<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>UCY | Sustainable Power Systems Lab</title><link>https://sps-lab.org/tag/ucy/</link><atom:link href="https://sps-lab.org/tag/ucy/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><description>UCY</description><generator>Hugo Blox Builder (https://hugoblox.com)</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0300</lastBuildDate><image><url>https://sps-lab.org/media/logo_hu6434656584722853066.png</url><title>UCY</title><link>https://sps-lab.org/tag/ucy/</link></image><item><title>PSCC 2026 in Limassol</title><link>https://sps-lab.org/post/2026_pscc/</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0300</pubDate><guid>https://sps-lab.org/post/2026_pscc/</guid><description>&lt;p>From &lt;strong>8–12 June 2026&lt;/strong>, the &lt;strong>24th Power Systems Computation Conference (&lt;a href="https://pscc2026.cy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PSCC 2026&lt;/a>)&lt;/strong> took over the &lt;strong>St. Raphael Resort in Limassol&lt;/strong> for a week of computation, optimisation, dynamics, and grids by the sea. This was the &lt;strong>first PSCC ever hosted in Cyprus, and the first in the Eastern Mediterranean&lt;/strong>: a milestone for the local power-systems community and for the conference.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>PSCC 2026 was &lt;strong>jointly hosted by the two public universities of Cyprus&lt;/strong>, the &lt;a href="https://www.ucy.ac.cy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Cyprus (UCY)&lt;/a> in Nicosia and the &lt;a href="https://www.cut.ac.cy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cyprus University of Technology (CUT)&lt;/a> in Limassol, with our lab director &lt;a href="https://sps-lab.org/author/petros-aristidou/">Petros Aristidou&lt;/a> and Prof. Mathaios Panteli (UCY) serving as &lt;strong>Local Organising Committee co-chairs&lt;/strong>. Members of the SPS Lab and our colleagues at EAC and CUT formed the backbone of the LOC.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="a-truly-international-gathering">A truly international gathering&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>The numbers from the opening session tell the story:&lt;/p>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>363 participants&lt;/strong>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>34 countries&lt;/strong> represented&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>40 parallel sessions&lt;/strong> across four parallel tracks&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>35% student registrations&lt;/strong>, the next generation of power systems researchers&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;p>The top countries by attendance were the &lt;strong>USA (11.5%)&lt;/strong>, &lt;strong>Germany (9.5%)&lt;/strong>, the &lt;strong>UK (8.4%)&lt;/strong>, &lt;strong>France / Switzerland (7.0% each)&lt;/strong>, and &lt;strong>Cyprus (6.7%)&lt;/strong>, followed by Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands, Australia, Brazil, China, and Canada.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="a-programme-by-and-for-the-community">A programme by and for the community&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>The week followed the classic PSCC structure, with a few Cyprus-flavoured additions:&lt;/p>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Monday tutorial&lt;/strong> on &lt;em>Modelling, Control, Stability &amp;amp; Simulation of Low-Inertia Power Systems&lt;/em>, delivered by X. Guillaud, M. Paolone, F. Cecati, F. Milano and J. Vorwerk.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Monday round table&lt;/strong> &lt;em>&amp;ldquo;AI for Power, Power for AI&amp;rdquo;&lt;/em>, opening the conversation that would bookend the week.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Three plenary survey papers&lt;/strong> on &lt;em>TSO-DSO coordination for flexibility management&lt;/em>, &lt;em>fundamentals of power system resilience&lt;/em>, and the closing &lt;strong>panel&lt;/strong> on &lt;em>Emerging risks of major supply-interruption events&lt;/em>.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>40 parallel sessions&lt;/strong> covering OPF, markets, protection, EMT, ML for power systems, IBR-dominated grids, state estimation, planning, physics-informed ML, storage, reliability, local markets, voltage and DER control, forecasting, TSO-DSO, HVDC, cyber-security, and frequency.&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;p>The social programme matched the science: a Welcome Cocktail at the venue on Tuesday, a guided &lt;strong>Mid-Conference Excursion&lt;/strong> through Limassol&amp;rsquo;s old town on Wednesday, and the &lt;strong>Gala Dinner&lt;/strong> at the &lt;a href="https://dafermouwinery.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dafermou Winery&lt;/a> in the Lefkara hills on Thursday.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="thanks-to-our-sponsors-and-the-loc">Thanks to our sponsors and the LOC&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>PSCC 2026 would not have been possible without our sponsors and exhibitors:&lt;/p>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Platinum:&lt;/strong> &lt;a href="https://www.gurobi.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gurobi Optimization&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Silver:&lt;/strong> &lt;a href="https://www.digsilent.de/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DIgSILENT&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Bronze:&lt;/strong> &lt;a href="https://www.rte-france.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Réseau de Transport d&amp;rsquo;Électricité (RTE)&lt;/a> and the &lt;a href="https://www.eac.com.cy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC)&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Exhibitors:&lt;/strong> Artelys, Citizens in Power, FLEXCHESS&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;p>And to the people who made the week run: the &lt;strong>Local Organising Committee&lt;/strong>, the &lt;strong>PSCC Executive Board&lt;/strong>, the &lt;strong>President&lt;/strong> Patrick Panciatici, &lt;strong>TPC Chair&lt;/strong> Louis Wehenkel and &lt;strong>Vice-Chair&lt;/strong> Florin Capitanescu, the 65+ TPC members across 20+ countries, the survey &amp;amp; tutorial authors, session chairs, student volunteers, and the &lt;strong>EasyConferences&lt;/strong> staff.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>To every author, reviewer, attendee and speaker who travelled to Limassol: &lt;strong>thank you&lt;/strong>. See you at PSCC 2028.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>For more on the conference, visit &lt;strong>&lt;a href="https://pscc2026.cy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pscc2026.cy&lt;/a>&lt;/strong> or follow the conference page on &lt;a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/pscc-2026" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LinkedIn&lt;/a>.&lt;/p></description></item></channel></rss>