June 4, 2020 View the recorded presentation The US DOE Vehicle Technologies Office has a goal of recharging electric vehicles in under 15 minutes. This requires research in battery chemistry and in extreme fast charging systems rated at hundreds of […]

NC State students spent some time this week Going Green with help from Schneider Electric. Part of their incentive was to win some green (cash money!) and a trip to Las Vegas. But they were also motivated to do some […]

REGISTER HERE Presenters: Sourish Sankar Sinha and Prof. Douglas C. Hopkins, NC State University Guest Presenter: tbd Title: ParaPower: Leveraging Finite Difference Simulator for Quick Thermal Design Presented is an introduction to ParaPower, a new open-source FDA simulator from the […]

As of 3/11/2020, this event has been postponed until further notice. Basic & Advanced Microgrids Short Course NC State University, Raleigh, NC Day one will focus on basic microgrid concepts and day two will explore more advanced techniques. Taught by […]

This semester the Masters in Electric Power Systems Engineering degree welcomes nineteen new students to the program, bringing the total roster to forty-five students. The MS-EPSE program provides graduate students a thorough understanding of the tools, methods, and practice of […]

Shanzila Chowdhury, a dual-engineering degree student at NC State and Meredith College, is one of two students to be awarded the 2018 Sensus Reach™ Scholarship. The scholarship, which was established in 2016, is a merit- and need-based award given annually […]

The FREEDM Systems Center was well represented at the 2018 eGrid Workshop held November 12 – 14 in Charleston, SC. This international workshop focused on the role of power electronics in electric utilities and included presentations from leading experts in industry and […]

There are over one billion people in the world without access to electricity. Let that sink in for a minute. It’s probably hard for anyone reading this on their web browser to imagine living without electricity. The scale of the […]

A group of students huddled around tables in a lab at N.C. State University one hot summer day in late July, peering through plastic goggles as they soldered components onto printed circuit boards. The finished boards would operate as power […]

The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) is challenging the research and industrial communities to successfully develop and test power system optimization and control algorithms to accelerate the development and comprehensive evaluation of new solution methods for grid optimization. The goal […]