The California Energy Commission (CEC) announced that Electrochemistry Foundry has been awarded $28 million to build a battery manufacturing pilot plant. As a project partner, UC Riverside, led by Professor Juchen Guo, will receive $1 million to support the development of a dry room prototyping lab within the Winston Chung Global Energy Center, advancing regional capabilities in next-generation battery innovation.

BCOE faculty members Juchen Guo and Hamed Mohsenian-Rad are the new co-directors of the Winston Chung Global Energy Center.

On January 18th, BCOE Dean and Professor Chris Lynch welcomed President Keechoo Choi of Ajou University to the Winston Chung Global Energy Center, marking a significant collaboration through an MOU. This partnership aims to foster mutual friendship and promote academic research and educational cooperation, including faculty and student exchanges, joint research projects, and the sharing of information and publications.

Engineers in academia or in industry with an interest in power grid modernization can learn the latest about sensor technologies and innovative use cases of various sensor data in a new book. Smart Grid Sensors: Principles and Applications (Cambridge University Press), published in April 2022 by professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Hamed Mohsenian-Rad, covers smart grid sensors, a component of electrical power grids that use real-time monitoring to lower costs, save energy, integrate renewable energy resources, and improve reliability, security and resiliency. The book’s contents

Dr. Hamidreza Nazaripouya, affiliated faculty of Winston Chung Global Energy Center (WCGEC) and Assistant Professor at Oklahoma State University, was selected for a three-year, $939,232 agreement with the California Energy Commission (CEC) for his proposal entitled “Residential Solar+Storage Control Unit for Providing Grid Services and Demand Side Management” in collaboration with Alfredo Martinez-Morales (affiliated WCGEC researcher), Grid Alternatives, and Oklahoma State University. The purpose of this Agreement is to fund demonstrations to evaluate the operations that residential energy

After an incredible 22 years of service at UC Riverside, Dr. Chan Seung Park retired from the university on 6/30/2020. Dr. Chan Seung Park has been bestowed the title of Associate Adjunct Professor Emeritus by Chancellor Kim A. Wilcox under the authority of The Regents and the President of the University of California. Dr. Park's research has made significant advancement in environmental science and engineering, including vehicle emission measurement, production of liquid and gaseous fuels from renewable resources, alternative energy storage technologies and energy efficiency improvement

Heat Waves For fast access to experts, TEXT or call the 24-hour-experts hotline at 951-312-3049, or email news@ucr.edu Hamidreza Nazaripouya, Assistant Professional Researcher Winston Chung Global Energy Center, Assistant Adjunct Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering. Power Systems and smart grid, power electronics, control and optimization. hamidreza.nazaripouya@ucr.edu Read the full article here: https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2020/08/31/experts-heat-waves

Dr. Nazaripouya delivered an invited talk on "Real-World Application of Energy Storage Systems in Improving Grid Resilience" at the DISTRIBUTECH International 2020. His presentation was focused on a novel technology which has been developed for real-time control and operation of a battery storage system to address the complex problems in distribution systems including grid resilience. He showed how the developed technology by considering power system dynamics and incorporating adaptive control techniques, machine learning algorithms, discrete signal processing, and optimization methods enables