3 sources MIT identified cascading voltage instability -- not generation failure -- as the cause of the April 2025 Read More
Power Electronics
Research
SiC & GaN Power Semiconductors
Standards & Compliance
Solid-State Transformer End-of-Life: Why Recycling MPPF Capacitors and SiC Devices Is Harder Than Recycling Iron-Core Transformers
4 sources MPPF capacitors and SiC devices in SSTs need specialized processing to recycle -- a gap that Read More
Energy Storage
Power Electronics
Research
Solar + Storage Integration
Solid State Transformers
Voltage & Reactive Power
Solid-State Transformers Integrate Battery Storage Through Multiport Architectures: NREL’s Dispatch and Control Research
3 sources Multiport SST architectures couple BESS, PV, and grid via DC ports, cutting conversion stages and round-trip Read More
3 sources Microsoft Research released 54 open US grid models -- including a 21,697-bus Eastern Interconnect -- built from Read More
Power Electronics
Research
Solid State Transformers
Voltage & Reactive Power
Grid-Forming Solid-State Transformers and the Virtual Synchronous
4 sources Grid-forming SSTs using virtual synchronous machine control provide inertia and voltage support that grid-following inverters lack Read More
Power Electronics
Research
SiC & GaN Power Semiconductors
Voltage & Reactive Power
Solid-State Transformers for Direct Offshore Wind Turbine Grid
4 sources Conventional offshore wind chain: turbine iron-core + inter-array AC + offshore substation + HVAC/HVDC to shore, 4-8% losses. Read More
Power Electronics
Research
Solid State Transformers
Standards & Compliance
Solid-State Transformer Cybersecurity: The New Attack Surface Under Active Power Electronics on the Distribution Grid
3 sources Conventional iron-core transformers have no cyber attack surface; SSTs introduce a software + network control plane. Attack Read More
Power Electronics
Research
Solid State Transformers
Standards & Compliance
Virginia Tech CPES Is the Second-Most-Important US Academic
4 sources Virginia Tech CPES annual research expenditures $6-7M across power-electronics scope. 400 kW SST extremely fast EV Read More
Power Electronics
Research
Solid State Transformers
Standards & Compliance
ETH Zurich Power Electronic Systems Lab and Professor Johann Kolar
4 sources ETH Zurich Power Electronic Systems Lab led 2001-2024 by Prof. Johann Kolar (Emeritus 08/2024). Two 15 kW demonstrators: Read More
Energy Storage
Military & Defense
Research
Utility-Scale BESS
Air Force Research Lab Awards Concurrent Technologies $18 Million
4 sources Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC) has been awarded an $18 million prime contract by the U.S. Air Read More