First published in 1981, this journal serves a worldwide readership of power and energy professionals. The International Journal of Power and Energy Systems strives to be the first to explore emerging energy issues. Subject areas covered include power transmission, distribution and generation, power quality, education, competition and regulation, power electronics, communication, electric machinery, power engineering systems, protection, reliability and security, energy management systems and supervisory control, economics, dispatching, and scheduling, energy systems modelling and simulation, alternative energy including wind, geothermal, geothermal, biomass, tidal, hydroelectric, and solar, policy and planning. An online and open access journal.