Lab Log

Awarded $8.48M by the California Energy Commission, with Alderbuck Energy, SDG&E and Emerald AI, to test solid-state transformer power for a grid-interactive AI data center at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. Read more.

Decommissioned the Natron sodium-ion battery system that supported EV fast charging on campus (CEC EPC-18-022) with partner Expost; modules went to UL Research Institutes for state-of-health and abuse testing.

Completed CalTestBed evaluations for True Balancing, Pulsenics, Tyfast and UniGrid in the Battery Testing Laboratory.

Featured in UC San Diego's “Behind Every Breakthrough” campaign on how federal funding builds better batteries. Watch.

Hosted the second Technical Advisory Committee meeting for the Natron EV fast-charging storage project, with Honda, NREL, SDG&E, Rhombus, Great Power and General Atomics.

Awarded $7.15M by the California Energy Commission to expand the campus microgrid battery system. Read more.