EPE 2010

On behalf of the EPE Conference Committee we sincerely invite you to come to EPE 2009, the 13th International European Power Electronics Conference and Exhibition, to be held in September 2009 in Barcelona. Following the successful previous conferences in Brussels, Grenoble, Aachen, Florence, Brighton, Seville, Trondheim, Lausanne, Graz, Toulouse, Dresden and Aalborg, this time EPE 2009 will take place in Barcelona, dynamic and representative town of the Mediterranean area.

Europe is a world leader in the field of Power Electronics with well known research and industrial companies and many large academic laboratories in all main European countries. In the past twenty six years, the EPE Conference has grown to become the largest in this field and it draws regularly the foremost technical contributors from industry and academia worldwide.

Power Electronics, as an enabling technology is becoming more and more important and is the basis for many industrial processes, for the rational use of the energy, for new technologies in individual and mass transportation, areas that are rapidly growing requiring new concepts in order to fulfil cost, reliability, miniaturization as well as environmental requirements. The improvements of Power Semiconductor together with new advanced topologies and embedded systems are pushing Power Electronics towards high switching frequency and smaller, cheaper, and more efficient realisations, opening possibilities for new applications. Due to the new rules published by the EC on the electrical energy production, transport and distribution, and also to the technical problems arising from the interconnection of different kinds of distributed energy production systems, high precision and reliable controllers are needed. Along these ideas, the EPE 2009 will have special tailored sessions of top industrial expert presentations and round table meetings to discuss in depth and focus on future developments in semiconductors, materia