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Deployment of UEP Battery Energy Storage System on the Navajo Nation
News Article, June 6, 2022 • On May 5, 2022, the Sandia Energy Storage Demonstration Projects team, supported by the DOE Office of Electricity’s (DOE-OE) Energy Storage Program, successfully deployed a 3 kW/13 kWh rechargeable zinc manganese dioxide (ZnMnO2) battery system to replace lead acid batteries at an off-grid home on the Navajo Nation in Arizona....

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 virtual tour that’s got the power
News Article, April 3, 2023 • It hasn’t harnessed the power of Shazam, yet, but the Distributed Energy and Technologies Laboratory (DETL) is exploring how to integrate emerging technologies into today’s energy grid. Discover everything DETL is doing with solar power, electric vehicles, battery technology and more, all from the comfort of your desktop or mobile...

Storing Hydrogen Underground Could Boost Transportation, Energy Security
News Article, February 26, 2015 • Large-scale storage of low-pressure, gaseous hydrogen in salt caverns and other underground sites for transportation fuel and grid-scale energy applications offers several advantages over above-ground storage, says a recent Sandia study sponsored by the DOE Fuel Cell Technologies Office. Geologic storage of hydrogen gas could make it possible to produce...