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![Matthew Paul, a Sandia National Laboratories geosciences engineer, works on a gas adsorption system in a fume hood as part of a project to see if depleted petroleum reservoirs can be used for storing carbon-free hydrogen fuel. (Photo by Craig Fritz)](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/04/Hydrogen_storage-scaled-1.jpg)
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Sandia National Laboratories, CFV Labs and GroundWork Renewables are soliciting technical presentation proposals from the photovoltaic community for the 2025 PVPMC Workshop to be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, May...
![PV performance and modeling collaborative seeks 2025 workshop topics](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2025/01/Picture1.png)
Sandia’s National Solar Thermal Test Facility welcomes Greg Mehos, director of Greg Mehos & Associates LLC, for the next session of the Concentrating Solar Power Seminar Series. “Storage and Flow of Bulk...
![CSP seminar series session focuses on bulk solids handling](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/09/On-sun-tower-heliostats-ground-Nostand-scaled-1.jpg)
Next-generation power electronics are leveraging the advantages of wide bandgap semiconductors to enable higher power densities and efficiency. In electric vehicle drivetrains, this translates to lighter weight systems and more...
![Increasing efficiency and power density for next-generation electric drivetrains](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/12/PEforEV_tile.jpg)
The TechConnect World Innovation Conference and Expo event aims to bring together experts in technology research and innovation, storage implementation, commercialization and markets, and regulatory frameworks to explore how storage...
![TechConnect World Innovation Conference and Expo 2025 call for papers now open](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/11/energy-storage.jpeg)
NEW REPORT As energy storage becomes an increasingly integral tool to deliver numerous benefits to communities and to the electric grid, the question of how to make this new technology...
![Bridging the Gap: How Emerging State Policies are Making Energy Storage Affordable and Accessible](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/09/GettyImages-1546822778.jpg)
Sandia, working with Southern California Edison and the California Public Utilities Commission, is evaluating how electric utilities can use equity and resilience metrics to help inform resilience-driven infrastructure investments for...
![Image of ReNCAT simulation](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/05/ReNCAT_Website_GraphicV3-scaled-1.jpg)
Sandia researchers are advancing algae flow-way systems that screen out pollutants from the environment. Designed to simultaneously remediate water and grow algae for biofuel production, the system can be deployed...
![A researcher in a lab coat sits beside a flow way containing algae](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/12/Turf_Algae_StillPhoot.png)
Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller recently honored Sandia solar researcher Ken Armijo for his outstanding community service and volunteer impact in the local community. Armijo, along with several other volunteers and...
![Albuquerque mayor honors Sandia researcher who invests in his community](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/11/Ken_Keller_Podium-1-scaled-e1731609302673.jpeg)
Pre-ignition is one of the key barriers preventing hydrogen-fueled combustion engines from achieving efficiency and power-density parity with current diesel powertrains. To address this issue, Sandia has developed an experimental...
![Conceptual schematic of the pre-ignition mechanisms in a hydrogen-fueled internal combustion engine (left). A multi-camera, high-speed system for testing and visualizing oil pre-ignition using Sandia's optical engine (right).](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/11/schematic-1.png)
A new report by the Permian Energy Development Lab provides a framework for studying a large and diverse geographic area by aligning counties based on shared characteristics rather than just...
![A map showing the Permian Basin region which stretches from southeast New Mexico into southwestern Texas](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/10/PEDL-e1730408770397.jpg)
Sandia, in partnership with Argonne National Laboratory, developed a new approach that allows for agile, mobile testing of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations. The new testing method, which focuses on...
![Sandia develops mobile cybersecurity test for electric vehicle charging stations](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/10/PKIDemo-scaled-1.jpg)
Sandia has released the latest Microgrid Design Toolkit 1.4 software download to the public. MDT 1.4 expands on Sandia’s existing MDT build, which serves as a decision support software for...
![Digital graphic wave](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/04/SplashImage1.png)
Sandia National Laboratories, the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and European Energy co-organized and hosted the 2024 PV Performance Modeling Collaborative (PVPMC) Workshop in Copenhagen, Denmark, August 21 – 23,...
![PV Performance Modeling Collaborative Workshop explores PV technical challenges and opportunities](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/10/20240821_101806-1-scaled-e1728921741311.jpg)
Sandia National Laboratories’ Concentrating Solar Power program recently launched OpenCSP, a collaborative environment for CSP code and data development. The new, open-source platform is comprised of source code, applications and...
![heliostats reflectng sunset at NSTTF](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/10/Solar_Mirror-e1617658327461-700x432-1.jpg)
October 8 recognizes National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day. The date — 10/08 — represents the atomic weight of hydrogen, the most abundant element on Earth. Sandia’s hydrogen and fuel...
![Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day 2024](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/02/GettyImages-1202489552-scaled-1.jpg)
The next installment of the National Solar Thermal Test Facility’s Concentrating Solar Power Seminar Series will take place on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024, from 10-11 a.m. MDT. Join Generation 3...
![Image of the two towers:orignal built in 197 and the new G3P3 tower with heliostats at the bottom](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/10/Jeremy-G3P3-Tower-Image-1-e1727977267942.jpg)
The 9th IEEE Workshop on the Electronic Grid (eGrid 2024) will be held November 19–21, 2024, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States. This international workshop, sponsored by IEEE Power...
![eGrid 2024 Workshop registration now open](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/12/Grid-substation_iStockphoto_450997085-1.jpg)
Andy McIlroy warmly recalls Labs Director James Peery’s first visit to Sandia’s California site in January 2020. “He’d been on the job for less than two weeks, yet he was...
![Scientists in and in front of the Da Vinci II balloon](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/09/climate2.jpg)
Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories were part of an international team to publish a new report featuring best practices for bifacial photovoltaic tracking systems. In August, the International Energy Agency...
![IEA Task 13 report offers new guidelines for photovoltaic bifacial tracker systems](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/02/PV_ThinkstockPhotos-459874203-1024x683-2-700x467-1.jpg)
Researchers at the National Solar Thermal Test Facility have successfully tested the Generation 3 Particle Pilot Plant’s falling particle receiver. This new receiver is double the size of its predecessor...
![Successful G3P3 receiver test is a step towards commercial scalability](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/09/On-sun-tower-heliostats-ground-Nostand-scaled-1.jpg)
Stretching across 66 counties in West Texas and eastern New Mexico, the vast region known as the Permian Basin is a cornerstone of the U.S. energy economy. The Permian Basin...
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Do you know entrepreneurs and innovators with big ideas to advance clean energy technologies? Let them know the submission deadline for the Office of Technology Transitions’ (TCF) Open Voucher Call...
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A group of engineers watch as a forklift moves a shipping container onto a flatbed truck. The container is about to embark on a four-day trip from Albuquerque, New Mexico,...
![How do you ship a wave? In a box, of course. A WaveBox.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/09/SWEPT-WaveBox-scaled-1.jpeg)
Sandia partnered with five other DOE national laboratories to investigate the applicability of a labeling program for operational technology, such as solar inverters and smart meters. We are now excited...
![Sandia launches new cyber labeling webpage](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/08/ThinkstockPhotos-178469221-scaled-1.jpg)
The LDES National Consortium is hosting its first Annual Workshop on September 10-11 in Los Angeles, California. The focus of the Annual Workshop will be to increase partnership opportunities and...
![Long Duration Energy Storage National Consortium hosting first Annual Workshop](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/09/GettyImages-1546822778.jpg)
The Sandia-EPRI co-hosted Photovoltaic (PV) Connector Reliability Workshop will take place Wednesday, July 17, 2024, from 1-5 p.m. ET, in Charlotte, N.C. The event will occur in tandem with the...
![image of a connector that connects one pv pnael with another](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/07/PV-Connector_Featured-Image-edit.jpg)
Platform Aerospace operated their Ultra-Long Endurance Group 3 Unmanned Aircraft System, Vanilla, in the warning area complex known as W-220, last September at the Oliktok Arctic Research Center. With more...
![Office of Naval Research leverages Sandia-managed airspace over the Arctic Ocean for unmanned aircraft system flight](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/06/tailcam.jpg)
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Wind Energy Technologies Office selected Sandia National Laboratories’ SpinnerLidar project for funding through the fiscal year 2024 Base Annual Appropriations Technology Commercialization Fund. The SpinnerLidar...
![Image of the SpinnerLidar affixed to the GE wind turbine](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/07/IMG_5005-scaled-1.jpg)
Interested in learning more about the new Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF) Open Voucher Call from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Technology Transitions? An informational webinar on July...
![Image of five scientists. In the middle, one woman holds up a gear, looking through it. Image also includes the Office of Technology Transitions logo and the American-Made logo.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/06/image.jpeg)
Hydrogen fuel cells are an established means of supplying efficient, clean power for a wide range of applications, including forklifts, mobile lighting, emergency backup power systems and light-duty vehicles. During...
![UP, UP AND AWAY — The hydrogen vent mast installed near the aft of the hydrogen-powered ferry “Sea Change” funnels potentially dangerous fumes away from people on board the vessel. The vessel was built by Zero Emission Industries, founded by former Sandian Joe Pratt. (Photo courtesy California Air Resources Board)](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/10/Hydrogen-vent-mast1_1000x750.jpg)
Sandia National Laboratories materials scientist Dorina Sava Gallis has been honored by the American Chemical Society with a 2024 Women Chemists Committee Rising Star Award, recognizing her excellence in the...
![Sandia National Laboratories materials scientist Dorina Sava Gallis was recently recognized by the American Chemical Society Women Chemists Committee with a Rising Star Award. (Photo by Craig Fritz)](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/06/Sava-Gallis_lab-scaled-1.jpg)
We are pleased to announce registration is now open for the 2024 Sandia Blade Workshop. To register, please visit the Eventbrite webpage, and keep in mind that your registration is...
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Sandia National Laboratories electrical engineer Michael Ropp has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, one of the world’s largest technical professional organizations. Ropp’s research...
![Sandia microgrid expert named IEEE Fellow](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/06/Ropp_Fellow-scaled-1-e1719240842643.jpg)
Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories’ Wind Energy Technologies program and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s Offshore Wind Research program recently completed a first-of-its-kind report, “An Operations and Maintenance Roadmap for...
![Offshore Wind Turbines lined up out at sea](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/02/Wind_Turbines_and_Sea_Image-1.jpg)
Two Sandia National Laboratories employees have been honored with the 2024 New Mexico Women in Tech Award from the New Mexico Technology Council. The award recognizes remarkable women who drive innovation and...
![Mary Monson, senior manager of Technology Partnerships and Business Development at Sandia National Laboratories, accepts an award from the New Mexico Technology Council on March 13 for her immense impact on tech transfer at Sandia. (Photo by DeAnna Vincent)](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/06/WiT-096_smaller-scaled-1.jpg)
Keeping electrical circuits dry is generally considered a vital safety measure, but at Sandia National Laboratories’ high-performance computing center, technicians adjust live circuits submerged in liquid. “It’s pretty cool —...
![A man with a face shield, apron, and gloves works on a computer server submerged in liquid](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/06/CFA8309lb-scaled-1.jpg)
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Wind Energy Technolgies Office recently highlighted Sandia National Laboratories’ Josh Paquette as a Clean Energy Champion — someone who takes action to make the world...
![Clean Energy Champion Josh Paquette works on awind turbine in the laboratory.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/06/Joshinthelab_0-e1718036933880-700x402-1.jpg)
Sandia National Laboratories’ Battery Abuse Testing Lab, the Department of Energy’s core facility for battery safety, is investigating the safety of sodium-ion battery technology. Due to sodium’s abundance and an...
![Sodium-ion battery safety research: Advancing the next generation of energy storage technology](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/06/Sodium_crushtest_2024.png)
Join seminal solar researcher Professor Aldo Steinfeld on Monday, July 8, 2024, from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. MT for the next installment of the Sandia National Solar Thermal Test...
![Concentrating Solar Power Seminar Series to examine sustainable aviation fuels from sunlight and air](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2017/08/solareclipse_7238882892_53c8c18386_o_2500-Copy.jpg)
Most Americans don’t leave home without at least one lithium battery-powered device, and someday, the house itself may have a battery back-up. Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories are working to...
![Boosting battery research](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/06/Melissa_Meyerson-1-scaled-1.jpg)
Do you know an entrepreneur, innovator, or community partner looking for technical assistance to bring their technology to market? Consider sharing the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Technology Transitions...
![Image of five scientists. In the middle, one woman holds up a gear, looking through it. Image also includes the Office of Technology Transitions logo and the American-Made logo.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/06/image.jpeg)
Addressing climate change is a top priority for the U.S. Department of Energy, and the national laboratories stand at the forefront of research and action to meet this challenge. These...
![Five scientists sit at a long table in front of a screen and one person stands off to the side with an audience in the foreground](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/06/IMG_5786-scaled-e1717710799691.jpg)
Sandia National Laboratories’ Spatial Environmental Assessment Toolkit has received an endorsement from the United Nations Ocean Decade program. The Ocean Decade, a global alliance for ocean science and innovation established...
![A SEAT at the global table: Environmental modeling software endorsed by the Ocean Decade](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/06/GettyImages-1494534417-scaled-1.jpg)
While electric vehicles (EVs) are becoming more common, additional research and development is needed to reduce their cost and increase their performance — which is essential for increased consumer adoption....
![Sandia researcher holds up a device](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/06/rd100-3.jpg)
Wave energy convertors (WECs) convert the motion of waves into electrical energy; however, designing devices to survive harsh marine environments and produce commercial-scale electricity at cost-effective rates has its challenges....
![Group photo of NCROEP attendees](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/05/NCROEP-Symposium-2024-49-scaled-1.jpg)
Earlier this year, a test series at Sandia collected data to validate the models used for hydrogen safety codes and standards. Go behind the scenes with the research team who...
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The 9th IEEE Workshop on the Electronic Grid (eGrid 2024) will be held on November 19-21, 2024, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States. This international workshop — sponsored by...
![eGrid 2024 call for papers now open](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/12/Grid-substation_iStockphoto_450997085-1.jpg)
Sandia National Laboratories developed the Microgrid Design Toolkit (MDT), a decision support software for microgrid designers that is publicly available for download. Intended for use in the early stages of the...
![Digital graphic wave](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/04/SplashImage1.png)
Phase two of the Pipeline Blending Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) — A HyBlendTM Project — is open and seeking qualified partners from industry, academia and nonprofits to join...
![Oil, Gas Or Water Transportation With Pipe Line Valves On Soil With Defocused Background](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/12/GettyImages-1434705492-scaled-e1702318255510.jpg)
Climate change is a confusing maze of inputs and outputs. Katherine Goode spends her days trying make the variable chaos behave. Katherine is a research and development statistician at Sandia...
![Photo of K Goode on skis](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/04/goode.jpg)
Tunnel field-effect transistors (TFETs) are an experimental type of transistor, small components on computer chips that control the flow of current and are the bedrock of modern electronics. Since the...
![An abstract 3D render of a light blue circuit board, with many electrical components installed. Components are labelled with made-up serial numbers and placed on a white grid, with white circuit lines running among them.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/04/GettyImages-533857334.jpg)
Sandia is helping to enable assessment of large-scale leak scenarios to improve the safety of hydrogen infrastructure by developing a science-based, defensible, and well-documented rationale for liquid hydrogen safety requirements....
![A researcher leans over a grid array that is covered in frost.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/04/LH2_Test_photo.png)
3D printing has changed the world. It’s allowed the aerospace, medical, automotive, manufacturing and many other industries to customize parts and prototypes in ways they never could before. It has...
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Sandia National Laboratories’ PV Performance and Modelling Collaborative has released a call for abstracts for the 2024 European PVPMC Workshop. The Technical University of Denmark, European Energy, and Sandia will...
![Long line of PV panels with sun setting behind them](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/08/PV_ThinkstockPhotos-459874203-1024x683-2.jpg)
Tina Nenoff and Babu Chalamala recognized for contributions to engineering Two Sandia National Laboratories researchers, Tina Nenoff and Babu Chalamala, have been elected as members of the prestigious National Academy...
![Two Sandia researchers elected to National Academy of Engineering](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/04/NAE_Tina_Babu_extend.jpg)
Imagine a vast volume of porous sandstone reservoir, once full of oil and natural gas, now full of a different, carbon-free fuel — hydrogen. Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories are...
![Matthew Paul, a Sandia National Laboratories geosciences engineer, works on a gas adsorption system in a fume hood as part of a project to see if depleted petroleum reservoirs can be used for storing carbon-free hydrogen fuel. (Photo by Craig Fritz)](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/04/Hydrogen_storage-scaled-1.jpg)
We are pleased to announce registration is now open for the 2024 Power Electronics and Energy Conversion Workshop, hosted by Sandia National Laboratories. The workshop will be held in person...
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Sandia’s extensive experience in geologic disposal of nuclear waste is making global impacts. Sandia is providing technical support to the Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety (KINS) to strengthen its capacity...
![Sandia provides knowledge management and technical expertise to Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/03/GeoDART2.jpg)
As part of the recently highlighted Roll-to-Roll (R2R) Consortium, Sandia will contribute expertise in fabrication processes and computing to advance manufacturing processes for hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. Specifically, Sandia...
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Sandia National Laboratories’ Wind Energy program has released its Sandia Wind Energy Program FY23 Accomplishments Report. The portfolio consists of projects funded by the DOE EERE Wind Energy Technologies Office,...
![Sandia’s Wind Energy Program releases its FY23 Accomplishments Report](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/03/FY23-Sandia-Wind-Energy-Accomplishments-Promo_Graphic.png)
The 2024 PV Performance Modeling Collaborative Workshop will take place May 7–9, 2024, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Registration is now open. The popular workshop addresses the current state of photovoltaic...
![Three differnt pv panels in 3 rows and facing the sun.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/04/PV_Panels-scaled-1.jpg)
A multi-laboratory research team, including members from Sandia’s Grid Modernization group, received a 2023 Secretary’s Honor Award for its contributions to the Puerto Rico Grid Resilience and Transition to 100%...
![Sandia’s Grid Modernization team for PR100 report receives Secretary’s Honor Award](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/03/PR100.jpg)
Join us for a free 90-minute webinar on April 2, 11 a.m. Eastern Time, focused on a novel “pitch resonator” wave energy convertor concept to support the power needs of...
![Pioneer WEC Concept Design Report webinar](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/03/Screenshot-2024-03-04-at-9.45.21 AM.png)
Sandia National Laboratories is sponsoring the Earth Day Festival NM 2024 event on Sunday, April 21, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Balloon Fiesta Park in Albuquerque. Join Sandia in...
![Earth Day Festival NM logo](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/03/Earth-Day-Festival-NM-Blog-post-scaled-1.jpg)
Join our free webinar on March 26 at 11 a.m. Eastern Time with Sandia National Laboratories’ Ryan Coe, Giorgio Bacelli, Dominic Forbush and Tim Donnelly. They will share and discuss...
![Surf's Up! Free webinar on wave energy](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/03/WEC_Info_Session.jpg)
Engineer employs computer code to mitigate climate change and nuclear energy risks Dave Luxat is the epitome of “science serving others.” He is a second-generation engineer who is empathetic that...
![David Luxat, Nuclear safety engineer](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/03/luxat.jpg)
Cody Corbin spreads oxygen sensitive material inside two concentric cylinders at Sandia National Labs on Nov. 30, 2023. One constructed the cylinder will protect contents by indicating if there has...
