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10th annual Energy Storage Systems Safety and Reliability Forum
Post, April 9, 2026 • Registration is open for the 10th annual Energy Storage Systems Safety and Reliability Forum, a premier event dedicated to improved energy storage safety and reliability, happening June 2-4 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.   With an array of researchers, scientists, students, first responders, and industry professionals expected to attend, the event provides a platform to launch...

2013 Electricity Storage Handbook Released
Post, August 24, 2021 • The DOE/EPRI 2013 Electricity Storage Handbook in Collaboration with NRECA (PDF, 12 mb) has been released and is available for download. It was jointly authored by the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories, Electric Power Research Institute, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, and AECOM Technical Services, Inc. The Electricity Storage Handbook is...

2016 NAATBatt Lifetime Achievement Award for Public Service to Dr. Imre Gyuk
Post, August 24, 2021 • The NAATBatt International Board of Directors will present the 2016 NAATBatt Lifetime Achievement Award for Public Service to Dr. Imre Gyuk, Energy Storage Program Manager of the U.S. Dept. of Energy’s Office of Electricity (DOE OE) Delivery and Energy Reliability, and Prof. Detchko Pavlov at the NAATBatt 2016 Annual Meeting...

Advancing energy storage safety through expert webinars
Post, April 13, 2026 • Sandia advanced the national deployment of energy storage systems for grid security by delivering webinars on “Energy Storage Safety and Reliability Trends” to around 60 utility regulators and state energy commissioners. Community safety concerns are a major barrier to energy storage deployment. These webinars leveraged Sandia’s extensive Office of Electricity-funded...

App assesses value of energy storage
Post, August 24, 2021 • A new Sandia software, called Quest, can help utility companies and corporate project developers assess how much money adding an energy storage system will save them. The QuESt news release “Sandia app assesses value of energy storage for businesses, utilities” was published on May 19. So far the release has...

Babu Chalama at Sandia National Laboratories Elected to National Academy of Engineering
Post, March 8, 2024 • On February 6, 2024, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) elected as a new member for his advancement of battery storage systems Dr. Babu Chalamala, Senior Scientist for the Grid Modernization and Energy Storage program at Sandia National Laboratories, announced NAE President John L. Anderson. In total, there were 114...

Babu Chalamala provides energy storage testimony in Sacramento
Post, August 24, 2021 • Babu Chalamala, manager of Sandia’s Energy Storage Technology and Systems Department, provided testimony at the State Capitol in Sacramento, on Feb. 13, at a State Assembly briefing on Zero-Carbon Grid by 2045. The well-attended briefing, hosted by a former LLNL scientist and current Assemblymember Bill Quirk (D-Hayward), sought to explore...

Battery energy storage deployment project comes online for high school in Albuquerque: Helps demonstrate energy savings and affordability of using batteries for peak demand reduction
Post, April 13, 2026 • On January 28, Sandia's Energy Storage Demonstration Projects team was invited to Albuquerque Public Schools' Water and Energy Conservation Committee meeting where APS celebrated the completed commissioning and full operation of the Atrisco Heritage Academy High School Battery Energy Storage System project. Sandia was recognized for their partnership throughout the...

Columbia University guest lecture delves into cybersecurity, cyber threats, and cyberattack detection for battery energy storage systems
Post, April 13, 2026 • On November 20, 2025, Victoria O’Brien delivered a guest lecture entitled “Cybersecurity for Battery Energy Storage Systems” for the graduate-level course, Energy Storage for the Electric Grid, at Columbia University. The lecture provided an overview of cybersecurity fundamentals, identified and discussed threats in the energy sector, and explored theoretical and...

Cordova Electric Cuts Ribbon on New Energy Future
Post, August 24, 2021 • Senator Lisa Murkowski, along with Dr. Imre Gyuk, Director of the Energy Storage Program at the Office of Electricity, Department of Energy, and members of the Sandia National Laboratories Energy Storage Systems team, were in Cordova, Alaska for the ribbon cutting of Cordova Electric Cooperative’s battery energy storage system. The...

DOE Announces Energy Storage Innovations Prize Winners
Post, August 4, 2023 • The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Electricity (OE) today announced the ten winners of the inaugural American-Made Energy Storage Innovations Prize. The American-Made Challenge calls for solutions to grid-scale energy storage, focusing on nascent and emerging technologies that disrupt or advance current state-of-the-art energy storage research areas. As...

