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David Rosewater
Staff Page • Electrical Engineer. Biography David Rosewater is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at the Sandia National Laboratories. He received a B.S. and an M.S. in electrical engineering from Montana Tech of the University of Montana, as well as a PhD in electrical and computer engineering from the University of...

David Schoenwald
Staff Page • Principal Member, Technical Staff. Biography David Schoenwald is a Principal Member of the Technical Staff in the Electric Power Systems Research Department at Sandia National Laboratories. Dr. Schoenwald focuses on control system design to improve dynamic stability of electric power systems. He also develops performance standards for grid-scale energy storage...

Department of Energy Secretary’s Honor Award Winner
News Article, June 17, 2015 • Sandia’s Mark Taylor is the chief computational scientist for the Department of Energy’s Accelerated Climate Modeling for Energy (ACME) executive council team. (Photo by Randy Montoya) The Energy Secretary selected the Accelerated Climate Modeling for Energy (ACME) executive council team to receive a 2014 Honor Award. The ACME executive council...

Deployment of UEP Battery Energy Storage System on the Navajo Nation
News Article, June 6, 2022 • On May 5, 2022, the Sandia Energy Storage Demonstration Projects team, supported by the DOE Office of Electricity’s (DOE-OE) Energy Storage Program, successfully deployed a 3 kW/13 kWh rechargeable zinc manganese dioxide (ZnMnO2) battery system to replace lead acid batteries at an off-grid home on the Navajo Nation in Arizona....

Detecting nuclear materials using light
News Article, November 22, 2023 • Sandia partners with former employee to get tech on the market Sandia National Laboratories researcher Patrick Feng, left, and Former Sandian Joey Carlson, right, hold Organic Glass Scintillators they helped create to detect radioactive materials. (Photo by Randy Wong) LIVERMORE, Calif. — Blueshift Optics, owned by former Sandia employee Joey...
Two researchers hold up a scintillator, a blue disk

Developing a Fast-Running Turbine Wake Model
News Article, December 4, 2014 • As part of the international collaboration for DTOcean, a project aimed at accelerating the industrial development of ocean-energy power-generation knowledge and providing design tools for deploying the first generation of wave and tidal energy converter arrays, Sandia is developing a fast-running current energy converter (CEC) wake-interaction model. Toward this end,...

Developing energy projects for global tropics
News Article, April 14, 2020 • By Melissae Fellet Labs’ 10-year agreement extends work with University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez A new 10-year agreement between Sandia and the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, has the potential to bring more reliable electricity to remote communities and the latest in electrical grid technology to rural areas in the...
Efrain O’Neill, left, an electrical engineering professor at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, who is spending a year working at Sandia, talks energy research with senior manager Tito Bonano. (Photo by Randy Montoya)

Digital In-Line Holography Helps Researchers ‘See’ into Fiery Fuels
News Article, July 8, 2015 • Accidents, such as trucks crashing on a highway or rockets failing on a launch pad, can create catastrophic fires. It’s important to understand how burning droplets of fuel are generated and behave in such cases. Sandia researchers developed 3-D measurement techniques based on digital in-line holography (DIH). Sandia advanced DIH...

Disposal and Repository Performance Assessment
Page • Click image to enlarge Sandia performs research on systems engineering processes and postclosure safety assessment methods to plan, develop, implement, and evaluate deep geologic disposal facilities for spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW). Geologic disposal options for nuclear waste include mined repository concepts in salt, argillite, and...

DOE awards funding to boost clean energy commercialization
News Article, July 26, 2021 • Sandia is partnering with New Mexico State University, Los Alamos National Laboratory and the New Mexico Economic Development Department to create a new pipeline for energy technology to reach the market using funding from the Department of Energy. DOE awarded $1 million in Energy Program for Innovation Clusters funding to...
Sandia National Laboratories’ Brandon Ennis holds a carbon fiber plank, a new material that could bring cost and performance benefits to the wind industry.

DOE awards Sandia for small-business partnerships, achievements
News Article, June 15, 2022 • The DOE Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization recently presented three awards to Sandia for exceptional engagement with small businesses. Paul Sedillo was named Facility Management Contractor Small Business Program Manager of the Year, Sandia’s Mentor Protégé Program won Mentor of the Year and Sandia protégé CeLeen LLC was...
Sandia small-business program manager Paul Sedillo was named Facility Management Contractor Small Business Program Manager of the Year

DOE Expands Opportunity for Indian Energy Student Interns
News Article, January 10, 2022 • The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Indian Energy, through Sandia National Laboratories (Albuquerque, NM), is now accepting applications for the College Student Internship Program. In addition to hiring four 2022 summer full-time undergraduate interns (application deadline: February 4, 2022), DOE will hire one year-round part-time graduate intern (application...
Sandra Begay, center, talks with interns about how a photovoltaic panel works to generate electricity. The DOE has offered the internship program through Sandia since 2002. Picture taken at the Mission San Esteban Rey in the Pueblo of Acoma. Photo credit: Randy Montoya