![Scientist Cody Corbin stands at a lab station, his body is separated from the material he is working with by glass, and his arms are protected by rubber sleeves.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/03/Corbin_Box-scaled-1.jpg)
Ropp Grid, Electrical Engineer Self-healing electrical grids: It may sound like a concept from science fiction, with tiny robots or some sentient tech crawling around fixing power lines, but in...
![Michael Ropp poses for a photo at Sandia’s Distributed Energy Technology Lab (DETL) on Oct. 13, 2023. His team is working on ways for an energy microgrids to self-heal using computer algorithms. Photo by Craig Fritz/Sandia National Labs](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/02/Ropp_Grid-1-scaled-1.jpg)
Join experts from Sandia National Laboratories’ Wind Energy Design and Experimentation Department as they host, “Sandia Partnerships: Scaled Wind Energy Technology and Microgrid Testing,” on April 2, 2024, from 10:00...
![three wind turbines outlined by a luminous sunset at the Sandia Wind Farm Testing Facility](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/03/Wind_sourceimage_tile-e1709155636533.jpg)
The Arctic, Earth’s icy crown, is experiencing a climate crisis like no other. It’s heating up at a furious pace — four times faster than the rest of our planet....
![A sunset reflects on snow in the arctic](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/03/Arctic-Albedo-photo-1.jpeg)
The Black Engineer of the Year Award conference honored five Sandians for their outstanding achievements in engineering, science and technology. Nicole Jackson, systems engineer and senior member of Sandia’s technical...
![Stephanie Kuzio and Nicole Jackson pose with Nicole's award at the Black Engineer of the Year Award conference](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/02/nicolejackson-scaled-1.jpg)
Nicholas Ross and Anwi Fomukong stood by the model wave tank and waited to shake President Biden’s hand. Surrounded by press and security, they stood in front of the Sandia...
![American Possibilities Signage](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/03/AmericanPossibilities_Signage-6-scaled-1.jpg)
Sandia National Laboratories’ Photovoltaics program recently won a Small Innovative Projects in Solar (SIPS) award to study the effects of smoke exposure on PV power plants. The award, which focuses...
![Sandia to study effects of wildfire smoke on the reliability of solar power](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/02/Smoke_Firefighter-e1708968702778.png)
The 2024 Sandia Blade Workshop will be held Sept. 16-20, 2024, at the Embassy Suites in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The workshop brings together wind industry experts, wind farm stakeholders and...
![2024 Sandia Blade Workshop](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/02/Web-Banner-2024-Sandia-Blade-Workshop-Save-Date.jpg)
Palm kernel oil is used in almost 40% of beauty and food products worldwide, but the $12 billion industry is estimated to account for millions of acres lost to deforestation...
![Waxen red-orange tinted seeds sit atop a rock.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/02/GettyImages-1125244296.jpg)
The WaveBot, a scale-model wave energy converter (WEC), bobs up and down in the water as researchers cluster around a row of monitors in the control room of the largest...
![The WaveBot at the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division Maneuvering and Seakeeping Basin (MASK) in Bethesda, Maryland.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/02/51855905347_95bc034b05_o.jpg)
Sandia National Laboratories scientists Patrick Feng and Thushara Gunda recently were honored with national achievement awards by the Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers. The awards recognize recipients’ leadership and...
![Thushara sits at a desk and uses her computer and webcam to talk to The Weather Channel for a TV segment](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/02/thushara.jpg)
Wildfires impact the safety and security of society. The electric grid can initiate wildfires and is susceptible to wildfires. Sandia’s wildfire grid resilience program aims to mitigate and determine the...
![Sandia uses electric-grid analytics to combat wildfire risks and aid post-wildfire recovery](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/12/GettyImages-wildfireresilience.jpg)
Sandia’s National Solar Thermal Test Facility is partnering with the University of Arizona's Professor J. Roger Angel for one of four projects the Heliostat Consortium awarded last year. The project,...
![National Solar Thermal Test Facility and University of Arizona partner for HelioCon project](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/08/heliostat_nsttf5058559942_11af7bcedb_c-e1706305035141.jpg)
The Heliostat Consortium has released its next request for proposals focused on lowering the costs of heliostat technologies, improving performance, and creating new heliostat industry opportunities. Funded by the U.S....
![HelioCon’s latest request for proposals supports widespread use of concentrating solar power](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/01/Heliostats_Picture1-e1706290578263.jpg)
Puerto Rico has committed to 100% renewable energy by 2050—and the new Puerto Rico Grid Resilience and Transition to 100% Renewable Energy (PR100) Study results can help them get there....
![aerial photo of Puerto Rico city](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/01/PR100-social-Jan-24-Hauck-FZ2-1.jpg)
The Arctic is remote, with often harsh conditions, and its climate is changing rapidly — warming four times faster than the rest of the Earth. This makes studying the Arctic...
![A verdant arctic tundra extends to the horizon. A small hill is apparent in the middle of the tundra -- it is a A permafrost-created pingo or “ice pimple” in the North Slope of Alaska.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2024/01/arctic_pingo-scaled-1.jpg)
Peter Kobos, an economist and manager at Sandia National Laboratories, has been selected as a senior fellow of the United States Association for Energy Economics. Kobos defines energy economics as the...
![Image of an ocean wave coming onshore](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/03/Main_Water_Image_Templates-scaled-1.jpg)
Sandia hydrogen and metallurgy expert Chris San Marchi joined collaborators from other national labs for the Department of Energy Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office monthly H2IQ Hour in October....
![Oil, Gas Or Water Transportation With Pipe Line Valves On Soil With Defocused Background](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/12/GettyImages-1434705492-scaled-e1702318255510.jpg)
“I wanted to be an archaeologist when I was young. I didn’t get too far into school before I realized that there’s only one Indiana Jones, so I turned to...
![Carlsbad site welcomes new leader](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/12/Roselle_family.jpg)
Sandia National Laboratories’ National Solar Thermal Test Facility recently conducted tests of Heliogen, Inc.’s proprietary automated control system. The project, funded by the Department of Energy’s Technology Commercialization Fund, signifies...
![National Solar Thermal Test Facility assists Heliogen’s advanced control software demonstration](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/12/Heliostats_Picture1.jpg)
This interview is part of the Sandia Climate Community Series. Thushara Gunda, a systems research analyst in Sandia’s Energy Water System Integration Department, approaches climate-change research as a complex puzzle...
![Thushara Gunda and Nicole Jackson in front of a PV panel](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/08/PV_weather_snip.png)
The Department of Energy Office of Science Director Asmeret Asefaw Berhe and several of her staff members visited the Sandia National Laboratories-managed Atmospheric Radiation Measurement user facility at the North Slope of...
![Mark Ivey (left) talks with DOE Office of Science Director Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe (middle) at ARM’s North Slope of Alaska (NSA) atmospheric observatory.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/11/2023-P17994_1.jpg)
Running a model of the global atmosphere with unprecedentedly high resolution on the world’s first exascale supercomputer, a team led by Sandia National Laboratories has won the Gordon Bell Prize...
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Sandia partners with former employee to get tech on the market LIVERMORE, Calif. — Blueshift Optics, owned by former Sandia employee Joey Carlson, is working to shift the way radioactive...
![Two researchers hold up a scintillator, a blue disk](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/11/Feng-and-Carlson-scaled-1.jpg)
Developing and manufacturing biofuels involve automated, networked technologies at many stages of the process. Just as we secure our computers at work or home, how do we ensure that these...
![Algae in petri dishes for experiment](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2017/03/PHOTO_Algae_istock.jpeg)
Web tool looks belowground for an economically viable renewable energy source ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Geothermal power has a lot of promise as a renewable energy source that is not dependent on...
![Illustration of a closed-loop geothermal system with various important factors labeled.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/11/ClosedLoopGeothermal.png)
Sandia National Laboratories received the lead on six new incubator awards announced by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Wind Energy Technologies Office on October 20. WETO provided the wind-specific seed funding...
![Sandia Wind Energy Technologies Program takes lead for six incubator awards](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/08/SWIFT-e1698778296101.jpg)
Using soft X-ray techniques available through Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source (ALS), a Sandia team including Mark Allendorf and Farid El Gabaly with collaborators from the Hydrogen Materials Advanced Research...
![Using X-ray science to hit hydrogen storage targets](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/11/43201_HydrogenProjects_37A7737-1-scaled-e1699370174654.jpg)
Molly Blumhoefer thinks managing energy is just one piece of the puzzle in ensuring Sandia operates efficiently and sustainably. She’s part of Sandia’s energy management team, which has been busy...
![Two men check the liquid cooling system in Sandia's high performance computing building.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/11/CFA1533la-scaled-1.jpg)
Sandia National Laboratories researcher Marios Theristis recently spoke to Yale Climate Connections regarding the release of his team’s five-year degradation study of 834 fielded photovoltaic (PV) modules, representing 13 module...
![Sandia photovoltaics degradation study receives nationwide airtime](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/05/52575627242_b58a20ef19_o-scaled-1.jpg)
Sandia National Laboratories is collaborating with New Mexico-based CSolPower LLC to develop an affordable method of storing energy from renewable sources. The primary goal of the partnership is to transition...
![Walter Gerstle, who co-founded CSolPower LLC, is working with Sandia National Laboratories to develop his company’s thermal energy storage system and get it ready for commercial use. (Photo by Craig Fritz)](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/10/CFA0327lc-scaled-1.jpg)
Glimpse phases of the annular solar eclipse as it passes Sandia’s National Solar Thermal Test Facility in Albuquerque on Oct. 14. The first photograph includes multiple exposures as the sun...
![a mirrored heliostat reflects the phases of the 2023 solar eclipse.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/10/Eclipse2023_1_1000x667.jpg)
Among the R&D 100 awards and nominations Sandia took part in this year, two awards featured innovations with implications for energy and manufacturing. R&D World magazine honors inventors by identifying...
![Labs researchers capture R&D 100 Awards](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2017/03/Sandia_aerial_blogfillversion.png)
Safety feature available for licensing to manufacturers Sandia continues to innovate the use of hydrogen as a fuel source in vehicles and vessels with a newly developed safety feature that...
![UP, UP AND AWAY — The hydrogen vent mast installed near the aft of the hydrogen-powered ferry “Sea Change” funnels potentially dangerous fumes away from people on board the vessel. The vessel was built by Zero Emission Industries, founded by former Sandian Joe Pratt. (Photo courtesy California Air Resources Board)](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/10/Hydrogen-vent-mast1_1000x750.jpg)
This November, Sandia researchers will join partners and other national laboratories at Resilience Week 2023. Join us for conversations focused on energy equity and community resilience—among other topics at this...
![A solar panel gleams in a grassy field beneath a blue sky and gentle clouds](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2018/05/Arctic-energy-and-Infrastructure_Grid-and-Renewable-Energy-Technologies-scaled.jpg)
Sandia National Laboratories and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory have decades of experience in providing decision and deployment support to communities seeking an equitable, resilient, and sustainable energy transition. Register...
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Sandia National Laboratories invites you and your organization to join the National Consortium for the Advancement of LDES (Long-Duration Energy Storage) Technologies. The LDES National Consortium will provide a forum...
![Join a long-duration energy storage stakeholder group](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/09/GettyImages-1546822778.jpg)
Five researchers cluster around a computer screen in a large shed-like building. They watch as a line moves up and down following the power output generated by the large, piston-like...
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Three interns who participated in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Indian Energy-sponsored student internship program shared their experiences in a recent post published to DOE's website. The program...
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Sandia National Laboratories researcher and manager Hongyou Fan has been named a fellow of the American Chemical Society. Founded in 1876 and chartered by the U.S. Congress, the society has...
![Sandia National Laboratories materials scientist and researcher Hongyou Fan has been named a fellow of the American Chemical Society. His work has applications in electronics, energy, materials separation and more. He received the ACS Fellow award, presented by Angela Wilson, immediate past president of American Chemical Society, on August 14. (Photo courtesy of EPNAC.com)](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/09/ACS-Award.jpg)
A team at Sandia National Laboratories developed a molecule that helps change the way some materials react to temperature fluctuations, which makes them more durable. It’s an application that could...
![A researcher holds a vial of a new batch of a new, more durable material](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/09/CFA5542le-scaled-1-e1694188522369.jpg)
“I was the only farm worker who had a calculus book in his car,” Sal Rodriguez joked when I asked him about his upbringing. But it was no joke. The...
![A researcher stands in front of a bank of windows on a bright, sunny day](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/09/Sal3_1000x667.jpg)
Capturing carbon dioxide and pumping it deep underground could be an important part of mitigating the effects of climate change. However, ensuring the carbon dioxide stays trapped away from the...
![Sandia successfully tests heat-powered system](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/09/caprock_2023_9_3.png)
Earlier this year the Heliostat Consortium, co-led by Sandia National Laboratories and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), announced seven awards related to a request for proposals (RFP) targeting the...
![Two technologist stand atop the solar tower with the helioststa and control room behind them](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/09/RJM_0788-scaled-1.jpg)
Cement production is responsible for about eight percent of global CO2 emissions. Finding alternative, environmentally friendly building materials is essential to the United States goal of net-zero emissions by 2050....
![Project spotlight: Building a better world with bio-based composites](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/08/GettyImages-1580019751-scaled-1.jpg)
Join Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) manager Margaret Gordon and CSP researcher Randy Brost on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023, from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. MT as they host the next...
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Photovoltaic researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are partnering with tech-company Morgan Solar to identify and quantify the amount of energy lost when a solar PV plant is covered in snow....
![Sandia to study snow-related energy losses using Morgan Solar’s sensor](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/03/Snow_Melt_in_sun-e1617029304917.jpg)
The laser is so small you need a microscope to see it properly. But it’s not just the size that scientists at Sandia National Laboratories are excited about. The buzz...
![Ashok Kodigala holds a gold plated wafer filled with thousands of minute lasers made at Sandia National Laboratories MESA facility.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/08/CFB2790-scaled-1.jpg)
Scientists for the first time have witnessed pieces of metal crack, then fuse back together without any human intervention, overturning fundamental scientific theories in the process. If the newly discovered...
![A researcher examines data on a large screen while standing among laboratory equipment lit with red light.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/08/CFB1795-scaled-1.jpg)
By harnessing the power of water, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories’ Water Power Program are helping move the United States towards its goal of net-zero emissions by 2050. Marine energy...
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The Photovoltaic (PV) Performance and Modeling Collaborative (PVPMC) has announced several upcoming solar research opportunities that may be of interest to the PVPMC community, including PV modeling comparisons and the...
![A researcher stands among a field of photovoltaic solar panels](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/03/Facilities_source_tile.jpg)
Laboratory practices implemented to improve safety, energy efficiency A new program at Sandia aims to increase occupant safety and make operations more energy efficient. The Sandia Smart Labs pilot has...
![A person kneels while working inside a lab hood](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/07/smartlab.jpg)
Sandia is collaborating with international partners to collect data to better protect nuclear sites from cyberattacks and physical intrusions. As part of the multiyear research project with Canadian Nuclear Laboratories,...
![DUAL ATTACK — Sandia global security staff works with a team from a private Canadian nuclear power plant during a cyberattack exercise on May 17. The mock cyberattack was followed by a simulated physical intrusion. The exercise was the culmination of two-year project involving Sandia, Idaho National Laboratory and Canadian Nuclear Laboratories. (Photo by Craig Fritz)](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/07/exercise.jpg)
Sandia National Laboratories’ Wind Energy Technologies researchers successfully installed and deployed the spinner lidar on the hub of a General Electric wind turbine in Lubbock, Texas. The instrument was deployed...
![Recently installed spinner lidar to improve accuracy, prediction of Sandia and wind industry simulation tools](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/07/IMG_4963-scaled-1.jpg)
Proposals sought for PV Performance Modeling Collaborative sessions Sandia National Laboratories’ PV Performance Modeling Collaborative (PVPMC) will hold its European Workshop Nov. 8–9, 2023. SUPSI PVLab will host the event...
![Photovoltaic solar panels gleam against the backdrop of a setting sun](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/03/PV_sourceimage_tile.jpg)
To help ensure the security of rapidly emerging U.S. bioproduction infrastructure, the U.S. Department of Energy Bioenergy Technologies Office is hosting a half-day workshop, organized by Sandia National Laboratories and...
![3 researchers stand backlit by purple light which is contrasted by the green algae tanks and raceways they stand adjacent to](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/06/Helio.jpg)
The Resilient Node Cluster Analysis Tool (ReNCAT), developed by Sandia National Laboratories, is now publicly available for download. This desktop application provides decision support for stakeholders to identify potential portfolios...
![Image of ReNCAT simulation](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/05/ReNCAT_Website_GraphicV3-scaled-1.jpg)
Sandia National Laboratories has released a Request for Information (RFI) inviting comments on the deployment of an advanced solar energy system. The deadline for responses has been extended to Friday,...
![Concentrating solar power tower at the National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF)](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/05/5857419288_5d21fcc66b_o-scaled-e1685975743331.jpg)
A team at Sandia National Laboratories is developing materials to tackle what has become one of the biggest problems in the world: human exposure to a group of chemicals known...
![Jessica Kustas, left, and Andre Benally work with a mass spectrometer at Sandia National Laboratories while trying to pair up technologies to go beyond just absorbing PFAS. (Photo by Craig Fritz)](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/06/CFB4944lb-scaled-1.jpg)
We are pleased to announce registration is now open for the 2023 Power Electronics and Energy Conversion Workshop, hosted by Sandia National Laboratories. The workshop will be held in person...
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Hundreds of miles north of the Arctic Circle, Sandia National Laboratories researchers ensure the collection of important weather and climate data. By switching the gas used in their weather balloons,...
![A hydrogen-filled weather balloon launches automatically from a Department of Energy atmospheric measurement facility in Utqiaġvik, formerly known as Barrow. About three years ago, Sandia National Laboratories switched from launching helium-filled balloons to launching hydrogen-filled balloons to reduce costs and carbon emissions. (Photo by Ben Bishop)](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/05/hydrogen_balloon-scaled-1.jpg)
Join Sandia National Laboratories as it hosts the “WEC Design, Modeling, Control, and Testing Workshop Information Session,” Tuesday, June 6, 2023, from 9:30 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. MT. During this...
![Wave Energy Converter floats in MAASK Basin pool](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/05/WEC_Info_Session.jpg)
Sandia’s 2022 Grid Modernization and Energy Storage Annual Report is now available. Sandia’s Grid Modernization and Energy Storage program works to advance a national vision of a secure, resilient, and...
![New report highlights Sandia’s grid, energy storage efforts](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/03/researchtheme1_cleanenergyandprocesses.jpg)
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) recently released its 2021-2022 Accomplishments Report, which highlights a selection of projects focused on advancing hydropower and marine energy...
![Waves crashings against the beach](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/03/Water_power_sourceimage_tile.jpg)
Concrete — the hard, durable masonry that surrounds us everywhere in the form of roads, bridges, dams, and buildings — has a carbon problem. Thanks to a key ingredient, cement,...
![International collaboration investigates low-carbon cement technologies](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/04/ACT4featuredimage-scaled-e1682519607508.jpeg)
To help meet the United States goal of net-zero emissions by 2050, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories' Water Power Program are studying innovative ways to produce clean energy from the...
