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Team of Sandians Address Challenges and Advancements in Grid Energy Storage Solutions
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 storage solutions, battery state estimation, […] Read More
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Sandian Electrical Engineer Presents on Four Anomaly Detection Methods at SPEEDAM
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), in Ischia, Italy. The paper, […] Read More
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Sandia Senior Scientist Appointed Founding Chair of New IEEE Committee
Dr. Babu Chalamala, a Senior Scientist for Sandia National Laboratories, was appointed as the founding chair of the TC2: Technical Committee on Grid Interfaces for the IEEE Transportation Electrification Council. Dr. Chalamala’s chairmanship became effective June 18, 2024. The objective of this committee is to reach across IEEE Societies to foster awareness, communicate about, and […] Read More
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Sandia Policy Analyst Addresses LDES Commercialization at TechConnect Expo
Will McNamara, an Energy Storage Policy Analyst Sandia National Laboratories Energy Storage program, delivered a presentation at the 2024 TechConnect World Innovation Conference and Expo on June 18, 2024, in Washington, DC. The focus of Will’s presentation titled “Long-Duration Energy Storage (LDES): Mapping the Pathway to Commercialization” was included in the Energy Storage: LDES Policy, […] Read More
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Drs. Spoerke and Gyuk Co-Chair Energy Storage and LDES Symposium
Dr. Erik Spoerke, a former Materials Lead in the Sandia Energy Storage program and now Senior Analytics Advisor with the DOE Office of Electricity (OE), co-chaired the “Energy Storage: Toward Larger and Longer Duration Storage Deployment” symposium at the 2024 TechConnect World Innovation Conference and Expo June 17-18, 2024, in Washington D.C. Along with Dr. […] Read More
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Sandians Conduct Li-ion Cycling Work during ECS Webinar
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 Percent Capacity” covered the cycling […] Read More
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Sandia Materials Scientist Highlights DOE and Office of Electricity Initiatives
Dr. Erik Spoerke, a former Materials Lead in the Sandia Energy Storage program and now Senior Analytics Advisor with the DOE Office of Electricity (OE), gave a keynote presentation, at the 14th Annual Capture the Energy Conference and Expo sponsored by New York Battery and Energy Storage Technology Consortium (NY BEST), held May 14-16, 2024, […] Read More
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U.S. Department of Energy Launches Advanced Energy Storage Research and Testing Facility
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 opening the 93,000 square foot […] Read More
