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2019 Frontiers in Resilience Symposium

News Article, January 4, 2019 • An interactive, two-day event convenes thought leaders, practitioners to focus on the role of communication, coordination, and collaboration for critical infrastructure resilience. Sandia National Laboratories and George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government, along with its Center for Energy Science and Policy and Centers on the Public Service,...

A fresh look at restoring power to the grid

News Article, January 31, 2023 • Climate change can alter extreme weather events, and these events have the potential to strain, disrupt or damage the nation’s grid. Sandia National Laboratories computer scientists have been working on an innovative computer model to help grid operators quickly restore power to the grid after a complete disruption, a process called “black start.”...

Two researchers stand in the desert. Power transformers are on the horizon in the background.

Creating the self-healing grid of the future

News Article, March 14, 2024 • Ropp Grid, Electrical Engineer Self-healing electrical grids: It may sound like a concept from science fiction, with tiny robots or some sentient tech crawling around fixing power lines, but in a reality not far from fiction a team of researchers is bringing this idea to life. What’s not hard to...

Michael Ropp poses for a photo at Sandia’s Distributed Energy Technology Lab (DETL) on Oct. 13, 2023. His team is working on ways for an energy microgrids to self-heal using computer algorithms. Photo by Craig Fritz/Sandia National Labs

Making the nation’s electric grid more resilient to electromagnetic events

News Article, June 21, 2021 • An electromagnetic event, while not likely, could disrupt power over a large region of our nation, and mitigation efforts should be considered by grid operators and other stakeholders, according to an article recently published by three Sandia National Laboratories researchers. “Toward an Electromagnetic Event Resilient Grid,” published April 2021 in...

Sandia hosts workshop on strengthening Caribbean energy resilience

News Article, May 24, 2019 • In 2017, the disastrous Hurricanes Irma and Maria caused thousands of deaths, destroyed homes and businesses and left thousands homeless in Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Dominica, Barbuda, and many other island nations in the Caribbean. The hurricanes also exposed a massive problem regarding the resiliency of the electrical...

Two presenters give an overview of the attributes and benefits that have been highlighted for advanced microgrids.

Sandia releases new report on social burden applications with utility partners

News Article, December 9, 2024 • Sandia, working with Southern California Edison and the California Public Utilities Commission, is evaluating how electric utilities can use equity and resilience metrics to help inform resilience-driven infrastructure investments for climate adaptation. Sandia’s newest report, Integration of Equitable Resilience Metrics into Climate-Informed Electric Utility Planning Processes, Phase One, evaluated Social...