Post, August 24, 2021 • The National Alliance for Advanced Technology Batteries (NAATBatt) will jointly host a webinar 1-2:30 p.m. (CDT) Wednesday, July 16, with the U.S. Dept. of Energy – Electricity Delivery & Energy Reliability entitled “DOE Loan Guarantees for Storage Projects: The Essential Details.” Douglas Schultz, director of Loan Guarantee Origination for the...
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NV Energy Electricity Storage Valuation Study Released
Post, August 24, 2021 • Sandia National Laboratories’ Electric Power Systems Research Dept. and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s Advanced Power and Energy Systems Group have released a jointly authored report that examines how grid-level electricity storage might benefit the operations of NV Energy in 2020, and assesses whether those benefits justify the cost of the...
Our Resilient Energy Future
Post, August 24, 2021 • On October 24, 2018, the Hon. Bruce Walker, from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Electricity, came to Sandia to discuss his department’s mission and goals. Mr. Walker discussed the Office’s role in meeting the Nation’s growing demand for reliable electricity by overcoming the challenges of an aging...
Redox Battery receives Green Chemistry Challenge Award
Post, August 24, 2021 • On June 12, 2017 UniEnergy Technology (UET) and Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNNL) jointly received the prestigious EPA / American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Challenge Award. The achievement being recognized is the development and commercialization of an advanced Vanadium flow battery. Using an ingenious mixed acid electrolyte, research at PNNL, funded...
Sandia designs better batteries for grid-scale energy storage
Post, August 24, 2021 • Sandia National Laboratories researchers have designed a new kind of molten sodium battery that could prove to be a lower-temperature, lower-cost battery for grid-scale energy storage. Read more here.
Sandia ESS Program and Oregon Energy Dept. Announce Demonstration Project Funding Opportunity
Post, August 24, 2021 • The Oregon Dept. of Energy is partnering with the U.S. DOE Office of Electricity’s Energy Storage Program, and Sandia National Laboratories, to offer funds for an energy storage demonstration project in Oregon. Up to $250,000 in federal funds will be matched by up to $45,000 in state funds from ODOE...
Sandia researcher authors ‘Battery Energy Storage System’ for Springer-Verlag London
Post, August 24, 2021 • Sandia National Laboratories researcher Stan Atcitty recently coauthored a chapter titled “Battery Energy Storage System” in Power Electronics for Renewable and Distributed Energy Systems, a volume published last July by Springer-Verlag London. This chapter discusses the various technical components of battery energy storage systems for utility-scale energy storage and how these...
Sandia Scientist Stan Atcitty Recognized in Partnership with Tribal Colleges and Universities
Post, August 4, 2023 • Dr. Stan Atcitty was featured in the Winds of Change magazine, published by American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES). AISES is a national nonprofit organization focused on increasing the representation of Indigenous peoples of North America and the Pacific Islands in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) studies and...
Sandia-Developed Precision High Power Battery Tester Earns R&D 100 Award
Post, August 24, 2021 • R&D Magazine has recognized Sandia National Laboratories researchers’ work in developing innovative battery testing with the annual R&D 100 Award. As principle investigator of the Precision High Power Battery Tester, Dr. Summer Ferreira was presented with the R&D 100 Green Tech Special Recognition Award. The PHPBT uses high-precision charge/discharge test measurements...
Sandia’s Energy Storage Analysis Laboratory Team to Speak at Next Generation Batteries Conference
Post, August 24, 2021 • Dr. Summer Ferreira, principal investigator of Sandia National Laboratories’ Energy Storage Analysis Laboratory (ESAL), will speak at the Grid-Scale Energy Storage and Lithium Battery Safety tracks of the Knowledge Foundation’s Next Generation Batteries 2015 Conference, April 21-22 in San Diego, CA. In her talk titled “Viability of Employing Storage Device...
Sandians Publish articles in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society
Post, August 24, 2021 • Sandia National Laboratories has improved the predictability of lithium-ion battery safety through understanding the common aspects of thermal safety over a diverse range of safety-related measurements. A series of two open-access articles in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society describe recent work funded by the Office of Electricity Energy Storage...
Sterling Light Storage Units Mark Milestone
Post, August 24, 2021 • The Sterling Municipal Light Department is marking a major milestone related to the department’s two energy storage systems. In March, SMLD celebrated over $1 million in avoided costs to the light department, thanks to the two systems. “We would like to thank our partners who made all of this possible,”...
Testing Opens for Third-Party Validation of Energy Storage Technologies for Stationary Storage Applications
Post, August 24, 2021 • Sandia National Laboratories has released a Request for Proposals for third-party testing of stationary energy storage applications. The deadline for application is April 3, 2015.Manufacturers, integrators and consumers of stationary energy storage are encouraged to apply for third-party testing of storage solutions.Sandia will determine the appropriate scale of the validation...
U.S. Department of Energy Opportunity: Rapid Operational Validation Initiative for Flow Batteries
Post, August 4, 2023 • The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is issuing a lab call to develop the Rapid Operational Validation Initiative (ROVI), which will address critical gaps in data needs to evaluate energy storage, such as the lack of access to large and uniform sets of performance data that are necessary to accelerate...
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