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Welcome to IEEE SEFET 2026

IEEE 6th International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Future Electric transportation (SEFET) aims to provide a platform for Engineers, Researchers, Scientists & Academicians to present their work, to share experiences and ideas in the areas of Renewable Energy, Electric Transportation, Power Electronics, Electric Drives, Control Techniques, Smart Grids, Communication Protocols, Intelligent Charging Infrastructure and Standards, Energy Markets, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. In view of changing scenario under sustainable energy & electric transportation, this conference aims to put together the experts from these areas to disseminate their knowledge and experience for working in years to come. THE IEEE SEFET program will feature Keynotes and Plenary Sessions, Technical Paper Presentations, Industry Sessions, and Awards.

Important Dates:

Paper submission opens                                  : 01^st Oct 2025

Deadline for full paper submission                 : 31^th Jan 2026

Notification of acceptance                              : 15^th March 2026

Registration opens                                          :15^th March 2026 Deadline for Early Bird Registration     :31^th May 2026 Deadline for Standard Registration       :15^th Jun 2026 Deadline for camera ready paper submission : 15^st Jun 2026

All the accepted and presented papers will be published in the form of e-proceedings and will be submitted to IEEE Xplore Digital Library (indexed in SCOPUS, Google Scholar and other major indexing).

All presented papers will be considered for further review and publication in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications and IEEE Industry Applications Magazine.

Regular Track:

Track 1: Renewable Energy Systems, Integration, and Sustainable Technologies

Track 2: Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and Drives, Energy Conversion for Sustainable Transportation

Track 3: Charging Systems, Infrastructure, Planning and Grid Interaction for E-Mobility

Track 4: Energy Storage Technologies, Battery Management, and Hydrogen Storage

Track 5: Power System Planning, Stability, Reliability, and Smart/Microgrid Operations

Track 6: Control Systems, Instrumentation, and Automation in Energy/Power Applications and Industrial Applications

Track 7: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Analytics, IoT, and Cybersecurity in Power/Energy Systems

Track 8: Energy Markets, Regulatory Aspects, Policies, and Decarbonization Strategies

About the VNIT

Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), Nagpur, established in 1960, is one of the esteemed institutes among the thirty-one National Institutes of Technology in India. It was named after Bharat Ratna Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, an eminent engineer, planner, and statesman of the country.

The Institute has highly qualified faculty in various departments. VNIT offers B.Tech degrees in eight disciplines, a B.Arch, and M.Tech degrees in twenty disciplines. The Institute also offers master’s programmes in M.Sc (Mathematics, Chemistry, and Physics) and doctoral research programs in Engineering, Architecture, Sciences, and Humanities disciplines.

The Institute has collaborated with various reputed research & academic organizations. The distance of the campus from Nagpur Airport/Railway Station is approximately 6 kM.

About EED

The Department of Electrical Engineering is one of the finest and oldest engineering departments of the Institute and stands with an immortal reputation. The department was formed along with the Institute itself and therefore is as old. The Department has highly educated and well-experienced faculty members who endeavour to produce the finest engineers, contributing incredibly to the nation. The alumni of the department are widespread in India and abroad, occupying high positions in their respective fields. It has an intake of 115 students per year under UG Course. The Electrical Engineering Department at VNIT offers a comprehensive M.Tech program, which spans two years and includes core courses, electives, and a research project in the last year under faculty supervision. The department specializes in Power and Energy System (PES) and Power Electronics and Drives (PED), aiming to provide in-depth knowledge and practical experience in these fields.

About Maharashtra

Maharashtra, one of India’s most progressive states, is a hub of education, industry, culture, and innovation, making it a prominent destination for hosting international conferences. Within Maharashtra, Nagpur stands out as an ideal location due to its strategic central position in India, excellent connectivity by air, rail, and road, and its reputation as the “Zero Mile City.” Nagpur is also known as the Tiger Capital of India and boasts a unique blend of rich cultural heritage, modern infrastructure, and academic prominence. The presence of premier institutes like Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), along with strong industrial and research ecosystems in energy, transportation, and technology, makes the city highly suitable for global academic and professional gatherings. Its growing stature as an educational and industrial hub, coupled with a safe and vibrant environment, ensures a conducive atmosphere for collaboration, knowledge exchange, and fostering international partnerships.

Call for Papers

Submission Portal link : To be updated soon…

Conference Tracks:

Conference seeks papers in all aspects of sustainable energy, power electronics, motor drives, electric vehicles and control. Specifically, it covers (but not limited to) the following topics:

Track 1: Renewable Energy Systems, Integration, and Sustainable Technologies

Track 2: Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and Drives, Energy Conversion for Sustainable Transportation

Track 3: Charging Systems, Infrastructure, Planning and Grid Interaction for E-Mobility

Track 4: Energy Storage Technologies, Battery Management, and Hydrogen Storage.

Track 5: Power System Planning, Stability, Reliability, and Smart/Microgrid Operations

Track 6: Control Systems, Instrumentation, and Automation in Energy/Power Applications and Industrial Applications

Track 7: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Analytics, IoT, and Cybersecurity in Power/Energy Systems

Track 8: Energy Markets, Regulatory Aspects, Policies, and Decarbonization Strategies

Publication:

All accepted and presented papers will be published in e-proceedings and submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library, indexed by Scopus and Google Scholar. All presented papers will also be considered for extended publication in the IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications or IEEE Industry Applications Magazine.

CMT Acknowledgement: 

The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses and services as well as for software development and support.

Camera ready paper submission

Step-1: The authors will have to submit a camera-ready version as per the guidelines given on the conference website on or before 20th May 2025. Please make sure that plagiarism of your manuscript must be less than 30%, using standard plagiarism checking software (e.g Turnitin), before submitting the camera-ready paper from your end to confirm the inclusion of the paper in IEEE Xplore. If Plagiarism will be more than 30%, then your paper will not be forwarded for the publication in IEEE Xplore.

The authors are urged to ensure that the camera-ready submission strictly follows the IEEE Template given on the conference website https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html.

The number of pages in Final Camera-Ready Paper must be within 6-8 Pages. The camera-ready papers that do not meet these requirements will not be submitted for further consideration to IEEE Xplore.

Step-2: At least one author must register with Full Author Registration and present the selected paper at SeFeT 2026, for the paper to be considered for inclusion on IEEE Xplore and subsequently eligible to be considered for possible consideration for further review to IEEE Transaction on Industry Applications. Each registration is meant for ONE (01) participant to attend the conference only (Certificate will be given to him/her only). Co-author(s) who are also attending the conference, and require certificate, will need to register separately under appropriate registration category.

The final manuscript should have the copyright clearance code notice at the bottom of the first page. Kindly refer to the latex/word template provided here: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html and replace the dummy code at the first page bottom with this code:

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Step-3: IEEE Copyright Form also need to be signed and uploaded in the corresponding section. It can be seen upon login to your CMT account against the paper accepted.

Step-4: Follow the steps below for Preparing Camera Ready submission through IEEE pdf-express:

Before Creating a PDF:

Add the copyright notice to the bottom of the first page of your source document.

Proof read your source document thoroughly to confirm that it will require no revision.

Creating your PDF eXpress Account:

Log in to the IEEE PDF eXpressTM site

First-time users should do the following:

Select the New Users – Click Here link.

Enter the following:

• ……… for the Conference ID
• your email address
• a password

Continue to enter information as prompted.

An Online confirmation will be displayed, and an email confirmation will be sent verifying your account setup.

Previous users of PDF eXpress need to follow the above steps but should enter the same password that was used for previous conferences. Verify that your contact information is valid.

Step-5: Procedure for IEEE Copyright Form eCF submission:

To enable your paper to appear in IEEE eXplorer, it is mandatory to transfer the Copyright to IEEE. The corresponding/submitting author of each paper must transfer IEEE eCF. The steps to transfer the Copyright to IEEE are also given below:

Login to your CMT Paper Submission Portal and Click on the IEEE copyright link. You will be redirected to IEEE Copyright Form Submission page.

