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 […]

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 […]

Distributech is one of the largest conference and exhibition events for the power distribution industry. This year, the FREEDM Systems Center will be exhibiting at the event to show the work we are doing in modernizing the electric grid.  

Dr. Ning Lu will present a cost benefit study of using energy storage systems (ESS) to provide regulation services. The impact of lifetime depreciation characteristics and regulation signal design on ESS service lifetime depreciation, service quality and service costs are […]

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 […]

IEEE Spectrum Tech Insider Webinar – Online Graduate Programs in Power Engineering: Preparing Engineers to Meet the Challenges for Our Generation.  This is a free event. Click here to register!

The State Energy Conference provides actionable insight into the business of energy, connecting technical innovation, diverse resources and industry opportunity to help drive North Carolina’s regional energy economy forward with national impact. Call for Papers is open! Submission deadline is […]

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 […]