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

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.

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]