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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For 100% Renewables, DOE Speeds-up Storage Policy
Post, August 24, 2021 • A Federal energy project funded through the US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Electricity has initiated workshops designed to help state utility regulators determine best practices in policies to enable carbon-free energy storage technologies and, in particular, long duration energy storage, as renewable energy standards ramp up towards a...
Graduate Student at CCNY Defends Ph.D. Dissertation
Post, June 12, 2024 • On Thursday, May 9, 2024, Jungsang Cho, a graduate student at the City College of New York (CCNY), under the tutelage of Professor Sanjoy Banerjee, successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation titled “Understanding the Application of Hydrogel Electrolytes for Rechargeable Alkaline Zinc-Manganese Dioxide Batteries.” Cho’s thesis work was the result of...
Grid-Scale Vanadium Flow Energy Storage System to be Installed at NELHA
Post, August 24, 2021 • The Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawai‘i Authority (NELHA) in partnership with Hawai‘i Electric Light Company (HELCO), the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Electricity (DOE-OE), the Ulupono Initiative, and UniEnergy Technologies (UET) have announced their intent to install a 100kW/500kWh advanced vanadium energy storage system (ESS) later this year at the Hawai‘i...
Guide for battery management systems receives IEEE award for outstanding standard or guide
Post, March 11, 2026 • Exceptional achievement and leadership earns IEEE PES Technical Committee Working Group Recognition Award A newly published guide on battery management systems was recognized this month for its quality and its creators’ leadership. The standard, known as IEEE Std 2686™-2024, provides recommended practices to safely and effectively operate battery management systems...
IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy: Outstanding associate editor
Post, April 13, 2026 • In December 2025, Ujjwol Tamrakar, a researcher within Sandia’s Sandia Energy Storage Technology and Systems Department, was recognized as the outstanding associate editor of 2025 for IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy. IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy (OAJPE) is a technical journal containing articles focusing...
IEEE Standard on Battery Management Systems published
Post, August 20, 2025 • On February 7, 2025, the IEEE Std 2686-2024 Recommended Practice for Battery Management Systems in Stationary Energy Storage Applications was published. This recommended practice describes battery management fundamentals, including best practices for its design and configuration. It outlines the hardware and software architectures commonly used in battery management and provides...
Invited talk shares research to detect battery sensor attacks
Post, April 13, 2026 • On October 23, 2025, Victoria O’Brien presented her research on “Detecting Battery Sensor Attacks Using Modeling, Estimation, and Statistics” at a NAATBatt Cybersecurity Committee Meeting. The presentation focused on how battery modeling, measurement estimation, and recursive statistical methods, specifically the Cumulative Sum (CUSUM) Algorithm, could be combined to detect and...
Lessons from a decade of vanadium flow battery development: Key insights shared
Post, September 8, 2025 • Researchers shared insights from past deployments and R&D to help bridge fundamental research and fielded technologies for grid reliability and reduced consumer energy costs In a recent presentation at the Electrochemical Society symposium, insights from a decade of vanadium flow battery development were shared, emphasizing the importance of testing at...
Long-Duration Energy Storage: The Time Is Now
Post, August 4, 2023 • How can US states with aggressive decarbonization goals coupled with federal decarbonization goals have energy when they need it? Long-duration energy storage (LDES) is a likely candidate. LDES systems are large energy storage installations that can store renewable energy until needed and can provide a much-needed solution for a reliable...
Modeling Goes A Long Way To Prevent Lithium-Ion Battery Safety Failure
Post, August 24, 2021 • Yuliya Preger, PhD, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Energy Storage Technology & Systems at Sandia National Laboratories, whose work is centered on the safety and reliability of lithium-ion batteries for grid-level energy storage applications, recently conducted an interview with Battery Power Online. They spoke about the role of the Energy...
NAATBatt / DOE Webinar: DOE Loan Guarantees for Storage Projects
Post, August 24, 2021 • The National Alliance for Advanced Technology Batteries (NAATBatt) will jointly host a webinar 1-2:30 p.m. (CDT) Wednesday, July 16, with the U.S. Dept. of Energy – Electricity Delivery & Energy Reliability entitled “DOE Loan Guarantees for Storage Projects: The Essential Details.” Douglas Schultz, director of Loan Guarantee Origination for the...
New report and open-source tool offer more precise model for battery arc flash
Post, August 20, 2025 • Refined approach for battery arc flash modeling helps to inform appropriate safety controls for battery systems’ installation and maintenance A technician in an orange helmet tests battery systems with multimeter. Photo credit: Getty Images When battery systems are installed or serviced, workers must take precautions to work safely with the...