DOE OE Energy Storage Safety Strategic Plan Released
Post, August 24, 2021 • The Dept. of Energy’s Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability Energy Storage Program has announced their release of the Energy Storage Safety Strategic Plan (PDF, 685 kb) to standardize the validation of the safety of grid-scale electrical energy storage projects. The Strategic Plan addresses the key area of validated energy storage safety, spanning...

DOE Storage Project Allows Decorah, Iowa to Add More Rooftop Solar
Post, August 24, 2021 • Alliant Energy, the U.S. Department of Energy and the Iowa Economic Development Authority are jointly supporting a battery-storage solution in Decorah, Iowa that aims to connect customer-owned solar while maintaining reliable electrical service across the community. Read the article here.

Draft Storage/Stationary Battery Standards List Is Available from UL
Post, August 24, 2021 • A draft listing of Storage/Stationary Batteries Standards is now available for download from the Publications page of this website. The list is courtesy of Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL). In addition to summarizing the scope of each standard, the listing identifies whether the standards pertain to Safety, Performance or other purpose, as well...

Drs. Spoerke and Gyuk Co-Chair Energy Storage and LDES Symposium
Post, September 10, 2024 • Dr. Erik Spoerke, a former Materials Lead in the Sandia Energy Storage program and now Senior Analytics Advisor with the DOE Office of Electricity (OE),  co-chaired the “Energy Storage: Toward Larger and Longer Duration Storage Deployment” symposium at the 2024 TechConnect World Innovation Conference and Expo June 17-18, 2024, in...

Educating federal agencies on the role of energy storage in AI data centers
Post, April 13, 2026 • On February 24, researchers Jackie Huynh (PNNL) and Yuliya Preger (SNL) delivered a requested presentation on the “Role of Energy Storage in AI Data Centers” at the quarterly meeting of the Federal Consortium for Advanced Batteries (FCAB). FCAB brings together program managers from dozens of federal agencies from Departments including...

Energy Storage Module Added to Lab Partnering Service Online Portal
Post, August 4, 2023 • Managed by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Technology Transitions, the Lab Partnering Service (LPS) offers access to the world’s most advanced scientific facilities and researchers across the Department’s national lab complex. LPS provides investors—and other parties looking to advance energy innovation—a single online platform to connect with leading...

Energy Storage Safety and Reliability Forum
Post, March 18, 2024 • Sponsored by OE's Energy Storage Program, the Energy Storage Safety and Reliability Forum, hosted at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's (PNNL) in Richland, WA. will focus on the current state of energy storage safety and reliability and identify additional R&D efforts to advance the DOE roadmap for energy storage. The...

Energy Storage Symposium highlights research to improve, commercialize battery systems and technologies
Post, August 20, 2025 • Co-chaired by Sandia and Pacific Northwest National Laboratories on behalf of the energy storage program, the event connected applied energy storage research and early-stage innovations with start-ups and end-users Presenters and attendees at the 2025 Energy Storage Symposium. Credit: Will McNamara, Sandia National Laboratories Researchers Will McNamara and Xiaolin Li...
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Energy Storage Test Pad Characterizes TransPower’s GridSaver
Post, August 24, 2021 • Sandia National Laboratories has begun characterizing the capacity, power, safety and reliability of TransPower’s GridSaver, a 1 megawatt, lithium-ion grid energy storage system, at Sandia’s Energy Storage Test Pad. Project lead David Rosewater said, “Independent evaluations provide valuable feedback for industry efforts to standardize metrics for characterizing and reporting reliability,...

EPA Green Chemistry Challenge Winners
Post, August 24, 2021 • Prof. Sanjoy Banerjee of City College of New York and City University of New York Energy Institute, Sandia National Laboratories, Urban Electric Power, Inc., Brookhaven National Laboratory, and the Department of Energy Office of Electricity, Energy Storage Research Program won the 2019 US Environmental Protection Agency Green Chemistry Challenge Award...

EPB Energizes Flow Battery in Support of National Grid Modernization Efforts
Post, August 24, 2021 • EPB has energized a 100kW/400kWh Vanadium Redox Flow Battery as part of a national research effort to explore the best use of cutting edge technologies that could be implemented across the United States to modernize the power grid. EPB’s project constitutes a partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE),...
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