Category: In the News

A University of Wisconsin–Madison researcher has developed a tool that could help people who struggle to afford electricity make better choices about how to ration their energy use. Millions of people around the globe rely on prepaid utility plans that work much like prepaid phone service. Rather than getting a bill at the end of the month, these customers pay for their kilowatt hours up front by putting money in their accounts.

From the Wisconsin State Journal - A technology pioneered by Benjamin Franklin is being revived to build more efficient electric motors, an effort in its nascent stage that has the potential to be massive...

It turns out that Benjamin Franklin was on to something in 1747. Read about C-Motive Technologies' research into macro-scale electrostatic motors.

Energy-related research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has evolved over the institution's first 175 years, from departmentally-segregated work focused largely on technological innovation to a more holistic and interdisciplinary approach that bridges technologies, environmental and social impacts, and policy. Explore some of the university’s contributions to energy research in this five-part series

Assistant Professor Mahima Gupta is featured in ECE's "Focus on the new Faculty" article.

Prof. Daniel Ludois is the first WEMPEC Faculty member to be featured in ECE's evolving "Focus on Faculty" video profile series. Follow the link to learn more about what drives him and his research group!

Semiconductor chips aren’t just the “brains” of our computers and smart phones. A different variety of chip, called power semiconductors, transform, route and manage the energy that powers our gadgets and are equally as important. Making them faster and more efficient is just as critical to enabling next generation technologies as improving processor speed.

Over a hundred years ago, the English economist William Stanley Jevons keenly observed that technological advances that increase energy efficiency leads to further increased energy consumption and not the other way around. In this talk, Prof. Giri reviews Jevons' observations and links it to present ones. The talk was given in September 2023 as part of the Wisconsin Energy Institute's Sustainable Energy series.

WEMPEC PhD student David Skrovanek, Professor Dan Ludois, and Professor Ted Brekken of Oregon State University are among the first stage winners on the DOE's InDEEP prize supporting research in the area of ocean wave energy technology.

Giri Venkataramanan, the Keith and Jane Morgan Nosbusch Engineering Education Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been named a fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to the control of energy resources in microgrids.