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Jun 3, 2020 | Research and Innovation

Spotlight on FREEDM's Role in Advancing Grid Resiliency

Dec 13, 2019

FREEDM Open Source Microgrid Applications

May 21, 2019

FREEDM Researchers Receive Funding for Work on Grid Resilience Tools

Aug 24, 2018

LF Energy to promote FREEDM Microgrid Platform

Sep 6, 2018

DOE Invests in Advanced Vehicle Technologies Research with FREEDM Faculty

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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 19, 2020

FREEDM Welcomes New Member Danfoss

Danfoss is a global leader in engineering advanced technologies, like AC drives, that work to build a better, smarter, more efficient world.  Founded in 1933 in Denmark to manufacture the first thermostatic expansion valves for...

Jun 5, 2020

Tech Webinar Recap: Medium-Voltage Modular Extreme Fast Charging System

June 4, 2020 View the recorded presentation The US DOE Vehicle Technologies Office has a goal of recharging electric vehicles in under 15 minutes. This requires research in battery chemistry...

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

Feb 26, 2020

NC State University Students Receive 2019/2020 PES Scholarships

Each year the IEEE Power & Energy Society awards promising students scholarships through its Scholarship Plus Initiative. This year, one hundred and thirty five students were selected from 78 U.S.,...

Feb 3, 2020

Schneider Electric Holds Design Thinking Workshop at NC State

NC State students spent some time this week Going Green with help from Schneider Electric. Part of their incentive was to win some green (cash money!) and a trip to...

Dec 13, 2019

Professor Doug Hopkins joins iMaps Exec. Council

Prof. Douglas C Hopkins, Ph.D.,  NC State University Research Professor, FREEDM Faculty and Director of the Laboratory for Packaging Research in Electronic Energy Systems (PREES), has joined the Executive Council...

Dec 13, 2019

FREEDM Open Source Microgrid Applications

Everybody today wants a microgrid even though most people don’t exactly understand what that means. Like the time I ordered my first cappuccino from Starbucks. It sounded cool and I’d...

Dec 12, 2019

Register Today for the January 2020 FREEDM Tech Webinar

REGISTER HERE Presenters: Sourish Sankar Sinha and Prof. Douglas C. Hopkins, NC State University Guest Presenter: tbd Title: ParaPower: Leveraging Finite Difference Simulator for Quick Thermal Design Presented is an...