Advanced Component Development Lab
Provides hardware design and development including wide bandgap semiconductor packaging, gate driver and control electronics, magnetics, and full converter integration.
Advanced Computing Lab
Provides high-fidelity simulation of power grids with power electronics and develops machine learning algorithms for monitoring grids.
Alternate Timing and Synchronization Lab
Serves as a test bed for integrated development, and evaluation of leading-edge timing, synchronization, and communications capabilities for the energy sector.
Batteries at Extreme Conditions Lab
Offers a unique portfolio of testing and characterization tools for electrochemical energy storage systems in emerging applications.
Battery Manufacturing Facility
Analyzing every aspect of battery production, from raw materials and electrode dispersion preparation to finished product and performance testing.
Battery Materials Lab
Focuses on the development, synthesis and scale-up of cutting-edge materials.
Battery Recycling and Automating Circular Economies (BRACE) Lab
Addresses challenges of recycling and reusing automotive lithium-ion batteries, electric grid power electronics, hard drives, and other consumer electronics.
Buildings-to-Grid Lab
Refines hardware and software for connecting buildings to the electric grid as controllable resources at the device, building, and community level.
Distributed Energy Communications and Controls Lab
Houses test beds to evaluate and demonstrate sensors and power electronics for the power grid.
Grid Operations and Analytics Lab
Serves as a test bed for monitoring/use of data from control and operations of utilities to improve resilience and security in the electric grid.
Hybrid AC/DC Lab
Provides a test bed for integration of low voltage power electronics with the electric grid/emulated distributed energy resources.
Medium Voltage Lab
Provides a controlled environment to develop, build, and test all the subcomponents required for a high-power converter system.
Powerline Conductor Accelerated Testing Facility (PCAT)
Evaluates the performance of novel overhead conductors in a real-world environment.
Real-time Simulation Lab
Evaluates wide-area power systems, distributed energy systems, and power electronics using different architectures and communication/protection approaches.
Solid State Battery Lab
Dedicated to cutting-edge research and development of advanced and emerging battery systems, including Li-sulfur batteries, sea-water batteries and solid state batteries for transportation and grid storage applications.
Vehicles-to-Grid Lab
Focuses on novel and efficient, high-power charging hardware and how it interacts with the electric grid.