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Feb 16, 2022

FREEDM to receive $4.8 Million to Develop Microgrid Co-Design Platform
Jan 11, 2022

FREEDM to demonstrate technology from Gismo Power
Oct 25, 2021

Enhancing Undergraduate Education with Hands On projects at FREEDM
Aug 16, 2021

DOE Awards Funding to UNIFI Consortium that Includes FREEDM Leadership
Jul 28, 2021

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

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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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...