Summary

Welcome to ELECTRA, the signature magazine of CIGRE for our digital world. CIGRE is excited to offer our members and subscribers this platform to access the latest news, global connections, expertise, and work from the world of CIGRE.

Read ELECTRA December 2025 edition

Table of content

In this edition:

"CIGRE’s First Global Young Engineer Internship and Exchange Program: Building the
Next Generation of Power System Leaders" - Editorial by Konstantin O. Papailiou, President of CIGRE

Global Connections

  • Unity 3.0 - Part 5: The Circular Economy of the Universe
  • Integrating Renewables: Why grid stability will keep your music playing
  • Improve the rules to connect more and faster - Rule-maker’s and system operator’s views

Technology E2E

  • IGCT in HVDC Transmission: Hybrid Commutated and Modular Multilevel Converter
  • Interference effects between HVDC circuits and nearby metallic infrastructure
  • Dynamic Line Rating on Overhead Lines
  • Network Protection in a changing system
  • Substation Design Improvement Considering the Actual Accident On-site caused by Direct multiple lightning
  • “Role and requirements for large, inverter based loads” Task Force

Global Leadership Perspectives

  • Execution and Performance: Delivering on Promises in Workflow

Life of Association

  • CIGRE Life of the Association 2024
  • How Working Groups work
  • CIGRE Medal 2026 Nomination
  • CIGRE 2025 Montréal Symposium: Final Report – Part 1
  • CIGRE 2025 Montréal Symposium: Final Report – Part 2
  • CIGRE SC D2 Webinar: Telecommunications Technology for Critical Networks
  • NGNs in Action: CIGRE 2025 International Symposium in Montréal
  • NGN Norway and the NGN Event at Trondheim Symposium May 2025
  • Spirit of CIGRE
  • CIGRE UK University Hub: Initiative and Best Practices
  • CIGRE Romania - International Conference on Condition Monitoring, Diagnosis and Maintenance (CMDM 2025 - 8th edition)
  • CIGRE Montenegro IX Session: Innovation, Integration, and Regional Cooperation in Focus
  • CIGRE Paraguay successfully hosts XX ERIAC
  • IEEE PES Career Compass 2025

Annual Reports

  • SC D1 - Materials and emerging test techniques
  • SC D2 - Information systems telecommunications and SC cybersecurity

Technical Brochures

  • TB 973 - WG C1.47: Energy Sectors Integration and Impact on Power Grids
  • TB 974 - JWG D1/B1.75: Strategies and tools for corrosion prevention for cable systems
  • TB 975 - JWG C4/C2.62: Review of Advancements in Synchrophasor Measurement Applications

Additional informations

Publication type Electra
Reference ELT_343
Publication year
Publisher CIGRE