www.pels.org Vol. 7, No. 2 June 2020 For your engineering success 82 Features 22 Emerging Opportunities in Distributed Power Electronics and Battery Integration Setting the stage for an energy storage revolution Issa Batarseh and Khalil Alluhaybi 33 Departments & Columns 82 Society News 94 Book Review Power Electronics in Renewable Energy Systems and Smart Grid: Technology and Applications 96 In Memoriam 98 Event Calendar 104 White Hot My First Power Supply Design Robert V. White Four summaries from the technical sessions Ashok Bindra The Future of Control and Communication Power electronics-enabled power grids Rolando Burgos and Jian Sun 4 From the Editor Can Power Electronics Enable an EnergyStorage-Based Society? Ashok Bindra 8 President's Message Guiding PELS Through the COVID-19 Pandemic Frede Blaabjerg 12 Happenings U.S. Department of Energy Funds Syndem to Advance Solar Inverter Technology Ashok Bindra 18 Passive Components Metal Composite Power Inductors for Automotive Applications Ashok Bindra 72 Patent Reviews Patent Applicant's Duty of Disclosure Art MacCord 76 Company Profile Indium Corporation: Igniting an Electronics Materials Renaissance in Upstate New York Andy Mackie 80 Expert View Capacitive-Based Power Architectures Gain Ground Stephen J. Allen FEPPCON X: Part 2 Power Electronics Design Methods and Automation in the Digital Era Evolution of design automation tools Antonio J. Marques Cardoso The Future of Power Electronics Circuits New technologies and managed complexity will drive the future Robert Pilawa-Podgurski Energy Access A new power electronics story Jelena Popovic 47 Space Mapping for Codesigned Magnetics 53 On Power Scalability of Modular Multilevel Converters 64 APEC Organizers, Vendors Take Virtual Route to Reveal Latest Trends in Power Technologies and Products Optimization techniques for high-fidelity multidomain design specifications Kristen Booth and John Bandler Increasing current ratings through branch paralleling Stefan Milovanovic and Drazen Dujic A cancelled conference taps alternate methods to disseminate cutting-edge information Ashok Bindra On the cover The safe and reliable integration of photovoltaic panels with battery and power electronics in a single module will usher in new opportunities for smart distributed solar systems with storage in both grid- and off-grid connected applications. ILLUSTRATION BY KHALIL ALLUHAYBI, UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA, ORLANDO. BACKGROUND IMAGE: LICENSED BY INGRAM PUBLISHING Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MPEL.2020.2984348 June 2020 z IEEE POWER ELECTRONICS MAGAZINE 1http://www.pels.org