Next generation very large press-pack IGBT

电力电子是固态电子从处理通信和数据扩展到处理高达千兆瓦电力的业务，减少了能源损失；它是低碳经济的一项使能技术。该项目汇集了一所大学、一家大功率半导体制造商和一家电网最终用户，他们在各自领域处于世界领先地位，全部总部设在英国，以开发下一代更高功率的电子设备，以实现这一目标。这对英国来说是确保我们自己的电网安全和帮助履行我们对可再生能源的承诺的一个重大机会，特别是将海上风力涡轮机连接到电网，也是一个重大的出口机会，特别是对没有这种本土技术的发展中经济体来说。它将确保并有可能增加英国的就业，这是一个重大机遇和不断增长的市场，并将提高一个技能短缺的商业领域的技能，这阻碍了商业能力的增长，使其总体上有利于经济和社会。

Power electronics is the extension of solid-state electronics away from handling communications and data and into the business of handling electric power up to gigawatts with reduced losses of energy; it is an enabling technology for the low-carbon economy. This project brings together a university, a manufacturer of high power semiconductors and an electric grid end-user, who are world-leading in their fields and all based in the UK, to develop the next generation of higher power rated electronic devices to enable this to happen. This is a major opportunity for the UK in securing our own grid and helping implement our commitment to renewable energy, particularly connecting offshore wind turbines to the grid and is also a major export opportunity, particularly to the developing economies that do not have this indigenous technology. It will secure and potentially increase employment in the UK, in what is a major opportunity and growing market and will increase skills in an area of business where there is a shortage of skills that is hampering business ability to grow to the benefit of the economy and society in general.