ENRTF ID: 179-E

Project Title: Power Electronics Circuits for Minnesota’s Renewable Energy Future

Category: E. Air Quality, Climate Change, and Renewable Energy

Summary: Our project involves engineering techno-economic solutions that will propel pertinent stakeholders in Minnesota to the forefront of advances in next-generation ultra-wide-bandgap power-electronics circuits for renewable (solar) energy applications.

Total Project Budget: $ 472,647
Proposed Project Time Period for the Funding Requested: June 30, 2023 (3 yrs)

Name: Steven Koester
Sponsoring Organization: U of MN
Job Title: Professor
Department: College of Science and Engineering
Address: 200 Union St. SE., 5-153 Keller Hall, University of Minnesota
Minneapolis MN 55455
Telephone Number: (612) 625-1316
Email skoester@umn.edu
Web Address: http://people.ece.umn.edu/users/skoester/index.html

Location:
Region: Metro
County Name: Hennepin

Alternate Text for Visual: We will engineer techno-economic solutions for efficient and reliable solar energy conversion. The primary deliverable will be a residential-scale inverter that converts solar energy to electricity with industry-leading efficiency & reliability specifications built with MN-made ultra-wide-bandgap devices.