This Week in PowerBites: Grid-Scale Storage Boom, V2G Initiative, and APEC Standouts
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 Devices
High-thermal performance packaging is 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.
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.
Motor Drivers and Controllers
The next generation of motor drives employs equal doses of 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.
Power Management
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.
