December 2020-  Ning Lu, Ph.D. was honored with elevation to IEEE Fellow in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the field of electrical and computer engineering. Dr. Lu was elevated for contributions to load modeling and control methods for providing […]

  The IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) provides the world’s largest forum for sharing the latest in technological developments in the electric power industry, for developing standards that guide the development and construction of equipment and systems, and for […]

Held just once every two years, T&D is the industry’s most comprehensive conference and exposition dedicated to advancing technologies around transmission and distribution including energy storage, microgrids, smart cities, data analytics, DERs, advanced metering, distribution automation and much more. Register […]

This virtual expo will feature both industry-driven and application-oriented technical sessions, as expositions. The five day conference will bring together practicing engineers, researchers and other professionals for interactive and multidisciplinary discussions on the latest advances in various areas related to […]

The 2020 IEEE PES General Meeting will be a virtual event from 3 – 6 August 2020. This material will be available until 28 August. Many of the sessions will focus on how Big Data, Machine Learning, and Electric Transportation […]

Each year the IEEE Power & Energy Society awards promising students scholarships through its Scholarship Plus Initiative. This year, one hundred and thirty five students were selected from 78 U.S., Puerto Rico & Canadian universities. The initiative recognizes undergraduate students […]

Sponsored by IEEE PELS and IAS, the Energy Conversion Congress and Expo 2018 was held in Portland, Oregon on September 23 – 27. And FREEDM was there in force. We had over 20 students attend with five PI’s and our […]

The role of power electronics in electric utilities is changing from an enabling technology for renewable generation and energy efficiency improvement, to an underpinning technology for grid modernization.  Electronic power transmission and distribution grids, which can efficiently manage electricity among […]

Engineers verifying new testing procedures for connecting distributed energy resources to the power grid had little trouble creating real-world test conditions, thanks to equipment and expertise available at the FREEDM Systems Center. In fact, in their two days of work […]

Join the FREEDM team at ECCE in Milwaukee! ECCE is the foremost IEEE conference in the field of electrical and electromechanical energy conversion. This year’s conference will feature industry-driven and application-oriented technical sessions as well as industry expositions and seminars. In addition […]