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Business North Carolina gathered area energy experts to discuss North Carolina's Energy Edge. EPIC's Christina Kopitopoulou joined the conversation.
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Mississippi State University’s National Strategic Planning and Analysis Research Center (NSPARC) will host the fourth annual Data Summit, Sept. 12 – 13. The two-day conference will be held at The Mill, 100 Mercantile Ln., in Starkville, Mississippi. This year’s theme is “Cybernetic City: An Ecosystem for Big, Smart, and Fast Economies.” One highlight of the event is the main panel on the...
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On May 7, 2019, the EPIC Affiliates Program hosted the first EPIC Innovator competition. The competition invited individuals and teams to submit ideas, projects, technology concepts, or prototypes that could be worthy of further exploration and funding. Nine ideas were submitted and the top five were selected to present in front of judges from Energy United, Framatome, Power Engineers,...
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On April 2, 2019, EPIC, welcomed 8 students from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Karlsruhe, Germany, as they take part in a six-month research exchange program. KIT is one of the largest and most prestigious research and education institutions in Europe and is known around the world for its high quality of research work. This partnership is a result of a "Memorandum of...
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EPIC is excited to share our Spotlight on Students! With the growing popularity of energy related studies, we want you to get to know the fantastic talent right here in EPIC. Spotlight on Students will introduce you to undergraduate and graduate students and will share stories of their pursuit of a degree with an energy focus.
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The grid-connected energy storage community is about to get a transformational dose of the "EPIC time scale" with the rapidly building success of the C-Ion supercapacitor application development project led by ZapGo, Inc. Read about this and more in EPIC's March Newsletter.
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A paper by Dr. Badrul Chowdhury and recent graduate student Mahfuz Shuvra, was selected for publication in the Institute of Engineering & Technology (IET) Renewable Power Generation journal, titled "Distributed Dynamic Grid Support Using Smart PV Inverters During Unbalanced Grid Faults".
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On WFAE's Charlotte Talks, the topic was energy. There are competing ideas of what that future of energy looks like, and how best to achieve it. Mike Collins and industry watchers discuss those different - and differing - options.
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The unique partnership between Envision Charlotte and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte), supported by Department of Energy funding, is shaking the assumption that energy and cost savings can only result from lofty investments and proving that...
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UNC Charlotte’s Energy Production and Infrastructure Center (EPIC) was awarded a $942,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop an innovative solution related to curbside charging of electric vehicles.
EPIC Director Mike Mazzola stated, “This project will pilot a solution for the emerging problem of providing owners of electric vehicles charging points at or near their...
