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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...

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...

New CSP Digital Technical Library Archive sheds light on decades of solar research

News Article, October 11, 2021 • Sandia National Laboratories began studying the power of the sun to produce utility-scale energy in the 1960s. Sandia’s National Solar Thermal Test Facility was commissioned in 1978, spurred by the oil crisis of 1973. Many of the documents detailing the design, construction and research conducted at the world’s first multimegawatt...

Ken Armijo, left, a Sandia National Laboratories mechanical engineer, and Alice Parsons, a technical librarian, study a historical blueprint for a portion of Sandia’s solar tower, which stands in the background. The document, among tens of thousands of others, is now accessible online to researchers and other interested parties from around the world. (Photo by Randy Montoya)

New solar thermal tower key component of national energy goals

News Article, March 10, 2023 • Sandia hosted a Feb. 16 groundbreaking ceremony to begin the construction of a new solar tower at the National Solar Thermal Test Facility. The tower is part of the $25 million award announced by the DOE to include the building, testing and demonstration of a next-generation concentrating solar thermal power...

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...

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 solar scientist receives HENAAC Award

News Article, November 1, 2021 • Systems engineering researcher Dr. Ken Armijo has been selected to receive the 2021 Hispanic Engineers National Achievement Awards Conference’s (HENAAC) Most Promising Engineer or Scientist with Advanced Degree (PhD) Award. Sponsored by Great Minds in Stem (GMiS), the award honors the best and brightest science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM)...

Sandia’s Continuously Recirculating Falling-Particle Receiver Emplaced at Top of Solar Tower

News Article, July 14, 2015 • Sandia researchers are working to lower the cost of solar energy systems and improve efficiencies in a big way, thanks to a system of small particles. Technologists John Kelton and Daniel Ray (both in Sandia’s Concentrating Solar Technologies Dept.) perform inspection of the falling-particle receiver during a cloud delay atop...

Sandia’s Supercritical Carbon-Dioxide/Brayton-Cycle Laboratory Signs Important MOU with Industry Partners

News Article, September 23, 2015 • Sandia and eight other companies and research organizations* will collaborate to advance a distributed power system that can produce cleaner, more efficient electricity. The memorandum of understanding (MOU) focuses on developing an energy-conversion system based on supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2)/Brayton-cycle technology. Gary Rochau, manager of Sandia’s Advanced Nuclear Concepts Dept....

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...