After completeing his master studies at RWTH Aachen University, Florian Andresen joins the PGS Institute starting 1^st February, 2023.

After completeing his master studies at RWTH Aachen University, Amandus Bach joins the PGS Institute starting 1^st December, 2022.

After completeing his master studies at RWTH Aachen University, Florian Hölting joins the PGS Institute starting 15^th November, 2022.

After completeing his master studies at RWTH Aachen University, Jonas Brucksch joins the PGS Institute starting 1^st September, 2022.

After completeing his bachelor and master studies at RWTH Aachen University, Lukas Leucker joins the PGS Institute starting 1^st August, 2022.

As part of Girls' Day 2022 ten participants were welcomed at PGS and soldered power electronic DC/DC converters.

On 28.4.2022 PGS organizes the student event "Student Meets Research at PGS".

Aniket Kapse joins the PGS Institute starting 19^th April, 2022.

After completeing his bachelor and master studies at RWTH Aachen University, Julius Kleutgens joins the PGS Institute starting 1^st January, 2022.

Jakob Teichrib defends his doctoral thesis from the digitalized lecture hall.

After completeing his bachelor and master studies at RWTH Aachen University, Lars Hagemann joins the PGS Institute starting 1^st October, 2021.

After completeing his bachelor and master studies at RWTH Aachen University, Tim Karsten joins the PGS Institute starting 1^st July, 2021.

On August 14^th, 2020, Prof. De Doncker and Dr. Jingxin Hu were invited to give an online lecture on the topic of “Fast Charging in Urban Environments” in the 2020 Asian PhD School on Advanced Power Electronics, which is organized by Xi’an Jiaotong University in China and co-sponsored by the IEEE Power Electronics Society.  Prof. De Doncker reviewed the technological and political drivers for fast charging, and shared his views on the impacts of fast charging on the drivetrain design as well as batteries. Dr. Hu introduced the latest advances in dc-dc converters with improved efficiency, fast dynamics and short-circuit fault handling capability. The lecture has attracted more than 160 online and offline attendees worldwide from both industry and universities. More information about the PhD School can be found on http://phdschoolape.xjtu.edu.cn/.   

How dc technology lost the battle 150 years ago, but may win the war in a liberalized energy market. In it's third quarterly issue, the Electric Energy Magazine published an article on that topic, written by Prof. De Doncker.

From November 2-4, 2020, the 5^th IEEE Workshop on the Electronic Grid (eGrid) is hosted at the Eurogress in Aachen. The IEEE eGrid 2020 offers participants from research and industry worldwide to present their latest research and project findings in the field of DC grids. The deadline for abstract submission is the 07.08.2020.

Mr. Beushausen presents his paper on „GaN-Based Active Gate-Drive Unit With Closed-Loop du/dt-Control for IGBTs in Medium-Voltage Applications“ at the conference PCIM Europe 2020.

The conference takes place online in a completely digital format due to the ongoing pandemic.

In the following, the abstract of the paper is given.

After completeing his bachelor and master studies at RWTH Aachen University, Jan Mathé joins the PGS Institute starting 1^st June, 2020.

After completeing his bachelor and master studies at RWTH Aachen University, Raphael Mencher joins the PGS Institute starting 2^nd March, 2020.

The Power Electronics and Electrical Drives Department of the PGS invites all students interested in power electronics research topics to an information evening at the E.ON Energy Research Center. We would like to introduce our institute and present our current thesis topics and student jobs (BA/MA/HiWi). Afterwards there will be a guided tour through the laboratory and the test hall before we end the evening with a discussion accompanied by food and drinks.

To better estimate how many participants are to be expected, send an email to sign up to: katharina.hetzenecker@eonerc.rwth-aachen.de

To honour his contributions to high-power and energy-conversion technologies, Prof. Rik W. De Doncker receives IEEE MEDAL IN POWER ENGINEERING, for outstanding contributions to the technology associated with the generation, transmission, distribution, application, and utilization of electric power for the betterment of society, sponsored by the IEEE Industry Applications, Industrial Electronics, Power Electronics, and Power & Energy Societies.

After completing his studies at RWTH Aachen University, Fabian Herzog will join the PGS Institute as a research assistant starting 2 December 2019.

