Presented by Mo-Yuen Chow, Professor in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NC State University As technology advances, Networked Microgrids (NMG) are widely envisioned to be the future form of the smart grid, for their autonomy, distributed energy […]

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 the U.S. Department of Energy. The American-Made Network is designed […]

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) recently donated a dozen Real-Time Automation Controllers (RTACs) for use in the Power Systems Teaching Lab at NC State. RTACs are used in electric substations for utility SCADA and substation automation. “Our students will use these […]

View the recorded webinar Presenters: Fuhong Xie, PhD Candidate and Professor Ning Lu, NC State ECE Department & FREEDM Faculty Batteries can provide a whole host of benefits to the electric grid. But before anything is physically connected to the […]

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

Aranya Chakrabortty, Ph.D., a FREEDM researcher and NC State faculty in Electrical and Computer Engineering, has won two grants from the National Science Foundation – one from the Cyber-Physical System (CPS) program, and another from the EArly-concept Grant for Exploratory […]

Please join us in congratulating Hulgize Kassa, FREEDM’s long-time Lab Manager, on being recognized for excellent customer service by the NC State ECE Department at their 2019 Award for Excellence ceremony. “This is something that is extraordinary for a lab […]

FREEDM, ABB and New York Power Authority are engaged in a collaborative R&D project to develop and deploy an extreme fast charger for electric vehicles. How extreme? The initial design calls for a 1 megawatt station with five charging points each […]

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 […]