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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
Sandia Analyst Hosts Webinar on Energy Storage Accessibility and Affordability
Post, February 26, 2025 • On January 7, 2025, Will McNamara was a featured speaker in a Sandia-hosted public webinar, in collaboration with the Clean Energy States Alliance (CESA), entitled "Bridging the Gap: How Emerging State Policies are Making Energy Storage More Affordable and Accessible." The webinar aimed to summarize a recently published report of...
Sandia analyst keynotes Energy Storage Summit USA 2025
Post, August 20, 2025 • On March 26-27, 2025, Sandia technical systems analyst Will McNamara was featured as a keynote speaker at the 2025 USA Energy Storage Summit held in Dallas, TX. The presentation, entitled “A New Era for Long-Duration Technologies,” provided an overview of existing policies and regulations for long-duration technologies and their commercial...
Sandia analyst moderates panel at inaugural IEEE PES Energy & Policy Forum
Post, August 20, 2025 • On April 15-17, 2025, Sandia technical systems analyst Will McNamara moderated a panel session on the last day of the first IEEE PES Energy & Policy Forum held in Washington, D.C. The Forum was a week-long event filled with engaging and informative sessions, aimed at exploring the challenges and opportunities...
Sandia and CUNY Partner to Examine Water-in-Salt Electrolytes
Post, September 10, 2024 • A team of researchers from the City College of New York and Sandia National Laboratories (Contact: Timothy N. Lambert) examined the impact of different acetate-based super-concentrated (or “water-in-salt”) electrolytes on zinc electrochemical performance at currents and material utilizations of practical relevance to industry (0.3-8 mA/cm2 and ~20 mAh/cm2 respectively). Data...
Sandia Celebrates Successful Battery Installation with Vermont Electric Cooperative/Green Mountain Power
Post, September 10, 2024 • Henry Guan and Waylon Clark, members of the Sandia Energy Storage Demonstrations Projects team, along with Dr. Ray Byrne, Sandia Energy Storage Technology and Systems Department Manager, attended the ribbon cutting ceremony on Friday, August 16, 2024, for the Vermont Electric Cooperative/Green Mountain Power North Troy Battery Energy Storage Demonstration...
Sandia designs better batteries for grid-scale energy storage
Post, August 24, 2021 • Sandia National Laboratories researchers have designed a new kind of molten sodium battery that could prove to be a lower-temperature, lower-cost battery for grid-scale energy storage. Read more here.
Sandia Energy Storage Safety and Reliability Experts Discuss Li-Ion Batteries with Fire Protection Engineers
Post, September 10, 2024 • On June 5, 2024, two members of the Safety & Reliability thrust in the Sandia Energy Storage program gave invited presentations at the Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE) Engineering Solutions Symposium in Phoenix, Arizona. The focus of the symposium was “Progress with Li-Ion Battery Fire Safety: Engineering Solutions to...
Sandia Engineer Appointed Associate Editor at Major Technical Journal
Post, September 10, 2024 • Dr. Ujjwol Tamrakar, an Electrical Engineer in the Analytics & Controls area of the Sandia Energy Storage program at Sandia National Laboratories, was appointed Associate Editor for the IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy (OAJPE), a leading journal in the field of power and energy systems. IEEE OAJPE...
Sandia Engineer Appointed Associate Editor at Major Technical Journal
Post, September 11, 2024 • Dr. Ujjwol Tamrakar, an Electrical Engineer in the Analytics & Controls area of the Sandia Energy Storage program at Sandia National Laboratories, was appointed Associate Editor for the IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy (OAJPE), a leading journal in the field of power and energy systems. IEEE OAJPE...
Sandia Engineer Co-Authors Paper on Cybersecurity for Power Grids
Post, January 6, 2025 • Rodrigo Trevizan, along with Mukai Zhang and Vijay Gupta from Purdue University, and Sandia colleagues Ray Byrne and Babu Chalamala, had their paper titled "Secure Estimation for Power Grids with Distributed Energy Resources Under Actuator-Side Attacks" published in the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems on November 27, 2024. The research...
Sandia Engineer Presents at IEEE IECON Conference on Energy Storage Control Techniques
Post, November 18, 2024 • Ujjwol Tamrakar, a member of the Sandia Energy Storage Technology and Systems Department, presented a talk titled "Accelerating Deployment of Energy Storage through HIL Simulation and Testing" during the panel session on "Coordinated Storage Networks as Grid Assets: Control Challenges and Opportunities" at the IEEE IECON conference held on November...
Sandia Engineer Presents Open-Source Tool for Energy Storage Sizing at IEEE EESAT Conference
Post, February 26, 2025 • On January 20, 2025, Ujjwol Tamrakar presented a talk titled "An Open-Source Tool for Energy Storage Sizing and Placement in Electric Grids (QuESt-SSIM)" during the session "Energy Storage Applications" at the IEEE Energy Storage Applications and Technologies (EESAT) Conference. This presentation highlighted an energy storage sizing and placement tool designed...
Sandia Engineers Publish Study on Detecting Cyberattacks in Battery Sensors
Post, January 6, 2025 • Victoria O’Brien, Rodrigo Trevizan, and Vittal Rao from Texas Tech University conducted a study focused on detecting, identifying, and classifying false data injection attacks that corrupt voltage sensors in battery stacks. The results of this study were published in a journal article entitled “Online and Offline Identification of False Data...
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