Join us for this interactive 5-day online short course designed for professionals across utilities, vendors, system operators, and researchers.

✅What You’ll Learn: Each two-hour session combines lecture and EMT simulation exercises, so you don’t just hear the theory—you practice it.

💡Why Join: Comprehensive lectures + real-world simulation exercises. Earn 1 CEU upon completion.

🗓️ When: November 3 – 7, 2025 | 11 AM – 1 PM (Central) each day

Discount available for UNIFI members (email Michelle Hunt for details: michelle.hunt@ieee-isto.org)

Module 1 – The Power Grid: Past to Future: How the grid works today, why inertia matters, and how DC-AC inverters use PWM to create stable AC power. (EMT Lab: Build AC from DC using a half-bridge PWM setup.)

Module 2 – Feedback Control Fundamentals: Zero-error tracking, PI controllers, and reference frames for modeling/control. (EMT Lab: Add a current-control feedback loop and tune bandwidth for dynamic response.)

Module 3 – Grid-Following Inverters: PLL concepts, strengths and weaknesses, and real-world applications. (EMT Lab: Connect to the grid and watch instability during weak-grid or islanded operation.)

Module 4 – Grid-Forming Inverters: Primary control, voltage/current control, and power sharing without a PLL. (EMT Lab: Explore islanding mode and run a single-inverter infinite-bus study.)

resources

unifi work efforts in research & development, demonstration & commercialization, and outreach & training generate a variety of resources to facilitate technology development and accelerate the adoption of grid-forming inverters. Our portfolio of publicly accessible resources include

• UNIFI Performance Specifications for GFM IBRs
• Annual newsletters summarizing unifi activities
• Technical publications from team members
• Educational material curated across levels
• Videos from our seminar series