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Sandians Publish Research on Non-Aqueous Flow Batteries
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...

Sandians Published in the Journal of The Electrochemical Society
Post, March 8, 2024 • Reed Wittman and Yuliya Preger, members of the Safety & Reliability team in the Sandia Energy Storage program recently published the first part of a two-part study on the materials degradation of Li-ion batteries during long-term cycling in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society. The paper titled “Characterization of Cycle-Aged...

Staff Scientists at Sandia Develop First Simulated Force Field Parameters for Zincate
Post, June 5, 2024 • Amalie Frischknecht and Mark Stevens at Sandia developed new parameters to use in molecular dynamics simulations of zincate ions in aqueous potassium hydroxide solutions. The results were published in an article titled “Force Fields for High Concentration Aqueous KOH Solutions and Zincate Ions,” published March 28, 2024, in the American...

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,”...

Team of Sandians Address Challenges and Advancements in Grid Energy Storage Solutions
Post, September 10, 2024 • During the 2024 International Symposium on Power Electronics, Electrical Drives, Automation, and Motion (SPEEDAM), held in Ischia, Italy from June 19-21, 2024, several research papers funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Electricity Energy Storage Division were presented. These papers addressed critical challenges and advancements in grid energy...

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...

The National Consortium for the Advancement of Long Duration Energy Storage (LDES) National Launch Webinar
Post, February 26, 2024 • The National Consortium for the Advancement of Long Duration Energy Storage (LDES) Technologies recently held its national launch webinar. More than 1200 people registered the webinar, during which the goals, deliverables, and timeline for the three-year, DOE-funded initiative LDES National Consortium were summarized. Led by Principal Investigator Will McNamara from...

U.S. Department of Energy Announces $2.25 Million American-Made Silicon Carbide (SiC) Packaging Prize
Post, March 18, 2024 • The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Electricity (OE) today launched the American-Made Silicon Carbide (SiC)  Packaging Prize. This $2.25 million contest invites competitors to propose, design, build, and test state-of-the-art SiC semiconductor packaging prototypes to enable these devices to work more effectively in high-voltage environments such as energy storage....

U.S. Department of Energy Launches Advanced Energy Storage Research and Testing Facility
Post, August 13, 2024 • The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Electricity (OE) is advancing electric grid resilience, reliability, and security with a new high-tech facility at the Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL) in Richland, Wash., where pioneering researchers can test energy storage capabilities in a realistic environment. Today, OE joined PNNL in...

Vincent Sprenkle Named Director of Grid Storage Launchpad
Post, April 22, 2024 • A nationally recognized leader in electrochemical energy conversion and storage at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Vince Sprenkle has been chosen to oversee the Grid Storage Launchpad (GSL), a Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Electricity (OE) research and development facility that will open this year on PNNL’s campus in Richland, WA....
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