R&D milestones, lab testing, and experimental deployments
4 sources Conventional offshore wind chain: turbine iron-core + inter-array AC + offshore substation + HVAC/HVDC to shore, 4-8% losses. Read More
3 sources Conventional iron-core transformers have no cyber attack surface; SSTs introduce a software + network control plane. Attack Read More
4 sources Virginia Tech CPES annual research expenditures $6-7M across power-electronics scope. 400 kW SST extremely fast EV Read More
4 sources ETH Zurich Power Electronic Systems Lab led 2001-2024 by Prof. Johann Kolar (Emeritus 08/2024). Two 15 kW demonstrators: Read More
4 sources Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC) has been awarded an $18 million prime contract by the U.S. Air Read More
4 sources Qinghai Province 110 kV SST commissioned 2019 by China Electric Power Research Institute for wind integration. Wujiang MVDC/Read More
4 sources HVDC VSC: hundreds of kilovolts DC, gigawatt-scale, substation-size, 30-50 year service life. SST: 4-35 kV MV, Read More
4 sources The Tennessee Valley Authority committed to a 20-year, 200 MW/800 MWh standalone battery system with Plus Power's Read More
4 sources SSCB topologies: pure solid-state (IGCT/GTO/IGBT series), pure mechanical, hybrid (SSCB + ultra-fast mechanical switch). Pure Read More
4 sources Conventional MV-LV: 4-35 kVAC → iron-core step-down → 277-480 VAC secondary → downstream conversion at load. 800 VDC architecture (NVIDIA Read More