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May 6, 2022

FREEDM Director, Iqbal Husain, receives 2022 ALCOA Foundation Engineering Research Achievement Award

The ALCOA Foundation Engineering Research Achievement Award recognizes faculty for outstanding research during the preceding three years.

Apr 22, 2022

Iqbal Husain interview on Making the Move to Electric Mining Infrastructure

Dr. Husain is making the news in Australia. He’s at Curtin University in Perth as a Fullbright Scholar for a few months and working on charging solutions for really big EVs.

Apr 22, 2022

FREEDM Student Ajit Kanale wins ECE Doctoral Scholar of the Year

  Congratulations to Ajit Kanale, an NC State Ph.D. candidate working under Dr. Jay Baliga and Dr. Subhashich Bhattacharya, for winning the Electrical and Computer Engineering Doctoral Scholar of the Year. This award recognizes a student’s overall achievements in research, teaching, outreach, and leadership. Candidates are nominated by their advisors. Ajit’s research includes developing new…

Feb 16, 2022

FREEDM to receive $4.8 Million to Develop Microgrid Co-Design Platform

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced $175 million for 68 research and development projects aimed at developing disruptive technologies to strengthen the nation’s advanced energy enterprise. The OPEN 2021 program prioritizes funding high-impact, high risk technologies that support novel approaches to clean energy challenges. A team led by FREEDM researcher…

Jan 11, 2022

FREEDM to demonstrate technology from Gismo Power

As a Silver Connector for the American Made Challenge, FREEDM supported several teams for the Solar Prize Round 5 including Gismo Power who was named a semifinalist for the hardware track with their portable solar carport with integrated EV charger. The American-Made Solar Prize is a DOE sponsored competition designed to energize U.S. solar innovation through a…

Dec 9, 2021

FREEDM wins 2021 RTCC Cleantech Research Innovation Award for XFC Project

The FREEDM Systems Center at North Carolina State University is building the next generation of electric vehicle fast charger. With funding from the US Department of Energy and in partnership with ABB and the New York Power Authority, a FREEDM research team led by Srdjan Lukic, PhD, is building a charging station with four ports…

Oct 25, 2021

Enhancing Undergraduate Education with Hands On projects at FREEDM

Most people associate FREEDM with our research projects and graduate students, but we also work closely with undergraduate students. The two phrases we often hear from these students are “I had no idea this was how it worked” and “That is so cool.” Here are a few ways that FREEDM is inspiring the next generation…

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 awarded $25 Million from the Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) to form the Universal Interoperability for Grid‐Forming Inverters (UNIFI) Consortium. UNIFI…

Jul 28, 2021

How a game of Telephone helped keep the lights on in Sierra Leone

Nicole Poindexter needed help. Her company, Energicity, is a not-for-profit that develops mini-grids for communities in Africa. Their expansion into Sierra Leone meant more growth and greater impact but also presented a need to reduce costs. Energicity deploys small scale solar farms, local distribution systems and utility meters for each customer. To keep costs low,…

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 form of the smart grid, for their autonomy, distributed energy resources hosting capability, enhancements in reliability and resilience, etc. This presentation discussed the NMG vision…