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Albuquerque mayor honors Sandia researcher who invests in his community
News Article, November 22, 2024 • Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller recently honored Sandia solar researcher Ken Armijo for his outstanding community service and volunteer impact in the local community. Armijo, along with several other volunteers and one volunteer organization, were recognized in late October during a ceremony for their diverse contributions and work to support those...

Atrisco Heritage Academy High School Solar + Storage Project
News Article, October 27, 2022 • Sandia recently partnered with Albuquerque Public Schools, NM Energy Minerals and Natural Resources Department, the Department of Energy, and OE Solar for the opening of the district’s largest solar installation together with the state’s most extensive battery energy storage system. The $3.2 million solar + storage project at Atrisco Heritage...
Atrisco Heritage Ribbon Cutting

Australian Renewable-Energy Official Visits Sandia
News Article, July 15, 2015 • Louise Vickery, General Manager, Renewable Futures at the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA). At the end of June, Louise Vickery, General Manager, Renewable Futures at the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) visited Sandia. ARENA manages the Australian government’s commitment to improve the competitiveness of renewable energy technologies and to increase...

Concentrating Solar Technologies Program to host System Advisor Model (SAM) seminar
News Article, November 28, 2022 • Sandia National Laboratories’ Concentrating Solar Technologies Program, as part of its Concentrating Solar Seminar Series and in conjunction with the National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF), will present, “System Advisor Model (SAM) for Concentrating Solar Power,” facilitated by Paul Gilman, on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00...

CSP Seminar Series: Overview and Opportunities for the Generation 3 Particle Pilot Plant
News Article, October 4, 2024 • The next installment of the National Solar Thermal Test Facility’s Concentrating Solar Power Seminar Series will take place on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024, from 10-11 a.m. MDT. Join Generation 3 Particle Pilot Plant (G3P3) Principal Investigator Jeremy Sment for “Overview and Opportunities for the Generation 3 Particle Pilot Plant,” an...
Image of the two towers:orignal built in 197 and the new G3P3 tower with heliostats at the bottom

HelioCon’s latest request for proposals supports widespread use of concentrating solar power
News Article, January 29, 2024 • The Heliostat Consortium has released its next request for proposals focused on lowering the costs of heliostat technologies, improving performance, and creating new heliostat industry opportunities. Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, the consortium consists of National Renewable Energy Laboratory (lead) and partnering organizations Sandia National Laboratories and the...

National Solar Thermal Test Facility prepares for new tower construction
News Article, January 23, 2023 • Construction on the new tower at Sandia National Laboratories’ National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF) is planned to begin Feb. 16, 2023, with a groundbreaking ceremony to take place at the facility. The tower is part of the Phase III, $25 million award announced by The U.S. Department of Energy...

National Solar Thermal Test Facility to take part in American Solar Energy Society Virtual Tour
News Article, September 30, 2022 • Sandia National Laboratories’ (Sandia) Renewable Energy programs will participate in the American Solar Energy Society’s National Solar Tour Oct. 1-2, 2022. The largest grassroots solar, renewable energy, and sustainable living event in the nation will offer a glimpse into the renewable energy research and development taking place at Sandia, and...

Navy/Marine Engineering Command Visits Sandia
News Article, July 15, 2015 • Our nation relies upon a network of radars across the country to support the missions of homeland defense/ security, flight safety, and weather forecasting. The air-surveillance environment contains within it clutter, both stationary and moving. Wind turbines present a unique problem in that they can be both stationary and moving...

OpenCSP, a new platform for open code and data, launches during SolarPACES 2024
News Article, October 10, 2024 • Sandia National Laboratories’ Concentrating Solar Power program recently launched OpenCSP, a collaborative environment for CSP code and data development. The new, open-source platform is comprised of source code, applications and data to enable collaborative development for the CSP community worldwide. The platform’s launch was announced this week during SolarPACES 2024...
heliostats reflectng sunset at NSTTF

Pre-register soon for Sandia National Laboratories’ National Solar Thermal Test Facility tours Sept. 26th and 30th during SolarPACES 2022 in Albuquerque, NM
News Article, May 18, 2022 • May 31st deadline for required pre-registration is quickly approaching (no upfront payment required) Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia) will host two tours of the National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF) on Sept. 26th and Sept. 30th, 2022, as part of the upcoming SolarPACES 2022 conference to be held in Albuquerque, NM,...