DOE honors Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge team
News Article, March 21, 2023 • If you’ve searched online for a plane ticket recently, you may have noticed new information on display: the relative emissions of your flight. But what if this dropped to zero? An effort recently recognized by the secretary of energy is focused on just that — decarbonizing not just passenger flights,...
Algae in petri dishes for experiment

DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute Joins Elite ‘100/500 Club’
News Article, October 27, 2015 • The DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) filed its 100th patent application and published its 500th scientific paper. Headquartered in Emeryville, California, the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) is now a member of the elite “100/ 500 Club,” having filed its 100th patent application and published its 500th scientific paper. (Photo by...

DOE officials learn about Sandia cyber and energy programs
News Article, March 6, 2019 • By Michael Padilla Department of Energy officials visited Sandia/California on Tuesday, March 5, to learn about the Labs’ cyber and energy programs. Andy McIlroy, right, and Sarah Allendorf , left, deputy director of Chemical Sciences, lead a tour of Sandia’s Combustion Research Facility. (Photo by Randy Wong) The three officials...
Department of Energy officials visited Sandia/California on Tuesday, March 5, to learn about the Labs’ cyber and energy programs.

DOE selects two companies to work with Sandia solar energy programs
News Article, March 31, 2016 • Renewable Power Conversion, Inc., will receive technical support from Sandia Labs to complete the development of its Macro-Micro inverter. Assistant Secretary of Energy David Danielson announced the first-round awardees in DOE/EERE's Small Business Vouchers Pilot (SBV) that selects national laboratories to provide technical assistance to eligible small businesses. Sandia Labs’ solar energy programs are paired with...

DOE-EERE Deputy Assistant Secretary Hollett Visits Sandia
News Article, July 9, 2015 • DOE-EERE Deputy Assistant Secretary for Renewable Power, Douglas Hollett. (DOE photo) In his role as Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Deputy Assistant Secretary for Renewable Power, Douglas Hollett oversees research, development, and demonstration of a diverse clean-energy portfolio that includes power generation from wind,...

DOE, Sandia, and NREL to create industry-informed roadmap for offshore wind operations and maintenance technologies
News Article, February 27, 2023 • New tool will encourage offshore wind energy development and boost industry confidence The U.S. Department of Energy has announced Sandia National Laboratories and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory are working to produce an industry-informed roadmap for the development of new operations and maintenance technologies and processes to enhance the cost-effectiveness,...
Offshore Wind Turbines lined up out at sea

DOE’s Grid Modernization Peer Review Report Now Available
News Article, February 15, 2018 • The Department of Energy’s Grid Modernization Initiative has published a report summarizing findings from the first annual peer review in April 2017. The report reviews 30 of the 87 publicly funded projects in the portfolio and is structured around the six technical pillars outlined in the Grid Modernization Multi-Year Program...

DOE’s WETO commissions the National Rotor Testbed
News Article, October 29, 2021 • The U.S. Department of Energy’s Wind Energy Technologies Office is in the process of officially commissioning the National Rotor Testbed, an open-source wind turbine for wake control research designed by Sandia National Laboratories’ (Sandia) Wind Energy program. The NRT was 95% commissioned in 2021, and work is expected to be...
Wind Turbine at Sandia SWiFT facility at sunset

Dominic Forbush
Staff Page • Postdoctoral Appointee. Biography Dominic Forbush, PhD, is a postdoctoral appointee in the Water Power Technologies Program at Sandia National Laboratories. Dominic’s research focuses on the control, modeling, and the development of innovative solutions for wave energy convertors (WECs). Particularly, Dominic is involved in developing and supporting open-source WEC modeling tools,...

Dongyoung Kim
Staff Page • Postdoctoral Appointee. Biography Dongyoung Kim, PhD, is a postdoctoral appointee in the Water Power Technologies Program at Sandia National Laboratories. Dongyoung’s research focuses on the numerical assessment and investigation on marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) devices. He works on mid- and high-fidelity simulations, design optimization, river and tidal resource characterization, computational...

Download Sandia’s Resilient Node Cluster Analysis Tool (ReNCAT)
News Article, June 7, 2023 • The Resilient Node Cluster Analysis Tool (ReNCAT), developed by Sandia National Laboratories, is now publicly available for download. This desktop application provides decision support for stakeholders to identify potential portfolios of microgrids within a community or set of communities that maximize residents’ access to critical services in an equitable way...
Image of ReNCAT simulation

Dr. Dan Houck
Staff Page • R&D, S&E, Mechanical Engineering. Biography Dr. Dan Houck joined Sandia National Laboratories in 2020 and is a member of the Wind Energy Design and Experimentation Department. His research supports experiments at the Scaled Wind Farm Test (SWiFT) facility, including the National Rotor Testbed. Much of his research focuses on the...
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