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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),...

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...

Informing decisionmakers: tutorials clarify technical dimensions of energy storage
Post, April 2, 2026 • As energy storage technologies can strengthen and enhance grid infrastructure and services, state decisionmakers face the complex challenge of crafting effective policies to integrate these innovations into their grids. On Feb. 24-26, Sandia’s Will McNamara led a three-day tutorial in partnership with the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissions (NARUC), titled “Designing State-Level Regulations for Energy Storage.”  This professional development course brought together...

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...

Join the 2026 Office of Electricity Energy Storage Program Annual Meeting & Peer Review!
Post, June 29, 2026 • Registration is open for the DOE Office of Electricity Energy Storage Program’s annual meeting and peer review on July 27-30 in Dallas, Texas. Join researchers and staff from national laboratories, industry, government, and academia to summarize and advance the latest energy storage research, development, and application. Bringing together researchers, industry...

Large-scale testing provides insights to improve energy storage systems’ safety 
Post, April 5, 2026 • Loraine Torres-Castro, a battery safety researcher at Sandia National Laboratories, presented a keynote talk titled “Large-Scale Testing and Mitigation Strategies for Thermal Runaway in Battery Energy Storage Systems” at the American Chemical Society 2026 Spring Meeting. The presentation took place as part of the Innovations in Heat Resistant Materials and Fire Safety...

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...
A technician in an orange helmet tests battery systems with multimeter, ensuring safety and efficiency in modern facility. Photo credit: Getty Images

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...
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Patent: Method for scaled thermal evaluation of batteries and related materials
Post, April 4, 2026 • Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories, Loraine Torres-Castro, Nathan Johnson, and Alex Bates, filed a patent application titled “Method for Scaled Thermal Evaluation of Batteries and Related Materials.” The application (No. 19/416,660) was filed on December 11, 2025. The invention introduces a methodology for evaluating the thermal behavior and safety characteristics of batteries and related...
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