The Winston Chung Global Energy Center (WCGEC) held an Energy Systems Research Workshop on January 30 at the Bourns College of Engineering, bringing together faculty, researchers, and center leadership to highlight recent advances in energy systems research. The workshop opened with remarks from Chris Lynch, Dean of the Bourns College of Engineering, followed by an overview of recent energy systems research activities and externally funded projects presented by the WCGEC Co-Director for Energy Systems, Dr. Hamed Mohsenian-Rad. The program featured presentations from WCGEC Energy Systems Seed

The Winston Chung Global Energy Center welcomes Dr. Amir Masoumi (Amir H. Abolmasoumi) as a new Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the area of Energy Systems. Dr. Masoumi has expertise in the control and analysis of inverter-based resources (IBRs), as well as the stability and control of IBR-dominated power grids.

Professor Mohsenian-Rad, Co-Director of the Winston Chung Global Energy Center, and his team have been awarded $1,500,000 from the California Energy Commission to develop, deploy, and demonstrate innovative, cost-effective technologies that enable electric trucks to provide vehicle-to-everything (V2X) services—including vehicle-to-grid (V2G) and vehicle-to-building (V2B) applications.

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