NREL's ULIS Power Module Unlocks More Power With Less (Text Version)

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This video discusses the innovative Ultra-Low Inductance Smart power module designed by NREL.

[Narration speaks, background music begins]

[Shots of a car driving, a digging machine, digital rendering of an electric vehicle charger icon, and an airplane taking off]

How do we make vehicles, industrial machinery, energy storage, and aircraft more efficient, compact, safe, and affordable?

We build a better power module.

[Animation of the ULIS power module, showing an octagonal shape with layers and a smaller octagonal opening at the top, followed by an animated line drawing showing power moving between a motor and a DC bus that translates energy to a form the motor can use, with the text “ULIS” in the center]

Power modules are essential parts of high voltage modern electronics that convert energy from sources to destinations, like a vehicle battery to its motor.

[Animation with colored lines showing power moving along cables between a vehicle battery, motor, and wheels, followed by an overhead shot of an energy storage site with many large energy storage units]

But modern power modules are limited by their size and parasitic inductance—a measure of the energy wasted when modules convert electricity.

[Shot of two researchers bending over a lab machine, followed by another animation of the ULIS power module]

Now, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's new ULIS power module can power vehicles and other high voltage electronics at a fraction of the size, cost, and parasitic inductance of its competitors.

But that's not the only way ULIS bests the competition.

[Researcher hands holding the 3D-printed parts of the ULIS power module, showing that it is small]

It's also simpler, quicker to assemble, and more efficient.

ULIS is modular, adaptable to serving a wide range of technologies and designs, and capable of wirelessly monitoring a machine's health in real time to predict faults before they happen.

[Footage of researchers using a milling machine to cut metal to shape pieces of ULIS, followed by footage of a computer simulation showing areas of different colors around the module, then followed by video of a person plugging in a portable EV charger, an animation of the inside of a nuclear reactor, and animation of a future advanced air mobility craft]

Thanks to its unmatched power density, ULIS can unlock exciting new technologies, like portable superfast EV chargers, miniature fusion reactors to support microgrids and data centers, and even advanced air mobility craft.

ULI's power-packed design can help build a safer, smarter, more efficient, and more affordable future of modern electronics. It's more power, for less.

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