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…
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.