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unifi plays an integral role in WECC’s Modeling Validation Subcommittee creating first-generation generic GFM inverter model, REGFM_A1, to simulate droop-based GFM IBRs 🔗
several unifi team members involved in drafting an IEEE TF report that highlights nuances associated with modeling and simulation of large power networks with high percentage of IBRs 🔗
unifi modeling & simulation technical area members help electrical system planners at ERCOT, AEP, and WECC better understand benefits of GFM inverters
how one device could help transform our power grid 🔗
Prof. Deepak Divan is giving a plenary talk at the upcoming IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Exposition (ECCE), in Detroit, MI, in Oct. 2022 🔗
insightful policy brief by Julie Cohn about Grid-forming Technology and unifi published by Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy 🔗
shout-out by Secretary Jennifer Granholm about PNNL's GFM models
points of pride
2023
Vahan Gevorgian and Michael Ropp elevated to IEEE Fellow
Deepak Divan conferred the 2024 IEEE Medal in Power Engineering 🔗
Xiaonan Lu and Iqbal Husain play key roles in the organization of the IEEE ECCE 2023 Conference 🔗
Deepak Divan receives 2022 IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics Prize Paper Award for work on solid-state transformers 🔗 🔗
Brian Johnson and Sairaj Dhople receive 2022 IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics Prize Paper Award for work on nonlinear GFM control 🔗 🔗
Deepak Divan receives the 2023 IEEE PES Nari Hingorani Custom Power
Award 🔗
Vijay Vittal featured in IEEE Spectrum 🔗
Jennifer Bui awarded a research fellowships from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) 🔗
2022
Aidan Tuohy named in the Public Utilities Fortnightly under Forties list 🔗
Alejandro Domínguez-García to serve as co-chair of the 58th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing Hosted by the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2022. The Electric Power Systems III Session will feature several talks on IBR technology 🔗
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems paper on Power-system Stability definitions and classifications co-authored by Vijay Vittal receives IEEE PES Prize Paper Award 🔗
Deepak Divan delivers closing plenary talk at APEC 2022 on Inverters for the Future Grid 🔗
Brian Johnson receives the National Science Foundation CAREER award
Dominic Groß receives the National Science Foundation CAREER award 🔗
Alejandro Domínguez-García publishes book on analyzing uncertainty in large-scale systems with power-systems applications 🔗
Raja Ayyanar & Alejandro Domínguez-García elevated to IEEE Fellow
the 2022 IEEE TPWRS prize paper team at IEEE PESGM'22 in Denver, CO