![Project spotlight: WEC-Sim software simulates wave energy converters to improve WEC design and overall performance](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/04/WEC-Sim_Team_I22A4209WECSim022123-1-scaled-1.jpg)
The 2023 PV Performance Modeling Workshop will take place May 9-10, 2023, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Join Sandia National Laboratories, Groundwork Renewables, and CFV Labs for an exciting program...
![Three differnt pv panels in 3 rows and facing the sun.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/04/PV_Panels-scaled-1.jpg)
The Generation 3 Particle Pilot Plant at the National Solar Thermal Test Facility, which broke ground Feb. 16, is one of the most recent examples of Sandia working with industrial partners to...
![robotic arms assemble a product in a factory](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/04/industrial-decarbonization_web.jpg)
Focused on the accuracy of climate predictions, a computational team led by Sandia National Laboratories recently achieved a major milestone with a cloud-resolving model they ran on Frontier, the world’s...
![A snapshot of a global simulation superimposed on a view of the earth from space](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/04/e3sm_exo.png)
Sandia National Laboratories Senior Scientist Stan Atcitty has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), one of the world’s largest technical professional organizations. Atcitty’s...
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The U.S. Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office recently launched the Innovating Distributed Embedded Energy Prize (InDEEP) in partnership with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories....
![Waves crashings against the beach](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/03/Water_power_sourceimage_tile.jpg)
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE's) Office of Electricity (OE) announced a team of six DOE national laboratories to receive a total of $2 million to carry out the Rapid...
![Sandia, other national labs, selected to validate testing for energy storage systems](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/04/ESS_PeerReview_v4-e1680623425984.jpg)
Sandia National Laboratories Wind Energy Program has released its Wind Energy Program FY22 Accomplishments Report. The portfolio consists of projects funded by the DOE EERE Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO),...
![Sandia’s Wind Energy Program releases its FY22 Accomplishments Report](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/03/FY22_Blogpost_Social-1.jpg)
It hasn’t harnessed the power of Shazam, yet, but the Distributed Energy and Technologies Laboratory (DETL) is exploring how to integrate emerging technologies into today’s energy grid. Discover everything DETL...
![New virtual tour that’s got the power](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/03/VT-Carousel-Banners_DETL-scaled-1.jpg)
Are you a student thinking of a career in marine energy? Are you an educator seeking resources to introduce the growing water power industry to your students? Join Sandia National...
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A group of students from Gallup, Miyamura, and Grants high schools will visit Sandia National Laboratories on March 30 to see firsthand some of the Labs’ research and technology that...
![An engineer stands atop the national solar thermal test facility's tower and holds green chiles aloft](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/03/Solar_Chile-scaled-1.jpg)
In a major breakthrough in the fields of nanophotonics and ultrafast optics, a Sandia National Laboratories research team has demonstrated the ability to dynamically steer light pulses from conventional, so-called...
![Two researchers stand adjacent to optical equipment emitting red light in a lab](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/03/Brener_Iyer_light-scaled-1.jpg)
Sandia hydrogen expert Aleš Srna joined researchers from Argonne National Laboratory on February 22nd to present an overview of hydrogen internal combustion engine (H2ICE) technologies as part of the monthly...
![Illustrated cars adjacent to a fuel pump labeled with the atomic symbol for hydrogen](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/03/GettyImages-1347644918.png)
The atmospheric level of carbon dioxide — a gas that is great at trapping heat, contributing to climate change — is almost double what it was prior to the Industrial Revolution, yet...
![Two researchers peer through an artistic representation of the chemical structure of a kind of clay](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/03/Clay_capture-scaled-1.jpg)
As the world looks for ways to cut greenhouse gas emissions, researchers from Sandia National Laboratories have shown that a new 3D-printed superalloy could help power plants generate more...
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If you’ve searched online for a plane ticket recently, you may have noticed new information on display: the relative emissions of your flight. But what if this dropped to zero?...
![Algae in petri dishes for experiment](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2017/03/PHOTO_Algae_istock.jpeg)
Nuclear power is a significant source of steady carbon-neutral electricity, and advanced reactors can add more of it to the U.S. grid, which is vital for the environment and economy....
![researcher stand behind a digitallly imposed image of the periodic table](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/03/isotope_detectives.png)
Join Sandia National Laboratories as it hosts the webinar, “WEC PTO Testing” on March 24, 2023, from 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. MT. The design and testing of power take-off...
![Sandia’s Water Power program to present WEC Power-Takeoff (PTO) Testing webinar](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/03/Oceans_Month_1-scaled-1.jpg)
Are you part of a rural, remote, island, or islanded community planning a clean energy project? The recorded webinar, Partnerships for Clean Energy Demonstrations, is now available. The webinar highlights the capabilities...
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Sandia hosted a Feb. 16 groundbreaking ceremony to begin the construction of a new solar tower at the National Solar Thermal Test Facility. The tower is part of the $25...
![New solar thermal tower key component of national energy goals](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/03/CFA8262la-scaled-1.jpg)
Decarbonization of electricity generation is one of the most pressing issues of our time and scaling up energy storage deployment is key to achieving state decarbonization goals. Yet the most...
![New Report and Upcoming Webinar: State Energy Storage Policy on Best Practices for Decarbonization](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/09/GettyImages-1128888172_400x1200.jpg)
New tool will encourage offshore wind energy development and boost industry confidence The U.S. Department of Energy has announced Sandia National Laboratories and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory are working...
![Offshore Wind Turbines lined up out at sea](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/02/Wind_Turbines_and_Sea_Image-1.jpg)
Sandia National Laboratories’ facilities support critical mission work, and we are always looking for ways to make our infrastructure more resilient, efficient, and productive. Our commitment to modeling the way...
![Monitoring-based commissioning, roof replacements highlighted in quarterly energy savings newsletter](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/02/Energy-Team-1-scaled-e1676577769333.jpg)
Wind energy-specific cybersecurity research and development is critical to the defensive protection of wind assets from cyber threats. The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO) recognizes...
![Sandia conducts cybersecurity research to reduce threats to nation’s wind fleet](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/02/GettyImages_Wind_500328050-scaled-1.jpg)
After a four-year hiatus, the Sandia Blade Workshop returned to Albuquerque in October. The workshop is a key venue for wind energy stakeholders, bringing together wind industry experts, wind farm...
![Biennial Sandia Blade Workshop returns to Albuquerque](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/02/Attendees_.jpg)
The PV Performance Modeling Collaborative (PVPMC) is currently accepting presentation proposals from the PV community for the 2023 PVPMC Workshop to be held May 9-10, 2023, in Salt Lake City,...
![PV Performance Modeling Collaborative accepting workshop proposals](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/02/PVPMC1.jpg)
Sandia National Laboratories collaborated with the National Renewable Energy and Pacific Northwest National laboratories through the Energy Transitions Initiative Partnership Project (ETIPP) to ensure the remote town of Dillingham, Alaska,...
![Alaska’s salmon hub and DOE explore hydropower’s potential to meet the region’s energy and resiliency needs](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/01/PXL_20220607_215724708-scaled-1.jpg)
Climate change can alter extreme weather events, and these events have the potential to strain, disrupt or damage the nation’s grid. Sandia National Laboratories computer scientists have been working on an innovative...
![Two researchers stand in the desert. Power transformers are on the horizon in the background.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/01/Power_researchers-scaled-1.jpg)
A consortium of researchers, including Sandia battery experts Yuliya Preger and Valerio De Angelis, are working together to stimulate battery innovation by developing battery databases. Ultimately, they hope to expand...
![Two researchers stand by battery testing equipment](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/01/battery-data.jpg)
Construction on the new tower at Sandia National Laboratories’ National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF) is planned to begin Feb. 16, 2023, with a groundbreaking ceremony to take place at...
![National Solar Thermal Test Facility prepares for new tower construction](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/01/NewG3P3TowerExampleLocation_v2-004.png)
A team of Sandia National Laboratories researchers working on the reactor at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility is testing materials to make the next generation of fusion reactors, in the quest to...
![A team of Sandia National Laboratories researchers is testing materials to make the next generation of fusion reactors. This container is used to expose the samples to nuclear fusion. It holds seven samples of innovative tungsten alloys, post exposure. (Photo by Jonathan Coburn.)](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/01/Sandia-at-DIIID-4-250x188-1.png)
Sandia National Laboratories’ (Sandia’s) Perovskite PV Accelerator for Commercializing Technologies (PACT) Center held its first workshop Oct. 18, 2022, at CFV Labs in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The event included four...
![PACT attenees listen to a CFV Labs presentation](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/01/PACT_Workshop.png)
A team led by photovoltaics researchers at Sandia has completed a five-year degradation study of 834 fielded photovoltaic modules, representing 13 types of modules from seven manufacturers in three climates. Their objective...
![Photovoltaics researchers release five-year, early-life module degradation study](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/12/CFB1136-scaled-1.jpg)
Sandia National Laboratories engineers are working on a device that would help ensure captured carbon dioxide stays deep underground — a critical component of carbon sequestration as part of a...
![Click to watch an animation of Sandia National Laboratories’ smart collar detecting a leak from a carbon dioxide storage reservoir. (Animation by Max Schwaber) Members of the media can download and use the animation.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/12/smartcollar_snip_web.png)
This fall, the Department of Energy announced funding for several projects aimed at improving their Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) to enhance climate prediction and efforts to curb climate...
![The Arctic Ocean near Barrow, officially known as Utqiaġvik, in late June 2012. Image courtesy of the U.S. Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/12/seaice_ARM.jpg)
Sandia’s Scaled Wind Farm Technology facility reopens for business The Scaled Wind Farm Technology facility, known as SWiFT, is the first DOE Wind Energy Technologies Office user facility in the...
![Making history in wind studies](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/12/swift2-e1670524046571.jpg)
Event honors Sandia efforts to advance the science frontier with innovative technologies On Oct. 27, Sandia/California hosted a hybrid Innovation Award Celebration to recognize innovators at the Labs. The annual...
![ACTIVATING CREATIVE IDEAS — Michelle Gonzales, manager of the California Partnerships and Innovation organization, served as master of ceremonies at the Innovation Award Celebration.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/12/innovation-celebration.jpg)
The Saturday after Thanksgiving, known as Small Business Saturday, offers an opportunity every year to celebrate the jobs, helpful products and services, and economic wealth that small businesses bring to our...
![INNOVATION CELEBRATION — The New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program held the first Innovation Celebration since the onset of COVID-19 at Santa Fe Brewing in Santa Fe on Sept. 29. NMSBA recognized the New Mexico small businesses and laboratory principal investigators from projects in 2020 and 2021. (Photo by Lucas Reigelsperger, Los Alamos)](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/12/smallbiz.jpg)
Dec. 13 webinar will focus on Sandia's capabilities and expertise available for clean energy demonstration projects in rural, remote, island, and islanded communities. Sandia is interested in partnering with rural,...
![Sandra Begay, center, talks with interns about how a photovoltaic panel works to generate electricity. The DOE has offered the internship program through Sandia since 2002. Picture taken at the Mission San Esteban Rey in the Pueblo of Acoma. Photo credit: Randy Montoya](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/08/Indian-Energy-Internship-e1628518178456.jpg)
Review of vulnerabilities helps prioritize grid protections, informs policy makers With electric vehicles becoming more common, the risks and hazards of a cyberattack on electric vehicle charging equipment and systems...
![Kaedi Sanchez plugs in her car at a City of Albuquerque electric vehicle charger before heading to work. Sandia National Laboratories researchers have been studying the vulnerabilities of electric vehicle charging infrastructure, including public chargers, to better inform policymakers. (Photo by Craig Fritz)](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/11/EV_Charging-scaled-1.jpg)
Sylvia Saltzstein, Sandia’s Nuclear Fuel Cycle Technologies Senior Manager, will travel to Japan to participate in the upcoming International Youth Nuclear Congress November 27 through December 2. The conference presents...
![Nuclear Energy staff work in laboratory at Sandia](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/11/IMG_0822.jpg)
Sandians Summer Ferreira, Matt Lave, and Olga Hart recently visited San Juan, Puerto Rico, where they participated in an Advisory Group Meeting associated with the multi-National-Lab PR100 project to discuss...
![Sandians visit Puerto Rico to participate in grid resilience and distributed energy conversations in wake of Hurricane Fiona](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/11/PR2022.jpg)
Sandia recently partnered with Albuquerque Public Schools, NM Energy Minerals and Natural Resources Department, the Department of Energy, and OE Solar for the opening of the district’s largest solar installation...
![Atrisco Heritage Ribbon Cutting](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/10/VNT_9803-scaled-1.jpg)
Words like “tough” or “rugged” are rarely associated with a quantum inertial sensor. The remarkable scientific instrument can measure motion a thousand times more accurately than the devices that help...
![Sandia National Laboratories atomic physicist Jongmin Lee examines the sensor head of a cold-atom interferometer that could help vehicles stay on course where GPS is unavailable. (Photo by Bret Latter)](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/10/Jongmin_Lee.jpg)
The Society of Women Engineers has bestowed awards on three Sandia National Laboratories employees. Senior scientist Tina Nenoff received the society’s highest honor, the Achievement Award, chemical engineer Yuliya Preger...
![Yuliya tests batteries in her lab to understand how their performance degrades under different conditions.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/08/Yuliya-Preger.jpg)
It’s National Bioenergy Day! Celebrated annually in October, National Bioenergy Day focuses on raising awareness about bioenergy and its uses. Today we’re taking a step back to look at a...
![Jerilyn Timlin serves as a principal investigator for the Algal Predator and Pathogen Signature Verification project. The project looks at exploring and exploiting the various detailed optical signatures that arise when the algae cultivation pond surface is monitored using Sandia’s optical spectroradiometric techniques. These techniques can differentiate algae growth and state of health and provide an early warning of the active presence of predators and pathogens in outdoor algal ponds. In 2009, Jerilyn was presented by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with a New Innovator Award to develop state-of-the-art imaging technology that can measure protein complex formation and protein networks. Learn more at bit.ly/2n790Er. Photo by Randy Montoya.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/10/32513965163_6a1fe37c7a_c.jpg)
Sandia National Laboratories’ Robin Jones and Kimberly Pino recently were recognized by Profiles in Diversity Journal as Women Worth Watching in Leadership award winners for 2022, while Sondra Spence received a Women Worth...
![Sondra Spence, engineering program project lead at Sandia National Laboratories, earned a 2022 Women Worth Watching in STEM award. (Photo by Lonnie Anderson)](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/10/Sondra-Spence-scaled-1.jpg)
As greenhouse gases bubble up across the rapidly thawing Arctic, Sandia National Laboratories researchers are trying to identify other trace gases from soil microbes that could shed some light on what...
![Sandia National Laboratories technologist Jenna Schambach working with a sample of Alaska lakebed soil. By studying the microbes in the soil, and the gases they emit, Schambach and project lead Chuck Smallwood hope to improve our understanding of the rapidly melting Arctic permafrost and improve computer models of climate change. (Photo by Craig Fritz)](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/10/SchambachSoil-scaled-1.jpg)
The nation’s largest national laboratory is embarking on a major expansion of its network of academic partners to meet the surging demand for national security science and engineering. This year,...
![Student interns are introduced to Sandia National Laboratories’ superfuge by test operations engineer Orlando Abeyta during a tour. Several new agreements signed this year are expected to increase the numbers of students and faculty partnering with Sandia to support its growing national security workload. (Photo by Craig Fritz)](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/10/Intern_tour-scaled-1.jpg)
Sandia’s facilities support critical mission work and we are always looking for ways to make our infrastructure more resilient, efficient, and productive. Our commitment to modeling the way forward in...
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October 8th, formally designated as Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day, marks the opportunity to celebrate hydrogen and recognize its role in a secure and sustainable mix of energy for the...
![Celebrating National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/02/GettyImages-1202489552-scaled-1.jpg)
Sandia National Laboratories’ (Sandia) Renewable Energy programs will participate in the American Solar Energy Society’s National Solar Tour Oct. 1-2, 2022. The largest grassroots solar, renewable energy, and sustainable living...
![National Solar Thermal Test Facility to take part in American Solar Energy Society Virtual Tour](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/08/heliostat_nsttf5058559942_11af7bcedb_c-e1706305035141.jpg)
The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers has selected Sandia National Laboratories materials scientist Hongyou Fan to receive its 2022 Career Achievement Award. “It is evident that you embody the...
![Sandia researcher wins career achievement award from Asian technical society](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/09/Hongyu_fan_web_2-e1664462941424.png)
Gray and white flecks skitter erratically on a computer screen. A towering microscope looms over a landscape of electronic and optical equipment. Inside the microscope, high-energy, accelerated ions bombard a...
![In this photo from 2020, Christopher Barr, right, a former Sandia National Laboratories postdoctoral researcher, and University of California, Irvine, professor Shen Dillon operate the In-situ Ion Irradiation Transmission Electron Microscope. Barr was part of a Sandia team that used the one-of-a-kind microscope to study atomic-scale radiation effects on metal. (Photo by Lonnie Anderson)](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/09/High-Temp-Materials-Testing-Lab-Shoot_1_v2-scaled-1.jpg)
Diamonds are a scientist’s best friend. That much is at least true for physicist Andy Mounce, whose work with diamond quantum sensors at Sandia National Laboratories has earned him the...
![Sandia National Laboratories’ Andy Mounce makes microscopic sensors to try to understand quantum materials at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies. He is one of four employees to earn DOE’s Early Career Research Award. (Photo by Bret Latter](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/09/Andrew-Mounce-2.jpg)
Sandia National Laboratories' (Sandia) researchers will present and exhibit at the upcoming SolarPACES 2022 conference taking place Sept. 27-30, 2022, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The conference will be held at...
![Sandia’s concentrating solar power program to take part in upcoming 2022 SolarPACES Conference](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/08/CSP_31004735165_78a897167a_k-e1597075714267.jpg)
Competing in an international pool of universities, corporations and government labs, Sandia National Laboratories researchers captured four R&D 100 Awards this year and supported a fifth. One entry also won...
![A researcher from Sandia holds a device](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/09/Monson.jpg)
Sandia photovoltaic researcher Marios Theristis will be one of three plenary speakers featured at the scientific opening session of the upcoming 8th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion (WCPEC-8) to...
![Image of PV Panels and mountains in background](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/07/PVSymposium_2019GettyImages-104293724_A.jpg)
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Subsurface Hydrogen Assessment, Storage and Technology Acceleration (SHASTA) collaboration, a project designed to use unique capabilities and expertise of key national laboratories to determine...
![Sandia National Labs joins DOE’S SHASTA initiative to advance underground hydrogen storage capabilities](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/09/8-31-22-netl-news-story_2-e1662483334696.png)
A remote atmospheric observatory in Alaska delivers continuous measurements from a critical locale in the fast-warming, fragile Arctic Among atmospheric scientists, some can’t get enough of cold places. They love...
![Explore ARM’s quarter century of Arctic data](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/08/ARM2.jpg)
This article is part of Sandia’s Climate Community Series highlighting Sandia’s work in a diverse range of climate research and categories of action. The environmental impacts of climate change —...
![A man standing in front of a snowy mountain](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/08/mishra.jpg)
Researchers explore making ammonia with little more than sun, air and hydrogen Sandia scientists are working to make feeding the world much less carbon intensive by developing a new chemical-producing...
