2024 Power Electronics & Energy Conversion Workshop

9:00 – 9:05

Welcome: Valerio De Angelis (Sandia National Laboratories)

9:05 – 9:10

Welcome: Amy Halloran (Sandia National Laboratories)

9:10 – 9:30

Transforming the Grid: Innovations in Next-Generation Hardware: Andre Pereira (U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Electricity)

9:30 – 9:45

Opening Remarks: Erik Spoerke (U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Electricity) View presentation

10:15 – 12:00pm

Chair: Michael Ropp (Sandia National Laboratories)

10:15 – 10:20

Introduction by Chair

10:20 – 10:35

Regional Electric Grid Needs in Power Electronics Space: Stephen Jenkins (Public Service Company of New Mexico)

10:35 – 10:50

HVDC and EHV AC As Part of a Wholistic Grid Solution: Dan Sullivan (POWER Engineers, Inc.) View presentation

10:50 – 11:05

Inverter Connected Demand and Resources – Where is the Magic?: Bob Cummings (Red Yucca Power Consulting, LLC) View presentation

11:05 – 11:20

High Power Electronic & Transmission Systems, A review: Ali Daneshpooy (Quant Technology) View presentation

11:20 – 11:35

Advanced Inverters for the Transmission System for the Grid of the Future: Dr. Leo F. Casey (Google X) View presentation

11:35 – 12:00

Panel Discussion

1:00 – 2:30pm

Co-Chairs: Jack Flicker (Sandia National Laboratories) & Jake Mueller (Sandia National Laboratories)

1:00 – 1:05

Introduction by Chair

1:05 – 1:20

Power Electronics for a Better Grid: Wei Du (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) View presentation

1:20 – 1:35

Extreme Fast Charging: Challenges and Potential:Jonathan Kimball (Missouri University of Science and Technology) View presentation

1:35 – 1:50

High Frequency MV Power Conversion Systems to Enable Flexible Grid Interconnections: Paolo Osgnach (TECO-Westinghouse) View presentation

1:50 – 2:05

Semiconductors in VSC-HVDC systems: Ewgenij Starschich (Siemens Energy)

2:05 – 2:30

Panel Discussion

3:00 – 4:30pm

Chair: Stan Atcitty (Sandia National Laboratories)

3:00 – 3:05

Introduction by Chair

3:05 – 3:20

Advanced Power Electronics For Battery Energy Storage System: Alex Q. Huang (University of Texas at Austin)

3:20 – 3:35

Overcoming the Barrier of Deploying Second-Life EV Batteries for Storage: Chris Mi (San Diego State University) View presentation

3:35 – 3:50

Differential-mode converter: A universal topology for energy storage: Sudip K. Mazumder (University of Illinois Chicago & NextWatt LLC) View presentation

3:50 – 4:05

Grid-Scale Battery Energy Storage: Innovations and Challenges: Ghanshyam Gohil (Hitachi Energy)

4:05 – 4:30

Panel Discussion

4:30 – 6:30pm

Chair: Jane Lehr (University of New Mexico)

8:00 – 8:05

Welcome:Valerio De Angelis (Sandia National Laboratories)

8:05 – 8:10

Welcome:Charles Hanley (Sandia National Laboratories)

8:10 – 8:30

Fostering Advanced Semiconductor Technology for Enhanced Reliability And Resilience of the Grid: Olga Spahn (U.S. Department of Energy, ARPA-E)

8:30 – 10:00am

Co-Chairs: Bob Kaplar (Sandia National Laboratories) & Andrew Binder (Sandia National Laboratories)

8:30 – 8:35

Introduction by Chair

8:35 – 8:50

Analytical 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 – 9:05

Advancements in High Voltage SiC Power Devices: From 3.3kV to Beyond 10kV: Woongje Sung (University at Albany) View presentation

9:05 – 9:20

Multidimensional power devices in WBG and UWBG semiconductors: Yuhao Zhang (Virginia Tech) View presentation

9:20 – 9:35

AlGaN-based transistors for power electronics: Andy Armstrong (Sandia National Laboratories)

9:35 – 10:00

Panel Discussion

10:45 – 12:30pm

Chair: Luciano Garcia Rodriquez (Sandia National Laboratories)

10:45 – 10:50

Introduction by Chair

10:50 – 11:05

High Temperature Dielectric Materials for Power Electronic Applications: Michael Lanagan (Pennsylvania State University) View presentation

11:05 – 11:20

Additive manufacturing of soft-magnetic alloys for energy applications: Andrew Kustas (Sandia National Laboratories) View presentation

11:20 – 11:35

Multi-MHz Magnetics – Off and On Chip:Alex Hansen (University of Texas) View presentation

11:35 – 11:50

High-Performance SiC Power Module Packaging Development: Dr. Yuxiang Chen (University of Arkansas)) View presentation

11:50 – 12:05

High-frequency Press-pack SiC Modules for Future Resilient Energy Infrastructure:Jun Wang (University of Nebraska – Lincoln) View presentation

12:05 – 12:30

Panel Discussion

1:30pm – 3:00pm

Co-Chairs: Lee Gill (Sandia National Laboratories), Luke Yates (SandiaNational Laboratories), Lee Rashkin (Sandia National Laboratories)

1:30 – 1:35

Introduction by Chair

1:35 – 1:50

Accelerating WBG Power Semiconductor Technology Commercialization: Victor Veliadis (PowerAmerica) View presentation

1:50 – 2:05

The Future of GaN is High-Current, High-Voltage, and Bidirectional: Geetak Gupta  (Transphorm, Inc.)

2:05 – 2:20

Commercialization of GaN HEMT based power electronics: Eric Faraci (IR HiRel, an Infineon Technologies Company) View presentation

2:20 – 2:35

Grid-tied Converter Electro-Thermal-Mechanical Co-design and Side-Effect Analysis: Fang Luo (Stony Brook University)

2:35 – 3:00

Panel Discussion

3:30pm – 5:00pm

Chair: Richard Baxter (Mustang Prairie Energy)

3:30 – 3:35

Introduction by Chair

3:35 – 5:00

Panel 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)