This Week in PowerBites: Grid-Scale Storage Boom, V2G Initiative, and APEC Standouts
In This PowerBites
- Featured technology
- ProductBites - Latest PowerBite product coverage
What you'll learn:
- Despite prevailing economic and political headwinds, American production of grid-scale battery storage systems has risen to meet the needs of the nation’s growing wind and solar generating systems. They're expected to account for roughly 28% of new U.S. capacity.
- A new initiative in California may help pave the way for widespread deployment of bidirectional charging infrastructure.
- Advances in high-thermal performance packaging are playing an almost equally important role in the push toward ever-higher speeds and power densities as the GaN, SiC, and Si devices they're housing.
- The next generation of motor drives is using equal doses of wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductor technology, advanced embedded processing, and new dev tools to make EVs, robots, and other applications more efficient, cost-effective, and easier to design.
ProductBites
Advances in high-thermal performance packaging are playing an almost equally important role in the push toward ever-higher speeds and power densities as the GaN, SiC, and Si devices they're housing. Meanwhile, high-precision power management isn’t just for AI servers anymore. It’s becoming an essential element in nearly every product category from robots to renewable-energy systems.
Power Conversion
Much of the industry took a hard fork toward focusing on power solutions for AI and data center applications. But we also saw large leaps in single-stage bidirectional converters, tightly integrated power modules, and solid-state transformers that could ease the challenges of updating aging power grids.
