Cuzner Research Group - Advanced Power Electronics and Reliability

I recently attended the IEEE Energy Conversion Conference and Exposition (ECCE) in Nashville along with four students and a post doc. We had a pretty good showing presenting four papers: 'The Use of Digital Twins in Inverter-based DERs to Improve Nanogrid Fault Recovery', 'Design and Surface Flashover Test of 10 kV SiC Power Module for DC Shipboard Application', 'Modeling and Validation of Common-mode Emissions of Silicon Carbide Enabled Motor Drive in Extended EMC Frequency Range' and 'Novel XGBoost Classifier Based Relaying Approach with 2 Classes of Protection Zone'.

I am catching up on my posts. Here is a new release on our work with Badger Technology Group on a new Hybrid Energy Storage System supported by the U.S. Air Force Research Lab.

Badger Technology Group Receive HESS Contract from US Air Force PORT WASHINGTON, WI— Badger Technology Group Inc., and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee College of Engineering & Applied Science have received a contract from the United States Air Force Research Lab to produce, ...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nc-power-outages-investigated-criminal-occurrence-rcna59993

Autonomously re-configurable nano-grid based microgrids are one way to mitigate these kinds of attacks. Electrical distribution networks can be made more resilient if they can draw power from multiple sources through re-configurable power and communication networks. The need for this technology is becoming critical.

'Targeted' N.C. power outages could leave more than 100,000 in the dark for days A curfew was declared and schools were closed as the FBI and state authorities joined the investigation into the gun attacks on two energy substations in Moore County.

Time to make updates. We are excited that my colleague and friend Chanyeop Park has joined UWM and will be working with us on insulation systems and dielectric materials--key technologies to the future of power and energy.

https://uwm.edu/engineering/through-office-of-naval-research-park-awarded-148k-to-study-partial-discharge-in-power-electronics/