News Archives
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August 4, 2017
GridBridge Purchase Shows Promise for Solid State Technology Deployment
The FREEDM Systems Center at NC State University is proud to announce that ERMCO, a transformer manufacturer based in Tennessee, recently acquired GridBridge, one of our early spin off companies. GridBridge licensed three patents from NC State University that relate […]
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July 17, 2017
Smart Transformers for a Cleaner and Flexible Power Grid
The solid-state transformer is poised to remake the electrical distribution grid. Dr. Subhashish Bhattacharya and his colleagues at the FREEDM Systems Center built a new responsive class of three-phase compact transformers that allow for a smaller footprint and cleaner grid operations. Read […]
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July 5, 2017
Study Finds ‘Smart’ Transformers Could Make Reliable Smart Grid a Reality
A new study using complex computational models finds that smart solid-state transformers (SSTs) could be used to make a stable, reliable “smart grid” – allowing the power distribution system to route renewable energy from homes and businesses into the power […]
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June 8, 2017
NSF Approves Year 10 Funding
We passed! As an Engineering Research Center funded by the National Science Foundation, there is an annual “exam” before a panel of outside experts who review the Center’s research progress and program performance. FREEDM is happy to announce that the NSF […]
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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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June 8, 2017
FREEDM to Host EPRI Short Course, August 28
FREEDM is partnering with the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) to host a one-day short course focused on distribution system modernization. This course is part of an educational library of short courses developed and offered by GridEd, an EPRI educational […]
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May 4, 2017
Iyer Receives Best Presentation Award at 2017 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference
Vishnu Mahadeva Iyer, a research assistant at the FREEDM Systems Center at NC State, won the Outstanding Presenter award at the IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC) held in Tampa, FL in March 2017. The topic of his presentation is […]
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April 28, 2017
FREEDM Students Win 2017 NCROEP Poster Contest
Landon Mackey and Md Rifat Kaisar Rachi, PhD EE Candidates at the FREEDM Systems Center won first prize at the North Carolina Renewable Ocean Energy Program (NCROEP) Symposium held in early April 2017 for their poster entitled “Ultra-Fast Speed DC Circuit Protection […]
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April 26, 2017
FREEDM Post Doc Wins 2017 IEEE Student Thesis Contest
Dr. Radha Sree Krishna Moorthy, Post Doc Research Associate at the FREEDM Systems Center, won the IEEE Industry Applications Society Chapters and Membership Development (IAS CMD) Student Thesis Contest, PhD category, for her work entitled, “Analysis and Design of Impulse […]
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March 2, 2017
FREEDM partners with Irish Centres
Like many electricity systems around the world, the Irish grid faces some challenges. How can Ireland and Northern Ireland optimize the generation of renewable energy at the point of consumption, while maintaining safe, secure, reliable energy at affordable prices? How can […]