2024 Power Electronics & Energy Conversion Workshop

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The goal of this workshop is to identify research directions and priorities for the next generation of power electronics and energy conversion systems for the electric grid, transportation, and national security.

Date: Tuesday, July 30 and Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Location: State Bar of New Mexico located at 5121 Masthead St NE, Albuquerque, NM 87109

Hosted by: Sandia National Laboratories

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Tuesday, July 30

9:00 – 9:05Welcome: Valerio De Angelis (Sandia National Laboratories)
9:05 – 9:10Welcome: Amy Halloran (Sandia National Laboratories)
9:10 – 9:30Transforming the Grid: Innovations in Next-Generation Hardware: Andre Pereira (U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Electricity)
9:30 – 9:45Opening Remarks: Erik Spoerke (U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Electricity) View presentation  
10:15 am – 12:00 pmChair: Michael Ropp (Sandia National Laboratories)
10:15 – 10:20Introduction by Chair
10:20 – 10:35Regional Electric Grid Needs in Power Electronics Space: Stephen Jenkins (Public Service Company of New Mexico)
10:35 – 10:50HVDC and EHV AC As Part of a Wholistic Grid Solution: Dan Sullivan (POWER Engineers, Inc.) View presentation
10:50 – 11:05Inverter Connected Demand and Resources – Where is the Magic?: Bob Cummings (Red Yucca Power Consulting, LLC) View presentation
11:05 – 11:20High Power Electronic & Transmission Systems, A review: Ali Daneshpooy (Quant Technology) View presentation
11:20 – 11:35Advanced Inverters for the Transmission System for the Grid of the Future: Dr. Leo F. Casey (Google X) View presentation
11:35 – 12:00Panel Discussion  
1:00 pm – 2:30 pmCo-Chairs: Jack Flicker (Sandia National Laboratories) & Jake Mueller (Sandia National Laboratories)
1:00 – 1:05Introduction by Chair
1:05 – 1:20Power Electronics for a Better Grid: Wei Du (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) View presentation
1:20 – 1:35Extreme Fast Charging: Challenges and Potential:Jonathan Kimball (Missouri University of Science and Technology) View presentation
1:35 – 1:50High Frequency MV Power Conversion Systems to Enable Flexible Grid Interconnections: Paolo Osgnach (TECO-Westinghouse) View presentation
1:50 – 2:05Semiconductors in VSC-HVDC systems: Ewgenij Starschich (Siemens Energy)
2:05 – 2:30Panel Discussion
3:00 pm – 4:30 pmChair: Stan Atcitty (Sandia National Laboratories)
3:00 – 3:05Introduction by Chair
3:05 – 3:20Advanced Power Electronics For Battery Energy Storage System: Alex Q. Huang (University of Texas at Austin)
3:20 – 3:35Overcoming the Barrier of Deploying Second-Life EV Batteries for Storage: Chris Mi (San Diego State University) View presentation
3:35 – 3:50Differential-mode converter: A universal topology for energy storage: Sudip K. Mazumder (University of Illinois Chicago & NextWatt LLC) View presentation
3:50 – 4:05Grid-Scale Battery Energy Storage: Innovations and Challenges: Ghanshyam Gohil (Hitachi Energy)
4:05 – 4:30Panel Discussion
4:30 pm – 6:30 pmChair: Jane Lehr (University of New Mexico)              

Wednesday, July 31

8:00 – 8:05Welcome: Valerio De Angelis (Sandia National Laboratories)
8:05 – 8:10 Welcome: Charles Hanley (Sandia National Laboratories)
8:10 – 8:30Fostering Advanced Semiconductor Technology for Enhanced Reliability And Resilience of the Grid: Olga Spahn (U.S. Department of Energy, ARPA-E)
8:30 am – 10:00 amCo-Chairs: Bob Kaplar (Sandia National Laboratories) & Andrew Binder (Sandia National Laboratories)
8:30 – 8:35Introduction by Chair
8:35 – 8:50Analytical Determination of Majority Carrier Diode Losses in Power Switching and Perspective for Ultra-Wide Bandgap Semiconductors: Nolan Hendricks (U.S. Air Force / AFRL)
8:50 – 9:05Advancements in High Voltage SiC Power Devices: From 3.3kV to Beyond 10kV: Woongje Sung (University at Albany) View presentation
9:05 – 9:20Multidimensional power devices in WBG and UWBG semiconductors: Yuhao Zhang (Virginia Tech) View presentation
9:20 – 9:35AlGaN-based transistors for power electronics: Andy Armstrong (Sandia National Laboratories)
9:35 – 10:00Panel Discussion
10:45 am – 12:30 pmChair: Luciano Garcia Rodriquez (Sandia National Laboratories)
10:45 – 10:50Introduction by Chair
10:50 – 11:05High Temperature Dielectric Materials for Power Electronic Applications: Michael Lanagan (Pennsylvania State University) View presentation
11:05 – 11:20Additive manufacturing of soft-magnetic alloys for energy applications: Andrew Kustas (Sandia National Laboratories) View presentation
11:20 – 11:35Multi-MHz Magnetics – Off and On Chip:Alex Hansen (University of Texas) View presentation
11:35 – 11:50High-Performance SiC Power Module Packaging Development: Dr. Yuxiang Chen (University of Arkansas)) View presentation
11:50 – 12:05High-frequency Press-pack SiC Modules for Future Resilient Energy Infrastructure:Jun Wang (University of Nebraska – Lincoln) View presentation
12:05 – 12:30Panel Discussion
1:30 pm – 3:00 pmCo-Chairs: Lee Gill (Sandia National Laboratories), Luke Yates (Sandia National Laboratories), Lee Rashkin (Sandia National Laboratories)
1:30 – 1:35Introduction by Chair
1:35 – 1:50Accelerating WBG Power Semiconductor Technology Commercialization: Victor Veliadis (PowerAmerica) View presentation
1:50 – 2:05The Future of GaN is High-Current, High-Voltage, and Bidirectional: Geetak Gupta  (Transphorm, Inc.)
2:05 – 2:20Commercialization of GaN HEMT based power electronics: Eric Faraci (IR HiRel, an Infineon Technologies Company) View presentation
2:20 – 2:35Grid-tied Converter Electro-Thermal-Mechanical Co-design and Side-Effect Analysis: Fang Luo (Stony Brook University)
2:35 – 3:00Panel Discussion
3:30 pm – 5:00 pmChair: Richard Baxter (Mustang Prairie Energy)
3:30 – 3:35Introduction by Chair
  3:35 – 5:00Panel Discussion
 Julio H. Braslavsky (CSIRO) Jay Caspary (TransGrid Advisors, LLC) Scott Daniels (Industry Advisor) Kevin Goldstein (Mitsubishi Electric Power Product Inc.) Patrick Raab (Google X, Tapestry) 

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