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2021 PV Performance Modeling and Monitoring Workshop Call for Abstracts
News Article, July 7, 2021 • The 2021 PV Performance Modeling and Monitoring Workshop to be held Oct. 19-20, 2021, in Salt Lake City, UT, is currently soliciting proposals from the photovoltaics community. Interested parties are encouraged to submit a short abstract on topics such as: Solar resource assessment updates (led by GroundWork Renewables)Module performance characterization...

2024 European PVPMC Workshop announces call for abstracts
News Article, April 15, 2024 • Sandia National Laboratories’ PV Performance and Modelling Collaborative has released a call for abstracts for the 2024 European PVPMC Workshop. The Technical University of Denmark, European Energy, and Sandia will host the event taking place in Copenhagen, Denmark, Aug. 21-22, 2024.  Workshop organizers are currently inviting session abstracts on the...
Long line of PV panels with sun setting behind them

2024 High Latitude Photovoltaics Workshop advances northern PV collaboration
News Article, April 22, 2024 • The inaugural 2024 High Latitude Photovoltaics Workshop took place at 65° latitude in Piteå, Sweden, on March 14-15, 2024, to exchange ideas around the unique opportunities and challenges of deploying solar photovoltaic technology in high-latitude regions. The successful workshop was the culmination of years of work by researchers at Sandia...
Researchers attending the 2024 High Latitude PV Workshop in Sweden March 14-15, 2024, visited the Solvåg (Solar Wave) system in Piteå. (Photo by Joshua Stein)

IEA Task 13 report offers new guidelines for photovoltaic bifacial tracker systems
News Article, September 20, 2024 • Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories were part of an international team to publish a new report featuring best practices for bifacial photovoltaic tracking systems. In August, the International Energy Agency Photovoltaic Power Systems Programme Task 13 released, “Best Practices for the Optimization of Bifacial Tracking Systems 2024,” which provides an...

Making materials more durable through science
News Article, September 12, 2023 • A team at Sandia National Laboratories developed a molecule that helps change the way some materials react to temperature fluctuations, which makes them more durable. It’s an application that could be used in everything from plastic phone cases to missiles. Polymers, which include various forms of plastics, are made up...
A researcher holds a vial of a new batch of a new, more durable material

Materials developed at Sandia help extinguish solar panel fires before they ignite
News Article, December 22, 2020 • As solar panels become popular and their voltages increase, there is a need to have built-in capabilities to extinguish fires caused by arc-faults, which are high-power discharges of electricity that can create explosions or flash events due to damaged wires. Sandia National Laboratories researcher Kenny Armijo has spent 10 years...

Modeling, data opportunities available for photovoltaic performance and modeling community
News Article, July 28, 2023 • The Photovoltaic (PV) Performance and Modeling Collaborative (PVPMC) has announced several upcoming solar research opportunities that may be of interest to the PVPMC community, including PV modeling comparisons and the chance to participate in the Department of Energy’s Solar Data Bounty Prize. 2023 Blind PVPMC Modeling Comparison Call for Participants:...
A researcher stands among a field of photovoltaic solar panels

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...

PACT Center hosts first workshop in Albuquerque
News Article, January 6, 2023 • Sandia National Laboratories’ (Sandia’s) Perovskite PV Accelerator for Commercializing Technologies (PACT) Center held its first workshop Oct. 18, 2022, at CFV Labs in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The event included four sessions of presentations on a variety of topics, as well as a tour and demonstrations of PACT and other relevant...
PACT attenees listen to a CFV Labs presentation

Photovoltaic panels catch the sun despite the snow
News Article, July 20, 2022 • Alaska trials of icephobic coating show 85% increase in energy output A Sandia-led research team has developed a transparent, polymeric-based coating that helps photovoltaic panels continuously shed snow and ice. Early field trials in Alaska demonstrated that coated panels can produce 85% more energy, compared to uncoated panels. Preliminary data...

Photovoltaics researchers release five-year, early-life module degradation study
News Article, December 16, 2022 • A team led by photovoltaics researchers at Sandia has completed a five-year degradation study of 834 fielded photovoltaic modules, representing 13 types of modules from seven manufacturers in three climates. Their objective was to quantify degradation rates of recent, widely used photovoltaic technologies and release results publicly to inform relevant stakeholders and best practices....