Sandia CSP researcher awarded 2021 SHPE STAR Award
News Article, November 24, 2021 • Sandia National Laboratories’ concentrating solar power researcher Ken Armijo was recently awarded a 2021 SHPE Technical Achievement and Recognition (STAR) Award during the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers’ (SHPE) 2021 National Convention held Nov. 10-14, 2021, in Orlando, Florida. For almost 50 years, SHPE has recognized professional excellence, honoring Hispanics...
Image of Ken Armijo at the ceremony holding the SHPE STAR award.

Sandia issues Request for Information on advanced solar energy system deployment
News Article, June 6, 2023 • Sandia National Laboratories has released a Request for Information (RFI) inviting comments on the deployment of an advanced solar energy system. The deadline for responses has been extended to Friday, July 21, 2023. Introduced in 2021, the advanced solar energy for mission assurance and decarbonization concept seeks to provide Sandia’s...
Concentrating solar power tower at the National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF)

Sandia solar facilities to host American Solar Energy Society conference tour
News Article, March 25, 2022 • The 51st Annual National Solar Conference will be held June 21-24, 2022, in Albuquerque, NM, at the University of New Mexico campus and online. Hosted by the American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and the New Mexico Solar Energy Association (NMSEA) this year’s technical sessions will include topics such as: Grid...

Sandia wins $25 million DOE award to build next-generation CSP power plant
News Article, May 4, 2021 • Sandia National Laboratories has won a $25 million award from The Department of Energy to build, test, and demonstrate a next-generation concentrating solar thermal power plant at the National Solar Thermal Test Facility. The funding is part of the roughly $70 million, three-year-old DOE Generation 3 Concentrating Solar Power systems...
Proposed G3P3-USA system at the National Solar Thermal Test Facility. (Illustration by Cliff Ho and Kevin Albrecht)

Sandia’s Concentrating Solar Power program to host molten salts seminar
News Article, July 14, 2021 • Sandia National Laboratories’ Concentrating Solar Power program will host the first in a new series of seminars online, “Molten salts: A cross cutting technology for energy storage and transfer,” on Tuesday, July 27, 2021, from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Prof. Mark Anderson from the University of Wisconsin – Madison’s...
Image of the Sandia Molten salt facility at the NSTTF.

Sandia’s concentrating solar power program to take part in upcoming 2022 SolarPACES Conference
News Article, September 23, 2022 • Sandia National Laboratories' (Sandia) researchers will present and exhibit at the upcoming SolarPACES 2022 conference taking place Sept. 27-30, 2022, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The conference will be held at the Albuquerque Convention Center, and feature esteemed speakers such as Martin Heinrich, United States Senator for New Mexico; Avi Shultz,...

Sandia’s concentrating solar quarterly seminar addresses challenges associated with surfaces at high temperatures
News Article, June 22, 2022 • Sandia National Laboratories’ Concentrating Solar Power Program will present its third quarterly concentrating solar seminar, “Textured Surfaces for Applications in Concentrating Solar Power,” on June 23, 2022, from 8:30 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. MDT. Professor Ranga Pitchumani, of the Advanced Materials and Technologies Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical Engineering...

Sandia’s concentrating solar quarterly seminar addresses paradigms in thermal energy storage
News Article, August 30, 2022 • Join Sandia National Laboratories’ National Solar Thermal Test Facility as it hosts, “Thermal Energy Storage Paradigms,” with featured guest Dr. Charles Forsberg, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022, from 9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m., MT. This fifth session of the Quarterly Concentrating Solar Seminar Series will include:...

Successful G3P3 receiver test is a step towards commercial scalability
News Article, September 18, 2024 • Researchers at the National Solar Thermal Test Facility have successfully tested the Generation 3 Particle Pilot Plant’s falling particle receiver. This new receiver is double the size of its predecessor and operates at two megawatts of concentrated radiative energy. The test represents an important step toward the commercial scalability of...

Using the power of the sun to roast green chile
News Article, July 7, 2022 • Greener approach to a New Mexican staple opens possibilities for sustainable food roasting Sandia National Laboratories engineer Kenneth Armijo, who grew up on a chile farm in Sabinal, located between Albuquerque and Socorro, New Mexico, thought there was a “greener” way to roast green chile. The results of his experiments...