The Power Electronics and Electrical Drives Department of the PGS invites all students interested in power electronics research topics to an information evening at the E.ON Energy Research Center. We would like to introduce our institute and present our current thesis topics and student jobs (BA/MA/HiWi). Afterwards there will be a guided tour through the laboratory and the test hall before we end the evening with a discussion accompanied by food and drinks.

To better estimate how many participants are to be expected, send an email to sign up to: katharina.hetzenecker@eonerc.rwth-aachen.de

You are cordially invited to the presentation of Dr. Rebecca Peterson, University of Michigan, presenting her recent research on Tuesday, 29th October, 18:00-19:00 Room 00.24 at E.ON ERC. The topic of the presentation will be "Exploiting In Situ Interfacial Reactions for Oxide Semiconductor Power Devices". Dr. Peterson is currently on sabbatical as a Visiting Scientist at the Paul-Drude-Institut für Festkörperelektronik at TU Berlin. 

Daniel von den Hoff presents his papers with the titles “Simple Empiric Root-Mean-Square Electric-Drivetrain Model for Wind Turbines with Full-Size Converter“ and “Instantaneous Start-Up and Shutdown Method for Three-Phase Dual-Active Bridge DC-DC Converters“ at the conference IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Expo in Baltimore, USA. The abstracts of the papers can be found below.

As part of the Flexible Electrical Networks (FEN) research campus, the Institute for Power Generation and Storage Systems at the E.ON Energy Research Center (E.ON ERC) commissioned the world's most powerful medium-voltage (5 kV), medium-frequency bi-directional DC-DC converter.

Steffen Beushausen and Jakob Teichrib present their respective paper on “GaN-Based Active Gate-Drive Unit for IGBTs in Medium-Voltage Applications” and “The ETO-IGBT – A Dual-Concept of Thyristor and Transistor Power Devices” at the conference 2019 IEEE EPE’19 ECCE Europe in Genoa, Italy. The abstracts of the papers can be found below.

From 15 to 22 August 2019 the 2019 Asia PhD School on Advanced Power Electronics took place in Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China. Ten IEEE Fellows over the world were invited to lecture more than 300 PhD students and young engineers. On behalf of Prof. Rik. W. De Doncker, Dr. Jingxin Hu gave a lecture on "Fast Charging in the Urban Environment".

The journal article “A High Step-Up Ratio Soft-Switching DC-DC Converter for Interconnection of MVDC and HVDC Grids,” Power Electronics, IEEE Transactions on, vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 2986-3001, April, 2018, co-authored by Shenghui Cui, Nils Soltau, Rik W. De Doncker, has been awarded a Second Place Prize Paper Award for 2018 in the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics.

Each year, The Editor and Associate Editors of the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics recognize the three 1st prize papers and five 2nd prize papers deemed best among those published in the Transactions during the preceding calendar year.  The established Transactions review criteria are used as the basis for the Prize Paper selection.  Specific emphasis is placed on originality; contribution to the field; extent to which the paper is supported by analysis and experimental evidence; and quality of presentation, including the effective use of illustrations.

Julia Warmuz, Jingxin Hu, Shenghui Cui und Zhiqing Yang  visited the international conference IEEE PEDG 2019 in Xi’an, China. Ms. Warmuz presented her paper titled ‘’PV- and Battery-Ratio for very large Modular PV Parks with DC Coupled Battery Converters’’. Mr. Hu introduced his publication ’’A Partial-Power Regulated Hybrid Modular DC-DC Converter to Interconnect MVDC and LVDC Grids‘‘. Mr. Cui presented his paper ‘’AC Grid Low Voltage Ride-Through (LVRT) of Diode-Rectifier Units based HVDC Transmission Systems‘‘. Mr. Yang introduced his research topic ’’Stability Assessment of a Three-phase Grid-tied PV Inverter with Eigenvalue based Method‘‘.

As part of an RWTH Delegation visiting the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, Prof. De Doncker was invited to give a talk on flexible electrical distribution grids and DC technologies. The seminar was organized by the Faculty of Engineering and chaired by Prof. Ying Tsui, Associated Dean, Research and International.  The local IEEE Power Electronics Chapter was invited to the seminar.

