The International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC) provides a forum for researchers, academicians, scientists and industrial professionals around the world on recent developments in the fields of renewable energy. The congress consists of keynotes, oral sessions and poster presentations. Considered as a catalyst for research works, the IREC publishes presented full papers, that pass the crosscheck plagiarism, in IEEExplore. Moreover, authors of best presented papers will be invited to upgrade their manuscripts for possible publication in partner journals. Authors from academia as well as industry working within the scope of the congress subjects are invited to submit their papers. Submissions will be peer reviewed by our International Program Committee on the basis of full manuscripts. Acceptance will be based on quality, originality and relevance. Committee Chairmen General Chairman Pr. Maher CHAABENE, Tunisia Co-Chairman Pr. Fernando TADEO, Spain Associated Editors Committee Pr. Abdeslam-Hassen Menai, Algeria Pr. Mohamed Faisal, Libya Pr. Ahmad Harb, Jordan Pr. Mohamed Kesraoui, Algeria Pr. Mejdi Jeguirim, France Pr. Mohammed Haj-Ahmed, Jordan Advisory Committee Pr. Issa Batarseh, USA Pr. My Ali El Khakani, Canada Pr. Julio Elias Normey-Rico, Brasil Pr. Sümer Sahin, Turkey Pr. Giuseppe Marco TINA, Italy Dr. Antonis Zorpas, Cyprus Dr. Antonio Gagliano, Italy Dr. Georg Frey, Germany Dr. Ahmad Atieh, Canada Organizing Committee Kamel Mkaouar, Tunisia Wassim Khanfir, Tunisia Fathi Ben Abdallah, Tunisia Amer Ghorbel, Tunisia Mourad Chaabouni, Tunisia Keynote Speakers Pr. Giuseppe Marco Tina University of Catania , Italy Director the Power System Research group and Laboratory Pr. Zita Vale University of Porto, Portugal School of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto Pr. Mohamed El Mankibi University of Lyon, France ENTPE Research Director TOPICS Materials and technologies Modeling and simulation Resource assessment and forecasts Optimization System sizing SESSIONS Instrumentation and Control Smart metering Energy efficiency Economics Sustainability, policies and regulations Submission You can play with all functionalities, taking alternatively the role of the three main types of actors Authors Submission must be as extended abstract which should be 2-pages in length, and fully written in English. Extended abstract should be formatted according to the template available on the website. Once an extended abstract has been submitted, two options are offered to authors: -/keep the accepted abstract as is, without further publication in IEEEXplore. -/access the paper submission interface to upload the file of your complete paper (4 - 6 pages). The full papers should be written according to the IREC IEEE template available on the homepage. After the conference, authors of presented papers will be invited to revise their papers according to reviewers and chairmen comments and to upload the revised version 15 days after IREC. Please follow these instructions in order to submit your extended abstract: Use the abstract submission interface to provide the main information on your paper and attach the file of your extended abstract. You will be given an id/password which must later be used to access the system during the following steps, so be careful to remember it. In case you want to publish your work on IEEExplore, you can access the paper submission interface to upload the file of your complete paper. Important: The Associated Editors Committee will select the ELIGIBLE papers for IEEE XPlore Digital Library from those presented at the conference: scientific content will be screened, and the similarity index (SI), provided by IEEE CrossCheck (Plagiarism tool), must fulfill any of these two conditions: The SI is smaller than 40 %, The SI is between 40% and 70%, but with a similarity smaller than 30% with any source by one of the authors, and smaller than 20% with any other source. Good luck!!!