![PRODUCTION PROCESS — Evan Bush, left, and Andrea Ambrosini explore using concentrating solar power-generated heat to produce ammonia. (Photo by Craig Fritz)](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/08/ammonia.jpg)
Join Sandia National Laboratories’ National Solar Thermal Test Facility as it hosts, “Thermal Energy Storage Paradigms,” with featured guest Dr. Charles Forsberg, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Thursday,...
![Sandia’s concentrating solar quarterly seminar addresses paradigms in thermal energy storage](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/08/Solar_CSP_Picture1-e1661869511675.jpg)
Join Sandia National Laboratories’ (Sandia) Water Power program as it hosts the “Wave Energy Converter Design Optimization with WecOptTool,” webinar on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022, at 9:00 a.m. MT (11:00...
![Sandia marine energy researchers to host second WecOptTool webinar](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2018/06/Water_stockphoto.png)
Join Sandia National Laboratories as it hosts the “SWEPT (Sandia Wave Energy Power Take-off) Lab Virtual Launch Party,” on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022, from 1:00 - 1:45 p.m. MDT via...
![Registration is open for Sandia’s SWEPT (Sandia Wave Energy Power Take-off) Lab Virtual Launch Party](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/08/FINALPicture5.jpg)
New Sandia software allows for design of innovative floating turbines Brandon Ennis, Sandia National Laboratories’ offshore wind technical lead, had a radically new idea for offshore wind turbines: instead of...
![An illustration of a vertical axis wind turbine](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/08/Arcus_design-250x342-1.jpg)
The northernmost stretch of road in the US is about to become accessible for the first time to electric vehicles. From August 12 to 16, electric vehicle drivers will travel...
![Dalton Highway in Summer, Alaska, USA](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/08/GettyImages-1318963090-scaled-1.jpg)
First test of cutting-edge Brayton cycle technology put power into local grid For the first time, Sandia National Laboratories researchers delivered electricity produced by a new power-generating system to the...
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Novel rotary electrical contact eliminates reliance on rare-earth magnets for large-scale wind turbines NOVEL ELECTRICAL CONTACT — A two-channel Twistact device for a multimegawatt direct-drive wind turbine application. (Graphic courtesy...
![wind turbines spin on the horizon silhouetted by a sunset](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/07/twistact-e1670277376258.jpg)
We are pleased to announce registration is now open for the virtual 2022 Power Electronics and Energy Conversion Workshop, hosted by Sandia National Laboratories. The workshop will be held August...
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Award highlights research that advances the safe deployment of hydrogen technologies Hypothetical layout of hydrogen vehicle refueling station with compact layout using revised setback distances for liquid hydrogen Drivers might...
![Accelerating technology for hydrogen safety codes and standards](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/07/Annotation-2022-07-26-174840.png)
Project teams from Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia), the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) convened at Sandia in June to advance a newly funded U.S....
![Team VELOCITI poses for a photo.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/07/VELOCITI_Team-e1658930663446.jpg)
Alaska trials of icephobic coating show 85% increase in energy output A Sandia-led research team has developed a transparent, polymeric-based coating that helps photovoltaic panels continuously shed snow and ice....
![Photovoltaic panels catch the sun despite the snow](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/07/Snow_Shed-1.jpg)
Sandia researcher Pete Bosler aims to improve the fidelity by which complex computer simulations can be guided by very fine examinations of real-world data. His proposal’s information-packed title, “High performance...
![Mathematician uses DOE Early Career Research Award to capture more real-world data](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2017/03/Sandia_aerial_blogfillversion.png)
Program has provided hands-on experience, mentorship to nearly 50 Native American students 2022 marks a major milestone for Sandia National Laboratories’ groundbreaking tribal energy internship program: two decades of meeting the...
![Three women standing in front of solar panels](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/07/Tribal_Interns-scaled-1.jpg)
Greener approach to a New Mexican staple opens possibilities for sustainable food roasting Sandia National Laboratories engineer Kenneth Armijo, who grew up on a chile farm in Sabinal, located between...
![Using the power of the sun to roast green chile](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/07/Smoking_Chile-scaled-e1657207852324.jpg)
The Co-Optima Findings & Impact Report spotlights engine and fuel research innovations developed during the collaborative national 6-year initiative. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Co-Optimization of Fuels & Engines...
![The cover of the Co-Optima Findings and Impact Report](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/06/Co-Optima-1200x630-WUR-Cover.jpg)
We are pleased to announce registration is now open for the 2022 Sandia Blade Workshop to be held Oct. 17-20, 2022, in Albuquerque, NM. To register, please visit the Eventbrite...
![Registration is now open for the 2022 Sandia Blade Workshop](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/06/CroppedGettyImages_Wind_500328050_C-e1656518049214.png)
Sandia researchers test explosives and propellants to create geothermal power sites Why are scientists setting off small-scale explosions inside 1-foot cubes of plexiglass? They’re watching how fractures form and grow...
![Technicians and students examine a plexiglass cube fractured by a small explosion](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/06/geothermal_web.png)
Sandia National Laboratories’ Concentrating Solar Power Program will present its third quarterly concentrating solar seminar, “Textured Surfaces for Applications in Concentrating Solar Power,” on June 23, 2022, from 8:30 a.m....
![Sandia’s concentrating solar quarterly seminar addresses challenges associated with surfaces at high temperatures](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/05/Helio_Tower-e1652817488816.jpg)
The eleventh story in a series about real people taking action to support clean energy features Cliff Ho, senior scientist and solar researcher at Sandia National Laboratories. Cliff’s story illustrates...
![Meet Clean Energy Champion Cliff Ho](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/06/EERE_CEC_-BeClean_webbanner-v4.jpg)
The DOE Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization recently presented three awards to Sandia for exceptional engagement with small businesses. Paul Sedillo was named Facility Management Contractor Small Business...
![Sandia small-business program manager Paul Sedillo was named Facility Management Contractor Small Business Program Manager of the Year](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/06/Sedillo_600.jpg)
Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia) researchers will present and exhibit at the upcoming American Solar Energy Society (ASES) Solar 2022 conference on June 21-24, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The conference will...
![Sandia solar programs to take part in upcoming American Solar Energy Society’s Solar 2022 Conference](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/05/Helio_Tower-e1652817488816.jpg)
A photovoltaics (PV) research team led by Sandia National Laboratories recently learned that their journal article, "Facilitating large-scale snow shedding from in-field solar arrays using icephobic surfaces with low-interfacial toughness,"...
![Imagesof snow-covered, photovoltaic panels, where snow has shed from panels with new snowphobic coatings developed at Sandia.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/06/Snow_II_Feb_5_2022-e1654279401858.jpg)
On May 5, 2022, the Sandia Energy Storage Demonstration Projects team, supported by the DOE Office of Electricity’s (DOE-OE) Energy Storage Program, successfully deployed a 3 kW/13 kWh rechargeable zinc...
![Deployment of UEP Battery Energy Storage System on the Navajo Nation](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/06/NTUA_Team.jpg)
A new memorandum of understanding (MOU) between Sandia National Laboratories and the Port of Alaska was announced on Monday, May 23, at the ArcticX Summit. This collaboration demonstrates both Sandia’s...
![Port of Anchorage, Alaska.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/05/GettyImages-884152384-1-scaled-e1653320530582.jpg)
May 31st deadline for required pre-registration is quickly approaching (no upfront payment required) Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia) will host two tours of the National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF) on...
![Pre-register soon for Sandia National Laboratories’ National Solar Thermal Test Facility tours Sept. 26th and 30th during SolarPACES 2022 in Albuquerque, NM](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/05/Helio_Tower-e1652817488816.jpg)
Reliable, resilient microgrid to sustain astronauts, mining and fuel processing Sandia National Laboratories is well-known for designing reliable and resilient microgrids for military bases and vital city services. Now, Sandia...
![An artistic rendering of what a resilient microgrid for a lunar base camp might look like. Sandia National Laboratories engineers are working with NASA to design the system controller for the microgrid. (Illustration by Eric Lundin)](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/05/Lunar_Illustration_web.jpg)
Kelsey DiPietro is accelerating research through her work in computer models. In the world of multigigabit high-speed internet, pre-ordered fast food and Twitter pitch events, there is little patience for...
![Early career researcher Kelsey DiPietro](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/05/dipietro.jpg)
Chemist Krupa Ramasesha has received a competitive award for her major contributions to the field of physical chemistry, in only her seventh year at Sandia. Ramasesha, who works in gas...
![Chemist Krupa Ramasesha](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/05/Krupa_award.jpg)
Energy storage technologies, particularly those with longer duration capabilities, are not only critical for implementing widespread use of renewable energies but also ensure governments consider energy equity when developing policies...
![BEHIND THE METER — Sandia researchers make the case that energy storage could be an important tool in policymaking to achieve both energy equity and climate security goals. Photo by Jon Moore from Unsplash](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/05/meter.jpg)
A new report synthesizes key findings from expert-led discussions on how water can support or influence strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to mitigate the impacts of climate change. Hosted...
![Report highlights energy-water-carbon nexus challenges and opportunities](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/05/What-is-Waters-Role-in-a-Carbon-Neutral-Future_Flyer2.png)
More than 30 people from Sandia and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign participated in a workshop on Feb. 11 focused on climate-modeling research. The workshop was the fourth in a...
![An illustration depicting an analysis of attributed sources and impacts of climate change](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/04/uiuc-workshop.png)
It may not be common knowledge within Sandia that the Labs are home to the Plasma Research Facility, but those who study plasma around the nation and the world are not...
![From left, Malik Tahiyat, from University of South Carolina, and Sandia scientists Dirk van den Bekerom, Erxiong Huang, and Jonathan Frank are all performing experiments in the Plasma Research Facility. Photo by Angie Zhang](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/04/Frank_team_web.jpg)
Sandia National Laboratories’ microgrid research and development team has released the 2022 Microgrid Conceptual Design Guidebook. Using the framework described in this guidebook, stakeholders can come together to quantify site-specific vulnerabilities,...
![photo of microgrid report front page](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/04/microgridreport.png)
Sandia research paves way for sustainable jet fuel Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories have released data that could play an important role in the future development of cleaner and more...
![A decorative illustration to represent sustainable aviation fuel](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/04/Cycloalkanes_Sustainable_Aviation_Fuel.jpg)
Robin Jones, manager of building systems engineering at Sandia, makes a daily effort to only use the resources she needs. Energy efficiency is her lifelong passion, and it shows —...
![Building systems engineer helps lessen climate impact of Sandia’s campuses](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2017/03/Sandia_aerial_blogfillversion.png)
Sandia is partnering with national laboratories across the country to host a ‘Sunrise to Sunset’ Earth Day celebration on April 22. The day-long event will feature science-based, educational activities for...
![Family-friendly Earth Day virtual event](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/04/NSTTF-1-scaled-e1650492343485.jpg)
WPTO announces several opportunities, seeks critical energy organizations to host fellows The U.S. Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) recently launched a number of new competitions to spur workforce...
![Image of an ocean wave coming onshore](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/03/Main_Water_Image_Templates-scaled-1.jpg)
Sandia software supports assessment of future spent nuclear fuel disposal Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories and partner national laboratories will compare their Geologic Disposal Safety Assessment software framework to the...
![Sandia National Laboratories engineers discuss recent results from their Geologic Disposal Safety Assessment software framework](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/04/GDSA_Framework_web.jpg)
Sandia researchers have devised a new set of design guidelines and procurement specifications that help the wind energy industry and the U.S. military develop and evaluate rapidly deployable wind energy...
![Sandia researchers wrap up Defense and Disaster Deployable Turbine (D3T) project, develop guidelines](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/03/Picture1-e1648751427538.jpg)
Sandia Water Power program researcher Chris Chartrand recently completed his PhD in Mechanical Engineering thanks to educational opportunities offered through Sandia National Laboratories’ University Education Programs. Sandia offers these benefits...
![Researcher makes the most of Sandia’s educational opportunities](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/03/Chris_Chartrand_Image-1-e1648752560773.png)
Sandia National Laboratories’ Wind Energy Program has released its Wind Energy Program FY21 Accomplishments Report. The portfolio consists of funding provided by the DOE EERE Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO),...
![Sandia’s Wind Energy Program releases its FY21 Accomplishments Report](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/03/2022_0329_WindEnergy-TwitterImage_4pub-scaled-1.jpg)
New Sandia diode can shunt excess electricity in a few billionths of a second Scientists from Sandia National Laboratories have announced a tiny, electronic device that can shunt excess electricity...
![Two Sandia engineers examine a wafer will an array of diodes](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/03/Yates_Flicker_web.jpg)
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) recently released its 2020-2021 Accomplishments Report. The compilation includes achievements from Sandia National Laboratories’ Water Power Technologies program over the past year, while working alongside...
![Waves crashings against the beach](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2023/03/Water_power_sourceimage_tile.jpg)
What is water’s role in a carbon neutral future? Sandia invites you to learn more about the broader water security challenges related to carbon neutral efforts in a series of...
![Webinar Series to Explore Water’s Role in a Carbon Neutral Future](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/03/GettyImages-1223028340_jpg.jpg)
The 51st Annual National Solar Conference will be held June 21-24, 2022, in Albuquerque, NM, at the University of New Mexico campus and online. Hosted by the American Solar Energy...
![Sandia solar facilities to host American Solar Energy Society conference tour](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/03/PVSymposium_2019GettyImages-104293724.jpg)
Diana Bull, a researcher in Sandia’s atmospheric sciences group, is not afraid to try new things. Her research has taken her from private industry pursuing ocean wave energy research, to...
![Diana Bull examines a coastal permafrost bluff along the North Slope of Alaska. (Photo by Jennifer Frederick)](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/03/bull-e1647290629786.jpg)
The National Academy of Sciences recently published the new report, “Wind Turbine Generator Impacts to Marine Vessel Radar,” co-written by Sandia wind energy researcher Ben Karlson. While wind energy development...
![Sandia researcher contributes to Wind report published by National Academy of Sciences](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/03/Wind_Turbines_and_Sea_Image.jpg)
Solid-state batteries with little liquid electrolyte are safer than lithium-ion batteries Solid-state batteries, currently used in small electronic devices like smart watches, have the potential to be safer and more...
![Sandia National Laboratories engineers, examine a lithium-ion battery in front of a specially designed battery testing chamber.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/03/Baterry_safety_web.jpg)
What is fusion energy? Why are we hearing more about it recently? Could fusion energy change the world? Sandia invites the public to learn more about these and other questions...
![PHOTO: The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) is a collaborative nuclear fusion research and engineering project aiming to build the world’s largest magnetic fusion device, also known as a tokamak, in southern France. CREDIT: ITER Organization](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/03/ssat2_vvs6_tf12-13_2_eye-e1646957005752-2048x1239-1.jpg)
Expertise in advanced modeling and performance shines through Ten Sandia National Laboratories engineers received Black Engineer of the Year Awards this year, including Most Promising Scientist in Government, Research Leadership,...
![Black engineer awards distinguish Sandia Labs](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/03/BEYA.jpg)
Amy Halloran featured on DOE STEM Rising website Amy Halloran became the director of nuclear fuel cycle and grid modernization for Sandia in 2021. Her team works in diverse areas...
![Women @ Energy blog features Sandia director](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/03/STEM_Halloran_small.jpg)
Babu Chalamala, an engineer and manager of Sandia National Laboratories’ energy storage group, was recently elected fellow of two prestigious national societies. On Jan. 26, he became a fellow of...
![Sandia engineer elected fellow of two prestigious national societies](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/03/Babu_Chalamala_web.jpg)
Save the Date! When: October 17—20, 2022 Where: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA Please mark your calendars for the return of the Sandia Blade Workshop, in-person and in Albuquerque, New Mexico,...
![Save the Date — 2022 Sandia Blade Workshop: Oct. 17-20, Albuquerque, NM](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/02/2022-Sandia-Blade-Workshop-Save-Date-scaled-1.jpg)
Sandia expands software to support regulators’ evaluation of next-generation reactors Sandia National Laboratories recently updated the Maccs code to better aid the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the global nuclear industry...
![Improved nuclear accident code helps policymakers assess risks from small reactors](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/02/Small_Maccs-scaled-1.jpg)
Imagine driving down a country road at night. It’s dark, raining and road construction cones block the lane ahead. Driving through such a scene, or even driving on big-city streets...
![An illustration showing a car surrounded by iconography to represent sensors](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/02/automated-cars2_1000.jpg)
Sandia applied mathematician Khachik Sargsyan has brought his mind to bear on problems involving combustion, fusion and chemical kinetics — specifically from the viewpoint of probability modeling and quantifying uncertainties...
![Mathematician proud to help climate security studies](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/02/GettyImages-599113052.jpg)
Machine learning used to predict direction-dependent mechanical properties of metals A machine-learning algorithm developed at Sandia could provide auto manufacturing, aerospace and other industries a faster and more cost-efficient way...
![Sandia researchers examine data generated by the machine-learning algorithm Material Data Driven Design.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/02/mad3_1000.jpg)
U.S. Department of Energy unveils the Inclusive Energy Innovation Prize The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) recently launched the Inclusive Energy Innovation...
![Share Your Inclusive Energy Vision](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/02/GettyImages-1149180731-scaled-1.jpg)
Sandia National Laboratories has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Los Alamos National Laboratory and the New Mexico Departments of Economic Development; Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources; and...
![Sandia Enters Agreement to Build Zero-carbon Hydrogen Economy](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/02/GettyImages-1202489552-scaled-1.jpg)
Sandia National Laboratories’ Water Power and Renewable Energy and Distributed Systems Integration programs–members of the Energy Transitions Initiative Partnership Project (ETIPP) Partner Network– encourage community leaders, residents, and organizations located...
![Registration open for Energy Transitions Initiative Partnership Project webinar](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/02/NREL_ETI_Partnership_Mosaic_Web_News-002.jpg)
Eligible remote, island, and islanded communities are encouraged to apply The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy, is currently accepting applications for the...
![Energy Transitions Initiative Partnership Project now accepting applications](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/12/NREL_ETI_Partnership_Mosaic_Web_News-002.jpg)
Sandia systems engineer Kenneth Armijo has been named a 2021 Most Promising Engineer-Ph.D. at the Hispanic Engineering National Achievement Awards Conference. Sandia mechanical engineer Michael Omana was named a 2021 Most Promising Scientist-Master’s...
![Great Minds in STEM celebrates two Sandia engineers](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2018/03/Kenneth-Armijo-scaled.jpg)
Renewable energy technologies’ program manager Abraham Ellis will represent Sandia as a panelist in an upcoming ArcticX virtual event on Wednesday, January 26, 2022, 12:00-2:00 p.m. MST. The panel will...
![Sandia to participate in panel on role of emerging technologies for Arctic energy justice](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/08/CordovaAK.jpg)
This fall, four Sandia National Laboratories employees were recognized by the Society of Women Engineers. Laura Biedermann, Annie Dallman, Erica Douglas and Chris LaFleur were recognized for their professional excellence,...
![Four Sandians recognized by Society of Women Engineers](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/01/Erica_Douglas-scaled-1.jpg)
Join Sandia National Laboratories as it hosts a webinar on the “WEC Design Optimization Toolbox (WecOptTool)” on Feb. 7, 2022, from 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. ET. The Wave Energy Converter Design...
![Sandia’s Water Power program to present WEC Design Optimization Toolbox webinar](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2022/01/wecopttool.png)
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Indian Energy, through Sandia National Laboratories (Albuquerque, NM), is now accepting applications for the College Student Internship Program. In addition to hiring...
