Cui, University of Southern Queensland, Australia (Member, IEEE PES) Xiangyang Zhao, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China Liang Du, Temple University, USA (Senior Member, IEEE PES) Nídia Caetano,LEPABE/FEUP & CIETI/ISEP, Portugal Local Organizing Chair Guangxing Dong, Hexi University, China Local Organizing Committee Baohong Ma, Hexi University, China Wenjing Cao, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, China Zhanhong Wei, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, China WIE Chairs Wang Yan, Lanzhou University of Technology, China Hui Hou, Wuhan University of Technology, China (Member, IEEE PES) Feifei Bai, Griffith University, Australia Publicity Chairs Hongliang Zhang, Lanzhou University of Technology, China Guohua Wang, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, China Le Shan, Hexi University, China Publication Chair Lichen KANG, Southwest Jiaotong University, China Treasurer Nuo YAN, Southwest University, China Technical Committee Hong Wang, Lanzhou University of Technology, China Xiaonan Li, Lanzhou University of Technology, China Yongqiang Kang, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, China Lixia Yang, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, China Zhongwu Ma, Hexi University, China Xueyan Wang, Hexi University, China Suyuan Li, Hexi University, China Yagong Nan, Hexi University, China Yucheng He, Hexi University, China Muslum Arici, Kocaeli University, Turkey Jiebei Zhu, Tianjin University, China (Senior Member, IEEE) Pierluigi Siano, University of Salerno, Italy (Senior Member, IEEE PES) Farhad Shahnia, Murdoch University, Australia Wei Deng, Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (Member, IEEE PES) Wenliang Yin, Shandong University of Technology, China (Member, IEEE PES) Gheorghe Grigoras, Technical University of Iasi, Romania Kaikai Pan, Zhejiang University, China (Member, IEEE PES) Qiang (Shawn) Cheng, University of Kentucky, USA Mihaela Popescu, University of Craiova, Romania (Member, IEEE PES) Matsankov Misho, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria Qingguang Yu, Tsinghua University, China Yiming Zhang, Fuzhou University, China (Member, IEEE PES) Burra Venkata Durga Kumar, Xiamen University Malaysia Chengxi Liu, Wuhan University, China (Senior Member, IEEE) Xiaohu Wang, Shanghai DianJi University, China (Member, IEEE PES) Chenyang Li, North China Electric Power University, China (Member, IEEE PES) Qingming Xin, China Southern Power Grid Company Limited, China (Member, IEEE PES) Nikolaos Manousakis, University of West Attica, Greece (Member, IEEE PES) Song Han, Guizhou University, China (Member, IEEE PES) Bin Duan, Shandong University, China (Member, IEEE PES) Zhixin Wang, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China (Member, IEEE PES) Wei Deng, Institute of Electrical Engineering, CAS, China (Member, IEEE PES) Antonio Moreno-Muñoz, Universidad de Córdoba, Spain (Member, IEEE PES) LeiJiao Ge, Tianjin University, China (Member, IEEE PES) Sermsak Uatrongjit, Chiang mai University, Thailand Melih Onay, Department of Environmental Engineering, Van Yuzuncu Yil University, Turkey María José Muñoz Torrecillas, Universidad de Almería, Spain Adriano Péres, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - UFSC Blumenau, Brazil Andrew Wolfe, SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY, USA Mohamed Gamal Hussien, Tanta University, Egypt Nedim Tutkun, İstanbul Ticaret Üniversitesi, Turkey Franz Gassner, University of Saint Joseph, Macau Nawaf Hazim Saeid, Universiti Teknologi Brunei Sorin Musuroi, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania (Member, IEEE PES) S. T. Coelho, University of São Paulo, Brazil Yang Han, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Gheorghe Grigoras, Technical University of Iasi, Romania Bimal K. Bose, University of Tennessee, USA Guoqiang Gao, Southwest Jiaotong University, China (Member, IEEE PES) Che Zalina binti Zulkifli, Sultan Idris Education University, Malaysia Gordon Huang, University of Regina, Canada Bachir ACHOUR, University of Biskra, Algeria Yinghao Shan, Donghua University, China Bamisile Olusola Olorunfemi, Chengdu University of Technology, China Juan M. Corchado, BISITE/USAL, Spain