Prof. De Doncker was invited to give a talk on DC technologies at the Smart Communities Summit of the New Energy and Industrial Development Organization (NEDO) of the Japanese Ministry for Energy, Trade and Industry (METI). The summit was opened by Mr. Hiroaki Ishizuka, Chairman of NEDO and Mr. Toshiaki Higashihara, President & CEO Hitachi, Ltd. and Chairman of the Japan Smart Community Alliance.

The Institute for Power Generation and Storage Systems (PGS) in cooperation with the Institute for Aerospace Systems (ILR) hosts the 3^rd workshop on hybrid-electric flying. It is part of the LuFo-project “MVDC-OnBoard – Power Supply Systems for Hybrid-Electric Aircrafts” to support an intensive technical exchange between several chairs of the RWTH Aachen University and industrial companies. An optimal power supply for large hybrid-electric aircrafts is the goal of the development. Mr. Hinz (PGS) and Mr. Aigner (ILR) organized the event.

Mr. Beushausen presents his paper on “Comparison of Fast and Reliable Zero-Voltage Detection Topologies” at the conference 2019 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC) in Anaheim, Kalifornien, USA. In the following the abstract of the paper is given.

From 12 to 13 March 2019, the fourth Conference for Wind Power Drives (CWD 2019) took place at the Center for Wind Power Drives in Aachen. As part of his publication entitled "Design and Evaluation of a Battery-Supported Electric Drivetrain for Kite-Based High-Altitude Wind Energy Conversion", Daniel von den Hoff presented current research results, which were developed in cooperation with E.On and other industry partners.

Starting from January 2^nd, 2019 Ming Jia joins the PGS Insitute after she earned her Master of Science degree at RWTH Aachen University.

From 20-21 November 2018 the 11^th SET-Plan conference took place in Vienna. Prof. Rik W. De Doncker gave a lecture on "Fast Charging in the Urban Environment".

On 19.11 Elad Orian from Comet-ME for sustainable rural electrification will visit us in PGS and will introduce Comet-ME and its activaties in Palestine. The presentation “Provision of basic energy services to rural communities in Palestine” will be held in Rooms 00.26/00.27 at 12:30. Comet-ME is one of the leading providers of off-grid energy and water services to rural communities that suffer from ongoing political discrimination. In the talk the context, operational methodology, technology and impact will be presented. We are looking forward to your numerous attendance. For more information please contact: Ala Qawasmi.

In the article, which appears in issue 10/2018 of the journal eb Elektrische Bahnen, concepts for more flexible network integration of railway systems using direct current networks are presented and discussed.

The Institute for Power Generation and Storage Systems (PGS) in cooperation with the Institute for Aerospace Systems (ILR) hosts the 2nd workshop on hybrid-electric flying. It is part of the LuFo-project “MVDC-OnBoard – Power Supply Systems for Hybrid-Electric Aircrafts” to support an intensive technical exchange between several chairs of the RWTH Aachen University and industrial companies. An optimal power supply for large hybrid-electric aircrafts is the goal of the development. Mr. Hinz (PGS) and Mr. Aigner (ILR) organized the event.

From September 22^nd to 27^th, Jingxin Hu and Zhiqing Yang visited the international conference IEEE ECCE 2018 in Portland, Oregon, USA. Mr Hu presented his paper titled ‘’Modeling and Dynamic Control of a Three-Phase Dual-Active Bridge Converter Using a Hybrid Modulation Scheme’’. Mr. Yang presented his publication ‘’Operation-Oriented Design Procedure of a Three-Phase Dual-Active Bridge for a Wide Operation Range’’. Additionally, Mr. Hu and Mr. Yang participated in the IEEE workshop ’’Design Automation for Power Electronics – DAPE’’.

Starting from September 3^rd 2018, Katharina Hetzenecker joins the PGS after she earned her Master of Science degree at RWTH Aachen University.

Congratulation to Mr. Cui for the “2017 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad”. This award was founded by the Chinese government with the purpose of rewarding the academic excellence of self-financed Chinese students studying abroad. Only those with outstanding performance in their PhD studies are considered by the award selection panel and no more than 500 young talents are granted the award each year all over the world.

Mr. Ala Qawasmi presents his paper on “A New Thyristor-Based Power Electronic Device for DC Circuit Breakers in Medium-Voltage Applications” at the IEEE 9th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG) 2018 between 25th and 28th June 2018 in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. In the following the abstract of the paper is given.