2025 MPCE Editorial Board Meeting was successfully held in Austin, Texas, USA during the IEEE PES General Meeting in July 2025. Editorial board members and experts from China, USA, UK, Spain, Italy, Singapore, Canada, New Zealand, etc. attended the meeting.

The meeting included a welcome speech addressed by the Editor-in-Chief, MPCE annual work report, publication schedule of special sections, publicity activities and promotion plans, as well as a discussion session. Prof. David Wenzhong Gao from University of Denver hosted the meeting.

The Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Yusheng Xue, Academician of the Chinese Acadamy of Engineering and Honorary President of State Grid Electric Power Research Institute, warmly welcomed all associate editors that attended this meeting. In his welcome speech, Prof. Xue congratulated MPCE for keeping ranking in JCR Q1 (Impact Factor 6.1), and thanked all editorial board members for their hard work and support. He also welcomed new associate editors for joining the MPCE editorial board, and wished MPCE greater progress in the coming years. Finally, he congratulated editorial board members who received IEEE PES awards this year, including:

• Professor Anjan Bose, IEEE PES Lifetime Achievement Award

• Professor Bikash Pal, IEEE PES Prabha S. Kundur Power System Dynamics and Control Award

• Professor Xiao-Ping Zhang, IEEE PES Nari Hingorani FACTS Award

• Professor Yi Wang, IEEE PES Outstanding Young Engineer Award

• Dr. Can Huang, IEEE PES Prize Paper Award

Following Prof. Xue's speech, the Senior Editorial Advisor to Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Bikash Pal (Imperial College London, UK), made MPCE 2024-2025 annual working report. 

The excellent associate editor awards were also announced. The EiC/SEA/VEiC team and senior editorial board members presented the awards to the winners.

Next, the Vice-Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Antonio Gomez-Exposito (University of Seville, Spain), introduced the special sections published in the last few years and publication plan for 2026. He called on associate editors to give more valuable suggestions for special sections.

Vice-Editor-in-Chief, Prof. C. Y. Chung (The Hong Kong Polytechnical University, China), introduced MPCE promotion activities in the past year. He thanked the associate editors that contributed in this work, and proposed further suggestions and schedules for journal promotion.

Finally, the associate editors and experts had discussions regarding special sections, AI in peer-review, paper quality and length, journal promotion, etc.

The meeting gathered valuable suggestions from international experts that helped MPCE improve its quality as well as international influence.