Click on “Click here to redirect to the IEEE copyright website” to transfer eCF and you will be redirected to IEEE copyright portal.

Follow the steps (Step 1 to Step 5) and provided instructions to complete the IEEE Copyright Transfer process.

At the end of Step 5, download the completed Copyright Form and save it as .pdf (Make sure to download a copy of the completed form.)

Login to your CMT Paper Submission Portal and upload this pdf file of Copyright Transfer Form

It completes the Copyright Transfer of your paper to IEEE. Please note that separate copyright transfer is required for each paper.

Publication and Templates : To be updated soon

Committee

Chief Patron: Shri. Madabhushi Madan Gopal (BoG Chairman, VNIT Nagpur)

Patron: Prof. P.L. Patel (Director, VNIT Nagpur)

Honorary Chairs: Prof. Ayman EL-Refaie (President, IEEE, IAS), Prof. Johan Enslin (President, IEEE, PELS), Prof. Juan José Rodríguez-Andina (President Elect, IEEE, IES), Prof. Shay Bahramirad (President, IEEE, PES), Prof. Akshay Rathore (NUS Singapore)

General Chair: Prof. Madhuri Chaudhuri (VNIT), Prof. Biplab Sikdar (NUS Singapore)

Organizing Chair: Dr. Arghya Mitra (VNIT), Dr. Siba Kumar Patro (IIT Roorkee)

Conf. secretaries: Dr. Soumyabrata Das (VNIT), Dr. Sunanda Sinha (MNIT Jaipur)

Finance Chair: Dr. Ritesh Kumar Keshri (VNIT), Dr. Makrand Lokhande (VNIT),

TPC Chairs: 

1. Dr. Ramsha Karampuri (VNIT)
2. Dr. Ashwin Dhabale (VNIT),
3. Dr. Chirodeep Bakli (IIT Kharagpur),
4. Dr. Avineet Kumar (IIT Patna),
5. Dr. Binod K. Bussa (IIT Patna)
6. Dr. Anurag Sharma (Newcastle University),
7. Dr. Akhilesh Mathur (MNIT Jaipur),
8. Dr. Amritesh Kumar (NIT Silchar),
9. Dr. Manoj Debnath (SoA, Bhubaneswar),
10. Dr. Srinivas Karanki (IIT BBS)

Publication Chair: Dr. Manoj Debnath (SoA, Bhubaneswar), Dr. Jawaharlal Bhukya (VNIT)

Plenary Chair: Prof. M.S. Ballal (VNIT), Prof. Phaneendra Babu Bobba (GRIET), Sivanesan Balakrishnan (SIT Singapore)

Tutorial and Workshop Chairs: Prof. M. R. Ramteke (VNIT), Prof. Vinod Khadkikar (KU, UAE)

Industry Interaction and Sponsorship Chairs:   Dr. Aneesh Prabhakar (MNIT Jaipur), Dr. Kapil Pareek (MNIT Jaipur), Dr. Kalpana Ramesh (NIT Surathkal), Dr. Pradyumn Chaturvedi (VNIT), Prof. Sunil Bhat (VNIT)

Student Activity & Award Chair:  Dr. Kapil Chauhan (MNNIT Allahabad), Dr. Mohd Alam (VNIT), Narendrababu A. (VNIT)

WIE Chair: Dr. Asha Rani (NIT Silchar), Dr. Deepti Saxena (MNIT Jaipur), Prof. N. R. Patne (VNIT), Prof. Tripta Thakur (NPTI, MANIT Bhopal)

Hospitality Chairs: (All are from VNIT)

