A Partnership of UConn and Eversource

Eversource Energy Center

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EEC’s Dr. Zongjie Wang Featured at the Women of Innovation Summit
EEC’s Dr. Zongjie Wang Featured at the Women of Innovation Summit

Congratulations to our very own Dr. Zongjie Wang, Associate Director for DEI and Industrial Workforce Development at the Eversource Energy Center here at UConn! Watch the interview featured on News Chanel 8!

Clean Energy Summit 2024 Take Aways
Clean Energy Summit 2024 Take Aways

Last Monday (September 23, 2024) we had over 300 UConn students and faculty, and attendees from the state government, organizations, and industry participating at the UConn and Eversource Sustainable Clean Energy Summit: Decarbonizing Society and the Grid. In addition to an outstanding keynote address from Gene Rodrigues, U.S. Department of Energy Assistant Secretary for Electricity, we heard from some thought-provoking panels, announced the Connecticut Sustainable Energy Institute at Avery Point, and signed a new three-year memorandum of understanding with Eversource for energy efficiency upgrades across all our campuses. UConn graduate students Zhiqing “Lucy” Li, Steven Matile and Meshach Ojo, were […]

UConn Awarded $4.5M DOE Grant to Benefit Grid Reliability for Transmission and Distribution Systems
UConn Awarded $4.5M DOE Grant to Benefit Grid Reliability for Transmission and Distribution Systems
Eversource Energy Center 2023 Annual Report
Eversource Energy Center 2023 Annual Report
State and Industry Leaders Address Grid Resiliency at UConn Engineering Conference
State and Industry Leaders Address Grid Resiliency at UConn Engineering Conference

The Eversource Energy Center organized a conference entitled ‘Navigating Conference Change and Energy Security in the Northeast: The Next Five Years’ on Monday, October 24, 2022 in downtown Hartford, CT. […]

Pioneering Diversity Internship
Pioneering Diversity Internship
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EEC’s Dr. Zongjie Wang Featured at the Women of Innovation Summit
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State and Industry Leaders Address Grid Resiliency at UConn Engineering Conference
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Storm Preparedness

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With preparedness at the forefront of ensuring superior customer service, Storm Outage Forecasting delivers actionable information on predicted outage locations and magnitude.

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Vegetation Management

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With 90 percent of power outages during storms caused by trees, our program links forest management and community outreach for creating a sustainable and storm-resistant forest design.

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Electric Grid Reinforcement

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Complex system improvements are made with advanced data identifying strategic areas for grid design, efficiency and storm resiliency.                                                                                                   

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Recent Center News

EEC’s Dr. Zongjie Wang Featured at the Women of Innovation Summit
Published: October 22, 2024
Congratulations to our very own Dr. Zongjie Wang, Associate Director for DEI and Industrial Workforce Development at the Eversource Energy Center here at UConn! Watch the interview featured on News […]

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Clean Energy Summit 2024 Take Aways
Published: September 27, 2024
Last Monday (September 23, 2024) we had over 300 UConn students and faculty, and attendees from the state government, organizations, and industry participating at the UConn and Eversource Sustainable Clean […]

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UConn and Eversource Host Third Annual Sustainable Clean Energy Summit
Published: September 26, 2024

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Bracing for Impact: UConn, Partners to Improve Grid Resistance
Published: July 2, 2024
Bracing for Impact: UConn, Partners to Improve Grid Resistance

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CyberCARED in the Media
Published: May 14, 2024
Our paper “A Lagrange-multiplier-based Reliability Assessment for Power Systems Considering Topology and Injection Uncertainties,” IEEE Trans. Power Systems, 2024, is now one of the Hot Paper according to Web of Science […]

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      Click Here To See Past Center News: https://www.eversource.uconn.edu/category/recent-news/

Upcoming Events

Fast Facts

  • Director: Professor Emmanouil Anagnostou, PhD
  • Associate Directors: Dr. Robert Fahey, Dr. Junbo Zhao, and Dr. Diego Cerrai
  • 30 faculty and senior researchers, 36 graduate students, and 7 undergraduates
  • $20M in funding to develop new technologies and science-based solutions for the distribution of reliable power and the management of risks associated with extreme weather and security events.
  • Current research areas include 25 projects on storm outage forecasting, tree and forest management, electric grid reinforcements, resiliency, climate change and flooding, geomagnetic disturbances, integration of renewable generation, and cyber security.

 


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Director’s Message

Welcome. Our research and collaboration with utilities and industry partners positions us as frontrunners in mitigating storm hazards, delivering improved reliability, and increasing the resiliency of the electric grid. Read More!

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Invite a Speaker

Would you like to invite a speaker from the Eversource Energy Center or from the University of Connecticut?

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Seminars

In addition to Eversource Energy Center-sponsored seminars and events, UConn offers interesting weekly presentations on all areas of research. 

Field Visits

Field Visits

We welcome you to visit our experimental tree sway field sites in Storrs, Torrington and Orange, Connecticut. Please contact Thomas Worthley, Assistant Extension Professor and Forestry Specialist, for more information.

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Center Tours

Do you wish to schedule a tour? Please contact us, and we can schedule a tour of our facilities.

Eversource Energy Center | Innovation Partnership Building: 159 Discovery Drive, Unit 5276, Storrs, CT 06269-5276 | E-Mail: eversourceenergycenter@uconn.edu