Shanzila Chowdhury, a dual-engineering degree student at NC State and Meredith College, is one of two students to be awarded the 2018 Sensus Reach™ Scholarship. The scholarship, which was established in 2016, is a merit- and need-based award given annually […]

The FREEDM Systems Center was well represented at the 2018 eGrid Workshop held November 12 – 14 in Charleston, SC. This international workshop focused on the role of power electronics in electric utilities and included presentations from leading experts in industry and […]

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 […]

Sponsored by IEEE PELS and IAS, the Energy Conversion Congress and Expo 2018 was held in Portland, Oregon on September 23 – 27. And FREEDM was there in force. We had over 20 students attend with five PI’s and our […]

Dr. Samir Hazra a former Ph.D. student of Prof. Subhashish Bhattacharya at FREEDM, received first prize in the 2018 IEEE Industry Application Society Chapters and Membership Development (IAS CMD) Student Thesis Contest for his doctoral work entitled, “Power Generation and […]

There are over one billion people in the world without access to electricity. Let that sink in for a minute. It’s probably hard for anyone reading this on their web browser to imagine living without electricity. The scale of the […]

The U.S. Department of Energy recently announced the selection of 42 projects focused on early-stage research of transportation technologies that can give families and businesses greater choice in how they meet their mobility needs. Srdjan Lukic, PhD, Deputy Director of […]

Since the beginning, FREEDM has promoted solutions to transform the electric grid. We are pleased to announce that we are now joined in that effort by LF Energy, the newest project of the Linux Foundation. LF Energy will promote multi-user […]

A group of students huddled around tables in a lab at N.C. State University one hot summer day in late July, peering through plastic goggles as they soldered components onto printed circuit boards. The finished boards would operate as power […]

Simulating the grid is hard. So, when the National Renewable Energy Lab needed a new staff engineer, they came to FREEDM and hired one of the best. Dr. Rishabh Jain completed his degree requirements at NC State and successfully defended […]