Some members of the PEClab enjoyed a barbecue to welcome 2014. These recreational activities are essential to achieve a good working environment and strengthen teamwork.

iSolar UC completes the installation of photovoltaic solar panels on the student center building. Now we just have to wait for the power inverters commissioning to generate solar energy (Link).

The PEClab professor Javier Pereda was awarded for his thesis “New Multilevel Converters: Asymmetries and Optimal Floating Capacitors“.  The award ceremony was held at the graduation of 125 doctors of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Link).

The PEClab professors Javier Pereda Juan Dixon recently won, for second consecutive year, the award for best paper at the conference Electric Vehicles and Renewables Energies (EVER), held in Monaco, with his work “Cascaded converters for EVs with single power Increased power source and quality” (Link).