The 2022 PowerBest Awards: Power Conversion & Regulation

Jan. 13, 2023

Electronic Design’s 2022 PowerBest Awards celebrate last year's most significant innovations in power conversion, power storage, and power device technology.

Lee Goldberg

Related To: Electronic Design

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The year 2022 was a very busy for the power sector, marked by unusually high levels of technical innovation and new product introductions within nearly every application category. This made it even more difficult than usual to trim down our long list of deserving candidates for this year's PowerBest awards.

Despite our best efforts to hold the final list of awards to our traditional dozen, a surge in the number of promising battery-related products and technologies added an additional two entries to our 2023 PowerBest honoree roster. Thus, due to the large number of award winners, we've broken them down into three rough categories for easier navigation:

Power Conversion & Regulation
Power Devices
Battery & Storage Technologies

Electronic Design offers our congratulations to this year's PowerBest winners, and deep thanks to the many other worthy candidates who made the selection process so challenging!

About the Author

Lee Goldberg | Contributing Editor

Lee Goldberg is a self-identified “Recovering Engineer,” Maker/Hacker, Green-Tech Maven, Aviator, Gadfly, and Geek Dad. He spent the first 18 years of his career helping design microprocessors, embedded systems, renewable energy applications, and the occasional interplanetary spacecraft. After trading his ‘scope and soldering iron for a keyboard and a second career as a tech journalist, he’s spent the next two decades at several print and online engineering publications.

Lee’s current focus is power electronics, especially the technologies involved with energy efficiency, energy management, and renewable energy. This dovetails with his coverage of sustainable technologies and various environmental and social issues within the engineering community that he began in 1996. Lee also covers 3D printers, open-source hardware, and other Maker/Hacker technologies.

Lee holds a BSEE in Electrical Engineering from Thomas Edison College, and participated in a colloquium on technology, society, and the environment at Goddard College’s Institute for Social Ecology. His book, “Green Electronics/Green Bottom Line - A Commonsense Guide To Environmentally Responsible Engineering and Management,” was published by Newnes Press.

Lee, his wife Catherine, and his daughter Anwyn currently reside in the outskirts of Princeton N.J., where they masquerade as a typical suburban family.

Lee also writes the regular PowerBites series.