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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...

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 supports development of faster battery models
Post, May 5, 2026 • Sandia researchers contributed to a new publication that describes 10x faster physics-based battery models. Accurate battery models are essential for safe control and extended lifetime of batteries in applications ranging from consumer electronics to grid energy storage. Physics-based battery models offer significantly higher accuracy in predicting battery performance, but they are typically...

Sandia Team Receives 2024 Air Force Community Partnership Award
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...

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 David Rosewater Presents on Modernizing Battery Worker Safety Standards
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...

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 Assist Industry Understanding of Long Duration Energy Storage (LDES) for Integrated Resource Planning (IRP) Summit
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”...

Sandian David Rosewater Talks Reducing Risk When Performing Energized Work on Batteries
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...

Sandian Delivers Guest Lectures on Cybersecurity for Battery Energy Storage Systems
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...
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