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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...

Post, January 6, 2025 • On December 18, 2024, Ujjwol Tamrakar and Dilip Pandit delivered a presentation titled "Frequency and Voltage Regulation in Power Systems using BESS" as part of the Nigeria Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) Training Webinar Series under the Net-Zero World (NZW) initiative. Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) have emerged as a...

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...

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...

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...

Post, January 6, 2025 • Atri Bera, along with a team of researchers from Sandia National Laboratories and Michigan State University, published a chapter on Pumped Hydroelectric Storage (PHS) systems as part of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Energy Storage Handbook on October 31, 2024. Pumped hydroelectric storage is the most widely used electrical...

Post, November 18, 2024 • The United States Air Force awarded the Sandia Energy Storage Demonstration Projects Team for their support of the Ellsworth Air Force Base battery energy storage system project with the 2024 Air Force Community Partnership Awards on October 28, 2024. This project was a collaborative effort involving the National Rural Electric...

Post, June 12, 2024 • As batteries have fallen in cost they are more commonly installed in cars, homes, business, and utility applications by a new workforce of battery technicians. This new workforce needs specific guidance for how to safely assemble, maintain, repair, and disassemble battery systems. As part of his efforts to modernize battery...

Post, June 12, 2024 • Will McNamara, Energy Storage Policy Analyst at Sandia National laboratories, delivered a presentation on Wednesday, May 8, 2024, at the City of Pasadena (California) District 6 Town Hall meeting to help the city achieve its goal of becoming carbon-free by 2030. Will was introduced by the City’s Vice Mayor Steve...

Post, June 3, 2024 • Will McNamara from Sandia National Laboratories gave two presentations at the EUCI Integrated Resource Planning (IRP) Best Practices Summit held virtually May 1-2, 2024, hosted by Burbank Department of Light & Power. McNamara, the Sandia Energy Storage Policy Analyst, presented and led discussion on “Parsing Which Long Duration Technologies Will Prevail”...

Post, June 25, 2024 • On June 5, 2024, David Rosewater, a grid energy storage researcher in the Sandia Energy Storage program, was an invited speaker during the IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS) webinar on Reducing Risk When Performing Energized Work on Batteries. Dr. Rosewater’s presented to the international audience on his recently published research...

Post, January 6, 2025 • Victoria O’Brien presented two invited guest lectures entitled “Cybersecurity of Battery Energy Storage Systems” for universities in the Northeast United States. The first lecture took place on November 13, 2024, at the City College of New York (CCNY) during a graduate-level Renewable Energy course. This lecture discussed a novel approach...

Post, June 3, 2024 • Sandia National Laboratories Energy Storage program team member Charlie Vartanian participated in IEEE SusTech Initiative’s Energy and Climate Technologies for the Arctic Workshop held May 3-4, 2024, at the University of Alaska Anchorage campus. This was the fourth in a series of open workshops held by the IEEE SusTech Initiative. At...

Post, September 10, 2024 • On June 19, 2024, Victoria O'Brien, an Electrical Engineer in the Sandia National Laboratories Energy Storage program,presented the results of the paper entitled "A Comparison of Online Model-Based Anomaly Detection Methods for a Lithium-Ion Battery Cell" at the 2024 International Symposium on Power Electronics, Electrical Drives, Automation, and Motion (SPEEDAM),...

Post, September 10, 2024 • Dr. Atri Bera and Dr. Cody Newlun, electrical engineers in the Analytics & Controls area of the Sandia National Laboratories Energy Storage program, chaired and organized a panel at the 2024 IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) General Meeting in Seattle, WA. The panel session, held July 23, 2024, was...

Post, June 25, 2024 • Dr. Oindrilla Dutta, an R&D Scientist and Engineer in the Sandia Energy Storage program, served as panelist in a webinar organized by OPAL-RT Technologies on May 16, 2024. The webinar was titled "The Importance of Battery Management System (BMS) Testing Today: From EVs to Grid Storage." Dr. Dutta's area of...

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...

Post, June 25, 2024 • Ramesh Koripella, a Materials Scientist in the Sandia Energy Storage program, spoke at the Clean Energy States Alliance (CESA) 2024 Members Meeting on June 4, 2024, in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Koripella’s presentation titled “Non-Lithium Energy Storage Demonstration Projects in California” was a part of the Non-Lithium and Longer-Duration Technologies breakout...

Post, June 25, 2024 • Will McNamara, Energy Storage Policy Analyst at Sandia National Laboratories, delivered a presentation to the Energy Storage Working Group of the Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA) on Wednesday, June 12, 2024. The presentation was focused on Sandia's current work related to long-duration energy storage (LDES), specifically its role as the...

Post, March 8, 2024 • On January 23, 2024, Sandia staff participated in the second meeting of the P1547.4 Working Group (WG). The P1547.4 WG, chaired by Michael Ropp of Sandia National Laboratories, is revising the IEEE Guide 1547.4-2011 “Guide for Design, Operation, Integration, and Interoperability of Intentional Electric Systems Islands.” This guide supplements the...

Post, May 31, 2024 • Sandia National Laboratories Energy Storage program team member Charlie Vartanian participated in the EUCI course “Energy Storge System Commissioning” held virtually April 17-18, 2024. Charlie was the lead instructor for “Installation Codes, Standards, and Regulations (CSRs) Applicable to Energy Storage System (ESS) Commissioning”. The Sandia-supported course module included content prepared...

Post, September 10, 2024 • Dr. Reed Wittman and Dr. Yuliya Preger presented in the Electrochemical Society’s regular webinar series on June 12, 2024. They presented a summary of the long-term Li-ion cycling work that the safety and reliability team has been conducting since 2017. The talk titled “Degradation of Commercial Lithium-Ion Cells Beyond 80...