Welcome to Join in CITES 2026
Dear Friends and Colleagues:
With the “dual carbon” goals becoming a global consensus, renewable energy sources (wind and solar) are being integrated into power grids at an unprecedented pace. However, their intermittency and variability pose significant challenges to the safe, stable, and efficient operation of power systems. Energy storage, as a key technology to address temporal and spatial energy imbalances, has become a strategic pillar of the energy transition.
Currently, the energy storage industry is experiencing a “diversified and multi-point breakthrough” pattern: lithium-ion batteries continue to reduce costs and improve performance; long-duration storage technologies such as flow batteries, compressed air, flywheels, and thermal storage are accelerating commercialization; and hydrogen storage, as a seasonal storage solution, is attracting growing attention. Meanwhile, new models such as virtual power plants, integrated source-grid-load-storage systems, and shared energy storage are emerging. Nevertheless, the industry faces common challenges including core technology breakthroughs, incomplete safety and standard systems, unclear business models, and international market barriers.
Against this backdrop, this global energy storage conference aims to bring together leading scholars, industry leaders, policymakers, and investors to analyze industry trends, showcase cutting-edge achievements, address development bottlenecks, and promote cross-sector collaboration. The goal is to advance the energy storage industry from “scale development” to “high-quality, safe, and efficient” growth, contributing knowledge and solutions toward building a clean, low-carbon, safe, and efficient modern energy system.
2026 Conference on Innovation and Technologies of Energy Storage(CITES 2026) is organized by Department of Electrical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, technically sponsored by IEEE Hong Kong Section and JC STEM Lab of Future Energy Systems, CityUHK Shenzhen Research Institute, supported by Zhejiang University, College of Electrical Engineering, Sichuan University, School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Wuhan University, The Macao Institution of Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Hong Kong Association for Advanced Scientific Research(HKAASR), Hong Kong Society of Mechanical Engineers(HKSME), Asia Pacific Institute of Science and Engineering(APISE), Global Chinese Power & Energy Society and IEEE PES Chongqing Chapter, media supported by ELECTRIC POWER ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY, Energy Storage and Applications and Bjx.com.cn. The conference will be held in Hong Kong, China from July 23 to 25, 2026. The theme of CITES 2026 is “Diversified Energy Storage Innovation and System Synergy”.
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General Chair
Zhaoyang Dong, City University of Hong Kong, HKSAR, China |
Special Session
Special Session I: AI-Empowered Next-Generation Battery Energy Storage Systems: From Intelligent Management to Safe Operation
Session Chair: Hui Hou, Wuhan University of Technology, China
Session Vice-Chair: Peng Wei, Wuhan University of Technology, China
Special Session II: Energy Storage-Enabled Optimization and Control of Urban Power Systems with High Penetration of Distributed Energy Resources
Session Chair: Liang Yuan, Central South University, China
Session Vice-Chair 1: Jingjie Huang, Changsha University of Science and Technology, China
Session Vice-Chair 2: Yubin Jia, Southeast University, China
Session Vice-Chair 3: Jianheng Lin, Central South University, China
Special Session III: Energy Storage Systems and Integrated Energy System Applications
Session Chair: Rui Wang, Ningbo University, China
Session Vice-Chair: Da Lin, Electric Power Research Institute of State Grid Zhejiang Electric Power Co., Ltd, China
Special Session IV: Flexible Resources for Advanced Power Systems
Session Chair: Xiangyu Li, Assistant Professor, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
Session Vice-Chair 1: Bo Wang, Associate Professor, Hohai University
Session Vice-Chair 2: Linwei Sang, Associate Professor, Southeast University
Special Session V: Optimal Operation and Planning of Hybrid Energy Storage for Low-carbon Energy Systems
Session Chair: Kuan zhang, Associate Professor, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, North China Electric Power University
Session Vice-Chair 1: Zhihao Hua, Postdoctoral Fellow, The Hong Kong polytechnic university
Session Vice-Chair 2: Yingping Cao, Postdoctoral Fellow, The Hong Kong polytechnic university
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Publication Info.
1) All the accepted and presented papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore (ISBN: 979-8-3195-4382-0) subject to conference IEEE Xplore’s scope and quality requirements. The publisher will submit articles to Engineering Village, Scopus, Web of Science and other databases for review and indexing after publication.
2) Selected papers(accepted and presented) with high quality, which are presented on conference, will be recommended to publish in Energy Storage and Applications.
3) Selected papers(accepted and presented) with high quality, which are presented on conference, will be recommended to publish in Energy Engineering.
 #CITES 2026 is listed on IEEE conference list.(LINK)
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