WRAL TechWire

RALEIGH, N.C. — The N.C. A&T cleantech project that won $100,000 in the business plan competition aims to turn hog waste into a useful building material....

WRAL TechWire

RALEIGH, N.C. — Economic developers and companies in the Triangle are aiming to make the region a leader in plug-in electric vehicle technologies (PEV) and today they’re unveiling their plan to do it....

WRAL TechWire

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — The Research Triangle Cleantech Cluster, am organization created to promote and help grow the region's renewable, "smart" energy and other cleantech industries, has hired RTI to continue a study of the area's "smart" assets....

Triangle Business Journal

Four companies ABB, Siemens, Schneider and Power Analytics, with help from the Research Triangle Regional Partnership, are teaming up to create a trade organization for sustainable energy and other “clean-tech” industries.

Greentech Media

We explore the 60-plus smart grid players and cutting-edge test labs and pilot projects of North Carolina’s Research Triangle.

Clean Technica

Silicon Valley has traditionally been the epicenter of American smart grid technology innovation, but a new report suggests North Carolina’s Research Triangle may deserve the title and be key to the industry’s economic future.

Bloomberg Businessweek

Alex Huang keeps busy as a full-time electrical engineering professor at North Carolina State University, but outside the classroom he has his hands in a really big project. He wants to help the U.S. update its energy infrastructure and make the transition to the so-called smart grid—a digitized power grid that would allow users and power companies to communicate better, boosting efficiency and reliability. With a team of power electronics experts at the FREEDM Center, a multiuniversity initiative headquartered at North Carolina State’s Centennial Campus in Raleigh, Huang is helping to develop a digital “smart transformer” that will allow electricity to flow throughout the grid, rather than solely from generators to users as it now does.