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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...

Post, September 10, 2024 • Charlie Vartanian, a member of the Sandia National Laboratories Energy Storage program, presented at the EUCI webinar “Grid Enhancing Technologies (GETs) Fundamentals, held July 29-30, 2024. Charlie presented and moderated the panel “GETs Attributes & Grid Applications.” The panel assembled by Charlie included speakers from ISO-New England and Southern California Edison....

Post, June 3, 2024 • Sandia National Laboratories Energy Storage program team members participated as co-instructors on the “How Grid Energy Storage Meets the Challenges of a Decarbonized Future” tutorial at the 2024 IEEE PES T&D Conference May 6-9, 2024, in Anaheim, CA. This tutorial was organized and led by the IEEE Energy Storage and...

Post, September 10, 2024 • Members of the Sandia National Laboratories Energy Storage program participated as co-authors and co-instructors for a tutorial on the IEEE 1547 Distributed Energy Resources Interconnection Standard at the 2024 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting, July 21-25, 2024, in Seattle, WA. This tutorial was organized by IEEE Standards Committee...

Post, March 8, 2024 • On February 26, 2024, Sandia National Laboratories staff were co-instructors for HalfMoon Education’s Distributed Energy Interconnection and Interoperability webinar. This webinar covered broader DER interconnection policy and technical standards content, plus narrower discussion specific to energy storage (ES) and Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G).  Sandia staff featured learning developed through Energy Storage (ES)...

Post, March 8, 2024 • From January 30 - February 2, 2024, Sandia staff participated in the 2024 IEEE Energy Storage and Stationary Battery (ESSB) committee’s winter general meeting. The meeting was held in San Diego, CA, co-located with the IEEE EESAT conference. These ESSB biannual meetings cover committee-level administrative and planning activities, plus additional...

Post, March 8, 2024 • On February 19, 2024, Sandia staff were co-instructors for the tutorial “How Grid Energy Storage Meets the Challenges of a Decarbonized Future”, at the 2024 IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies conference in Washington DC.  This tutorial was organized and led by the IEEE Energy Storage and Stationary Battery (ESSB) technical...

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...

Post, March 8, 2024 • From January 29-30, 2024, Sandia staff members organized and participated in the 2024 IEEE Electrical Energy Storage Applications and Technologies (EESAT) conference in San Diego, CA. This year’s technical program centered around the theme of Long Duration Energy Storage and highlighted advances in electricity storage technologies including battery chemistries such...

Post, October 4, 2024 • Sandia staff led and participated in the Regulation and Standards panel at the 2nd annual Long Duration Energy Storage (LDES) National Consortium Workshop held at the IBEW Electrical Training Institute in Los Angeles, on September 11, 2024.  This panel gave an overview of key codes and standards (C&S) covering energy...

Post, October 14, 2024 • Ujjwol Tamrakar and a team of researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a framework for the simultaneous dispatch of energy storage systems (ESSs) for energy arbitrage and power quality applications in the electric grid. Their findings are detailed in the article titled "A Model Predictive Control Framework for Combining...

Post, January 6, 2025 • Samantha Macchi, Travis Anderson, and their colleagues at Sandia National Laboratories published a front cover artwork for Volume 11, Issue 20 of the ChemElectroChem journal on October 16, 2024. This publication follows their previous full article titled "Influence of Linker Group on Bipolar Redox-Active Molecule Performance in Non-Aqueous Redox Flow...

Post, October 14, 2024 • Samantha Macchi and her colleagues at Sandia National Laboratories have investigated the effect of chemical structure on the performance of bipolar redox molecules in non-aqueous flow batteries. Their findings are detailed in a report titled "Influence of Linker Group on Bipolar Redox-Active Molecule Performance in Non-Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries," published...