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PCIM 2025 KEYNOTES Rebuilding power electronics from the ground up

From Luke James 5 min Reading Time

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At PCIM Europe 2025, Dr. Dushan Boroyevich explained why today’s power infrastructure can’t scale and how intelligent, converter-based systems can replace it. He emphasized the urgent need for a transformation to software-defined, adaptive power networks to handle the growing demands from renewable energy sources and technological advancements like AI and electric vehicles.

Envisioning the future at PCIM Europe 2025, Dr. Dushan Boroyevich called for a revolution in power infrastructure, advocating for intelligent converters to seamlessly integrate renewables and support the burgeoning energy needs of AI and electric vehicles.(Source: © taweesak - stock.adobe.com)
Envisioning the future at PCIM Europe 2025, Dr. Dushan Boroyevich called for a revolution in power infrastructure, advocating for intelligent converters to seamlessly integrate renewables and support the burgeoning energy needs of AI and electric vehicles.
(Source: © taweesak - stock.adobe.com)

At PCIM 2025, Dr. Dushan Boroyevich, Professor Emeritus at Virginia Tech, made a simple case. The existing grid can’t handle what’s coming. Renewable energy is intermittent and doesn’t work well with a system built for steady, centralised generation. Electric vehicles, AI data centers, and other large loads need power faster than utilities can deliver it.

“We don’t need to improve the power grid. We need to build at least four new grids.”

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