The Medium-Frequency Transformer
4 sources MFT operating frequency 5-100 kHz, commercial sweet spot 10-30 kHz. Conventional silicon-steel cores fail above ~1 kHz Read More
Power quality compliance and grid reliability: harmonics, THD, power factor, voltage regulation, reactive power, IEEE 519, NERC CIP standards, and measurement instruments.
4 sources MFT operating frequency 5-100 kHz, commercial sweet spot 10-30 kHz. Conventional silicon-steel cores fail above ~1 kHz Read More
4 sources All commercial medium-voltage SSTs use SiC MOSFETs for 650 V–6.5 kV input stages. GaN is limited to Read More
4 sources NEC Article 706 caps DC defaults at 100 V. Deploying 800 VDC data centers requires AHJ variances most US Read More
4 sources Forced-liquid cooling dominates multi-MW SST production, with 3x-5x power density over forced air. Dielectric-fluid immersion Read More
5 sources Eaton's $86M Resilient Power acquisition in Aug 2025 reshaped the SST patent landscape. ABB, Hitachi Energy, and Read More
4 sources Five consumer advocates and Eversource filed a FERC complaint over the $385M X-178 project classification, potentially Read More
4 sources TDK, Vishay, KEMET, and Cornell Dubilier supply the MPPF capacitors every SST requires. European manufacturing dominance Read More
4 sources ARPA-E, DOE Office of Electricity, and NSF FREEDM funded the R&D behind every commercial US Read More
4 sources DC electric arc furnaces, chlor-alkali plants, and hydrogen electrolysers are the largest and least-covered SST market Read More
4 sources MPPF capacitors and SiC devices in SSTs need specialized processing to recycle -- a gap that Read More