MVDC - Technologies & Systems
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Power Electronics Laboratory receives research funding from the Swiss Federal Office of Energy
Power Electronics Laboratory has received research funding from the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE) for the research project set to explore and overcome technology gaps in domain of high power direct current (DC) conversion. Despite benefiting from AC systems for over a century, there are applications where DC technology is preferred. Potentials and benefits are largely unexplored in the medium voltage (MV) domain due to lack of available high-power conversion and protection technology for DC. Research project titled “Medium Voltage Direct Current Energy Conversion Technologies and Systems” aim to devise and develop novel, compact and highly efficient power electronic conversion technologies for MVDC applications and demonstrate their benefits on the system level.