The Polish Society of Theoretical and Applied Electrical Engineering PTETiS and Institute of Electric Power Engineering at Czestochowa University of Technology in the last twenty eight years have organized, in a close cooperation with eminent scientific and technical organizations, a cyclic scientific conference, whose scope are the current issues from a broad field of electric power engineering. During the conference the issues and dilemmas concerning not only Polish electric power

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... but also those pertaining to EU countries, are discussed. The representatives of EU countries take an active role in the plenary talks. © The Authors, published by EDP Sciences. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Issues of design, operation and control of electrical machines and drives. During the proceedings we took into consideration the forecasting problems for the electricity market, software useful for the power engineering, issues of the integration with the European Union and the role of distribution utilities, power plants and others enterprises in economic transformations. The forty-nine participants attended this year's sessions. The 46 papers were presented during the plenary sessions in 7 sections. This year's conference hosted representatives from the following universities and research centers: