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Jul 26, 2021

Tech Webinar Recap: Resilient Networked Microgrids Energy Management System

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…

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…

Aug 13, 2020

SEL Donates Real-Time Automation Controllers to NC State

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…

Jul 29, 2020

Tech Webinar Recap: Building a Better Battery Model

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…

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

Sep 10, 2019

Chakrabortty wins NSF Cyber-Physical System (CPS) grant on machine learning with PMU data

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…

May 16, 2019

Hulgize Kassa Recognized at 2019 ECE Award for Excellence Ceremony

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…

Nov 8, 2018

FREEDM, ABB and NYPA Partner on Extreme Fast Charger

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…

Aug 24, 2018

Building the Future: Education and Workforce Programs Give Students the Tools They Need for Career Success

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…

Jun 22, 2018

ARPA-E Announces Grid Optimization (GO) Competition

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…