Little Box Challenge
The Little Box Challenge was an engineering competition run by Google and the IEEE's Power Electronics Society. The original challenge was posted on July 22, 2014 with modifications on December 16, 2014 and March 23, 2015. Testing was in October 2015 at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. From the 18 finalists, CE+T Power's team called "Red Electrical Devils" won the $1 million prize, which was awarded to them in March 2016. The challenge was to build a power inverter that was about one tenth the size of the state-of-the-art at the  time. It had to have an efficiency greater than 95 percent and handle loads of 2 kW. It also had to fit in a metal enclosure of no more than 40 cubic inches (the eponymous "little box") and withstand 100 hours of testing. The goals of the competition were lower cost solar photovoltaic power, more efficient uninterruptible power supplies, affordable microgrids, and the ability to use an electric vehicle's battery as backup power during a power outage. Google also hoped a smaller inverter could make its data centers run more efficiently. The Red Electrical Devils. Section::::(CE+T Power, Belgium). Olivier  Bomboir, Paul Bleus, Fabrice Frebel, Thierry Joannès, François Milstein, Pierre Stassain, Christophe Geuzaine, Carl Emmerechts, Philippe Laurent Schneider Electric Team. Section::::(France). Miao-xin Wang, Rajesh Ghosh, Srikanth Mudiyula, Radoslava Mitova, David Reilly, Milind Dighrasker, Sajeesh Sulaiman, Alain Dentella, Damir Klikic, Chandrashekar Devalapuraramegowda, Michael Hartmann, Vijaykumar Atadkar Future Energy Electronics Center. Section::::(Virginia Tech, USA). Jih-Sheng Lai, Lanhua Zhang, Xiaonan Zhao, Rachael Born, Chung-Yi Lin, Ming-Chang Chou, Shu-Shuo Chang, Kye Yak See Remaining finalists. Section::::!verter. Section::::(Germany/Switzerland/Slovenia). Eckart Hoene, Johann W. Kolar, Dominik Bortis, Yanick Lobsiger, Dominik Neumayr, Oliver Knecht, Florian Krismer, Stefan Hoffmann, Adam Kuczmik, Oleg  Zeiter, Franc Zajc Adiabatic Logic. Section::::(UK). Geoff Harvey, Alan Willybridge, Steve Love AHED. Section::::(Germany). Alexander Huenten AMR. Section::::(Argentina). Agustin Reibel Cambridge Active Magnetics. Section::::(UK). John Wood, Ed Shelton, Tim Regan, Ellen Wood, Kyle Rogers, Dr Kevin Rathbone, Sam Harrup Energylayer. Section::::(Ukraine). Evgeny Sboychakov, Ruslan Kotelnikov Fraunhofer IISB. Section::::(Germany). Bernd Eckardt, Stefan Endres, Maximilian Hofmann, Stefan Matlok, Thomas Menrath, Martin März, Stefan Zeltner Helios. Section::::(USA). Jack Zhu, Mari Ma LBC1. Section::::(Slovakia). Martin Pietka, Andrej Teren, Marian Vranka, Lubos Drozd, Peter Sedlacko OKE-Services. Section::::(Netherlands). Henk Oldenkamp Rompower. Section::::(USA/Romania). Ionel Jitaru, Nicolae Daniel Bolohan, Antonio Marco Davila The University of Tennessee . Section::::(USA). Daniel Costinett, Leon Tolbert, Fred Wang, Chongwen Zhao, Bradford Trento, Ling Jiang, Rick Langley, John Jansen, Reid Kress, Anthony Brun Tommasi - Bailly 3NERGY. Section::::(France). Mike Tommasi, Alain Bailly UIUC Pilawa Group. Section::::(USA). Robert Pilawa, Shibin Qin, Christopher Barth, Yutian Lei, Wen-Chuen Liu, Andrew Stillwell, Intae Moon, Derek Chou, Thomas Foulkes Venderbosch. Section::::(Netherlands). Herbert Venderbosch, Gerard Bruggink