The Power Engineering Research Group (PERG), Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Malaysia will be organizing The 1^st Power Engineering and Optimization Conference 2007 (PEOCO2007) which will be held at the Shah Alam City, Malaysia on the 6th June 2007. The aim of the conference is to provide engineers, academia and researchers with the opportunity to explore recent development, current practices and future trends in power engineering and optimization techniques. This event invites local and international participants.

Authors are invited to submit and present original, unpublished papers on the following areas but not limited to:-

• Power System Stability
• Distributed Generation, Fuel Cells and Renewable Energy Systems
• Electric Vehicle Technologies
• Electrical Machines and Drives
• Power Electronics and Drives
• Power Engineering Education
• Power Quality and Electromagnetic Compatibility
• Power Systems Communication
• Evolutionary Computation
• High Voltage Engineering
• Ant Colony Optimization
• Particle Swarm Optimization