FREEDM is offering a series of six seminars to inform our students about the overall mission and research at the Center. These will be offered every Wednesday from noon to 1 pm eastern US time. Recordings of each seminar will […]

In the September 2016 issue of IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine, Dr. Alex Huang, Progress Energy Distinguished Professor at NC State and leader for the Solid State Transformer Thrust at FREEDM, asserts that solid state power electronics form the core technology for […]

Inside the Green Energy Hub at the FREEDM Systems Center in Raleigh, North Carolina, researchers ran into a problem while testing a prototype of an innovative battery charger that could charge electric vehicles more quickly. A resistor load bank that […]

Engineers verifying new testing procedures for connecting distributed energy resources to the power grid had little trouble creating real-world test conditions, thanks to equipment and expertise available at the FREEDM Systems Center. In fact, in their two days of work […]

The June 2016 issue of IEEE Electrification Magazine features a viewpoint article describing “The DC Revolution.” In this article, FREEDM researchers Dr. Ewan Pritchard and Dr. Srdjan Srdic along with Dan Gregory, CEO of Pos-En, outline the broad trends shaping […]

The most tense moment flying a solar powered plane is right at dawn. That’s when the batteries are at their lowest energy and you hope the meteorologists’ models are correct that you aren’t flying into a cloudy morning. Since the […]

Retired Lt. General Ken Eickmann of the US Air Force came to the Research Triangle with a warning: our electric grid today is at risk. As part of his presentation to a group hosted by the Research Triangle Cleantech Cluster […]

How can critical infrastructure be protected from external threats? That was the question asked by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, a US Department of Defense organization. To answer this question and identify existing installations for further study, Instant Access Networks […]