1. Logistic and Travel Arrangement: Dr. Ashwin Dhabale, Dr. Bhooshan Rajpathak
2. Fooding: Dr. R.J. Satputaley, Dr. S.K. Raju
3. Accommodation (Guest): Prof. V.S. Kale, Dr. Joydeep Sengupta
4. Accommodation (Student): Dr. Gaurav Mishra.
5. Registration Committee: Dr. Jayprakash Singh, Dr. Avisha Tah
6. Stage committee: Prof. Nita Patne, Dr. A. Mitra
7. Printing and Designing Committee: Dr. Mohd Alam, Dr. K. Raju

Publicity Chair: Prof. Dheeman Chatterjee (IIT Kharagpur), Prof. Subhojit Ghosh (NIT Raipur), Dr. Subho Paul (IIT BHU), Prof. P.S. Kulkarni (VNIT), Dr. Padmini Singh (IIT Jammu), Dr. Biman Saharoy (NIT Durgapur), Dr. Jiwanjot Singh (NIT Hamirpur), Dr. Sukriti Tiwari (NIT Calicut), Dr. Dipanshu Naware (NIT Trichy), Dr. Raghavendra Naik (NIT Jamshedpur), Dr. Altaf Badar (NIT Warangal), Dr. Souvik Ganguli (TIET Patiala),  Dr. Manish Kumar (HPU Shimla), Dr. Prashant Malik (Swaniti Global) Selish Satyam (NIT Trichy), Ashwini (NIT Manipur), D. Govind (NIT Delhi) Supriya Jaiswal (NIT Hamirpur), Siddharth Sabyachachi, Rajashekar, Amrendra (CU, Karnataka), Kusum lata Aggarwal ( Karnavati University), Siddharth Singh Chauhan (Nirma University)

Special Session Chair: Dr. Ravita Lamba (IIT Roorkee), Dr. Narendrababu A. (VNIT)

Steering Committee Chair: Dr. Sunanda Sinha (MNIT Jaipur)

Website Chairs: Dr. Poonam Sharma (VNIT), Dr. Gaurav Mishra (VNIT)

National Advisory Committee: Prof. Rangan Banerjee (IIT Delhi), Prof. K. Gopakumar (IISc Bangalore), Prof. Chandan Chakraborty (IIT Kharagpur), Prof. Kishore Chatterjee (IIT Bombay), Prof. Krishna Vasudevan (IIT Madras), Prof. S.N. Singh (IIT Kanpur), Prof. B.K. Panigrahi (IIT Delhi), Prof. H.M. Suryawanshi (VNIT), Prof. M.V. Aware (NIT Arunachal Pradesh), Prof. V.B. Borghate (VNIT), Prof. B.S. Umre (VNIT), Prof. Tripta Thakur (NPTI, MANIT Bhopal)

International Advisory Committee: Prof. Akshay Rathore (SIT Singapore), Prof. Giuseppe Buja (University of Padova, Italy), Prof. Andew M Knight (University of Calgary, Canada), Prof. Alberto Borghetti (University of Bologna, Italy), Dr. Subhashish Bhattacharya (NC state university, USA), Prof. Kashem Muttaqui (Australia), Prof. Kouki Matsuse (Meiji University, Japan), Prof. Lalit Goel (NTU Singapore), Prof. Tapas Mallick (University of Exeter, UK), Prof. Hemanshu R. Pota (UNSW Australia)

Speakers

Keynote Speakers : To be updated soon…

Tutorial Speakers : To be updated soon…

Event Details : To be updated soon

1. Program Schedule,
2. WIE Events,
3. SYP Events,
4. Academic Panel Discussion,
5. Industry Events,
6. City Tour

Special Sessions

The organizing team invites professionals in the area of Conference Topics to propose Special Sessions (SS) to be held on 5th IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Future Electric Transportation (SeFet 2026 in Nagpur, India during 8th-11th July 2025.

Benefit of SS: Special sessions provide the opportunity to focus in detail on particular emerging topics, which are not reflected in the list of conference tracks or represent specific working fields where researchers would like to meet and discuss advances.

