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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 introduces you to undergraduate and graduate students and shares stories of their pursuit of a degree with an energy focus.
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North Carolina has received a $300,000 competitive award from the U.S. Department of Energy for a joint project by the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), UNC Charlotte’s Energy Production Infrastructure Center (EPIC), and the NC Clean Energy Technology Center (NCCETC) at NC State University. “We are partnering on a project that will examine storm-related impacts and the costs...
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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".
