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December 9, 2022

Vellex Computing Named as Semifinalist in the American-Made Solar Prize

The American-Made Solar Prize, a multimillion-dollar competition funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and administered by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), has selected 20 teams to advance as semifinalists in Round 6 of the prize, including Vellex Computing. Each team won $50,000 in cash prizes and is eligible to continue to the next phase of the competition, which is designed to energize U.S. solar innovation.
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May 6, 2025

Streamlining the Future of Grid Interconnection with AI

Palak Jain, Ph.D.
In the race to a sustainable energy future, the efficient connection of renewable energy sources to the grid is paramount. However, a staggering 90% of interconnection applications are plagued with deficiencies and errors, leading to significant delays and increased costs. At Vellex Computing, we recognized this critical bottleneck and developed a groundbreaking solution: the Interconnection Concierge (IC).
April 2, 2025

Solving DCOPF Optimization Problem on AWS EC2 Instances

Ajay Jain
This series of articles explore solutions to the DCOPF (Direct Current Optimal Power Flow) optimization problem using various hardware configurations. We will focus on solving the approximate Linear version of the problem using solvers the open-source GLPK and the commercial FICO.
March 4, 2025

Navigating California’s Grid Interconnection Maze: Costs, Timelines, and the Future of Renewable Energy

Lani Nguyen
As California pushes toward its ambitious clean energy targets, developers face a major roadblock: interconnection delays and skyrocketing costs. Whether it’s a solar farm, wind project, or battery storage system, getting connected to the grid under interconnection processes like PG&E’s Rule 21, Wholesale Distribution Tariff (WDT), or CAISO’s GIDAP is more complex than ever.

OUR PUBLICATIONS

December, 2024

A hybrid-computing solution to nonlinear optimization problems

K. Sawant, D. Nguyen, A. Liu, J. Poon, S. Dhople
Published in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I - Regular Papers, vol. 71, no. 12, pp. 6555-6568, Dec. 2024
May, 2022

Real-time selective harmonic minimization using a hybrid analog/digital computing method

J. Poon, M. Sinha, S. V. Dhople, J. M. Rivas
Published in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 5078-5088, May 2022