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Energy Department’s American-Made High-Voltage Direct Current Prize Announces Four Winners
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity announced the four winners of the American-Made High-Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) Prize. This $200,000 prize—$50,000 awarded to each winning team—incentivized competitors to share new technology solutions that improve the performance and resilience of the U.S. energy grid. The knowledge gained from this prize will help reduce technology gaps that hinder HVDC deployment in the United States. It will enable new innovative solutions to technical challenges in HVDC through new hardware, controls, and advanced concepts.
Image source: National Renewable Energy Laboratory
HVDC Prize competitors were required to submit technical narratives proposing their solutions and actionable steps toward advancing their ideas for the HVDC industry. The following four teams were each awarded $50,000 in cash prizes for their efforts:
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Richard Zhang, Virginia Tech, Arlington, VA – Multi-Functional Intelligent Voltage-Source-Converter HVDC
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SixPoint Materials, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA – Hybrid HVDC Breaker Using GaN Semiconductor
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University of South Florida, Tampa, FL – Generalized Dynamic Circuit Model Design for HVDC
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Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA – Proactive Solid State Circuit Breaker for HVDC System Protection
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