NSF Engineering Research Center for Future Renewable Electric Energy Delivery and Management (FREEDM) Systems

未来可再生电力输送与管理（FREEDM）系统ERC黄强，主任北卡罗莱纳州立大学、亚利桑那州立大学、佛罗里达州立大学、佛罗里达农工大学您对未来可再生电力输送和管理（FREEDM）系统的ERC的愿景是一个高效的电网，将高度分布式和可扩展的替代发电源和存储与现有电力系统集成在一起，以促进绿色能源社会，缓解日益严重的能源危机，并减少碳排放对环境的影响。我们认为，解决能源危机的关键不一定是可再生能源本身，而是交付和管理大规模分布式可再生能源（DRER）所需的基础设施。FREEDM系统的ERC的使命是开发基础和使能技术来演示系统，并通过这种开发和演示，促进电力和可再生能源行业的创新和技术革命。为美国提供长期的能源安全和环境可持续性。主要目标：发展FREEDM系统的基础知识基础，并在能量存储和功率半导体器件方面提供根本性的突破性技术。为子系统和系统演示开发启用技术。开发1兆瓦FREEDM绿色能源枢纽系统，为ERC总部供电。培养具有适应能力、创造力和创新能力的多样化毕业生群体，他们在可再生电力输送和管理系统中推进基础知识、实现技术和工程系统创新。与初中和高中、教师和学生建立长期合作伙伴关系，以增强工程内容知识和教学方法，将工程概念带入课堂，让大学预科学生参与研究。从而增加大学工程学位课程国内学生的多样性和入学率。与大型和小型公司建立长期合作伙伴关系，以加快将ERC研究转化为商业上可行的产品，鼓励基于ERC知识产权的初创公司的形成，并让学生参与创新过程的各个阶段。增加拟建中心的多样性？美国的领导，教师和学生超过全国平均水平的学术工程在运营的头五年。知识价值：除了ERC和整个电力行业需要解决的社会、经济和市场挑战之外，障碍还包括：为范式转换的FREEDM系统提供新的系统理论；基于宽禁带材料的新型高频高压电力电子器件以及更高能量密度的存储技术。这种基础设施的创新发展不可能出现在今天的集中式模式中，在这种模式中，电力公司只寻求增量解决方案，研究投资被抑制以实现利润最大化。所需的系统方法不能指望通过没有共同标准或试验台的单个研究项目来实现。为了发展FREEDM系统，需要一个多学科的卓越中心来团结我们的国家。在能源系统理论、政策、可再生能源技术、能源存储技术、电子设备和通信方面拥有顶尖的专业知识。更广泛的影响包括美国工程师日益多样化和创新；减缓全球变暖；对能源危机的厌恶；可再生能源系统的创新随着工业的发展而发展，带来了新产品、新公司和新工作；研究生与本科生多学科培养的整合创新通过对K-12教师和学生的综合研究活动，扩大对电力工程的参与；并提高了教师和研究生在指导少数民族和妇女方面的技能。

ERC for Future Renewable Electric Energy Delivery and Management (FREEDM) SystemsAlex Q. Huang, DirectorNorth Carolina State University, Arizona State University, Florida State University,Florida A&M University, University of Missouri-RollaProject SummaryOur vision for the ERC for Future Renewable Electric Energy Delivery and Management(FREEDM) Systems is an efficient electric power grid integrating highly distributed and scalablealternative generating sources and storage with existing power systems to facilitate a greenenergy based society, mitigate the growing energy crisis, and reduce the impact of carbonemissions on the environment. We believe the key to solving the energy crisis is not necessarilythe renewable energy itself, but the infrastructure needed to deliver and manage large scaledistributed renewable energy resources (DRER).The mission of the ERC for FREEDM Systems is to develop the fundamental and enablingtechnology to demonstrate the system and, through such development and demonstration,foster a revolution in innovation and technology in the electric power and renewable energyindustries, providing long-term energy security and environmental sustainability for the U.S.Key Goals:Develop the fundamental knowledge base for the FREEDM system and provide fundamentalbreakthrough technology in energy storage and power semiconductor devices. Develop enabling technologies for subsystem and system demonstrations.Develop a 1MW FREEDM green energy hub system to power the ERC headquarters.Develop a diverse group of adaptive, creative, and innovative graduates who advancefundamental knowledge, enabling technology and engineered systems innovations inrenewable electric energy delivery and management systemsDevelop long-term partnerships with middle and high schools, teachers, and students toenhance engineering content knowledge and pedagogical methods, bring engineeringconcepts into the classroom, involve pre-college students in research, and thereby increasethe diversity and enrollment of domestic students in university engineering degree programs.Form long-term partnerships with large and small firms to speed the translation of ERCresearch into commercially viable products, stimulate formation of start-up companies basedon ERC intellectual property, and involve students in all phases of the innovation process.Increase the diversity of the proposed Center?s leadership, faculty, and students to exceedacademic engineering-wide national averages within the first five years of operation.Intellectual Merit: In addition to social, economic, and market challenges to be addressedby the ERC and by the power industry as a whole, barriers include needs for: new systemtheory for the paradigm-shifting FREEDM system; new high-frequency high-voltage powerelectronics based on wide bandgap materials; and significantly higher energy density storagetechnologies. Innovative development of such an infrastructure cannot be expected to occur intodays centralized model, where power companies seek only incremental solutions andresearch investments are suppressed to maximize profits. The systems approach requiredcannot be expected to occur through individual research projects with no common standards ortest bed. To develop the FREEDM system, a multidisciplinary center of excellence is needed topull together our nation?s top expertise in energy system theory, policy, renewable energytechnology, energy storage technology, electronic devices, and communication.Broader Impacts include an increasingly diverse and innovative pool of U.S. engineers;mitigation of global warming; aversion of an energy crisis; innovation in renewable energysystems developed with industry leading to new products, companies, and jobs; integration ofinnovation in multidisciplinary training for graduate and undergraduate students; broadeningparticipation in power engineering through integrated research activities for K-12 teachers andstudents; and improved faculty and graduate student skills in mentoring minorities and women.