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February 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 […]
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July 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 […]
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August 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 utility SCADA and substation automation. “Our students will use these […]
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November 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 for a 1 megawatt station with five charging points each […]
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May 9, 2018
Students host workshop with Typhoon HIL
As part of an ongoing initiative to foster interactions between students and industry, FREEDM’s Student Leadership Council (SLC) hosted their third workshop of the semester entitled “Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) for Power Electronics and Microgrids” on April 27, 2018. This workshop […]
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March 30, 2018
Spotlight on FREEDM Alumni: Likhita Ravuri
While a student at BITS Pilani in India, Likhita Ravuri was researching opportunities to complete her undergraduate degree abroad when she came across FREEDM Systems Center. She joined Dr. Sdrjan Lukic’s research team for a semester before returning to India to […]
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June 8, 2017
FREEDM Demonstrates System Components to NSF
As part of the Year 9 Annual Review and Site Visit by the National Science Foundation (NSF), students and faculty demonstrated several features of the FREEDM System design. Our high bay lab in the Keystone Science Center on Centennial Campus […]
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May 11, 2015
Bridging the Divide
On NC State University’s ultramodern Centennial Campus, a startup company called GridBridge is helping electric utility companies adopt smart technologies that promise to revolutionize the energy business. It’s an exciting, if challenging, mission. “The utilities have to do a great […]
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April 23, 2015
Baliga Wins Global Energy Prize
Inventor of the IGBT wins another scientific honor.