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

北卡罗来纳州立大学、亚利桑那州立大学、佛罗里达州立大学、佛罗里达农工大学、密苏里大学罗拉分校项目总结我们对未来可再生能源交付和管理系统的ERC的愿景是一个高效的电网，将高度分散和可扩展的替代发电资源和存储与现有电力系统相结合，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。我们相信，解决能源危机的关键不一定是可再生能源本身，而是输送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该系统，并通过这种开发和示范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。关键目标：为FREEDM系统发展基础知识库，并在能量存储和电力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使能技术。开发1兆瓦FREEDM绿色能源枢纽系统为ERC总部提供动力。培养一批适应性强、创造性和创新性的毕业生，他们在可再生能源输送和管理系统中推进基础知识、使能技术和工程系统创新。与初中和高中、教师和学生发展长期合作伙伴关系，以增强工程课程知识和教学方法，将工程概念带入课堂，让预科学生参与研究，从而增加国内学生参加大学工程学位课程的多样性和入学率。与大小公司建立长期合作伙伴关系，以加速将ERC研究转化为商业可行的产品，鼓励基于能源研究中心知识产权的初创公司的形成，并让学生参与创新过程的所有阶段。增加拟建中心的多样性？S领导、教职员工和学生在运营的头五年内超过学术工程领域的全国平均水平。智力优势：除了能源研究中心和整个电力行业要解决的社会、经济和市场挑战之外，障碍包括：需要：转变范式的FREEDM系统的新系统理论；基于宽带隙材料的新型高频高压电力电子；以及显著更高的能量密度存储技术。这种基础设施的创新开发不能指望在当今的集中化模式下发生，在这种模式下，电力公司只寻求渐进的解决方案，研究投资被抑制以实现利润最大化。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所需的系统方法。为了开发FREEDM系统，需要一个多学科的卓越中心来凝聚我们的国家？S在能源系统理论、政策、可再生能源技术、储能技术、电子设备和通信方面的顶尖专业知识。广泛的影响包括日益多样化和创新的美国工程师队伍；减缓全球变暖；避免能源危机；与行业一起开发的可再生能源系统创新，导致新的产品、公司和就业；将创新整合到研究生和本科生的多学科培训中；通过K-12教师和学生的综合研究活动扩大对电力工程的参与；以及提高教职员工和研究生指导少数族裔和女性的技能。

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.