Happenings: October Is Energy Awareness Month: How Did You Celebrate?

September 1, 2021 by Brian Zahnstecher

Did you know October was National Energy Awareness Month? Seriously, a bona fide initiative from the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) dedicated to raising awareness of energy efficiency needs and initiatives (US DoE, 2020)! There is even an Energy Efficiency Day on the first Wednesday in October (since 2016) (Energy Efficiency Day, 2020), which is Oct. 6 this year. Let me tell you I have spent an entire career (and lifetime really) focusing on energy efficiency and how to minimize energy consumption in everything from utility grids to electronic systems to how many steps I need to take to accomplish three tasks in different parts of the house…guess how I learned about all this stuff? Figure 1 shows the exact moment I found out, ironically from a client paying me for work in this very area!

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August 2021
Professor Lingling Fan, Professor at the University of South Florida and Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Electrification Magazine wrote to “White Hot” column author Robert V. White, “Dear Bob, I’d like to let you know that I enjoy reading your columns in PELS magazine. From your recent writings, I got to know a lot, including what is the use of patents and the two branches of power electronics researchers.”

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APEC Organizers, Vendors
Take Virtual Route to Reveal Latest Trends in Power Technologies and Products

A cancelled conference taps alternate methods to disseminate cutting-edge information

With the growing concerns of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic, the IEEE Power Electronics Society/Industrial Applications Society (PELS/IAS) and Power Supply Manufacturers Association-sponsored 2020 Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC 2020) in New Orleans, Louisiana, was cancelled for the safety of the attendees. While it was a difficult decision, the health, safety, and welfare of the community was paramount for the organizers and sponsors of the 15–19 March 2020 conference. Although this was the first such cancellation in APEC’s 35-year history, the organizers were quick to offer a virtual conference to those registered. In addition, peer-reviewed papers accepted by the conference committee were submitted to IEEE Xplore and are available to all.

Despite the challenges and adversities of COVID-19, the organizers worked diligently to virtually bring the conference and its presentations to the registered community via the APEC 2020 app and the eventScribe web portal. As a result, I was given a password (access key) to access the site and view a variety of the sessions. Before I go through the conference papers and sessions, I would like to take the opportunity to mention the vendors who promptly called IEEE Power Electronics Magazine and presented the latest trends in technologies and products online. The unbelievable situation created by the COVID-19 outbreak did not deter the vendors and emerging companies from taking their latest advances and developments to editors and reporters via phone and virtual meetings and booths. As a result, I was lucky to talk to a variety of power semiconductor companies, passive component suppliers, and power electronics experts, including marketing analysts, and gather the latest advances in power electronics technology.

Happenings: October Is Energy Awareness Month: How Did You Celebrate?

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