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Yesterday, Jan Willem Fokkink successfully defended his Bachelor’s Thesis at the Hague University of Applied Sciences. He has been working on our string level solar MPPT converter, in particular on the software. This included implementation of maximum power point tracking but also implementation of droop control that allows also for islanding operation and decentralised curtailment in case of overproduction. Further, the handling of abnormal operation conditions and safety aspects where part of his work. Until now operation has been verified with solar simulators, up next is demonstration with real solar panels which we will be performing very soon at the Green Village in Delft.

Today Casper Grootes defended his Bachelor’s thesis at the Hague University of Applied Sciences. And was awarded a grade of 9/10! This project was carried out in collaboration with the DC Lab of the Hague University of Applied Sciences.

Casper worked on our active front end with which we are connecting our DC Microgrids to the AC grid. Alternatively this AC/DC converter can be used to drive motors or to create an AC grid for connecting legacy appliances in a DC environment.

We wish Casper all the best with the continuation of his studies at the Delft University of Technology were he will be pursuing his Master’s degree.

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Last week Cas Pruisken successfully defended his Bachelor’s Thesis on the Development of a DC Electric Vehicle Charge Controller at The Hague University of Applied Sciences. He was awarded an outstanding grade of 9/10 for his work which he performed during the last months at DC Opportunities R&D. Cas has been working on our new V2G EV charger that will be able to charge from a 700V DC grid and could be integrated with DC public lighting infrastructure.

We are happy that Cas is staying with us as permanent staff after this milestone and we are looking forward to making many great developments in DC microgrid technology together.

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Today Dr. Giel van den Broeck founder of DCINGERY and our founder Dr. Laurens Mackay were interviewed by Ronald Fransen and Henry Lootens from the DC Foundation Netherlands. The interview covered various topics on DC distribution grids, amongst others bipolar DC grids and meshed operation of DC grids. (Interview in Dutch)

Last week Gerasimos Maroulis successfully defended his Master’s Thesis titled “DC-DC Converters for Photovoltaic Powered DC Microgrid” at Delft University of Technology. He was awarded an outstanding grade 9/10 for his work, which he performed during the last year at DC Opportunities R&D. Gerasimos has been working on our new string level solar maximum power tracking converter as well as a converter for balancing the poles in bipolar DC microgrids of 350/700V.

As of November 2020, Gerasimos is now part of our permanent staff and we are looking forward to making many great developments in DC microgrid technology together.

We are happy to announce that Jesse Echeverry today successfully defended his Master’s Thesis at Delft University of Technology. As usual these days, the defense was done online. Jesse joined our team over a year ago and in his internship started to work on and 100W inverter and arc-fault detection. In his Master’s Thesis titled “Isolated DC/DC Converters for DC Distribution Grids in Rural Electrification” he first developed a unidirectional DC/DC converter from 350V DC to 24V DC using GaN technology, planar transformer and switching frequencies up to 1.5 MHz. Then he continued to design a bidirectional version of this converter with a higher power rating. We are happy that Jesse will join us again after a well-deserved break to continue our development in this field.