Kevin Bai, associate professor in the Min H. Kao Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), shares a principle-investigator role in a collaboration with the ABB Group’s US Research Center to develop an integrated, compact drive inverter and motor…
Validating its status as a leader in power electronics for grid and aviation applications, the University of Tennessee has been awarded a grant from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) of the US Department of Energy (DOE) to help modernize…
A book edited by Prof. Sun is published in 2024: Kai Sun (editor), Cascading Failures in Power Grids: Risk Assessment, Modeling, and Simulation, Springer, 2024. ISBN:978-3-031-47999-1.
Prof. Sun was elevated to IEEE Fellow for contributions to power grid stability analysis and control.
Prof. Sun’s paper “Real-time Damping Estimation on Nonlinear Electromechanical Oscillation” (Xin Xu, Wenyun Ju, Bin Wang, Kai Sun) has been selected as one of the five IEEE Transactions on Power Systems Outstanding Papers in 2023.
The Energy and Environmental Justice Workshop aims to develop a network of researchers, policymakers, and community partners to develop responses to challenges facing reliable, sustainable, and equitable access to energy, transportation, communications, health, and ecosystem service infrastructures. We are working to understand…
A trio of UT Knoxville research leaders representing expertise in sustainability, energy resilience, and energy and environmental justice are building connections around the globe to collaborate with researchers for renewable energy, green energy, and a better environmental future for all.…
The union of Japan and the United States is powerful as a team working on strategies and solutions to promote interdisciplinary problem-solving. This strong partnership is shared by the vision of promoting clean energy together to combat climate change and…
KNOXVILLE, TN – With summer in full swing, The National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS), the Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment (ISSE), the Center for Ultra-Wide-Area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Networks (CURENT), and the University of…
Kettering University Associate Professor Dr. Xuan Zhou will give the CURENT Power and Energy Seminar on Friday, May 13 from 1:00pm – 1:50pm via ZOOM. Please join him for this intriguing seminar about energy storage systems. Time: Friday, May…