Power electronics enabling efficient energy usage: Energy savings potential and technological challenges

Jelena Popović-Gerber; Jesus Angel Oliver; Nicolás Cordero; Thomas Harder; José A. Cobos; Michael Hayes; Seán Cian O'Mathuna; Erich Prem

doi:10.1109/TPEL.2011.2171195

Power electronics enabling efficient energy usage: Energy savings potential and technological challenges

Jelena Popović-Gerber
, Jesus Angel Oliver
, Nicolás Cordero
, Thomas Harder
, José A. Cobos
, Michael Hayes
, Seán Cian O'Mathuna
, Erich Prem

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Abstract

Power electronics is a key technology for the efficient conversion, control, and conditioning of electric energy from the source to the load. In this paper, the potential of power electronics for energy savings in four major application fields, buildings and lighting, power supplies, smart electricity grid, and industrial drives, is investigated. It is shown that by wider adoption of power electronics in these areas, the current European Union electricity consumption could be reduced by 25%. The technology challenges for exploiting this potential for all the four areas are identified in the paper.

Original language	English
Article number	6045347
Pages (from-to)	2338-2353
Number of pages	16
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
Volume	27
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEL.2011.2171195
Publication status	Published - 2012

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Keywords

Buildings
electric vehicles (EVs)
energy conversion
energy savings
lighting
power electronics
power supplies
smart grids
variable speed drives (VSD)

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