LF Energy to promote FREEDM Microgrid Platform

Aug 24, 2018

LF Energy to promote FREEDM Microgrid Platform

Since the beginning, FREEDM has promoted solutions to transform the electric grid. We are pleased to announce that we are now joined in that effort by LF Energy, the newest project of the Linux Foundation. LF Energy will promote multi-user collaboration on open source shared technologies to allow integration of clean energy resources. One of…

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 printed circuit boards. The finished boards would operate as power converters. Through the exercise, they were getting a crash course in wide bandgap power electronics,…

Aug 22, 2018

Spotlight on FREEDM Alumni: Rishabh Jain

Simulating the grid is hard. So, when the National Renewable Energy Lab needed a new staff engineer, they came to FREEDM and hired one of the best. Dr. Rishabh Jain completed his degree requirements at NC State and successfully defended his dissertation in August 2018 on the topic: Distributed fault management for enhanced protection and…

Jul 16, 2018

Spotlight Q&A: Dr. Subhashish Bhattacharya

With 280+ publications bearing his name, Dr. Subhashish Battacharya is a very busy NC State University ECE Faculty member and FREEDM Systems Center researcher. Since 2005, his research has focused on Power Electronics and Power Systems including Electric Vehicle Systems, and Electronic Energy Systems Packaging. Dr. Battacharya recently talked with FREEDM industry member Typhoon HIL and discussed…

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 evaluation of new solution methods for grid optimization. The goal of the forthcoming Grid Optimization Competition (GO Competition)* is to accelerate the development of transformational…

Jun 22, 2018

FREEDM Celebrates Ten Years of Energy Research

On June 7-8, 2018 the FREEDM Systems Center hosted its annual conference and celebration to highlight accomplishments over the past ten years as a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center. FREEDM industry members, faculty, staff, students, and alumni came together to hear from keynote speakers including NC State University Chancellor Dr. Randy Woodson, College of Engineering…

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