![Sandra Begay, center, talks with interns about how a photovoltaic panel works to generate electricity. The DOE has offered the internship program through Sandia since 2002. Picture taken at the Mission San Esteban Rey in the Pueblo of Acoma. Photo credit: Randy Montoya](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/08/Indian-Energy-Internship-e1628518178456.jpg)
Sandia has filed a patent for a simple modification to traditional rivets that may help engineer safer systems. Kyle LeBlanc and Tim Briggs worked with machinist Brian Holliday to create...
![a labeled wire-rivet diagram](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/12/wire-rivet.jpg)
A bold plan paid off this past summer when Sandia National Laboratories staff members LaRico Treadwell and Khalid Hattar combined their passions for increasing inclusion of people of color with...
![Eryal Reinhart, a summer intern at Sandia National Laboratories, is considering switching her major from engineering to materials science. (Photo courtesy of Eryal Reinhart)](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/12/Eryal_1.jpg)
Sandia National Laboratories’ Water Power and Renewable Energy and Distributed Systems Integration programs–members of the Energy Transitions Initiative Partnership Project (ETIPP) Partner Network– encourage remote, island, or islanded communities seeking...
![Remote, energy-challenged communities urged to contact ETIPP Partner Network](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/12/NREL_ETI_Partnership_Mosaic_Web_News-002.jpg)
Using a microscopic method for measuring electrical potential, a team of scientists at Sandia National Laboratories may have discovered how to make a longer-lasting, more efficient battery. The team of...
![This illustration shows how a team at Sandia National Laboratories used Kelvin probe force microscopy to locate places where electron flows get stuck, potentially leading to engineering longer-lasting, more efficient batteries.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/12/Better-batteries.jpg)
Annual breadth of invention is wide Competing in an international pool of universities, corporations and government labs, inventions from Sandia National Laboratories captured seven R&D 100 Awards (one in conjunction...
![Secure-Firmware Over-the-Air, developed at Sandia National Laboratories, can allow car manufacturers to remotely manage firmware updates and provides enhanced security.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/12/S-FOTA.png)
Sandia National Laboratories’ concentrating solar power researcher Ken Armijo was recently awarded a 2021 SHPE Technical Achievement and Recognition (STAR) Award during the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers’ (SHPE) 2021...
![Image of Ken Armijo at the ceremony holding the SHPE STAR award.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/11/K_Armijo_SHPE_Award_2021_Image-e1637262393506.png)
Sandia fog facility enables technology testing, foundational research Self-flying drones and autonomous taxis that can safely operate in fog may sound futuristic, but new research at Sandia National Laboratories’ fog...
![Testing sensors in fog to make future transportation safer](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/11/Fog_b-roll_still_web.jpg)
Even at 2000 degrees, the sealed, stainless-steel containers did not split open A team at Sandia National Laboratories has completed a series of tests on specially designed stainless-steel containers used...
![Sandia cooks material-storage containers to assess fire safety](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/11/Container_test_web.jpg)
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) has released “North to the Future: WPTO Helps Alaskan Partners Pursue a Clean Energy Future With Water Power,” the...
![New WPTO article highlights significant Sandia hydro, marine energy research in Alaska](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/11/GettyImages-1097603406-scaled-1.jpg)
An article on the US EPA website recently noted how the Water Network Tool for Resilience (WNTR), developed by Sandia and EPA researchers, helps communities and utilities prepare for natural disasters....
![Preparing Drinking Water Utilities for Natural Disasters](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2015/03/ThinkstockPhotos-452097249-scaled.jpg)
Atmospheric studies and more to continue at fixed Arctic observatory After eight great years of observations and research, a Sandia National Laboratories-operated atmospheric measurement facility moved from Oliktok Point, on...
![Mark Ivey, left, a Sandia National Laboratories senior engineer, and Fred Helsel, a systems engineer, inspect a shelter that had been stationed in Oliktok Point, Alaska. After eight great years of observations and research, a Sandia National Laboratories-operated Atmospheric Radiation Measurement mobile facility moved from Oliktok Point. (Photo by Randy Montoya) Click on the thumbnail for a high-resolution image.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/11/Oliktok_web.jpg)
A series of tethered balloon system (TBS) test flights conducted by Sandia were recently featured on the website of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility. The ARM facility contributes...
![Dari Dexheimer, Sandia National Laboratories’ tethered-balloon expert, and her team prepare the 22-foot-wide, tethered, helium balloons for launch on a gorgeous fall morning. (Photo by Randy Montoya)](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/11/Balloon_web.jpg)
Study to refine computer models, inform policymakers for future spent nuclear fuel disposal Scientists from Sandia, Los Alamos and Lawrence Berkeley national laboratories have just begun the third phase of...
![Sandia National Laboratories geochemist, and a Sandia geoscientist, display salt samples from their Waste Isolation Pilot Plant experimental site.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/11/salt_core_web.jpg)
Today is National STEM/STEAM Day! STEM/STEAM Day celebrates Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics (STEAM). The Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office...
![Marine and Hydrokinetic Graduate Student Research Program accepting applications](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/11/2019-06-25_Intern_Welcome_Event-5-002-scaled-1.jpg)
Sandia Labs shows advanced wayfinding tech could finally become compact, fieldable Don’t let the titanium metal walls or the sapphire windows fool you. It’s what’s on the inside of this...
![This device could usher in GPS-free navigation](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/11/gpc-free.jpg)
Systems engineering researcher Dr. Ken Armijo has been selected to receive the 2021 Hispanic Engineers National Achievement Awards Conference’s (HENAAC) Most Promising Engineer or Scientist with Advanced Degree (PhD) Award....
![Dr. Ken Armijo](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/10/Armijo-Kenneth-M_Suit_HENAAC_Award_2021-scaled-e1635432455225.jpg)
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Wind Energy Technologies Office is in the process of officially commissioning the National Rotor Testbed, an open-source wind turbine for wake control research designed by...
![Wind Turbine at Sandia SWiFT facility at sunset](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/10/9202245723_1e5ecf4238_c-e1635202396544.jpg)
The American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) held its national conference Sept. 23-25, 2021, in Phoenix, AZ. Sandia National Laboratories’ (Sandia) Sandra Begay, a photovoltaics researcher, attended to recruit...
![Sandia researcher recruits summer interns at AISES conference](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/10/Begay_10.20.2021.A.jpg)
Jacqueline Chen, a senior scientist at the Combustion Research Facility at Sandia National Laboratories, is the latest scientist to appear in the Department of Energy's First Person Science series. In...
![First-Person Science: Jacqueline Chen on Modeling Combustion Engines](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2015/07/DOE-SC-Natl-Science-Bowl_Jacqueline-Chen_web.jpg)
Sandia innovation frees rare-earth metals from coal ash for smartphones, computers In one of nature’s unexpected bounties, a harmless food-grade solvent has been used to extract highly sought rare-earth metals...
![‘I’m melting, melting’ — environmentally hazardous coal waste diminished by citric acid](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/10/guangping_xu_web.jpg)
Sandia National Laboratories researchers have analyzed AeroShield Materials Inc.’s flat plate collector system, which integrates a novel aerogel insulating material within non-concentrating, flat plate collectors, enabling them to achieve high...
![A hand hold a circular piece of Aerigel, which you can see park and city skyline through.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/10/Aerogel_2.png)
Sandia National Laboratories began studying the power of the sun to produce utility-scale energy in the 1960s. Sandia’s National Solar Thermal Test Facility was commissioned in 1978, spurred by the...
![Ken Armijo, left, a Sandia National Laboratories mechanical engineer, and Alice Parsons, a technical librarian, study a historical blueprint for a portion of Sandia’s solar tower, which stands in the background. The document, among tens of thousands of others, is now accessible online to researchers and other interested parties from around the world. (Photo by Randy Montoya)](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/10/2021_10_CSP-Library-1-scaled-e1633708575640.jpg)
Lennie Klebanoff has received considerable acknowledgment for his groundbreaking work to understand the wider applicability of zero-emission hydrogen fuel cells. But Lennie didn’t expect that his work would inspire students...
![Sandia helps set up future of ocean research with hydrogen fuel cells](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/08/vessel_corrected_8_23_2021.png)
A partnership between Sandia, Emera Technologies, and Kirtland Air Force Base demonstrates DC microgrid technology for resilient power to homes and installations This summer’s extreme weather events and wildfires are...
![Providing resilient power](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/09/Programs_HeroImage_gridatsunset-e1598955244434.jpg)
Somewhere among the glitter of the night sky is a small satellite powered by innovative, next-generation solar cell technology developed at Sandia National Laboratories. mPower Technology’s DragonSCALES, consist of small,...
![Former Sandia National Laboratories scientist Murat Okandan in 2017 shows a prototype of small, lightweight, flexible solar cell technology developed at the labs.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/09/dragonscale.jpg)
Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories and their collaborators have developed a new membrane, whose structure was inspired by a protein from algae, for electrodialysis that could be used to provide...
![Two scientists look at hand-sized white membranes, water and lush trees in background.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/09/Water-membrane.jpg)
With nearly 150 million views on her popular YouTube channel since 2011, Dianna Cowern has been bringing science to life through experiments, demonstrations, and other compelling discoveries. This summer, Dianna,...
![Popular YouTube show features Sandia energy science](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2017/03/Sandia_aerial_blogfillversion.png)
On October 6, 2021, the Cooperative Monitoring Center (CMC) at Sandia National Laboratories will present a virtual Global Climate Security Symposium, providing an opportunity for a wide and diverse global...
![Global Climate Security Symposium](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/09/Programs_HeroImage_gridatsunset-e1598955244434.jpg)
A Sandia National Laboratories team of materials scientists and computer scientists, with some international collaborators, have spent more than a year creating 12 new alloys — and modeling hundreds more...
![decorative illustration](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/09/alloy.jpg)
Sandia will host this year’s virtual DOE Office of Electricity Energy Storage Program Annual Peer Review from October 26-28, 2021. The annual Peer Review assembles researchers from across the DOE...
![2021 DOE Office of Electricity Energy Storage program annual Peer Review](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/09/GettyImages-1128888172.jpg)
New computer simulation method can equip engineers, doctors with more, better information Sandia National Laboratories researchers have created a method of processing 3D images for computer simulations that could have...
![Graphic showing segmentation possibilities](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/09/EQUIPS_ComparisonImages.jpg)
Sandia National Laboratories’ researchers recently hosted Darin Palmer, CEO of Rocking Solar, for a demonstration of his potentially game-changing approach to populating commercial rooftops with solar. The two-day visit in...
![From left to right: CEO of Rocking Solar, Darin Palmer; Sandia PV Researcher, Laurie Burnham; Student, Joseph Coston; PV Technologist, Doug Robb; Sandia PV Researcher, Dan Riley; and PV Technologist, William Snyder.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/09/CS2A4726_web.jpg)
Machine learning found farm age, cloud cover impact performance during a storm Sandia National Laboratories researchers combined large sets of real-world solar data and advanced machine learning to study the...
![Thushara Gunda and Nicole Jackson in front of a PV panel](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/08/PV_weather_snip.png)
Virtual Event Connects Innovators, Invites Collaboration Through the Lab Innovation Networking Center (LINC), Sandia is collaborating with three National Labs to accelerate Tech Transfer with Bay Area companies. On August 25th, Sandia joined...
![The Lab Innovation Networking Center emblem on a blue background](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/04/LINC1_600.jpg)
Comprehensive Sandia software aids scientists in synthetic biology analysis Biologists at Sandia National Laboratories developed comprehensive software that will help scientists in a variety of industries create engineered chemicals more...
![Pathways to production](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/08/Capture.png)
Sandia expands modeling software to support nuclear safety and regulatory activities Nuclear power is a significant source of steady carbon-neutral electricity, making the design and construction of new and next-generation...
![Researchers examine remnants from a series of Lower Head Failure experiments. The results from these experiments, and many others, are used to inform code.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/08/Nuclear_experiments_web_2.png)
Sandia’s world-class research in renewable energy, grid modernization, energy storage, and energy resilience is a key part of our commitment to exceptional service in the national interest. Our research is...
![Sandra Begay-Campbell, a Sandia researcher and member of the Navajo Nation, talks with Sandia interns at the Pueblo of Acoma about how a photovoltaic panel works to generate electricity.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/07/6103811961_866f924143_c-e1627579051605.jpg)
This month, the Department of Energy’s STEM Rising initiative features a Q&A with Sandia National Laboratories’ Dr. Yuliya Preger. Dr. Yuliya Preger is a Senior Research and Development Chemical Engineer at...
![Yuliya tests batteries in her lab to understand how their performance degrades under different conditions.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/08/Yuliya-Preger.jpg)
American Indian and Alaska Native science, technology, engineering, and math students face extraordinary odds when pursing higher education. As the most underrepresented group in STEM education, AI and AN students...
![Sandra Begay, center, talks with interns about how a photovoltaic panel works to generate electricity. The DOE has offered the internship program through Sandia since 2002. Picture taken at the Mission San Esteban Rey in the Pueblo of Acoma. Photo credit: Randy Montoya](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/08/Indian-Energy-Internship-e1628518178456.jpg)
Sandia is partnering with New Mexico State University, Los Alamos National Laboratory and the New Mexico Economic Development Department to create a new pipeline for energy technology to reach the...
![Sandia National Laboratories’ Brandon Ennis holds a carbon fiber plank, a new material that could bring cost and performance benefits to the wind industry.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/02/2021_2_February-Slider-scaled-e1612199444469.jpg)
This month, the Department of Energy's STEM Rising initiative features a Q&A with Sandia National Laboratories' Laura Price. Laura Price is a Principal Member of Technical Staff for Advanced Nuclear...
![A screenshot of a DOE webpage featuring a Sandia researcher](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/07/Price_DOESTEM-1-e1626965378588.png)
New molten sodium batteries operate at lower temperatures using low- cost materials Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have designed a new class of molten sodium batteries for grid-scale energy storage....
![a researcher works in an argon glove box with a test battery cell illustrating a lab-scale sodium iodide battery.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/07/Martha_Battery-scaled-1.jpg)
For many achievements in research, mentorship and community impact, the New Mexico Technology Council celebrated researcher Sandra Begay with a Women in Technology Award. “I’m very honored to receive the...
![Researcher Sandra Begay recently received a Women in Technology Award from the New Mexico Technology Council.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/07/begay_600.jpg)
The Department of Energy recently awarded $14 million to two national labs to form a Sandia-led center to improve the understanding of perovskite-based photovoltaic technologies and determine the best tests...
![Image of PV Panels and mountains in background](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/07/PVSymposium_2019GettyImages-104293724_A.jpg)
Sandia National Laboratories’ Concentrating Solar Power program will host the first in a new series of seminars online, “Molten salts: A cross cutting technology for energy storage and transfer,” on...
![Image of the Sandia Molten salt facility at the NSTTF.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/07/Molten_Salt_Facility-e1626188434245.jpg)
First-of-their-kind snapshots reveal byproduct crippling powerful, experimental cells For decades, scientists have tried to make reliable lithium-metal batteries. These high-performance storage cells hold 50% more energy than their prolific, lithium-ion...
![Sandia National Laboratories scientists Katie Harrison, left, and Katie Jungjohann have pioneered a new way to look inside batteries to learn how and why they fail. (Photo by Bret Latter)](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/07/Battery_Team.jpg)
The 2021 PV Performance Modeling and Monitoring Workshop to be held Oct. 19-20, 2021, in Salt Lake City, UT, is currently soliciting proposals from the photovoltaics community. Interested parties are...
![2021 PV Performance Modeling and Monitoring Workshop Call for Abstracts](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2019/05/PVSymposium_2019GettyImages-104293724_A-1.jpg)
An electromagnetic event, while not likely, could disrupt power over a large region of our nation, and mitigation efforts should be considered by grid operators and other stakeholders, according to...
![Making the nation’s electric grid more resilient to electromagnetic events](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/06/GettyImages-872908088_EMP_post-scaled-1.jpg)
The Wind Energy Technologies Office is supporting an effort by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville researchers and partners at Carbon Rivers to develop a novel method of reclaiming fiberglass from...
![WETO supports reclamation of retired wind blade turbines](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/06/GettyImages-500328050-F-e1670277647914.jpg)
A code developed by Sandia for the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will be the subject of a public workshop being held on June 29, 2021, 01:00 PM to...
![Workshop sponsored by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to include focus on Sandia-developed MELCOR code](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2017/03/Sandia_aerial_blogfillversion.png)
Sandia researchers have completed a two-year effort to evaluate heat exchanger performance for the Labs’ latest concentrating solar power project. The DOE’s Solar Energy Technologies Office funded the $450,000 project...
![An illustration of the test facility for sCO2 heat exchangers](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/06/heat-exchanger2_600.jpg)
Remediation technology reduces uranium levels ten-thousandfold at legacy site in Colorado A team of researchers from Sandia, Lawrence Berkeley and Pacific Northwest national laboratories tested a “sponge-like” mineral that can...
![Graphic of underground stream with uranium being absorbed by apatite with detection wells upstream and downstream.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/06/ApatiteGraphicV4-scaled-1.jpg)
High Performance Computing at Sandia plays a key role in the U.S. Department of Energy's Water Power Technology Office’s mission of advancing the commercialization of wave energy by generating an...
![High-resolution 32-year Wave Hindcasts for the U.S. Coastal Waters](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2018/06/Water_stockphoto.png)
The DOE is highlighting Sandia petroleum engineer Tonya Ross as an inspiring female engineer through its DOE Women @ Energy: STEM Rising website, which honors women in STEM fields throughout...
![Sandia's Tonya Ross featured on DOE's STEM Rising website](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/05/Capture-1.png)
Utility companies and corporate project developers now have help assessing how much money adding an energy storage system will save them thanks to new Sandia National Laboratories software. The software,...
![Sandia app assesses value of energy storage for businesses, utilities](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/08/Quest_Logo_RGB.png)
Sandia National Laboratories researcher Joshua S. Stein recently co-led activities resulting in two new International Energy Agency (IEA) Photovoltaic Power Systems Programme (PVPS) reports focusing on bifacial modules and systems,...
![Sandia scientist, international researchers, author technical reference reports for photovoltaic community](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/05/PV_Combined_Reports_Blog-scaled-e1621545810926.jpg)
Sandia National Laboratories partnered with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to co-host the annual Energy Storage Systems Safety & Reliability Forum sponsored by the Department of Energy Office of Electricity. The...
![Sandia Co-Hosts Energy Storage Systems Safety & Reliability Forum](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/05/Logo_ES_Colab2.jpg)
The weather on March 6, 1981, was nothing too remarkable for the San Francisco Bay Area — a little drizzle with temperatures in the 50s and fairly calm wind. The...
![The combustion research facility seen from overhead](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/05/2021_5_May-slider_CRF.jpg)
Sandia National Laboratories has won a $25 million award from The Department of Energy to build, test, and demonstrate a next-generation concentrating solar thermal power plant at the National Solar...
![Proposed G3P3-USA system at the National Solar Thermal Test Facility. (Illustration by Cliff Ho and Kevin Albrecht)](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/05/CSP_Award_Blog_Image_5_4_2021.jpg)
Sandia California is getting some attention from Bay Area commercial interests in the hopes of developing partnerships that may yield new innovation opportunities. From April 27-29, Sandia will participate in...
