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Post, September 10, 2024 • On June 19, 2024, Victoria O'Brien, an Electrical Engineer in the Sandia National Laboratories Energy Storage program,presented the results of the paper entitled "A Comparison of Online Model-Based Anomaly Detection Methods for a Lithium-Ion Battery Cell" at the 2024 International Symposium on Power Electronics, Electrical Drives, Automation, and Motion (SPEEDAM),...

Post, September 10, 2024 • Dr. Atri Bera and Dr. Cody Newlun, electrical engineers in the Analytics & Controls area of the Sandia National Laboratories Energy Storage program, chaired and organized a panel at the 2024 IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) General Meeting in Seattle, WA. The panel session, held July 23, 2024, was...

Post, June 25, 2024 • Ramesh Koripella, a Materials Scientist in the Sandia Energy Storage program, spoke at the Clean Energy States Alliance (CESA) 2024 Members Meeting on June 4, 2024, in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Koripella’s presentation titled “Non-Lithium Energy Storage Demonstration Projects in California” was a part of the Non-Lithium and Longer-Duration Technologies breakout...

Post, June 25, 2024 • Will McNamara, Energy Storage Policy Analyst at Sandia National Laboratories, delivered a presentation to the Energy Storage Working Group of the Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA) on Wednesday, June 12, 2024. The presentation was focused on Sandia's current work related to long-duration energy storage (LDES), specifically its role as the...

Post, March 8, 2024 • On January 23, 2024, Sandia staff participated in the second meeting of the P1547.4 Working Group (WG). The P1547.4 WG, chaired by Michael Ropp of Sandia National Laboratories, is revising the IEEE Guide 1547.4-2011 “Guide for Design, Operation, Integration, and Interoperability of Intentional Electric Systems Islands.” This guide supplements the...

Post, May 31, 2024 • Sandia National Laboratories Energy Storage program team member Charlie Vartanian participated in the EUCI course “Energy Storge System Commissioning” held virtually April 17-18, 2024. Charlie was the lead instructor for “Installation Codes, Standards, and Regulations (CSRs) Applicable to Energy Storage System (ESS) Commissioning”. The Sandia-supported course module included content prepared...

Post, September 10, 2024 • Dr. Reed Wittman and Dr. Yuliya Preger presented in the Electrochemical Society’s regular webinar series on June 12, 2024. They presented a summary of the long-term Li-ion cycling work that the safety and reliability team has been conducting since 2017. The talk titled “Degradation of Commercial Lithium-Ion Cells Beyond 80...

Post, September 10, 2024 • Charlie Vartanian, a member of the Sandia National Laboratories Energy Storage program, presented at the EUCI webinar “Grid Enhancing Technologies (GETs) Fundamentals, held July 29-30, 2024. Charlie presented and moderated the panel “GETs Attributes & Grid Applications.” The panel assembled by Charlie included speakers from ISO-New England and Southern California Edison....

Post, June 3, 2024 • Sandia National Laboratories Energy Storage program team members participated as co-instructors on the “How Grid Energy Storage Meets the Challenges of a Decarbonized Future” tutorial at the 2024 IEEE PES T&D Conference May 6-9, 2024, in Anaheim, CA. This tutorial was organized and led by the IEEE Energy Storage and...

Post, September 10, 2024 • Members of the Sandia National Laboratories Energy Storage program participated as co-authors and co-instructors for a tutorial on the IEEE 1547 Distributed Energy Resources Interconnection Standard at the 2024 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting, July 21-25, 2024, in Seattle, WA. This tutorial was organized by IEEE Standards Committee...

Post, March 8, 2024 • On February 26, 2024, Sandia National Laboratories staff were co-instructors for HalfMoon Education’s Distributed Energy Interconnection and Interoperability webinar. This webinar covered broader DER interconnection policy and technical standards content, plus narrower discussion specific to energy storage (ES) and Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G).  Sandia staff featured learning developed through Energy Storage (ES)...

Post, March 8, 2024 • From January 30 - February 2, 2024, Sandia staff participated in the 2024 IEEE Energy Storage and Stationary Battery (ESSB) committee’s winter general meeting. The meeting was held in San Diego, CA, co-located with the IEEE EESAT conference. These ESSB biannual meetings cover committee-level administrative and planning activities, plus additional...

Post, March 8, 2024 • On February 19, 2024, Sandia staff were co-instructors for the tutorial “How Grid Energy Storage Meets the Challenges of a Decarbonized Future”, at the 2024 IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies conference in Washington DC.  This tutorial was organized and led by the IEEE Energy Storage and Stationary Battery (ESSB) technical...

Post, March 8, 2024 • From January 29-30, 2024, Sandia staff members organized and participated in the 2024 IEEE Electrical Energy Storage Applications and Technologies (EESAT) conference in San Diego, CA. This year’s technical program centered around the theme of Long Duration Energy Storage and highlighted advances in electricity storage technologies including battery chemistries such...

Post, October 4, 2024 • Sandia staff led and participated in the Regulation and Standards panel at the 2nd annual Long Duration Energy Storage (LDES) National Consortium Workshop held at the IBEW Electrical Training Institute in Los Angeles, on September 11, 2024.  This panel gave an overview of key codes and standards (C&S) covering energy...

Post, October 14, 2024 • Ujjwol Tamrakar and a team of researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a framework for the simultaneous dispatch of energy storage systems (ESSs) for energy arbitrage and power quality applications in the electric grid. Their findings are detailed in the article titled "A Model Predictive Control Framework for Combining...

Post, October 14, 2024 • Samantha Macchi and her colleagues at Sandia National Laboratories have investigated the effect of chemical structure on the performance of bipolar redox molecules in non-aqueous flow batteries. Their findings are detailed in a report titled "Influence of Linker Group on Bipolar Redox-Active Molecule Performance in Non-Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries," published...

Post, June 5, 2024 • Amalie Frischknecht and Mark Stevens at Sandia developed new parameters to use in molecular dynamics simulations of zincate ions in aqueous potassium hydroxide solutions. The results were published in an article titled “Force Fields for High Concentration Aqueous KOH Solutions and Zincate Ions,” published March 28, 2024, in the American...

Post, September 10, 2024 • During the 2024 International Symposium on Power Electronics, Electrical Drives, Automation, and Motion (SPEEDAM), held in Ischia, Italy from June 19-21, 2024, several research papers funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Electricity Energy Storage Division were presented. These papers addressed critical challenges and advancements in grid energy...

Post, February 26, 2024 • The National Consortium for the Advancement of Long Duration Energy Storage (LDES) Technologies recently held its national launch webinar. More than 1200 people registered the webinar, during which the goals, deliverables, and timeline for the three-year, DOE-funded initiative LDES National Consortium were summarized. Led by Principal Investigator Will McNamara from...

Post, March 18, 2024 • The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Electricity (OE) today launched the American-Made Silicon Carbide (SiC)  Packaging Prize. This $2.25 million contest invites competitors to propose, design, build, and test state-of-the-art SiC semiconductor packaging prototypes to enable these devices to work more effectively in high-voltage environments such as energy storage....

Post, April 8, 2024 • The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Electricity (OE) today announced the selectees of $15 million in awards at the Long Duration Energy Storage (LDES) Council Summit on April 8, 2024. These awards are through the Storage Innovations 2030: Technology Liftoff (SI Liftoff) funding opportunity announcement (FOA) to advance...

Post, August 13, 2024 • The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Electricity (OE) is advancing electric grid resilience, reliability, and security with a new high-tech facility at the Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL) in Richland, Wash., where pioneering researchers can test energy storage capabilities in a realistic environment. Today, OE joined PNNL in...