A little over a year ago, we partnered with the electrical engineering organization IEEE to launch The Little Box Challenge -- a competition to build a much smaller power inverter. Contestants from around the world have been hard at work on the challenge since then. This July, over 100 teams submitted Technical Approach and Testing Applications to have their inverters tested at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's Energy Systems Integration Facility in Golden, Colorado this fall. We are proud to announce that the 18 teams selected to have their inverters tested are:
Team Name | Country | Team Members |
!verter | Germany/Switzerland | Eckart Hoene, Johann W. Kolar, Dominik Bortis, Yanick Lobsiger, Dominik Neumayr, Oliver Knecht, Florian Krismer, Stefan Hoffmann, Adam Kuczmik, Oleg Zeiter, Franc Zajc |
Adiabatic Logic | UK | Geoff Harvey, Alan Walbridge, Steve Love |
AHED | Germany | Alexander Huenten |
AMR | Argentina | Agustin Reibel |
Cambridge Active Magnetics | UK | John Wood, Ed Shelton, Tim Regan, Ellen Wood, Kyle Rogers, Dr Kevin Rathbone, Sam Harrup |
Energylayer | Ukraine | Evgeny Sboychakov, Ruslan Kotelnikov |
Fraunhofer IISB | Germany | Bernd Eckardt, Stefan Endres, Maximilian Hofmann, Stefan Matlok, Thomas Menrath, Martin März, Stefan Zeltner |
Future Energy Electronics Center | USA | Jih-Sheng Lai, Lanhua Zhang, Xiaonan Zhao, Rachael Born, Chung-Yi Lin, Ming-Chang Chou, Shu-Shuo Chang, Kye Yak See |
Helios | USA | Jack Zhu, Mari Ma |
LBC1 | Slovakia | Martin Pietka, Andrej Teren, Marian Vranka, Lubos Drozd, Peter Sedlacko |
OKE-Services | Netherlands | Henk Oldenkamp |
Red Electrical Devils | Belgium | Olivier Bomboir, Paul Bleus, Fabrice Frebel, Thierry Joannès, François Milstein, Pierre Stassain, Christophe Geuzaine, Carl Emmerechts, Philippe Laurent |
Rompower | USA/Romania | Ionel Jitaru, Nicolae Daniel Bolohan, Antonio Marco Davila |
Schneider Electric Team | France | Miao-xin Wang, Rajesh Ghosh, Srikanth Mudiyula, Radoslava Mitova, David Reilly, Milind Dighrasker, Sajeesh Sulaiman, Alain Dentella, Damir Klikic, Chandrashekar Devalapuraramegowda, Michael Hartmann, Vijaykumar Atadkar |
The University of Tennessee | USA | Daniel Costinett, Leon Tolbert, Fred Wang, Chongwen Zhao, Bradford Trento, Ling Jiang, Rick Langley, John Jansen, Reid Kress, Anthony Brun |
Tommasi - Bailly | France | Mike Tommasi, Alain Bailly |
UIUC Pilawa Group | USA | Robert Pilawa, Shibin Qin, Christopher Barth, Yutian Lei, Wen-Chuen Liu, Andrew Stillwell, Intae Moon, Derek Chou, Thomas Foulkes |
Venderbosch | Netherlands | Herbert Venderbosch, Gerard Bruggink |
The inverters brought to NREL will undergo extensive testing to verify that they meet the specifications of the competition. The announcement of the grand prize winner is expected to take place in early 2016.
Posted by Google Green Team
Posted by Google Green Team
