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Area(s) of expertise:
Power electronics, smart electric grid
Summary of expertise:
Deepak Divan is President and CTO of Varentec, a company funded by green-tech VC Khosla Ventures, that is providing innovative solutions for a smart and dynamically controllable grid. He has over 35 years of experience in academia and industry in the areas of power electronics applied to utility and industrial systems, is a Fellow of the IEEE, and past President of the IEEE Power Electronics Society. From 2004-2011, he served as Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Founding Director of the Intelligent Power Infrastructure Consortium at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. From 1995-2004, he served as Founder, Chairman and CEO/CTO of Soft Switching Technologies, a VC funded company in the industrial power quality market. He has over 250 papers and 40 issued and pending patents. His research interests and expertise are in grid control, sustainable energy and power electronics.
Blog/Web site:
www.varentec.com
White paper/research:
Selected peer-reviewed publications related to proposed project: 1. F. Kreikebaum, D. Das D. Divan, Reducing Transmission Investment to Meet Renewable Portfolio Standards Using Controlled Energy Flows, IEEE ISGT, Jan 22, 2010. 2. F. Kreikebaum and D. Divan, Overlaying a Parallel Market to Increase Renewable Penetration, IEEE ECCE Conf Rec, 2010. 3. Divan and J. Sastry, Voltage Synthesis Using Dual Virtual Quadrature Sources ¿ A New Concept in AC Power Conversion, IEEE Transaction on Power Electronics, vol. 23 no. 6, 2008, pp. 3004-3013. 4. Divan, W. Brumsickle, R. Schneider, B. Kranz, R. Gascoigne, D. Bradshaw, M. Ingram and I. Grant, A Distributed Static Series Compensator System for Realizing Active Power Flow Control on Existing Power Lines, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, vol. 22 no. 1, Jan. 2007, pp. 642-649. 5. D. Divan and H. Johal, Distributed FACTS ¿ A New Concept for Realizing Grid Power Flow Control, IEEE Transactions on Po
Awards/associations/memberships:
- Awarded the IEEE William E Newell Field Medal in 2006, the highest award given by the IEEE in the area of power electronics. - Elected President of the IEEE Power Electronics Society for 2009 and 2010. - IEEE Fellow - 1998 - Invited member of Subcommittee on Science for Energy Technology, organized by the Office of Science - DOE in 2010 to advise them on science advances needed in smart grid, CCS, fuel cells, energy storage, lighting, bio-fuels and other areas. - Evaluated DOE ARRA awards for the Smart Grid Investment Grant program. - Invited member of advising panel for Agency for Science Technology and Research (ASTAR) in Singapore from 2007-10 on strategic direction for energy research - Advised DOE and FERC after the 2003 North-Eastern blackout. Data from I-Grid (developed by Soft Switching Technologies) was used by the US-Canada Presidential Task Force investigating the blackout.
Educational background:
University of Calgary, Ph.D, Electrical Engineering University of Calgary, MS, Electrical Engineering IIT Kanpur, B Tech, Electrical Engineering |
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