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  • Sandia Scientists Present on Battery Energy Storage Systems at Nigeria BESS Training Webinar

    On December 18, 2024, Ujjwol Tamrakar and Dilip Pandit delivered a presentation titled “Frequency and Voltage Regulation in Power Systems using BESS” as part of the Nigeria Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) Training Webinar Series under the Net-Zero World (NZW) initiative. Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) have emerged as a strong candidate for providing frequency […] Read More

  • Sandian Delivers Guest Lectures on Cybersecurity for Battery Energy Storage Systems

    Victoria O’Brien presented two invited guest lectures entitled “Cybersecurity of Battery Energy Storage Systems” for universities in the Northeast United States. The first lecture took place on November 13, 2024, at the City College of New York (CCNY) during a graduate-level Renewable Energy course. This lecture discussed a novel approach for detecting cyberattacks in battery […] Read More

  • Sandia Engineer Co-Authors Paper on Cybersecurity for Power Grids

    Rodrigo Trevizan, along with Mukai Zhang and Vijay Gupta from Purdue University, and Sandia colleagues Ray Byrne and Babu Chalamala, had their paper titled “Secure Estimation for Power Grids with Distributed Energy Resources Under Actuator-Side Attacks” published in the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems on November 27, 2024. The research presented in this paper addresses […] Read More

  • Graduate Student Presents Findings on Li-Ion Battery Cycling at ECS PRiME Meeting

    On October 10, 2024, Sahana Upadhya presented her analysis of lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery cycling beyond 80% capacity at the ECS PRiME 2024 Meeting. This research is part of a 7-year cycling study conducted by Sandia National Laboratories. Sahana, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is funded by Reed Wittman and Yuliya Preger at […] Read More

  • Sandia Researcher Presents Initial Results on Sodium-Ion Batteries at ECS PRiME Meeting

    Reed Wittman presented the initial results of sodium-ion 18650 cells cycled at Sandia National Laboratories, in collaboration with the Hawai’i Natural Energy Institute and the University of Oviedo, at the 2024 Spring ECS PRiME meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii, on October 8, 2024. Sodium-ion batteries are rapidly being commercialized as a potential alternative to lithium-ion batteries […] Read More

  • Sandia Scientist Co-Authors Article on Electrochemical Behavior in In Situ TEM Cells

    Reed Wittman, along with a team from Oak Ridge National Labs and the University of Tennessee, published an article titled “In Situ Liquid Electron Microscope Cells Strongly Attenuate Electrochemical Behavior,” which models electrochemical reactions in an in situ electrochemical Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope (STEM). This work was published on November 22, 2024. In situ transmission […] Read More

  • Sandia Researcher Delivers Talk on Cybersecurity for Battery Energy Storage Systems

    Victoria O’Brien presented an invited talk entitled “Cybersecurity of Battery Energy Storage Systems” for the IEEE North Jersey Section, hosted by the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), on November 14, 2024. The presentation focused on methods to ensure a robust cybersecurity posture for battery energy storage systems and highlighted Victoria’s work in repurposing anomaly […] Read More

  • Sandia Engineers Publish Study on Detecting Cyberattacks in Battery Sensors

    Victoria O’Brien, Rodrigo Trevizan, and Vittal Rao from Texas Tech University conducted a study focused on detecting, identifying, and classifying false data injection attacks that corrupt voltage sensors in battery stacks. The results of this study were published in a journal article entitled “Online and Offline Identification of False Data Injection Attacks in Battery Sensors […] Read More