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Sandia Engineer Presents at IEEE IECON Conference on Energy Storage Control Techniques
Ujjwol Tamrakar, a member of the Sandia Energy Storage Technology and Systems Department, presented a talk titled “Accelerating Deployment of Energy Storage through HIL Simulation and Testing” during the panel session on “Coordinated Storage Networks as Grid Assets: Control Challenges and Opportunities” at the IEEE IECON conference held on November 4, 2024. This presentation highlighted […] Read More
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Sandia Team Receives 2024 Air Force Community Partnership Award
The United States Air Force awarded the Sandia Energy Storage Demonstration Projects Team for their support of the Ellsworth Air Force Base battery energy storage system project with the 2024 Air Force Community Partnership Awards on October 28, 2024. This project was a collaborative effort involving the National Rural Electric Cooperatives Association (NRECA), Pacific Northwest […] Read More
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Sandia Researchers Publish Innovative Method for Fault Location in Low-Voltage Power Systems
Rodrigo Trevizan, along with Matt Reno from Sandia National Laboratories and Zheyuan Cheng from Quanta Technology, submitted a journal paper titled “A Method for Location of Faults in Meshed Secondary Low-Voltage Power Distribution Systems” to the IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery on November 8, 2024. The detection of faults in low-voltage systems is a pressing […] Read More
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Sandians Publish Research on Non-Aqueous Flow Batteries
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 in the journal ChemElectroChem on October 3, […] Read More
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Sandia National Laboratories Publishes Article on Distributed Energy Resources in Disadvantaged Communities
Rodrigo D. Trevizan and Stanley Atcitty have co-authored the article “Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) as an Equity Asset: Lessons Learned from DER Deployments in Disadvantaged Communities,” published in the July/August edition of IEEE Power and Energy Magazine. This article summarizes Sandia’s contributions to Tribal Energy Storage projects, highlighting efforts from both the Tribal Energy Storage program […] Read More
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Sandians Publish Framework for Energy Storage System Dispatch
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 Energy Arbitrage and Power Quality […] Read More
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Sandians Promote Codes and Standards to Facilitate Adoption of Long Duration Energy Storage
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 storage safety and reliability, and […] Read More
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Sandia Engineer Appointed Associate Editor at Major Technical Journal
Dr. Ujjwol Tamrakar, an Electrical Engineer in the Analytics & Controls area of the Sandia Energy Storage program at Sandia National Laboratories, was appointed Associate Editor for the IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy (OAJPE), a leading journal in the field of power and energy systems. IEEE OAJPE is technical journal containing articles […] Read More
