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Researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee have built and tested an energy hub capable of managing two-way power flow to and from commercial buildings. The bidirectional power electronics hub technology is the first step in creating a system that can better control power flow to and from commercial buildings that are equipped with such renewable systems as solar or wind - or a combination of the two - and other types of renewable energy generating systems. The team, all at ORNL, includes Madhu Sudhan Chinthavali, Ph.D., head of the Energy Systems Integration & Controls Section, who led the team; Michael R. Starke, Ph.D., senior IEEE member, a power systems research engineer who was the project's lead software architect; Steven L. Campbell, the project's lead architect for the system's integration; Ben Dean, a communications interface developer; Jonathan Harter, a hardware systems specialist; and Rafal Wojda, a magnetic systems specialist. |