At the first IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Expo, the Power Electronics department, together with colleagues Wilmar Martinez and Christian Dick, held a tutorial on magnetic components in power electronics. Peter Zacharias (former head of the department) first presented the basics before moving on to specific approaches to cost reduction and resource efficiency. Jens Friebe was also responsible for the first day of the conference as Tutorial Chair. 
The Department of Power Electronics was also involved in four publications. These were on the following topics:

• Design of PID Droop Control for Fast Power Sharing in Inverter-Based Microgrid; Ahmad Ali Nazeri, Jens Friebe, Peter Zacharias, Badam Sarwari
• Outstanding Efficiency of a Multilevel CHB-Converter on Battery Cell Level based on LV-Si-MOSFETS; Max Rothenburger, Ruben Kopischke, Tobias Schütte, Gerold Schulze, Koenraad Muyllaerd, Jens Friebe, Mohamed Ayeb, Hartmut Hillmer
• Development of Electronic Capacitors In Hardware-in-the-Loop And Its Applications; Tailan Orlando, Thiago Fonseca Rech, Roberto Francisco Coelho, André Luis Kirsten, Jens Friebe, Kevin Rabelo Costa
• Two-phase Wireless Power Transfer System Using Bipolar Windings for Rotating Magnetic Fields; Lindemberg Costa, Montie Vitorino, Kevin Rabelo Costa, Jens Friebe

The conference is the start of a new annual series in Europe, which complements the so-called ECCE North America, the ECCE Asia (next year for the first time in India) and the so-called SPEC (Southern Power Electronics Conference).