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Charge EV Conference: Panel Session with ABB, Henkel, and FREEDM
Please join the Charged EV Virtual Conference for the panel session titled “Trends and Challenges on the Road to EV Charging Infrastructure Implementation” featuring Filippo Chimento from ABB, Justin Kolbe from Henkel Corporation, and our own Srdjan Lukic.
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February 16, 2022
FREEDM to receive $4.8 Million to Develop Microgrid Co-Design Platform
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced $175 million for 68 research and development projects aimed at developing disruptive technologies to strengthen the nation’s advanced energy enterprise. The OPEN 2021 program prioritizes funding high-impact, high risk […]
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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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August 16, 2021
DOE Awards Funding to UNIFI Consortium that Includes FREEDM Leadership
The FREEDM Systems Center at NC State University, in conjunction with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the University of Washington and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), was recently awarded $25 Million from the Department of Energy (DOE) Solar […]
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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 […]
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June 29, 2021
Tech Webinar Recap: FREEDM Tech Webinar: FPGA Implementation for Rapid Prototyping of High-Performance Voltage Source Inverters
June 29, 2021 Presented by Yukun Luo, Ph.D. & NC State University Doctoral Graduate FPGA is a powerful platform that can play an essential role in the high-performance digital control of power electronics systems. However, the FPGA system’s design is […]