At Darnell’s third-annual DC Building Power Asia conference (DCBPA ’11) in Taipei this week, the latest dc-power developments were presented by researchers from India, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan. During one of the networking breakout sessions, the latest dc-power standard and mandate from China was also reviewed by a group of colleagues.
The first day of the event, Dr. Tsai-Fu Wu, Chair Professor and Vice President of National Chung Cheng University in Taiwan and Director of the Elegant Power Application Research Center, presented the concept of the “smarter grid” where smart grid technologies are used to efficiently and comprehensively integrate local dc micro grids with the larger ac-power grid.