Plenary session to present the results of a blind photovoltaic modeling intercomparison
News Article, September 14, 2022 • Sandia photovoltaic researcher Marios Theristis will be one of three plenary speakers featured at the scientific opening session of the upcoming 8th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion (WCPEC-8) to take place Sept. 26-30, 2022, at the Milano Convention Centre in Milan, Italy. Theristis will present, “International Photovoltaic Modeling Intercomparison,”...
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PV Performance Modeling Collaborative Workshop explores PV technical challenges and opportunities
News Article, October 16, 2024 • Sandia National Laboratories, the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and European Energy co-organized and hosted the 2024 PV Performance Modeling Collaborative (PVPMC) Workshop in Copenhagen, Denmark, August 21 – 23, 2024. The three-day event focused on research and development to increase the accuracy and technical rigor of PV performance models...

PV Performance Modeling Workshop to take place in May 2023
News Article, April 24, 2023 • The 2023 PV Performance Modeling Workshop will take place May 9-10, 2023, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Join Sandia National Laboratories, Groundwork Renewables, and CFV Labs for an exciting program including photovoltaic (PV) topics such as solar resources assessment, PV capacity testing, innovations in PV system monitoring, and modeling tools...
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PV Plant Performance Technical Briefing Published in PV Power Tech
News Article, March 4, 2015 • The state of the art in PV system monitoring is relatively simplistic, relying either on comparisons of outputs between various parts of the system (e.g., inverters) or on an evaluation of a performance metric that normalizes output to available irradiance and other environmental conditions. However, neither of these methods is very...

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 photovoltaics degradation study receives nationwide airtime
News Article, November 1, 2023 • Sandia National Laboratories researcher Marios Theristis recently spoke to Yale Climate Connections regarding the release of his team’s five-year degradation study of 834 fielded photovoltaic (PV) modules, representing 13 module types from seven manufacturers in three climates. The researchers’ objective was to quantify degradation rates of recent, widely used PV...

Sandia researcher recruits summer interns at AISES conference
News Article, October 28, 2021 • The American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) held its national conference Sept. 23-25, 2021, in Phoenix, AZ. Sandia National Laboratories’ (Sandia) Sandra Begay, a photovoltaics researcher, attended to recruit interns at the event. The day before the conference began, Begay attended the first in-person assembly of the DOE Office...

Sandia scientists provide technical assistance to Rocking Solar, an American-Made Solar Prize Finalist with a product that could transform the urban landscape
News Article, September 13, 2021 • Sandia National Laboratories’ researchers recently hosted Darin Palmer, CEO of Rocking Solar, for a demonstration of his potentially game-changing approach to populating commercial rooftops with solar. The two-day visit in late July offered Sandia Photovoltaic Systems Evaluation Laboratory (PSEL) scientists and Sandia Experimental Solid Mechanics engineers an up-close look at...
From left to right: CEO of Rocking Solar, Darin Palmer; Sandia PV Researcher, Laurie Burnham; Student, Joseph Coston; PV Technologist, Doug Robb; Sandia PV Researcher, Dan Riley; and PV Technologist, William Snyder.

Sandia snow-shedding paper chosen as an ‘Editor’s Pick,’ featured in Best of Advanced Materials Technologies 2021
News Article, June 7, 2022 • A photovoltaics (PV) research team led by Sandia National Laboratories recently learned that their journal article, "Facilitating large-scale snow shedding from in-field solar arrays using icephobic surfaces with low-interfacial toughness," was chosen as an Editor's Pick and is featured in the annual Best of Advanced Materials Technologies issue. The Best...
Imagesof snow-covered, photovoltaic panels, where snow has shed from panels with new snowphobic coatings developed at Sandia.

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-led center to advance understanding of new solar panel technology
News Article, July 16, 2021 • The Department of Energy recently awarded $14 million to two national labs to form a Sandia-led center to improve the understanding of perovskite-based photovoltaic technologies and determine the best tests to evaluate the new solar panels’ lifetimes. Perovskite-based photovoltaic technologies still have several challenges to overcome before they can compete...
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Sandia’s photovoltaic performance and modeling workshop takes place in November 2023
News Article, July 7, 2023 • Proposals sought for PV Performance Modeling Collaborative sessions Sandia National Laboratories’ PV Performance Modeling Collaborative (PVPMC) will hold its European Workshop Nov. 8–9, 2023. SUPSI PVLab will host the event at the campus of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland in Mendrisio, Switzerland. The event will...
Photovoltaic solar panels gleam against the backdrop of a setting sun
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