![The Lab Innovation Networking Center emblem on a blue background](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/04/LINC1_600.jpg)
What do tiny dust particles, 22-foot-wide red balloons and “concentrated” sunlight have in common? Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories recently used 22-foot-wide tethered balloons to collect samples of airborne dust...
![Here comes the sun: Tethered-balloon tests ensure safety of new solar-power technology](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/04/SolarBalloons-scaled-1.jpg)
Sandia's energy programs trace their origins to the 1970s—the same decade as the first-celebrated Earth Day. In recognition of Earth Day, take the time to experience a day in the...
![Earth Day 2021](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/04/Earth_day__OliktokPt-scaled-1.jpg)
Have you ever started a new job and spent a lot of time figuring out everything from how to get paper for the printer to whether an important customer prefers...
![Efrain O’Neill, left, an electrical engineering professor at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, who is spending a year working at Sandia, talks energy research with senior manager Tito Bonano. (Photo by Randy Montoya)](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/04/UPRM_CRADA-e1608677308904.jpg)
Systems engineering researcher Dr. Ken Armijo has been selected to represent Sandia National Laboratories as a candidate for the HENAAC Most Promising Engineer or Scientist with Advanced Degree (PhD) Award....
![Image of large solar mirror at the National Solar Thermal test Facility in Albuquerque, NM](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/04/Solar_Mirror-e1664552544269.jpg)
Sandia again has been recognized by Forbes magazine as one of the 500 Best Large Employers 2021. The Labs also won the distinction in 2017 and again in 2019, shortly...
![Forbes magazine again tags Sandia as top large employer](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/04/forbes-magazine_2_600x332.jpg)
Most of us rarely look up when we trek into a Costco, Home Depot or other large retailer. Usually, there’s nothing of interest on the ceiling. But if one of...
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A forum discussing the current state of energy storage systems' (ESS) safety and reliability—sponsored by the Department of Energy, Energy Storage Safety Collaborative, Sandia National Laboratories, and the Pacific Northwest...
![Energy Storage Systems Safety and Reliability Forum](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2017/07/SMLD-Energy-Storage-Project.jpg)
Sandia scientists use machine learning to find fuel source, climate-change driver Methane hydrate, an icelike material made of compressed natural gas, burns when lit and can be found in some...
![Finding fire and ice: Modeling the probability of methane hydrate deposits on the seafloor](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/09/ThinkstockPhotos-164208728-e1600094880746.jpg)
This month, the Department of Energy's STEM Rising initiative features a Q&A with Sandia National Laboratories' Energy Water Systems Integration department Manager, Stephanie Kuzio. In her role, Stephanie manages a...
![A screenshot of a DOE webpage featuring a Sandia researcher](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/03/Kuzio.png)
Upcoming Webinars highlight key takeaways from breakthrough initiative A webinar series from the Co-Optimization of Fuels & Engines (Co-Optima) initiative will highlight key takeaways from the multi-year project which explores...
![Co-Optima Capstone Webinar Series](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/08/ThinkstockPhotos-477330603.jpg)
A team of Sandia scientists and engineers, led by Daniel Clayton, worked tirelessly since 2016 to assess the launch risks and ensure the safe launch of the Mars 2020 rover...
![Sandia contributes to the Mars 2020 mission](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/03/Perseverance3_600.jpg)
Sandia scientists use 3D-printed rocks, machine learning to detect unexpected earthquakes Sandia geoscientists used 3D-printed rocks and an advanced, large-scale computer model of past earthquakes to understand and prevent earthquakes...
![a fractured 3D-printed rock](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/03/3D-rock_600.jpg)
Secretary of Energy Honor Awards announced The U.S. Department of Energy recently recognized the achievements of six Sandia groups with the Secretary of Energy Honor Award. The awards celebrate the...
![Sandia teams receive DOE’s highest awards](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/07/iStock-109835496-1024x683-1.jpg)
Ten Sandia engineers received Black Engineer of the Year Awards for 2021, including Most Promising Scientist, Modern Technology Leaders, and Science Spectrum Trailblazers. Honorees include Sandia systems, chemical, computer, electrical,...
![Ten problem solvers honored for scientific, community feats](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/08/Sandia_aerial.png)
A new carbon fiber material could bring cost and performance benefits to the wind industry if developed commercially, according to a study led by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories. Wind...
![Sandia National Laboratories’ Brandon Ennis holds a carbon fiber plank, a new material that could bring cost and performance benefits to the wind industry.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/02/2021_2_February-Slider-scaled-e1612199444469.jpg)
New study on submarine permafrost suggests locked greenhouse gases are emerging Something is lurking beneath the Arctic Ocean. While it’s not a monster, it’s largely remained a mystery. According to...
![International research team begins uncovering Arctic mystery](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/09/ThinkstockPhotos-164208728-e1600094880746.jpg)
Sandia researchers have a new tool that allows them to study wind power, to see whether it can be efficiently used to provide power to people living in remote and...
![A researcher examines Sandia’s new wind turbine motor, which will allow the distributed energy team to study how real wind farms will behave under a variety of conditions and in different locations.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/02/wind_emulator2_600.jpg)
Sandia National Laboratories is currently seeking applications from industry, academia, research laboratories, government agencies, and individuals to further technologies related to Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) at the National Solar Thermal...
![Sandia’s National Solar Thermal Test Facility launches R&D Voucher Program to further Concentrating Solar Power technologies](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/01/Tower_6.jpg)
This month, Sandia's research related to water power technologies was highlighted alongside the accomplishments of collaborators and other National Laboratories in the Department of Energy's Water Power Technologies Office 2019-2020...
![Water power technologies research, efforts highlighted in recent accomplishments report](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/01/5533304223_ab8d85ae91_o-e1435680275460-700x336-1.jpg)
DOE’s Solar Energy Technologies Office recently announced round three winners of its American-Made Solar Prize, both Sandia partners through the competition’s voucher program. “This is great news from a Sandia...
![Solar prize winners highlight successful DOE voucher program](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/01/solarprize1_600-e1610981557437.jpg)
Sandia National Laboratories is outfitting three 22.5-ton, 16.5-feet-long stainless-steel storage canisters with heaters and instrumentation to simulate nuclear waste so researchers can study their durability. The three canisters, which arrived...
![Sandia to put nuclear waste storage canisters to the test](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/01/canister-scaled-e1610463238145.jpg)
As solar panels become popular and their voltages increase, there is a need to have built-in capabilities to extinguish fires caused by arc-faults, which are high-power discharges of electricity that...
![Materials developed at Sandia help extinguish solar panel fires before they ignite](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/12/inline_connectors_1-e1608676050513.jpg)
This month, the Department of Energy's STEM Rising initiative features a Q&A with Sandia National Laboratories' Spent Nuclear Fuel Scientist and Engineer Elena Kalinina. In her role as an expert...
![Women@Energy features Sandia's Elena Kalinina](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/12/Capture.png)
For responding with innovative solutions during the pandemic, developing solar cell and hydrogen research technology, and creatively working with companies, Sandia National Laboratories won six prestigious regional 2020 Federal Laboratory...
![Efrain O’Neill, left, an electrical engineering professor at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, who is spending a year working at Sandia, talks energy research with senior manager Tito Bonano. (Photo by Randy Montoya)](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/04/UPRM_CRADA-e1608677308904.jpg)
This month, the Department of Energy's STEM Rising initiative features a Q&A with Sandia National Laboratories' Sandra Begay, a Research and Development Systems Engineer. Sandra’s passion for sharing STEM with...
![Women@Energy features Sandia's Sandra Begay](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/12/womennergyscreen_Sandra.png)
Energy.sandia.gov has undergone a refresh to streamline the site, ensure it responds to current needs, and make it more user friendly. Now audiences can engage with Sandia’s energy programs through...
![Refreshed energy.sandia.gov homepage showing a news and twitter feed.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/11/HomePage_Screenshot.png)
This month, the Department of Energy's STEM Rising initiative features a Q&A with Sandia National Laboratories' internationally recognized expert in fire risk, Chris LaFleur. Chris is responsible for fire risk...
![Women@Energy features Sandia's Chris LaFleur](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/12/womennergyscreen_Chris.png)
From freight transport to the daily commute, transportation plays a crucial role in our nation’s economy and energy security. The latest issue of Sandia National Laboratories’ intellectual property magazine, Innovation...
![Next-Generation Automotive Technologies and Capabilities](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/09/InnovationMarketplace_feature-photo.jpg)
This month, the Department of Energy's STEM Rising initiative features a Q&A with Sandia National Laboratories' atmospheric and climate scientist Erika Roesler. During her time at Sandia Erika has worked...
![Women@Energy features Sandia's Erika Roesler](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/12/womennergyscreen_Erika.png)
This month, the Department of Energy's STEM Rising initiative features a Q&A with Sandia National Laboratories' civil engineer, Brooke Marshall Garcia, P.E. As a civil engineer, Brooke always enjoyed applying...
![Women@Energy features Sandia's Brooke Marshall Garcia, P.E.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/12/womennergyscreen_Brooke.png)
World’s first particle-to-supercritical CO2 heat-exchanger system and on-sun falling particle receiver connected to a supercritical CO2 loop testing to take place Sandia National Laboratories’ National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF)...
![Sandia’s NSTTF facilitates ground-breaking experiments this summer](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/09/Int_Falling_Part_Rec_HT_EX-1200x596-1.png)
Sandia National Laboratories’ Photovoltaic Systems Evaluation Laboratory (PSEL) is in the final phase of a collaborative research project with Nishati, a veteran-run manufacturer of light-weight, portable photovoltaic panels. In 2016,...
![PSEL wraps up testing on non-reflective solar panels for arrays in glare-sensitive locations](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/04/Nishati_IMG_4625a_v2-e1586448369401.jpg)
Two photovoltaic cell sides are better than one, especially when trailing the sun, according to a recent Joule journal article published by an international group of scientists, including Sandian Joshua...
![New research finds power in techno-economic comparison of bifacial and tracking PV systems combinations](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/09/Single-axis-tracker-with-bifacial-PV-panels-1200x800-1.jpg)
Earlier this year, Sandia National Laboratories Water Power Technologies researchers successfully tested the Floating Oscillating Surge Wave Energy Device (FOSWEC). Testing took place at Oregon State University’s (OSU) Directional Wave...
![FOSWEC testing helps validate open-source modeling code](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/09/20200203_WavelabWECWorkshop_HO_0450-1-1200x801-1.jpg)
This month, the Department of Energy's STEM Rising initiative features a Q&A with Sandia National Laboratories' Sylvia Saltzstein, currently the manager of Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage, Transportation, and Security Research...
![Women@Energy features Sandia's Sylvia Saltzstein](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/12/womennergyscreen_Sylvia.png)
By Melissae Fellet Labs’ 10-year agreement extends work with University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez A new 10-year agreement between Sandia and the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, has the potential...
![Efrain O’Neill, left, an electrical engineering professor at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, who is spending a year working at Sandia, talks energy research with senior manager Tito Bonano. (Photo by Randy Montoya)](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/04/UPRM_CRADA-e1608677308904.jpg)
Recent success at the two-day Floating Oscillating Surge Wave Energy Device (FOSWEC) Workshop at Oregon State University has Sandia National Laboratories Water Power Technologies researchers energized to bring their Controls...
![Sandia Water Controls Workshop, Carderock Tour to coincide with upcoming ICOE conference](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/03/20200203_WavelabWECWorkshop_HO_1033-e1583867769969.jpg)
Sandia National Laboratories, Idaho National Laboratory and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory recently published a report assessing the opportunity for deployable wind energy systems to meet the energy needs of...
![Report: Can deployable wind turbines decrease reliance on liquid fuels during military and disaster response?](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/03/Military_Deployable_Wind_Image-e1583425058588.jpg)
by Paul Rhien At the Innovation XLab: Biomanufacturing Summit held January 28–29 at the California Memorial Stadium in Berkeley, Sandia joined other Department of Energy national laboratories in showcasing their bioscience...
![Sandia showcases biomanufacturing research at DOE summit](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/02/Sandia-at-XLab-e1581362583956-768x576-e1582671665585.jpg)
Representatives from SunPower Corporation, a leading US solar manufacturer and global competitor, recently visited Sandia National Laboratories to inspect the manufacturer’s experimental photovoltaic (PV) system at the New Mexico Regional...
![SunPower and Sandia partnership leads to demonstration of innovative new module technology](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/02/CS2A9712-web.jpg)
On Tuesday, January 28, 2020, at 12 p.m. Eastern, the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's Fuel Cell Technologies Office (FCTO) will host a...
![Webinar: Hydrogen Risk Assessment Models Update 2.0](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/01/HyRAM_webinar-e1579538321336.png)
By Melissae Fellet Electricity production is one of the industries that uses the most water in the country each day. Researchers at Sandia are helping the largest power plant in...
![Sandia researcher Bobby Middleton, right, has developed a more efficient cooling system for power plants. Together with Patrick Brady, left, the researchers are also developing a first-of-its kind systems dynamics analysis to identify water-saving technologies for cooling at power plants.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/01/PaloVerde_600.jpg)
[caption id="attachment_45498" align="alignright" width="300"] Edgardo Desarden Carrero, right, talks with Melvin Lugo Alvarez, both summer interns from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, studying resilient energy systems at Sandia National...
![Edgardo Desarden Carrero, right, talks with Melvin Lugo Alvarez, both summer interns from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, studying resilient energy systems at Sandia National Laboratories. (Photo courtesy of Edgardo Desarden Carrero.)](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2019/12/melvin_edgardo.jpg)
Coastal erosion on the Arctic shore. [caption id="attachment_43226" align="alignright" width="300"] As the Arctic ice sheet melts and the permafrost thaws, researchers from Sandia National Laboratories continue to carefully monitor conditions...
![Join Sandia at the AGU 2019 Fall Meeting](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2018/05/ThinkstockPhotos-164208728.jpg)
Modernizing energy delivery At a ribbon cutting held on Sept. 6, officials from Sandia, Kirtland Air Force Base (KAFB), and Emera Technologies were joined by representatives from the city of...
![DC Microgrid PI Jack Flicker discusses Sandia and Emera’s project and advantages of creating self-sustaining microgrids during the ribbon cutting for Phase one of the project at the new KAFB community center near the Base’s temporary housing units. (Photo by Dan Ware)](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2019/11/Jack-scaled-1.jpg)
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Sandia National Laboratories researcher Anastasia Ilgen runs experiments in an anaerobic glovebox. (Photo by Randy Montoya) Click the thumbnail for a high-resolution image.[/caption] By Michael Padilla...
![Sandia research focuses on ‘switching on’ iron in clay minerals](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2019/11/nano_graphic-e1572897269321.png)
By Michael Padilla Representatives from Sandia took part in Montana’s first Department of Energy (DOE) National Lab Day last month at Montana Technological University (Montana Tech). The goal of the...
![Stephanie Kuzio talks about Sandia’s water programs at the DOE National Lab Day, which took place at Montana Technological University.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2019/10/Stephanie-Kuzio.jpg)
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Montana State University recently completed a two-year study demonstrating the commercial viability of cost-competitive carbon fiber composites selected for use...
![Sandia researchers identify commercial viability of carbon fiber composites for wind turbine blades](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2019/10/Long_Blade_Ennis.jpg)
Sandia’s injectable materials could stop contamination from spreading By Kristen Meub Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are developing a promising new way to prevent the spread of radioactive contamination and...
![Containing a nuclear accident with ground-up minerals](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2019/10/corium_experiment-e1570203848970.jpg)
The days and weeks following a natural disaster are a critical time for residents, emergency response teams, and government entities to recover and rebuild infrastructure. [caption id="attachment_44890" align="alignright" width="300"] Example...
![Example of a substation to be used in a Puerto Rico microgrid. (Photos by Robert Broderick)](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2019/10/Puerto_Rico2-768x576_Credit-Robert-Borderick-1-e1569940564282.jpg)
A new journal article published in Science, “Grand challenges in the science of wind energy,” invites researchers to confront certain challenges in hopes of driving innovation that will make wind energy...
![Sandia researcher part of international team challenging scientists to reach Wind Energy potential](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2019/10/swift-e1594834242719.png)
The U.S. Department of Energy recently announced the 2020 SolarPACES conference will take place in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Conference-goers will have the opportunity to visit Sandia National Laboratories’ National Solar...
![Albuquerque to host 2020 SolarPACES Conference](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2019/10/CSP_Tower_ABQ-e1570640542815.jpg)
Sandia, PNNL lead group studying metals and polymers in hydrogen environments By Melissae Fellet Researchers at Sandia and Pacific Northwest national laboratories are leading a collaborative effort to investigate how...
![Materials for hydrogen service advanced by new multilab consortium](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2019/10/Davis-H-Mat_web-e1570202675498.jpg)
By Michael Langley [caption id="attachment_44935" align="alignright" width="300"] Click the image to watch a video with additional information about ducted fuel injection.[/caption] An engine innovation first conceived and tested by Sandia...
![Ducted fuel injection promises cleaner combustion](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2019/10/DFI_600.jpg)
Since 2016, the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Technology Commercialization Fund has promoted National Laboratories’ promising energy technologies and expanded their impact. With the latest solicitation announced for 2020, private companies...
![A solar panel gleams in a grassy field beneath a blue sky and gentle clouds](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2018/05/Arctic-energy-and-Infrastructure_Grid-and-Renewable-Energy-Technologies-scaled.jpg)
Sandia National Laboratories researchers Christopher Kelley, David Maniaci and former Sandian Brian R. Resor were recently issued a patent for their work, “Wind Turbine Blades, Wind Turbines and Wind Farms...
![Wind program patent breathes new life into turbine siting](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2019/10/Long_Blade_Ennis.jpg)
by Dan Ware For many people, there’s nothing more annoying than when the power goes out. Sometimes the outage is mercifully brief, but other times, depending on the cause, they...
![New Sandia report looks at reducing power outages](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2018/08/powerLine-iStock_000012985134Large-e1569864650734.jpg)
On Aug. 28, 2019, an influential group pf policymakers, administrators and researchers toured the Nevada Regional Test Center (RTC) in Henderson, Nevada—currently one of several sites managed by Sandia National...
![Nevada Regional Test Center touts facility’s benefits to state, solicits transition input from guests](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2019/09/Tour-Stop-1-Sullivan-A-scaled-1.jpg)
Join Sandia National Laboratories researchers on August 29, 2019 from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM EDT for a tour of the world’s only open source, fully parametric, ocean energy array...
![DTOcean Version 2.0 Software Overview and Demonstration](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2018/06/Water_stockphoto.png)
by Michael Baker | Photograph by Randy Montoya [caption id="attachment_44674" align="alignright" width="300"] Sandia National Laboratories engineers June Stanley and Chris Grosso demonstrate how the drop tower they built abuses batteries...
![Sandia abuses batteries for better energy storage](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2019/08/BatteryAbuseTower_2019_photo-by-randy-Montoya-1-scaled.jpg)
Sandia National Laboratories’ Photovoltaic Systems Evaluation Laboratory (PSEL) is in the final phase of a collaborative research project with Nishati, a veteran-run manufacturer of light-weight, portable photovoltaic panels. The collaboration...
![PSEL wraps up testing on non-reflective solar panels for arrays in glare-sensitive locations](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2019/08/PSEL_King_1.jpg)
[caption id="attachment_44597" align="alignright" width="300"] Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski and energy leaders cut the ribbon to commemorate the new battery energy storage system in Cordova, Alaska. Joining Sen. Murkowski are Imre...
![Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski and energy leaders cut the ribbon to commemorate the new battery energy storage system in Cordova, Alaska. Joining Sen. Murkowski are Imre Gyuk, right, program director for the DOE’s Office of Electricity Delivery & Energy Reliability Stationary Energy Storage Program, and Clay Koplin, CEO of Cordova Electric Cooperative. (Photo provided by Dan Borneo)](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2019/07/cordova_Borneo.jpg)
To better understand the impact of increasing amounts of privately-owned renewable energy and energy storage on the electric grid, major advances in developing more accurate electricity distribution grid models have...
![New advances in power distribution grid modeling focus of Sandia research](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2019/07/Transformer-set-up_SAND2018-8168-J_resized.jpg)
From July 8th-10th, Sandia National Laboratories staff and researchers will be available at the 2019 ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit in Denver, Colorado to discuss new and innovative energy-related technologies as...
![ROOTS, a program that hopes to develop better crops — super plants that are drought-resistant, use less fertilizer and remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere—is one of many projects showcased at the 2019 Summit. Photo by Randy Montoya](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2019/07/ROOTS.jpg)
By Kristen Meub | Photo by Randy Montoya Homeowners and businesses may now have an easier time getting solar panels on rooftops thanks to software developed at Sandia. The new...
![Rooftop solar panels get boost from Sandia tool that previews a year on grid in minutes](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2019/07/QSTS_Reno-e1562165686293.jpg)
by Kristen Meub, photo by Randy Montoya Sandia’s crawling robots, drones detect damage to save wind blades Drones and crawling robots outfitted with special scanning technology could help wind blades...
![Sandia National Laboratories researchers use crawling robots and drones with infrared cameras to look for hidden wind blade damage to keep blades operational for longer and drive down the costs of wind energy. (Photo by Randy Montoya)](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2019/07/Wind_blade_robot-e1562004225861.jpg)
Sandia, in conjunction with experts from around the country, has published a roadmap for the research and development of microgrid protection in a recent report titled Microgrid Protection: Advancing the...
![Sandia publishes roadmap for enhanced microgrid protection](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2019/06/grid-art-390x250-1.jpg)
Thanks to technology created by Sandia researchers, cooling power plants using significantly less water may someday be a reality. The technology uses a thermodynamic cycle for a cooling loop that...
![Sandia technology may substantially reduce thermoelectric power water usage](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2019/06/Cooling-system-1.jpg)
In 2017, the disastrous Hurricanes Irma and Maria caused thousands of deaths, destroyed homes and businesses and left thousands homeless in Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Dominica, Barbuda, and...
![Two presenters give an overview of the attributes and benefits that have been highlighted for advanced microgrids.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2019/05/IMG_0533-e1558729610818.jpg)
Computer modeling of interactions between wind turbine, wind turbulence, and wake behind the turbine hold potential for future wind plant simulations Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia) and the National Renewable...
![CFD Code Increases Accuracy of Turbine Wake Simulation](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2019/05/Wind-Photo2.jpg)
The 2019 PV Systems Symposium will take place Tuesday, May 14, 2019 through Thursday, May 16, 2019, at the Hotel Albuquerque at Old Town in Albuquerque, NM. The three-day workshop...
![2019 PV Systems Symposium begins May 14th](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2019/05/PVSymposium_2019GettyImages-104293724_A-1.jpg)
[caption id="attachment_44410" align="alignright" width="300"] Sandia researchers Nils Hansen and Craig Taatjes have been elected as fellows of the Combustion Institute. (Photo by Michael Padilla)[/caption] By Michael Padilla Sandia researchers Nils...
![Sandians named fellows of the Combustion Institute](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2019/05/Nils-Hansen_Craig-Taatjes_photobyMjpadilla-1.jpg)
By Luke Frank Amy Halloran, senior manager in renewable energy, was recently honored with the annual Women in Technology award by the New Mexico Technology Council. The council gives the...
![Amy Halloran shows off one of Sandia’s solar research projects. Amy’s mentoring activities were recognized by the New Mexico Technology Council.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2019/05/Amy-Halloran-e1557172902397.jpg)
pvlib-python is officially a NumFOCUS affiliated project. The non-profit organization NumFOCUS promotes sustainable, high-quality, open source code for reproducible scientific research. NumFOCUS recently bestowed the mark of quality on pvlib-python,...
![It’s official: pvlib-python designated a NumFOCUS affiliated project](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2019/05/pvlib-python-image-1.jpg)
An international community of research institutions, led by Sandia National Laboratories and committed to sharing high-fidelity data to advance photovoltaic (PV) research and expand solar markets, will celebrate the signing...
![MOU launches collaboration to study photovoltaic performance and reliability worldwide](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2019/05/PVCAMPER_Image.jpg)
The latest version of QuESt, Sandia's open source software for energy storage valuation, has been released. QuESt v1.2 features the debut of QuESt BTM, an application aimed at providing analysis...
![Sandia Releases QuESt v1.2](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2018/10/Quest_Logo_RGB_background-e1539626601872.png)
Stan Atcitty and Hongyou Fan received recognition from the New Mexico Legislature recently for their distinguished achievements as serial innovators. Rep. Abbas Akhil invited the Sandia pair to receive certificates...
![ROUNDHOUSE RECOGNITION — State legislators honored Sandia’s Stan Atcitty and Hongyou Fan for their research. Posing at the Roundhouse are (left to right) Imre Gyuk, DOE program manager, Stan, Hongyou, and Babu Chalamala, manager, energy storage. (Photo by Mason J. Martinez)](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2019/04/roundhouse_600.jpg)
[caption id="attachment_44226" align="alignright" width="416"] Sandia is a founding member of the Center for Hydrogen Safety (CHS), a global-oriented nonprofit dedicated to promoting hydrogen safety and best practices worldwide. (Photo courtesy...
![Sandia is a founding member of the Center for Hydrogen Safety (CHS), a global-oriented nonprofit dedicated to promoting hydrogen safety and best practices worldwide. (Photo courtesy of CHS)](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2019/04/lead-shutterstock7659211061.png)
by Michael Padilla Vince Tidwell, from Sandia’s water program, provided testimony in front of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology in Washington, D.C., on March...
![Vince Tidwell provides testimony to Committee on Science, Space, and Technology](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2019/04/Tidwell-testimony.jpg)
Sandia researchers to present during Waterpower Week Sandia’s waterpower researchers will participate in the 2019 Waterpower Week to discuss the issues impacting the water power and materials industries. Waterpower Week...
![Waterpower Week April 1–3, 2019](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2019/03/capitol-e1553896462614.png)
By Michael Padilla Department of Energy officials visited Sandia/California on Tuesday, March 5, to learn about the Labs’ cyber and energy programs. [caption id="attachment_44087" align="alignright" width="300"] Andy McIlroy, right, and...
![Department of Energy officials visited Sandia/California on Tuesday, March 5, to learn about the Labs’ cyber and energy programs.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2019/03/2019_3_5_CESER-visit-to-CA_Adkins-e1551886276379.jpg)
A new facility at Sandia National Labs offers mobile, specialized testing for systems that produce power from wave energy. The Sandia Wave Energy Power Take-Off (SWEPT) Lab tests wave energy...
![New Lab Offers Mobile, Specialized Testing for Wave Energy Converter Power Take-Off Systems](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2019/02/9A4A8979_resized-for-web-e1550076508808.jpg)
On March 6-8, the 2019 Energy Storage Systems Safety & Reliability Forum will convene to discuss the current state of energy storage systems’ safety and reliability (ESS-SR) and mitigation strategies to...
![Register today: forum highlights the future of safe, resilient energy storage systems](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2019/02/ESS_Forum_2019_Announcement-e1549398700831.png)
An interactive, two-day event convenes thought leaders, practitioners to focus on the role of communication, coordination, and collaboration for critical infrastructure resilience. Sandia National Laboratories and George Mason University’s Schar...
![2019 Frontiers in Resilience Symposium](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2019/01/Grid-substation_iStockphoto_450997085-scaled.jpg)
In recognition of Thanksgiving, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) highlighted how U.S. families use energy in the kitchen. Not surprisingly, the EIA found that electricity powered nearly two-thirds of all...
![Sandia helps provide water data for secure energy supply](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2015/03/ThinkstockPhotos-452097249-scaled.jpg)
The Department of Energy’s Grid Modernization Initiative has published a report summarizing findings from the first annual peer review in April 2017. The report reviews 30 of the 87 publicly...
![DOE’s Grid Modernization Peer Review Report Now Available](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2018/02/Capture2.png)
Register now for the DOE OE Energy Storage Peer Review, October 9-10, and the 10th Biennial Electrical Energy Storage Applications and Technologies (EESAT) Conference, October 11-13, co-located at the Westin...
![Registration is Now Open for the DOE OE Peer Review and EESAT 2017](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2017/08/office-625892_19202.png)
The Sterling Municipal Light Department (SMLD) Energy Storage Project has been selected as one of eight finalists for the 5th Annual Energy Storage North America Innovation Awards. The projects were...
![Sterling Energy Storage Project Selected as a Finalist for 2017 Energy Storage North America Awards, Voting Open Until July 7](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2017/07/SMLD-Energy-Storage-Project-1.jpg)
The 10th Biennial Electrical Energy Storage Applications and Technologies (EESAT) Conference will be held October 11-13, 2017 at the Westin Hotel—Gaslamp District, in San Diego, California (USA). The 2017 EESAT...
![The 10th EESAT Conference Call for Abstracts is Now Open](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2017/03/Sandia_aerial_blogfillversion.png)
Sandia R&D 100 awardees, from left to right: John Siirola (Pyomo v4.1 – Software/Services), Jack Wise (Stress-Induced Fabrication of Functionally Designed Nanomaterials – Mechanical/Materials), Summer Ferreira, PI (Precision High Power...
![Sandia's Energy & Climate Programs win R&D 100 Awards](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2016/11/RD100_16.png)
When Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas Wind Systems A/S decided to build a multi-rotor wind turbine, it used a hardware emulation system developed by Sandia National Laboratories to create, configure,...
![Sandia’s Test Technology Enables Development of Novel Multi-Rotor Wind Turbine](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2016/11/Multi-Rotor3-scaled.jpg)
Sandia National Laboratories will present a live webinar titled "Hydrogen in Your Backyard” on October 6th from 10 am to 11 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time (PDT). This webinar will discuss...
![Hydrogen in Your Backyard Webinar October 6, 2016](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2016/10/H2-Day-webinar.png)
On August 29-31, 2016, Sandia National Laboratories and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) held the first annual Microgrid Systems Symposium in Baltimore, MD that attracted about 100 attendees from...
![The First EPRI-Sandia Symposium on Secure and Resilient Microgrids Concludes](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2016/09/EPRI-Presentations-available.jpg)
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have met a major project milestone as part of the Department of Energy Atmosphere to Electrons (A2e) Wake...
![First Wake Data Captured During Wake Steering Experiment at the SWiFT Facility](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2016/07/SpinnerLidarSWiFTnacelle.png)
Home to the New Mexico Regional Test Center (RTC), PSEL’s outdoor laboratory has also received many equipment upgrades built on recent site upgrades. For example, common PV racking has been...
![Sandia Labs’ Photovoltaic Systems Evaluation Lab (PSEL) Marks Accomplishments & Adds Capabilities](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2016/07/Light-soaking-chamber.jpg)
Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) invite your participation in the first annual Microgrid Systems Symposium. This event will focus uniquely on several technical challenges...
![Register for the EPRI-Sandia Symposium on Secure and Resilient Microgrids Aug, 29th-31st](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2016/09/EPRI-Presentations-available.jpg)
Sandia has begun experimental testing on wave energy converter (WEC) modeling and controls. The test program focuses on model validation and system identification to produce high-quality data for control design of WECs....
![Experimental testing of wave energy converter (WEC) controls](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2016/02/Fig-4-Wave-Basin-USN-1.jpg)
The GridPV toolbox, co-developed by Georgia Institute of Technology and Sandia National Laboratories, models and simulates the integration of the distributed, or local, power generation into the electric power system....
![GridPV Toolbox Version 2 Now Available](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2016/02/GridPV_Fig6-300x236-1-1.jpg)
[caption id="attachment_37277" align="alignleft" width="342"] WEC-Sim Phase 1 testing at the Oregon State University Hinsdale Directional Wave Basin[/caption] As part of the Wave Energy Converter SIMulator (WEC-Sim) project, Phase 1 of...
![Phase 1 of WEC-Sim Experimental Testing Underway](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2016/04/FOSWEC-in-action12070090_v2-scaled.jpg)
Sandia’s Katrina Groth and Ethan Hecht win inaugural Robert Schefer Best Paper award In October, Sandia National Laboratories scientists Katrina Groth and Ethan Hecht were recognized at the IA-HySafe International...
![Sandia’s Katrina Groth and Ethan Hecht win inaugural Robert Schefer Best Paper award](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2015/11/Schefer_award.png)
Sandia’s Marine Hydrokinetic (MHK) Advanced Materials program has a new publication on the antifouling efficacy of zwitterionic coatings. These polymeric coatings contain no metal and have both positive and negative...
![Investigations on Anti-biofouling Zwitterionic Coatings for MHK Is Now in Press](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2015/11/Structures-of-synthesized-zwitterionic-coatings_web.jpg)
Sandia has developed a software toolkit that uses stochastic programming to perform power system production cost model simulations. Named PRESCIENT, the software produces probabilistic forecasts automatically from deterministic historical forecasts...
![Sandia Develops Stochastic Production Cost Model Simulator for Electric Power Systems](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2015/11/PRESCIENT-solar-forecast_web.jpg)
[caption id="attachment_35764" align="alignright" width="375"] The CREW public benchmark represents analysis of US wind fleet performance based on aggregated fleet reliability data.[/caption] Sandia’s Continuous Reliability Enhancement for Wind (CREW) project has...
![New CREW Database Receives First Set of Data](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2015/11/WindTurbinesWallaWallaRiverWash_sm_public_domain.jpg)
[caption id="attachment_35760" align="alignright" width="250"] The NRT blade shape as viewed from the tip and at an elevation angle of 30° above the suction surface.[/caption] Sandia has designed a new wind-turbine...
![Aerodynamic Wind-Turbine Blade Design for the National Rotor Testbed](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2015/11/NRT-research-blade1.png)
Several Sandia Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) researchers, in collaboration with others in Kentucky and India, have published, “Theoretical insights into the role of water in the dissolution of cellulose using IL/water...
![Sandia Research to Be Featured on Upcoming Cover of Journal of Physical Chemistry B](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2015/11/Structural-snapshots-of-the-simulated-system.jpg)
Researchers at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) are working to transform biomass into energy-rich fuel molecules. [caption id="attachment_35256" align="alignright" width="325"] Headquartered in Emeryville, California, the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) is...
![JBEI Featured in Chemical & Engineering News Cover Article](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2015/11/JBEI-deconstruction-micrographs.jpg)
Combustion Research Facility (CRF) researchers Kai Moshammer, Ahren Jasper, Arnas Lucassen, Arkke Eskola, Craig Taatjes, and Nils Hansen (all in Sandia’s Combustion Chemistry Dept.) as part of an international collaboration...
![CRF Experiment Confirms Accepted Oxidation Scheme of Proposed Diesel Alternative: Dimethyl Ether](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2015/11/DME-confirmation-exptl-set-up.jpg)
On October 15th, Carol Adkins (Director of Sandia’s Energy Technologies & Systems Solutions Center, Program Area Director for Renewable Systems & Energy Infrastructure), was honored, as one of seven distinguished University...
![Sandia’s Carol Adkins Named University of New Mexico Distinguished Alumna](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/08/Sandia_aerial.png)
The high-brightness, rapidly pulsed, multicolor light-emitting diode (LED) driver delivers lighting performance that exceeds that of conventional (laser/arc-light) sources for scientific, industrial, or commercial uses at a fraction of the...
![Sandia-Developed LED Pulser Delivers Laser-Like Performance at Fraction of the Cost](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2015/10/LED-pulser_Chris-Carlen_web.jpg)
Some NASA spacecraft, those which operate on the surface of other planets or are too far from the sun, require the use of radioisotope power systems (fueled with plutonium dioxide)...
![Sandia Assists NASA in Understanding Launch-Area Accidents](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/08/Sandia_aerial.png)
Two recent energy storage modeling and simulation (mod/sim) R&D proposals developed by Scott Roberts (in Sandia’s Thermal/Fluid Component Sciences Dept.) have been funded. Sandia’s participation in these research activities stems...
![Sandia Wins Funding for Two DOE-EERE Computer-Aided Battery-Safety R&D Projects](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/08/Sandia_aerial.png)
In an article in Chemical Engineering, Blake Simmons (Senior Manager of Sandia’s Advanced Biomanufacturing Group and JBEI’s Chief Science & Technology Officer) talks about how the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI)...
![Ionic Liquids Create More Sustainable Processes](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2015/10/JBEI-ABPDU-scale-up-pilot-plant.jpg)
The DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) filed its 100th patent application and published its 500th scientific paper. [caption id="attachment_35256" align="alignright" width="275"] Headquartered in Emeryville, California, the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI)...
![DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute Joins Elite ‘100/500 Club’](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2015/10/JBEI-ESE.jpg)
With recently awarded funding from the US Department of Energy SunShot Initiative’s CSP: APOLLO Program (Concentrating Solar Power: Advanced Projects Offering Low LCOE Opportunities), Sandia is working with a team...
![University of Wisconsin–Sandia Team Awarded SunShot CSP: APOLLO Funding](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/08/Sandia_aerial.png)
New Mexico Governor Martinez and Energy, Minerals, & Natural Resources Department Secretary Martin released the New Mexico Energy Policy and Implementation Plan in mid-September. New Mexico is one of the...
![Sandia Participates in Preparation of New Mexico Renewable Energy Storage Report](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/08/Sandia_aerial.png)
The Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority (NELHA) and Sandia have signed an MOU to implement electrical energy storage systems (ESSs) in renewable-energy projects at their Hawaii Ocean Science and...
![Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority Partners with Sandia to Install Aquion EES Demo](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/08/Sandia_aerial.png)
Researchers Joe Oefelein and Guilhem Lacaze (both in Sandia’s Reacting Flow Research Dept.) won the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics’ (AIAA’s) best paper award for their work on scramjet...
![The combustion research facility seen from overhead](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/05/2021_5_May-slider_CRF.jpg)
Sandia Wind Department technical staff members Josh Paquette and Brian Naughton attended the inaugural members meeting for the newly formed Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI) in Knoxville, Tennessee. A...
![Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation—Inaugural Members Meeting](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2015/10/IACMI-signing-ceremony.jpg)
Sandia will lead the tri-lab Hydrogen Materials Advanced Research Consortium (HyMARC: Sandia, Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryLLNL], and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [LBNL]) to address scientific challenges to developing viable solid-state...
![Bay-Area National Labs Team to Tackle Long-Standing Automotive Hydrogen-Storage Challenge](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2015/10/HyMARC-at-LBNLs-ALS_Mark-Allendorf_web.jpg)
[caption id="attachment_35123" align="alignright" width="400"] The SWiFT facility comprises three heavily instrumented and modified variable-speed, variable-pitch Vestas V27 turbines and two 60 m anemometer towers, with the first two turbines spaced...