New research paves the way for improved zinc-alkaline battery performance and reliability
Post, September 8, 2025 • Findings shed light on the mechanisms of zinc passivation, a critical factor affecting the performance of zinc battery systems Rechargeable alkaline zinc batteries are a promising technology for large-scale stationary energy storage due to their high energy density, as well as their use of abundant and inexpensive raw materials. New...
New resource: Book chapter provides estimation technique and describes energy storage use to increase microgrid power quality and improve monitoring
Post, April 13, 2026 • On January 20, 2026, Sandia researchers Niranjan Bhujel and Ujjwol Tamrakar published the chapter titled "Optimization Framework for Frequency and Parameter Estimation in Low-Inertia Power Systems for Fast-Frequency Support" in the book "Power System Inertia, Strength, and RoCoF.” The chapter is based on the work performed by Niranjan Bhujel and...
NV Energy Electricity Storage Valuation Study Released
Post, August 24, 2021 • Sandia National Laboratories’ Electric Power Systems Research Dept. and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s Advanced Power and Energy Systems Group have released a jointly authored report that examines how grid-level electricity storage might benefit the operations of NV Energy in 2020, and assesses whether those benefits justify the cost of the...
Our Resilient Energy Future
Post, August 24, 2021 • On October 24, 2018, the Hon. Bruce Walker, from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Electricity, came to Sandia to discuss his department’s mission and goals. Mr. Walker discussed the Office’s role in meeting the Nation’s growing demand for reliable electricity by overcoming the challenges of an aging...
Panel at Alaska Sustainable Energy Conference highlights long duration energy storage developments and potential for the state
Post, August 20, 2025 • Panelists at the 2025 Alaska Sustainable Energy Conference discuss long-duration energy storage in the state. Credit: Will McNamara, Sandia National Laboratories Panelists discussed energy storage developments in Alaska and updates from the Long Duration Energy Storage National Consortium Will McNamara, a technical systems analyst at Sandia National Laboratories and principal...
PNNL Hosts 2024 Energy Storage Safety & Reliability Forum
Post, June 12, 2024 • Pacific Northwest National Laboratories (PNNL) hosted the 2024 Energy Storage Safety & Reliability Forum on May 14-16 at Discovery Hall on the PNNL campus. The event provided about 200 guests the opportunity to learn about the latest developments, share lessons learned and best practices, and discuss the ongoing challenged of...
QuESt adds production cost model
Post, April 13, 2026 • On January 5, 2026, Dilip Pandit and a team of researchers at Sandia National Laboratories released a Python-based open source software tool called QuESt PCM: A Production Cost Modeling Tool with High-Fidelity Models of Energy Storage Systems, now available on GitHub. This tool is designed for evaluating power system operations...
Redox Battery receives Green Chemistry Challenge Award
Post, August 24, 2021 • On June 12, 2017 UniEnergy Technology (UET) and Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNNL) jointly received the prestigious EPA / American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Challenge Award. The achievement being recognized is the development and commercialization of an advanced Vanadium flow battery. Using an ingenious mixed acid electrolyte, research at PNNL, funded...
Reducing Risk and Keeping Battery Workers Safe
Post, June 25, 2024 • Led by Sandia grid energy storage researcher David Rosewater, the Energy Facilities Contractors Group (EFCOG) and the IEEE Energy Storage and Stationary Battery (ESSB) committee collaborated to submit public comments for the next edition of NFPA 70E Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace. These public inputs, submitted on June...
Research explores scaling up online, model-based anomaly detection for improved battery system safety, reliability, and availability
Post, April 13, 2026 • The online monitoring of battery energy storage systems (ESSs) is crucial to detecting sensor anomalies that could have detrimental impacts on the system’s safety, reliability, and availability. Model-based anomaly detection mechanisms could be integrated into battery management systems (BMSs) with modeling and estimation capabilities. However, previous model-based anomaly detection mechanisms...
Research shared at Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition explores impact of battery management systems on grid services
Post, April 13, 2026 • Niranjan Bhujel presented about the effect of battery management systems (BMSs) on grid service provided by energy storage systems (ESSs) on Oct 23, 2025 in IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE) conference 2025. Battery management systems, in some scenarios, limit how much power a battery can supply or absorb....
Researcher receives IEEE IAS Young Professional Achievement Award for contributions to battery safety
Post, August 20, 2025 • On March 7, 2025, Sandia researcher David Rosewater was awarded the IEEE IAS Electrical Safety Committee’s Young Professional Achievement Award at the 2025 IEEE Electrical Safety Workshop in Jacksonville, FL, USA. At this conference, Rosewater presented his latest research on practical battery arc flash models, which has the potential to...
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