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.
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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 ESS Program and Oregon Energy Dept. Announce Demonstration Project Funding Opportunity
Post, August 24, 2021 • The Oregon Dept. of Energy is partnering with the U.S. DOE Office of Electricity’s Energy Storage Program, and Sandia National Laboratories, to offer funds for an energy storage demonstration project in Oregon. Up to $250,000 in federal funds will be matched by up to $45,000 in state funds from ODOE...
Sandia researcher authors ‘Battery Energy Storage System’ for Springer-Verlag London
Post, August 24, 2021 • Sandia National Laboratories researcher Stan Atcitty recently coauthored a chapter titled “Battery Energy Storage System” in Power Electronics for Renewable and Distributed Energy Systems, a volume published last July by Springer-Verlag London. This chapter discusses the various technical components of battery energy storage systems for utility-scale energy storage and how these...
Sandia Researchers Develop Open-Source Tool for Grid Reliability Analysis
Post, February 26, 2025 • On January 21, 2025, Atri Bera and a team of researchers at Sandia National Laboratories announced the development of a Python-based open source software tool called Probabilistic Grid Reliability Analysis with Energy Storage Systems (ProGRESS), which is now available on GitHub. This tool is designed for assessing the resource adequacy...

Sandia Scientist Stan Atcitty Recognized in Partnership with Tribal Colleges and Universities
Post, August 4, 2023 • Dr. Stan Atcitty was featured in the Winds of Change magazine, published by American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES). AISES is a national nonprofit organization focused on increasing the representation of Indigenous peoples of North America and the Pacific Islands in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) studies and...
Sandia Scientists Release Open-Source Capacity Expansion Planning Tool for Energy Storage Systems
Post, February 26, 2025 • On December 1, 2024, the Energy Storage Analytics team at Sandia National Laboratories announced the release of QuESt Planning, an open-source Python-based capacity expansion planning tool focused on energy storage systems. QuESt Planning is a long-term power system capacity expansion planning model that identifies cost-optimal energy storage, generation, and transmission...

Sandia Staff Member Moderates Panel on Long-Duration Energy Storage Policies at IEEE EESAT
Post, February 26, 2025 • On January 21, 2025, Will McNamara moderated a panel discussion on long-duration energy storage (LDES) policies during the first day of the IEEE Energy Storage Applications and Technologies (EESAT) conference, at the request of David Rosewater, Organizing Committee Chair. The 90-minute session featured a diverse group of panelists, including Alyssa...

Sandia-Developed Precision High Power Battery Tester Earns R&D 100 Award
Post, August 24, 2021 • R&D Magazine has recognized Sandia National Laboratories researchers’ work in developing innovative battery testing with the annual R&D 100 Award. As principle investigator of the Precision High Power Battery Tester, Dr. Summer Ferreira was presented with the R&D 100 Green Tech Special Recognition Award. The PHPBT uses high-precision charge/discharge test measurements...
Sandia’s Energy Storage Analysis Laboratory Team to Speak at Next Generation Batteries Conference
Post, August 24, 2021 • Dr. Summer Ferreira, principal investigator of Sandia National Laboratories’ Energy Storage Analysis Laboratory (ESAL), will speak at the Grid-Scale Energy Storage and Lithium Battery Safety tracks of the Knowledge Foundation’s Next Generation Batteries 2015 Conference, April 21-22 in San Diego, CA. In her talk titled “Viability of Employing Storage Device...
Sandian Presents at NARUC Annual Meeting on Energy Storage Working Group
Post, February 26, 2025 • On November 12, 2024, Will McNamara presented at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissions (NARUC) held in Anaheim, CA. The purpose of Will's presentation was to inform attendees, primarily state regulators and representatives from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), about the newly launched...

Sandians Led the 2025 IEEE Electrical Energy Storage Applications and Technologies (EESAT) Conference
Post, May 20, 2025 • Sandia staff members Chaired and participated in the 2025 IEEE Electrical Energy Storage Applications and Technologies (EESAT) conference, held January 20-25 in Charlotte, NC. This year’s technical program centered around the theme of ‘Energy Storage Driving Grid Transformation’. Since 2000, EESAT has been the premier technical forum for presenting advances...

Sandians Publish articles in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society
Post, August 24, 2021 • Sandia National Laboratories has improved the predictability of lithium-ion battery safety through understanding the common aspects of thermal safety over a diverse range of safety-related measurements. A series of two open-access articles in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society describe recent work funded by the Office of Electricity Energy Storage...
Sterling Light Storage Units Mark Milestone
Post, August 24, 2021 • The Sterling Municipal Light Department is marking a major milestone related to the department’s two energy storage systems. In March, SMLD celebrated over $1 million in avoided costs to the light department, thanks to the two systems. “We would like to thank our partners who made all of this possible,”...
Testing Opens for Third-Party Validation of Energy Storage Technologies for Stationary Storage Applications
Post, August 24, 2021 • Sandia National Laboratories has released a Request for Proposals for third-party testing of stationary energy storage applications. The deadline for application is April 3, 2015.Manufacturers, integrators and consumers of stationary energy storage are encouraged to apply for third-party testing of storage solutions.Sandia will determine the appropriate scale of the validation...
U.S. Department of Energy Opportunity: Rapid Operational Validation Initiative for Flow Batteries
Post, August 4, 2023 • The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is issuing a lab call to develop the Rapid Operational Validation Initiative (ROVI), which will address critical gaps in data needs to evaluate energy storage, such as the lack of access to large and uniform sets of performance data that are necessary to accelerate...
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