Renewable energy system research and education at the NSF FREEDM systems center

The Future Renewable Electric Energy Delivery and Management (FREEDM) Systems Center is a new National Science Foundation (NSF) Generation-III Engineering Research Center (ERC) established in 2008 with the mission to develop the fundamental and enabling technologies necessary for a new and paradigm shifting power grid infrastructure, the FREEDM System. The center involves more than fifty professors and one hundred fifty graduate and undergraduate students from five US universities and two international universities, as well as more than sixty companies and national laboratories in 28 states and 9 countries. This paper will highlight center version, mission and research and education.