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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...

Sandia Materials Scientist Highlights DOE and Office of Electricity Initiatives
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), gave a keynote presentation, at the 14th Annual Capture the Energy Conference and Expo sponsored by New York Battery and Energy Storage Technology Consortium (NY...

Sandia National Laboratories Publishes Article on Distributed Energy Resources in Disadvantaged Communities
Post, October 14, 2024 • Rodrigo D. Trevizan and Stanley Atcitty have co-authored the article "Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) as an Equity Asset: Lessons Learned from DER Deployments in Disadvantaged Communities," published in the July/August edition of IEEE Power and Energy Magazine. This article summarizes Sandia's contributions to Tribal Energy Storage projects, highlighting efforts from both...

Sandia National Laboratories’ Atri Bera Awarded Outstanding Young Engineer
Post, May 24, 2024 • Dr. Atri Bera was recently honored with the Outstanding Young Engineer Award by the IEEE Albuquerque Section, recognizing his significant contributions in developing “software tools to assess the reliability and stability risks associated with high penetrations of renewable generation.” His research and tool development work has been pivotal in addressing...

Sandia Partnership Speeds up Development of Flow Batteries for Green Grid, Water
Post, June 25, 2024 • Drs. Leo Small and Melissa Meyerson, researchers with the Sandia Energy Storage program, collaborated with Albuquerque entrepreneur Charles Call to help bring Office of Electricity-funded research from the lab to local businesses. This collaboration was facilitated by the DOE Office of Technology Transitions Boost program. This partnership aims to get...

Sandia Policy Analyst Addresses LDES Commercialization at TechConnect Expo
Post, September 10, 2024 • Will McNamara, an Energy Storage Policy Analyst Sandia National Laboratories Energy Storage program, delivered a presentation at the 2024 TechConnect World Innovation Conference and Expo on June 18, 2024, in Washington, DC. The focus of Will's presentation titled “Long-Duration Energy Storage (LDES): Mapping the Pathway to Commercialization” was included in...

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 Researcher Delivers Talk on Cybersecurity for Battery Energy Storage Systems
Post, January 6, 2025 • Victoria O’Brien presented an invited talk entitled “Cybersecurity of Battery Energy Storage Systems” for the IEEE North Jersey Section, hosted by the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), on November 14, 2024. The presentation focused on methods to ensure a robust cybersecurity posture for battery energy storage systems and highlighted...

Sandia Researcher Presents Initial Results on Sodium-Ion Batteries at ECS PRiME Meeting
Post, January 6, 2025 • Reed Wittman presented the initial results of sodium-ion 18650 cells cycled at Sandia National Laboratories, in collaboration with the Hawai'i Natural Energy Institute and the University of Oviedo, at the 2024 Spring ECS PRiME meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii, on October 8, 2024. Sodium-ion batteries are rapidly being commercialized as a...

Sandia Researcher Recognized for Electrification Work with Tribal Communities
Post, August 12, 2024 • Sandia National Laboratories Senior Scientist Stan Atcitty has been honored with the A.P. Seethapathy Rural Electrification Excellence Award by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for his leadership and innovation in the rural electrification of U.S. tribal nations. The IEEE, one of the world’s largest technical professional organizations, established...

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 Co-Authors Article on Electrochemical Behavior in In Situ TEM Cells
Post, January 6, 2025 • Reed Wittman, along with a team from Oak Ridge National Labs and the University of Tennessee, published an article titled "In Situ Liquid Electron Microscope Cells Strongly Attenuate Electrochemical Behavior," which models electrochemical reactions in an in situ electrochemical Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope (STEM). This work was published on November...

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 Senior Scientist Appointed Founding Chair of New IEEE Committee
Post, September 10, 2024 • Dr. Babu Chalamala, a Senior Scientist for Sandia National Laboratories, was appointed as the founding chair of the TC2: Technical Committee on Grid Interfaces for the IEEE Transportation Electrification Council. Dr. Chalamala’s chairmanship became effective June 18, 2024. The objective of this committee is to reach across IEEE Societies to...
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