Organizing Committee Krishna Shenai LoPel Corporation General Chair Rajendra Singh Clemson University. Technical Chair Wunder Bernd Fraunhofer Institute Technical Vice Chair Keith Corzine Clemson University Finance Chair David E. Geary Universal Electric Corporation Industrial Relations Chair Herbert L. Ginn Roger Dougal University of South Carolina Publications Chairs Maryam Saeedifard Georgia Institute of Technology Sol Haroon IP UtiliNET Local Arrangements Chairs Technical Committee Pierre-Jean Alet Rolando Burgos Bruno Domingues Michael Gurin Terrence Hill Gerard Hurley Ashok Jhunjhunwala Michael Koran Nihal Kularatna T J Lang Paolo Mattavelli, Sudip K.Mazumder Priya Ranjan Mishra Brian T. Patterson Paul Savage Donald J. Talka Lakshman Tamil Regan Zane Josep Maria Guerrero Zapata Fengyan Zhang Qing-Chang Zhong Organizing Committee CALL FOR PAPERS Krishna Shenai Argonne National Labs General Chair 2015 IEEE First International Conference McNutt Microgrids (ICDCM) on TyAPEI, DC Inc. June 7-10, 2015 Technical Chair Wayne Johnson Sheraton Atlanta Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia, USA Tennessee Tech. Technical Vice Chair As a follow up to the First Conference on Local DC Electricity held in Charleston, SC from John March 31, 2014 to April 1,Shen 2014, the main purpose of this new conference is to bring together IIT - Chicago practitioners and researchers in the field of DC Microgrids and related technologies. Our Finance and Local ability to generate, store, and use DC electricity locally without the need for long-range Arrangements Chair transmission and distribution network enables the possibility for transformational changes in Madhu Chinthavali the electricity infrastructure. The use of DC electricity enhances system-wide efficiency. DC Oak distributed Ridge Nationalclean Labs energy sources such as solar PV systems can microgrids powered by Publications Chair sustainably power the needs of all human beings equitably around the world. Papers are solicited especially on Subbarao the following topics related to the DC microgrid: Varigonda Cummins ● Performance analysis and optimization Publicity Chair ● Reliability and resiliency techniques ● Powering residential and commercial buildings Organizing Committee ● DC-powered active and passive smart solar houses ● DC-powered appliances Krishna Shenai ● Advanced power electronics Argonne National Labs ● Storage General ChairTechnology ● DC-powered PHEV/EV charging Real-time monitoring and control Ty●McNutt ● Manufacturing & cost reduction approaches APEI, Inc. Technical Chair schemes ● Protection ● Distributed energy generation and integration Wayne Johnson and policies ● Standards Tennessee Tech. Technical Vice Chair The conference will consist of both oral presentations and poster sessions. Also planned are panel sessions and vendor shows. Accepted papers will be uploaded onto the IEEE Explore publication John Shen database after the conference. IIT - Chicago Finance and Local Deadline for 2-pageChair extended summary submission: January 19, 2015 Arrangements Notification of acceptance/rejection decision: March 20, 2015 Madhu Chinthavali Deadline for 6-page full paper submission: April 6, 2015 Oak Ridge National Labs Publications Chair For more information, please check the conference website: Subbarao Varigonda http://www.icdcm.co Cummins Publicity Chair Questions pertaining to ICDCM 2015 may be addressed to: General Chair: Dr. Krishna Shenai, LoPel Corporation, kshenai@yahoo.com Technical Program Chair: Dr. Rajendra Singh, Clemson University, srajend@clemson.edu