Please send your proposal in MS Word format to

• SeFet 2026 Team ( ieeesefet2026@vnit.ac.in )

IMPORTANT DATES for Special Sessions:

• Last date Submission of proposals: 15^th November , 2025
• Notification of acceptance: 25^th  December, 2025

Proposal Content:
If you intend to propose and organize a special session, please provide us with a proposal using the following information:

• Title of the Special Session
• A brief description of the area of concern (approx. 300 words), with special focus on why we should believe this is an interesting and significant topic?
• The name and contact information of maximum special session chairs, who are willing to promote and organize a sufficient amount of quality submissions to the special session. Please also indicate the background of the organizers.
• A list of potential authors and their affiliation & other details (minimum 10)
• A list of potential reviewers and their affiliation & other details (minimum 10)

Special Session Organization:

Once approved, it is the duty of the organizers to publicize the Special Session among researchers and practitioners in the field and attract a sufficient number of papers.

Review Process: Papers submitted to special sessions will undergo the same review process as regular papers. The special session chairs of the respective special session are responsible for organizing the review process, assuring at least three reviews per paper. This includes a selection of reviewers from their peers.

Conflict of Interest: Before starting the review process, special session organizers must explicitly declare papers, which present a conflict of interest for them. A conflict of interest arises where the judgment of a paper quality can be influenced by the organizers being authors or knowing some of the authors. To ensure independent reviews, this conflict must be marked as such in the submission system and the SS chairs notified so that they can arrange the review process.

A minimum of 8 accepted and registered papers with authors from at least 4 different institutions is required for each session. If a session has too few papers, accepted papers will be allocated to regular sessions wherever possible. In case of indication of weakly organized special sessions, the conference organizers will support the organizers with advice but reserve measures including cancellation of the respective special session.

Complimentary Conference Registration: At least one organizer of the successful Special Sessions is expected to register for and attend the conference, as well as chair the corresponding sessions. Organizers of a successful Special Session will get one free full registration (per at least 8 accepted and registered papers not authored by the any of the organizers)

Session Chairs: When a special session is finally accepted by the conference, SS organizers will serve as Session chairs in the conference. In some extenuated circumstance, Technical Program chairs and Conference General Chairs might take up the full control of appointing the Session Chairs, in case of SS organizers unable to participate in the conference.

Restrictions: During the review process, Special Session Organizers must consider that:
A) an individual cannot be (co-) author of more than two papers submitted to the same Special Session.
B) from one organizations maximum 2 organizers can be participated in one special session
C) maximum number of organizers in one session can be 4, and minimum 2

Format for paper submission by the authors: Maximum 6 pages and should follow the IEEE conference template.
https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.htm

Registration Details

After paying the registration fee, please finalize your registration by filling out the Google form available at:  To be updated soon…

Registration Instructions:

• One full author registration (Indian author or Foreign author) is required for the inclusion of the paper(s) in the conference programme and IEEE proceedings.
• One full author registration can register up to 2 papers.
• Student registration is not entitled to IEEE Xplore paper publication.
• Author / Non-Author/Students are entitled for Tutorials.
• GST 18% is included. Payment gateway charges are extra.
• Spot Registration for attending Tutorials is also available with Double the Standard Rates.
• The registration fee is non-refundable.
• Additional charges are applicable for final paper more than 6 pages. Maximum number of pages allowed is 8.

Full Author Registration & Attendees: Includes access to tutorials, keynote sessions, all the conference sessions, conference registration kit, lunch, High Tea, and Gala dinner.

Awards: To be updated soon…

1. Outstanding Doctorial Thesis Award,
2. Students Travel Awards,
3. Best paper Award,
4. Best Poster Award

To be updated soon…

Venue & Contact

General Chairs (SeFeT 2026)

Email: ieeesefet2026@vnit.ac.in

Address: Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology Nagpur, South Ambazari Road, Nagpur, Maharashtra. Pin 440010, India

To be updated soon…

Photo Gallery To be updated soon…

SEFET Proceeding : To be updated soon…