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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...

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 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...
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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...

New WPTO article highlights significant Sandia hydro, marine energy research in Alaska
News Article, November 15, 2021 • The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) has released “North to the Future: WPTO Helps Alaskan Partners Pursue a Clean Energy Future With Water Power,” the much-anticipated article featuring FY21 Alaska-based water power research projects. The projects were supported by Sandia National Laboratories’ Advanced Grid Modeling,...

Now available: Partnerships for Clean Energy Demonstrations Webinar
News Article, March 13, 2023 • Are you part of a rural, remote, island, or islanded community planning a clean energy project? The recorded webinar, Partnerships for Clean Energy Demonstrations, is now available. The webinar highlights the capabilities available from Sandia for clean energy demonstrations and introduces attendees to the basics of how to work with Sandia. Hear...
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Offshore wind roadmap addresses operations and maintenance challenges and opportunities
News Article, June 27, 2024 • Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories’ Wind Energy Technologies program and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s Offshore Wind Research program recently completed a first-of-its-kind report, “An Operations and Maintenance Roadmap for U.S. Offshore Wind.”  Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Wind Energy Technologies Office, the roadmap assesses current operation and...
Offshore Wind Turbines lined up out at sea

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....

Pioneer WEC Concept Design Report webinar
News Article, March 21, 2024 • Join us for a free 90-minute webinar on April 2, 11 a.m. Eastern Time, focused on a novel “pitch resonator” wave energy convertor concept to support the power needs of the Coastal Surface Mooring system within the Ocean Observatories Initiative Pioneer Array. The four-person panel features researchers from Sandia National...

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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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,...

PV Performance Modeling Collaborative accepting workshop proposals
News Article, February 1, 2023 • The PV Performance Modeling Collaborative (PVPMC) is currently accepting presentation proposals from the PV community for the 2023 PVPMC Workshop to be held May 9-10, 2023, in Salt Lake City, Utah.  Co-sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories, GroundWorkRenewables and CFV Labs, the two-day workshop will examine the technical challenges and opportunities...

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

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...
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Registration is now open for the 2022 Sandia Blade Workshop
News Article, June 29, 2022 • We are pleased to announce registration is now open for the 2022 Sandia Blade Workshop to be held Oct. 17-20, 2022, in Albuquerque, NM. To register, please visit the Eventbrite webpage, and keep in mind that your registration is not complete until also paying the registration fee on Sandia Pay....

Registration is now open for the 2024 Sandia Blade Workshop
News Article, July 1, 2024 • We are pleased to announce registration is now open for the 2024 Sandia Blade Workshop.   To register, please visit the Eventbrite webpage, and keep in mind that your registration is not complete until also paying the registration fee on Sandia Pay. The registration fee is waived for invited speakers and...

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.

Registration open for Energy Transitions Initiative Partnership Project webinar
News Article, February 7, 2022 • Sandia National Laboratories’ Water Power and Renewable Energy and Distributed Systems Integration programs–members of the Energy Transitions Initiative Partnership Project (ETIPP) Partner Network– encourage community leaders, residents, and organizations located in remote, island, or islanded communities to attend the upcoming ETIPP Webinar scheduled for Feb. 16, 2022, at 12:00 p.m....

Remote, energy-challenged communities urged to contact ETIPP Partner Network
News Article, December 8, 2021 • Sandia National Laboratories’ Water Power and Renewable Energy and Distributed Systems Integration programs–members of the Energy Transitions Initiative Partnership Project (ETIPP) Partner Network– encourage remote, island, or islanded communities seeking more resilient, reliable, and less costly energy options to contact their ETIPP Regional Partners before the January 2022 ETIPP competition...
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