CURENT Hosted a Mini-Workshop on Power System Simulation On August 14th, CURENT hosted a mini-workshop featuring two invited guest speakers: Dr. Qiuhua Huang from the Colorado School of Mines and Dr. Philip Top from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Dr. Huang…
Dr. Fran Li recaps CURENT 2024 Summer Strategic Planning Meeting in Seattle CURENT held its annual summer strategic planning meeting with its industrial members during the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) General Meeting (GM). The meeting this year took…
By Sebastian Martinez-Lizana The 2024 CURENT Industry Conference, held on April 30 and May 1 at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville brought together leading minds in energy systems, green technology, and power electronics. This event provided a platform for cutting-edge…
Dr. Fran Li and his former PhD student received the Best Paper award at International Journal of Electric Power and Energy Dr. Fangxing (Fran) Li’s paper, titled “Network Reconfiguration and Distributed Energy Resource Scheduling for Improved Distribution System Resilience,” has…
Possessing a deep appreciation for the past and a bold vision for the future, Fran Li has been appointed as the new director of the Center for Ultra-Wide-Area Resilient Electrical Energy Transmission Networks(CURENT). CURENT, which is widely recognized as one…
Prof. Sun received the 2024 Research and Creative Achievement Award from the University of Tennessee.
Dennis Pratt, Johnny Lam and Brandon Burgess from Micron Technology will present the CURENT Power and Energy Seminar on Friday, March 4 from 1:00pm – 1:50pm via ZOOM. Please join us for their talk on Micron Technology Tech! Time: Friday, March…
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…