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Apr 19, 2024

Partha Das Takes Home 2nd Place Award at GSA Research Day!

Recently, NC State’s College of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) held their annual Graduate Student Association Research Day. While there were many impressive presentations, FREEDM’s own Partha Das took home…

Aug 16, 2021

DOE Awards Funding to UNIFI Consortium that Includes FREEDM Leadership

The FREEDM Systems Center at NC State University, in conjunction with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the University of Washington and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), was recently…

Feb 1, 2021

FREEDM joins the American-Made Network

The FREEDM Systems Center at NC State University is now an official partner of the American-Made Network, which supports the efforts of competitors in the American-Made Challenges program, sponsored by…

Nov 23, 2020

DOE Announces Recipients of Solar Project Grants

SETO 2020 – Artificial Intelligence Applications in Solar Energy Wenyuan Tang, NC State University Assistant Professor and FREEDM Faculty, received funding from the U.S. Department of Energy under a program…

Sep 18, 2020

FREEDM Research and Education Update

Dear Members, Academic Partners and Friends, I hope this note finds you well and able to meet the personal and professional challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although our labs were…

Sep 17, 2020

Vanderbilt and NC State awarded $2.5M DOD grant for Sustainable Microgrids

The project team including Dr. Srdjan Lukic, NC State Professor and Deputy Director at FREEDM, will extend the capabilities of the RIAPS platform and deploy a pilot scale microgrid at…

Jun 3, 2020

Spotlight on FREEDM’s Role in Advancing Grid Resiliency

This article, written by Tom Gibson for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, highlights FREEDM’s role in advancing grid resiliency and addressing vulnerabilities through hardware and software innovations. https://www.asme.org/topics-resources/content/engineering-ways-to-improve-electrical-grid-resilience

Feb 3, 2020

Schneider Electric Holds Design Thinking Workshop at NC State

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…

Dec 13, 2019

FREEDM Open Source Microgrid Applications

Everybody today wants a microgrid even though most people don’t exactly understand what that means. Like the time I ordered my first cappuccino from Starbucks. It sounded cool and I’d…

Nov 1, 2019

Register today for our November technical webinar

Join us November 19, 2019 for our monthly technical webinar series. REGISTER HERE This month’s topic is: The Effectiveness of Anti-Islanding Schemes on a Distribution System with DER. This project…