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Bridging the Gap: How Emerging State Policies are Making Energy Storage Affordable and Accessible

News Article, December 16, 2024 • NEW REPORT As energy storage becomes an increasingly integral tool to deliver numerous benefits to communities and to the electric grid, the question of how to make this new technology broadly affordable and accessible becomes more urgent, particularly for state agencies tasked with meeting clean energy goals. A new report...

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

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.

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...

Family-friendly Earth Day virtual event

News Article, April 20, 2022 • Sandia is partnering with national laboratories across the country to host a ‘Sunrise to Sunset’ Earth Day celebration on April 22. The day-long event will feature science-based, educational activities for kids K-12. At 11:30AM (MST) Sandia’s Kenny Armijo will provide a tour of the National Solar Thermal Test Facility and...

Global Recycling Day: Learn about spent nuclear fuel recycling

News Article, March 15, 2023 • Successfully meeting the nation’s energy needs and climate goals for carbon free energy production will require the construction of new nuclear power plants and a robust role for nuclear energy as part of the nation’s overall energy strategy. Currently approximately 20 percent of the electricity in the United States is...

Long Duration Energy Storage National Consortium hosting first Annual Workshop

News Article, July 29, 2024 • The LDES National Consortium is hosting its first Annual Workshop on September 10-11 in Los Angeles, California. The focus of the Annual Workshop will be to increase partnership opportunities and networking among individuals and organizations directly engaged in LDES technology development, investing, market planning, project management, and policymaking. Hosted by...

New Microgrid Design Toolkit tutorial site

News Article, April 30, 2024 • Sandia National Laboratories developed the Microgrid Design Toolkit (MDT), a decision support software for microgrid designers that is publicly available for download. Intended for use in the early stages of the design process, MDT uses powerful search algorithms to identify and characterize alternative microgrid designs in terms of user-defined inputs and...

New report highlights Sandia’s grid, energy storage efforts

News Article, May 8, 2023 • Sandia’s 2022 Grid Modernization and Energy Storage Annual Report is now available. Sandia’s Grid Modernization and Energy Storage program works to advance a national vision of a secure, resilient, and sustainable electric system for all users. The achievements listed in the report reflect a strategic approach combining technology development; modeling,...

Registration is now open for the 2022 Power Electronics and Energy Conversion Workshop

News Article, August 2, 2022 • We are pleased to announce registration is now open for the virtual 2022 Power Electronics and Energy Conversion Workshop, hosted by Sandia National Laboratories. The workshop will be held August 23-24, 8AM to 4PM MT, via zoom. The goal of this workshop is to identify research directions and priorities for...

Registration now open for the 2024 PVPMC Workshop

News Article, March 29, 2024 • The 2024 PV Performance Modeling Collaborative Workshop will take place May 7–9, 2024, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Registration is now open.  The popular workshop addresses the current state of photovoltaic system models, works to develop a path forward for establishing best practices on PV system performance modeling and sets the...

Three differnt pv panels in 3 rows and facing the sun.

Sandia contributes nuclear science expertise to the International Youth Nuclear Congress

News Article, November 14, 2022 • Sylvia Saltzstein, Sandia’s Nuclear Fuel Cycle Technologies Senior Manager, will travel to Japan to participate in the upcoming International Youth Nuclear Congress November 27 through December 2. The conference presents an opportunity for young nuclear science professionals to discuss research, collaborate, network, and learn from senior leaders who share their...

Nuclear Energy staff work in laboratory at Sandia

Sandia develops toolset to better meet utility power needs in disadvantaged communities

News Article, June 16, 2022 • Sandia’s electric power systems research team recently completed a toolset that improves visibility into the power grid by applying machine learning methods to customers’ home utility power meter data. The toolset provides the ability to determine the electrical phase of the power meter using the data produced by a neighborhood’s...

Sandia Partnerships: Scaled Wind Energy Technology and Microgrid Testing Webinar

News Article, March 13, 2024 • Join experts from Sandia National Laboratories’ Wind Energy Design and Experimentation Department as they host, “Sandia Partnerships: Scaled Wind Energy Technology and Microgrid Testing,” on April 2, 2024, from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. MT. The Scaled Wind Farm Technology (SWiFT) project, long known for its research into advanced rotor...

three wind turbines outlined by a luminous sunset at the Sandia Wind Farm Testing Facility

Sandia publishes roadmap for enhanced microgrid protection

News Article, June 7, 2019 • Sandia, in conjunction with experts from around the country, has published a roadmap for the research and development of microgrid protection in a recent report titled Microgrid Protection: Advancing the State of the Art. The new Sandia report takes a deep dive into the complexities of protection for microgrids, which...

Sandia releases 2022 Microgrid Conceptual Design Guidebook

News Article, April 27, 2022 • Sandia National Laboratories’ microgrid research and development team has released the 2022 Microgrid Conceptual Design Guidebook. Using the framework described in this guidebook, stakeholders can come together to quantify site-specific vulnerabilities, identify the most significant risks to electricity delivery, and establish electric outage tolerances across various communities. The guidebook includes an...

Sandia releases Microgrid Design Toolkit 1.4 to the public

News Article, October 31, 2024 • Sandia has released the latest Microgrid Design Toolkit 1.4 software download to the public. MDT 1.4 expands on Sandia’s existing MDT build, which serves as a decision support software for microgrid designers. Download the Microgrid Design Toolkit Intended for use in the early stages of the design process, MDT uses...

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)

Sandian named Scientist of the Year

News Article, September 11, 2023 • “I was the only farm worker who had a calculus book in his car,” Sal Rodriguez joked when I asked him about his upbringing. But it was no joke. The son of immigrants, Sal grew up in the tiny town of Calexico, California and worked in the fields to put...

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Sandians visit Puerto Rico to participate in grid resilience and distributed energy conversations in wake of Hurricane Fiona

News Article, November 9, 2022 • Sandians Summer Ferreira, Matt Lave, and Olga Hart recently visited San Juan, Puerto Rico, where they participated in an Advisory Group Meeting associated with the multi-National-Lab PR100 project to discuss lessons learned related to grid resilience and distributed energy in the wake of Hurricane Fiona. Meeting participants included community leaders,...

Science serving others

News Article, March 19, 2024 • Engineer employs computer code to mitigate climate change and nuclear energy risks Dave Luxat is the epitome of “science serving others.” He is a second-generation engineer who is empathetic that change is hard, cares greatly about climate change mitigation and is passionate about building on the long-standing heritage of engineers...

Photo of David Luxat and his father at a table.

Statistician seeks to understand climate change through variable relationships

News Article, April 24, 2024 • Climate change is a confusing maze of inputs and outputs. Katherine Goode spends her days trying make the variable chaos behave. Katherine is a research and development statistician at Sandia currently supporting the CLDERA Grand Challenge. She is part of a large research team working to understand climate change mitigation strategies...