![SWiFT Facility Prepared for More-Efficient Operations & Advanced Turbine-Turbine Wake-Interaction-Control Research](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2015/10/swift18.jpg)
A paper by Vince Tidwell, Barbie Moreland, and Katie Zemlick (all currently in or formerly members of Sandia’s Earth Systems Analysis Dept.), “Geographic footprint of electricity use for water services...
![Sandians Recognized in Environmental Science & Technology’s Best Paper Competition](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2015/02/electricity-for-water-figure-Tidwell_web.jpg)
On September 10th, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz released the second Quadrennial Technology Review (QTR 2015), which examines the most promising research, development, demonstration, and deployment (RDD&D) opportunities across energy technologies...
![CRF Researchers Are Source for 2015 QTR Sidebar Content](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2015/10/QOOH-measurement_Savee-Papajak_web.jpg)
Sandia and eight other companies and research organizations* will collaborate to advance a distributed power system that can produce cleaner, more efficient electricity. The memorandum of understanding (MOU) focuses on...
![Sandia’s Supercritical Carbon-Dioxide/Brayton-Cycle Laboratory Signs Important MOU with Industry Partners](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/09/Capabilities_HeroImage_SCo2Brayton-e1598955618433.jpg)
Nitrogen and phosphate nutrients are among the largest costs in cultivating algae for biofuel production. Sandia molecular biologists (in Sandia’s Systems Biology Dept.) and Ryan Davis (in Sandia’s Biomass Science...
![Algae in petri dishes for experiment](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2017/03/PHOTO_Algae_istock.jpeg)
[caption id="attachment_34855" align="alignright" width="400"] Stion PV system installed and the Sandia RTC site.[/caption] Thin-film solar module manufacturer Stion has commissioned a 12 kW fixed latitude ground-mounted photovoltaic (PV) system at...
![Stion Commissions PV System at Sandia Regional Test Center](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2015/09/Stion-Installation_NM-RTC_aug-2015_cropped.jpg)
Wind-turbine blade growth continues to have the largest impact on energy capture and levelized cost of energy (LCOE) reduction. While the 40–45 meter blade is today’s mainstream segment, it is...
![Version 24 of the Composite Materials Database Now Available for Download](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/08/Sandia_aerial.png)
Many theoretical studies show that additional energy can be captured through control of the power-conversion chains (PCCs) of resonant wave-energy converter (WEC) devices. The numerical models employed in these studies...
![Wave-Energy/-Device Modeling: Developing A 1:17 Scaled Model](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2018/06/Water_stockphoto.png)
The highly anticipated Department of Energy (DOE) Small Business Vouchers (SBV) pilot opens for business today. Through the pilot, small businesses can apply to access the Department’s world-class facilities and an...
![New Small Business Voucher Pilot Opens](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/08/Sandia_aerial.png)
The Sandia Wake-Imaging System (SWIS) was deployed for a full-scale field demonstration at the Sandia Scaled Wind Farm Technology (SWiFT) facility in Lubbock, Texas, in July. This successful field demonstration...
![Sandia Wake-Imaging System Successfully Deployed at Scaled Wind Farm Technology Facility](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2015/05/ThinkstockPhotos-185580660.jpg)
Results from the Sandia research reports, “Structural Code Considerations of Solar Rooftop Installations” and “Empirically Derived Strength of Residential Roof Structure for Solar Installations,” will be featured in an upcoming...
![Sandia Rooftop PV Structural Report Webinar](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/08/Sandia_aerial.png)
Sandia’s Energy Program has won two awards from the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer’s (FLC’s) Far West Region for its work to develop and commercialize innovative technologies. The FLC...
![Sandia’s Energy Program Wins Two Federal Laboratory Consortium 2015 Awards](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/08/Sandia_aerial.png)
By signing the memorandum of understanding (MOU) for a Strategic Alliance, then Sandia President and Director Paul Hommert and University of New Mexico Provost Chaouki Abdallah expanded our institutions’ commitment...
![Sandia, UNM Form Alliance to Promote Research, Recruiting](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2015/09/UNM_GeorgePearlHall_web.jpg)
[caption id="attachment_34613" align="alignright" width="200"] Sandia physicist William Stygar received the Erwin Marx Award from the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Science Society. (Photo by Randy Montoya)[/caption] William Stygar received the Erwin...
![Sandia Physicist Receives IEEE Award](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/08/Sandia_aerial.png)
Representatives from the federal agencies participating in the Wind Turbine Radar Interference Mitigation (WTRIM) Working Group held a special Government-Industry Radar/Airspace Listening Session at the American Wind Energy Association AWEA...
![Government-Industry Radar/Airspace Listening Session at WindPower2015](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/08/Sandia_aerial.png)
[caption id="attachment_34615" align="alignright" width="200"] A residential distributed energy-storage unit being installed (top) and inspected (bottom).[/caption] Researchers from Sandia will give a plenary talk on energy storage test protocols at the...
![Sandia to Discuss Energy-Storage Test Protocols at the European PV Solar Energy Conference](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/08/Sandia_aerial.png)
[caption id="attachment_34608" align="alignright" width="225"] Sandia’s Abraham Ellis, manager of the Photovoltaic and Distributed Systems Dept., was awarded the 2015 Hispanic Engineer of the Year Award for “Outstanding Technical Achievement.”[/caption] On...
![Two Sandians Honored in 2015 Hispanic Engineer of the Year Awards](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/08/Sandia_aerial.png)
[caption id="attachment_34576" align="alignright" width="250"] The red bar depicts the 40-mile-wide, 700-mile-long warning airspace now under management by Sandia personnel for DOE’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement facilities. The space extends from a...
![Arctic Airspace Warning Area Established to Aid Research & Exploration](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2018/05/ThinkstockPhotos-164208728.jpg)
[caption id="attachment_34579" align="alignright" width="450"] Utility-scale PV systems connected to the transmission network must comply with NERC modeling, data, and analysis standards. WECC’s new “Central Station Photovoltaic Power Plant Model Validation...
![Sandian Contributes to Western Electricity Coordinating Council Photovoltaic Power Plant Model Validation Guideline](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2017/03/Sandia_aerial_blogfillversion.png)
Large-eddy simulation (LES) of wind farms with wind-turbine parameterization is emerging as a powerful tool for improving existing wind farm performance and lowering maintenance costs—and assessing the potential sites for...
![Upcoming Release of the University of Minnesota’s Virtual Wind Simulator](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/08/Sandia_aerial.png)
Wind-turbine blades pose a unique set of inspection challenges: from very thick and attentive spar-cap structures to porous bond lines, varying core material, and a multitude of manufacturing defects of...
![Sandia Wind-Turbine Blade Flaw Detection Experiments in Denmark](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/08/Sandia_aerial.png)
Offshore wind energy could potentially play a significant role in helping the nation establish a diversified energy-generation portfolio composed of clean, renewable resources. A current obstacle to offshore wind energy...
![Structural Health Monitoring and Prognostics Management for Offshore Wind Plants](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/08/Sandia_aerial.png)
This workshop, held June 9–11 in Santa Fe, explored physical and geochemical processes in shale controlled by diagenesis; nano-confinement and pore-scale coupled processes in shale; fracture and coupled processes of...
![Workshop “Shales at All Scales: Exploring Coupled Processes” Is a Success](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2017/03/Sandia_aerial_blogfillversion.png)
Delft3D is a state-of-the-art, open-source hydrodynamics software suite capable of modeling hydrodynamics, sediment transport, and water quality in rivers, lakes, estuaries, and coastal environments. Delft3D was developed by the Dutch...
![Sandia Modifies Delft3D Turbine Model](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2017/03/Sandia_aerial_blogfillversion.png)
[caption id="attachment_34320" align="alignright" width="450"] A roof structure is made stronger by the system elements working together—much stronger than its main load-bearing element, the rafter, is alone. Current engineering analysis methods...
![Sandia Research on Rooftop Structural Strength Gains Attention](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2017/03/Sandia_aerial_blogfillversion.png)
[caption id="attachment_34252" align="alignright" width="400"] Sandia and San Francisco’s Red and White Fleet are partnering to develop a high-speed, hydrogen-fuel-cell-powered passenger ferry and refueling station. Hydrogen fuel cells have higher energy...
![Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Funding Awarded for Feasibility Study](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2015/07/Red-and-White-Fleet-Boats_web.jpg)
[caption id="attachment_34223" align="alignright" width="350"] The National Solar Thermal Test Facility at Sandia could be used for collaborative research through the Small Business Voucher Pilot. (Photo by Randy Montoya)[/caption] The DOE...
![Sandia Pilot Program to Assist Small Clean-Energy Companies](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2017/03/Sandia_aerial_blogfillversion.png)
[caption id="attachment_34096" align="alignright" width="375"] Our nation relies upon a network of radars across the country to support the missions of homeland defense/ security, flight safety, and weather forecasting. The air-surveillance...
![Navy/Marine Engineering Command Visits Sandia](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2017/03/Sandia_aerial_blogfillversion.png)
[caption id="attachment_34093" align="alignright" width="235"] Louise Vickery, General Manager, Renewable Futures at the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA).[/caption] At the end of June, Louise Vickery, General Manager, Renewable Futures at the...
![Australian Renewable-Energy Official Visits Sandia](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2017/03/Sandia_aerial_blogfillversion.png)
As part of Sandia’s core geochemistry program funded by DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES), Sandia’s Randall Cygan (in Sandia’s Geoscience Research and Applications Dept.) and his collaborators, W....
![Sandia Research Featured on Journal of Physical Chemistry A Cover](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2017/03/Sandia_aerial_blogfillversion.png)
Carlos Michelen (in Sandia’s Water Power Technologies Dept.) and a team of National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) researchers (Michael Lawson, Braulio Garzon, Fabian Wendt, and Yi-Hsiang Yu) won the Offshore...
![Sandian Wins Award in 2015 OMAE Hydraulic Modeling Competition](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2017/03/Sandia_aerial_blogfillversion.png)
Sandia researchers are working to lower the cost of solar energy systems and improve efficiencies in a big way, thanks to a system of small particles. This month, engineers lifted...
![Sandia’s Continuously Recirculating Falling-Particle Receiver Emplaced at Top of Solar Tower](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2020/08/NSTTF.jpg)
Sandia presented its annual Math and Science Awards to 31 girls from San Francisco Bay Area high schools, celebrating their academic accomplishments and potential. “I want to congratulate each of...
![High School Girls Honored for Math, Science Achievements](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2015/07/Sandia-math-science-awards-1_web.jpg)
Young Brothers, Ltd. to Test Maritime Unit at Port of Honolulu Can clean, sustainable hydrogen power reduce the concentration of emissions produced at commercial ports? The US Department of Energy...
![Hydrogen Fuel Cell Project Seeks to Reduce Port Emissions](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2015/07/Containerized-H2-fuel-cell-generator-prototype_web.jpg)
Dana Powers, a recently retired Sandia senior scientist and nuclear safety expert in Sandia’s Advanced Nuclear Energy Programs, who studied the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl nuclear power plant accidents...
![Sandia Nuclear Power Safety Expert Elected to National Academy of Engineering](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2017/03/Sandia_aerial_blogfillversion.png)
Measures for keeping nuclear materials out of the wrong hands can be as straightforward as a stout post beam designed to stop massive, speeding trucks in their tire tracks—or they...
![Sandia Teaches Nuclear Safety Course](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2015/07/Nuclear-Safeguards-Security_Susan-Pickering_web.jpg)
In his role as Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Deputy Assistant Secretary for Renewable Power, Douglas Hollett oversees research, development, and demonstration of a...
![DOE-EERE Deputy Assistant Secretary Hollett Visits Sandia](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2017/03/Sandia_aerial_blogfillversion.png)
Energy Council legislators oversee energy and related environmental regulation in North American states/provinces where energy is important to the employment base and fiscal well-being. The Energy Council provides a larger...
![Energy Council Executive Committee Visits Sandia](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2017/03/Sandia_aerial_blogfillversion.png)
The paper, “The implications of modeling range and infrastructure barriers to battery electric vehicle adoption,” authored by Garrett Barter (no longer at Sandia, but formerly in our Systems Research &...
![Sandia Paper Wins Recognition by the Transportation Research Board](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2015/05/ThinkstockPhotos-477330603.jpg)
In early June, Sandia and the Georgia Tech signed a five-year memorandum of understanding (MOU), establishing a strategic collaboration that seeks to solve science and technology problems of national importance in...
![Sandia, Georgia Institute of Technology Form Academic Collaboration](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2017/03/Sandia_aerial_blogfillversion.png)
Accidents, such as trucks crashing on a highway or rockets failing on a launch pad, can create catastrophic fires. It’s important to understand how burning droplets of fuel are generated...
![Digital In-Line Holography Helps Researchers ‘See’ into Fiery Fuels](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2015/07/Guildenbecher-DIH_web.jpg)
The 17 US Department of Energy national laboratories are a cornerstone of the US innovation ecosystem, performing leading-edge research in the public interest. The DOE’s national laboratories solve important problems...
![Sandia’s Energy & Climate PMU to Participate in July 8th National Lab Day on Capitol Hill](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2017/03/Sandia_aerial_blogfillversion.png)
Sandia and the Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) at the University of Rochester will investigate the compression and heating of high energy-density, magnetized plasmas at fusion-relevant magneto-inertial [confinement] fusion (MIF)...
![Sandia–Univ. of Rochester Win Funding to Demonstrate Fuel Magnetization and Laser Heating Tools for Low-Cost Fusion Energy](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2017/03/Sandia_aerial_blogfillversion.png)
Planets tend to cool as they get older, but Saturn is hotter than astrophysicists say it should be without some additional energy source. The unexplained heat has caused a two-billion-year...
![Sandia’s Z Machine Helps Solve Saturn’s Two-Billion-Year Age Gap](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2017/03/Sandia_aerial_blogfillversion.png)
[caption id="attachment_33766" align="alignright" width="500"] Pavel Bochev, a Sandia computational mathematician has won the Department of Energy’s Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award for his work. (Photo by Randy Montoya)[/caption] Pavel Bochev (in...
![Sandia Computational Mathematician Receives DOE’s EO Lawrence Award](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2015/07/DOE-EO-Lawrence-Award_Pavel-Bochev_web.jpg)
Tom Linebarger, Cummins Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, and John Wall, Vice President and Chief Technical Officer, visited Sandia’s Combustion Research Facility in late May. Kamlesh Patel (in Sandia’s Advanced...
![The combustion research facility seen from overhead](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/05/2021_5_May-slider_CRF.jpg)
Sandia Combustion Research Facility (CRF) scientist Christopher Kliewer (in Sandia’s Combustion Chemistry Dept.) won a DOE Office of Science (SC) Early Career Research Program award to develop new optical diagnostics...
![The combustion research facility seen from overhead](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/05/2021_5_May-slider_CRF.jpg)
The Departments of Energy and Transportation commissioned a technical team through Sandia to examine the properties of tight crude oils as they relate to potential combustion events in the rail...
![Expansion of DOE-DOT Tight Oil Research Work](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2017/03/Sandia_aerial_blogfillversion.png)
Using only a 9-volt battery at room temperature, a team led by Sandia researcher Jon Ihlefeld (in Sandia’s Electronic, Optical, & Nano Materials Dept.) has altered the thermal conductivity of...
![Small Electric Voltage Alters Conductivity in Key Materials](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2015/07/Phonons_J-Ihlefeld-D-Scrymgeour_web.jpg)
The Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s (DOE-EERE’s) Geothermal Technologies Office (GTO) defines FORGE’s mission as “enabling cutting-edge research and drilling and technology testing, as well...
![Sandia’s Frontier Observatory for Research In Geothermal Energy (FORGE) Phase 1 Proposals Were Both Successful](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2015/07/Geothermal-plant-at-The-Geysers_CA.jpg)
NASA issued a record of decision (ROD) to use a nuclear battery (a multi-mission radioisotope thermoelectric generator) on the next rover to go to Mars, in 2020. Sandia performed the...
![Record of Decision for Mars 2020 Mission](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2017/03/Sandia_aerial_blogfillversion.png)
Thermoelectric devices convert heat to electricity and have no moving parts, making them extremely attractive for cooling and energy harvesting applications. Thermoelectric metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) could take these advantages a...
![Sandia Researchers Are First to Measure Thermoelectric Behavior of a Nanoporous Metal-Organic Framework](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2015/07/thermo-electric-mofs_on-the-playground_web.jpg)
The Department of Energy Office of Science’s National Science Bowl® (NSB) is a nationwide academic competition that tests middle and high school student teams’ knowledge in all areas of science...
![Sandia Participates in Office of Science’s National Science Bowl](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2017/03/Sandia_aerial_blogfillversion.png)
In April, Sandia and Purdue University signed an extensive, five-year memorandum of understanding (MOU) to establish a strategic alliance that seeks to solve science and technology problems of national importance....
![Sandia, Purdue University Sign MOU to Establish Strategic Alliance](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2017/03/Sandia_aerial_blogfillversion.png)
Sandia researcher Hongyou Fan (at the Advanced Materials Laboratory, operated in cooperation with the University of New Mexico) was selected by the Materials Research Society (MRS) and the Kavli Foundation...
![Hongyou Fan Chosen for Prestigious Lecture on Creating Nanomaterials](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2015/06/HongyouFan_web.jpg)
Modeling and experiments show that it is feasible to perform multiple-species detection at sub-ppm levels with a low-resolution broad-band infrared laser. Target measurement species include CO2, CH, N2O, NO2, SO2,...
![The combustion research facility seen from overhead](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/05/2021_5_May-slider_CRF.jpg)
Sandia National Laboratories’ (SNL’s) Twistact and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL’s) Optimization of Building Efficiency projects were selected as the Livermore Valley Site’s participants in the Energy Department’s LabCorps pilot...
![Sandia’s Twistact Project Chosen for DOE’s LabCorps Entrepreneurial Program](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2017/03/Sandia_aerial_blogfillversion.png)
As he spoke to oil and gas executives at the IHS Energy CERAWeek conference, Secretary Moniz’s focus was on the nation’s aging energy infrastructure—and everything that should be done to...
![Energy Secretary Moniz Highlights Sandia Efforts during Recent Houston Press Conference](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2017/03/Sandia_aerial_blogfillversion.png)
The DOE released a report by an independent technical assessment team (TAT) that evaluated the mechanisms and chemical reactions contributing to the failure of a waste drum at the Waste...
![Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Technical Assessment Report Released](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2017/03/Sandia_aerial_blogfillversion.png)
Flame stability is an important trait of practical combustors that impacts combustion emissions and the ability of the combustor to operate effectively with changing fuel and oxidizer compositions and flow...
![Turbulent Mixed-Mode Combustion Studied in a New Piloted Burner](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2017/03/Sandia_aerial_blogfillversion.png)
As the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) storage caverns age, the integrity of the cavern wells has emerged as a significant issue, which requires mitigation. SPR has been holding nitrogen...
![Strategic Petroleum Reserve: Nitrogen Monitoring & Integrity Testing of SW Louisiana Caverns](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2017/03/Sandia_aerial_blogfillversion.png)
Sandia materials scientist Jon Madison (in Sandia’s Materials Mechanics & Tribology Dept.) was recently named the winner of a Black Engineer of the Year Award (BEYA) for Most Promising Scientist....
![Black Engineer of the Year Award](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2015/06/Black-engineer-of-the-year_JonMadison_web.jpg)
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