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FREEDM Tech Webinar: Distribution Resiliency Frameworks with High PV Penetration
Presenters: Ashwin Shirsat, Valliappan Muthukaruppan, and Rongxing Hu Extreme weather events can cause long duration outages on the distribution grid. However, systems with high PV penetration have more options for resiliency. This presentation will describe three energy management frameworks using […]
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December 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 with ABB and the New York Power Authority, a FREEDM […]
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FREEDM Tech Webinar Series: Residential Load Profile Super-Resolution using Generative Adversarial Networks
Presenter: Lidong Song, Ph.D. Student VIEW THE RECORDING HERE. It is a common practice for utilities to down-sample smart meter measurements from high resolution (e.g. 1-min or 1-sec) to low resolution (e.g. 15-, 30- or 60-min) to lower the data […]
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October 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 had no idea this was how it worked” and “That […]
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FREEDM Tech Webinar Series: Load Forecasting Tool Selection
VIEW THE RECORDING HERE. A method to select the best load forecasting tool Presenter: Yiyan Li, NC State Post Doc Load forecasting at the distribution level is becoming more difficult and faces different forecasting requirements and data availability. As a […]
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PowerAmerica Wide Bandgap Devices and Applications Short Course
Mark your calendars for November 16-17, 2021. This 2-day online course will enable SiC and GaN power electronics professionals to incorporate this technology into products and systems and fully utilize its benefits. Registration details forthcoming.
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July 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 presented a need to reduce costs. Energicity deploys small scale […]
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July 12, 2021
NC State University & FREEDM Represent at ITEC 2021
Several Ph.D. level students from the College of Engineering at NC State University participated in the IEEE ITEC 2021 conference in June. Tomas Sadilek, NC State University and FREEDM Ph.D. candidate, was recently recognized by the organization for his paper […]
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PowerAmerica 2021 Wide Bandgap Summer Workshop
The 2021 PowerAmerica Wide Bandgap Summer Workshop, “The Roadmap to the Future of SiC and GaN,” is back this year in an online format. Join us for an engaging series of keynotes, tutorials, presentations, virtual networking and more. Don’t miss […]
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July 6, 2021
Alumni Receive IEEE Best Paper Award
FREEDM Alumni Anup Anurag, Ph.D., and Sayan Acharya, Ph.D., along with Dr. Subhashish Bhattacharya recently received the Best Paper Award at ECCE Asia 2021 for their paper titled, “Solid State Transformer and Medium Voltage Grid Connection Applications Enabled by Gen3 […]