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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,”...
Image of PV Panels and mountains in background

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 solar scientist receives HENAAC Award
News Article, November 1, 2021 • Systems engineering researcher Dr. Ken Armijo has been selected to receive the 2021 Hispanic Engineers National Achievement Awards Conference’s (HENAAC) Most Promising Engineer or Scientist with Advanced Degree (PhD) Award. Sponsored by Great Minds in Stem (GMiS), the award honors the best and brightest science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM)...
Dr. Ken Armijo

Sandia’s Concentrating Solar Power program to host molten salts seminar
News Article, July 14, 2021 • Sandia National Laboratories’ Concentrating Solar Power program will host the first in a new series of seminars online, “Molten salts: A cross cutting technology for energy storage and transfer,” on Tuesday, July 27, 2021, from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Prof. Mark Anderson from the University of Wisconsin – Madison’s...
Image of the Sandia Molten salt facility at the NSTTF.