Great news 📰! Solid State Power LLC's consortium including EPRI as prime, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Southern California Edison (SCE), Xcel Energy and Tennessee Valley Authority has been selected for a $2.9 million FITT grant by the Office of Electricity | U.S. Department of Energy. We look forward to turbocharging the development and commercialization of the all-solid-state PowerHub while helping modernize the grid! ⚡ #innovation #grid #solidstate #powerelectronics #utilities
BIG NEWS 📰: Today, OE announces the 9 selected projects that will receive $20 million to develop technologies that detect critical power grid equipment issues to be addressed to ensure grid reliability and $50,000 each for eight Silicon Carbide (SiC) Packaging Prize Phase 1 winners! ⚡️ The selected Flexible Innovative Transformer Technologies (FITT) projects will develop technologies ensuring a more reliable grid by enabling grid operators to immediately detect & address issues. Congratulations to: Clemson University Eaton EPRI ERMCO-ECI GE Vernova (x2) Resilient Power Transforma Energy, Inc. University of Pittsburgh The SiC Packaging Prize goal is to increase semiconductor device effectiveness in high-voltage environments such as #energystorage & avoid overheating. Congratulations to: Board Breakers (Packet Digital) LincolnX (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) Marel Power Solutions, Inc. NC Solar Inverters, LLC NoMIS-Lux-QPT-UA (NoMIS Power-Lux Semiconductors-QP Technologies-University of Arkansas) Stony Brook University Power Packaging Team Superior SiC Power Module Team (UF Innovate & Center for Power Electronics Systems, Virginia Tech) Team Raiju - University of Arkansas Read more here: https://bit.ly/3ZhwtFQ