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Sandian Discusses Technologies for Diesel Use Reduction at the IEEE SusTech Initiative Energy and Climate Technologies for the Arctic Workshop
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...

Sandian Electrical Engineer Presents on Four Anomaly Detection Methods at SPEEDAM
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),...

Sandian Hosts Power Grid Decarbonization Panel Session at IEE PES GM
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...

Sandian Oindrilla Dutta Presents on Battery Management System (BMS) Testing
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...

Sandian Presents at NARUC Annual Meeting on Energy Storage Working Group
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...

Sandian Ramesh Koripella Discusses Sandia Partnership with the California Energy Commission
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...

Sandian Will McNamara Discusses Importance of Long-Duration Energy Storage
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...

Sandians Assist in Revising IEEE 1547.4-2011 Standard
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...

Sandians Assist Industry Education on Energy Storage System Standards
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...

Sandians Conduct Li-ion Cycling Work during ECS Webinar
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...

Sandians Contributed to Advancing Industry Understanding of BESS as a Grid Enhancing Technology
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....

Sandians Contributed to Industry Education on Energy Storage and a Decarbonized Future
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...

Sandians Contributed to Industry Education on Interconnecting Energy Storage to Utility Grids
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...

Sandians Discuss Distributed Energy Interconnection and Interoperability
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)...

Sandians Help Develop New Energy Storage Standards Through ESSB Committee
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...

Sandians Organize, Participate in 2024 IEEE Electrical Energy Storage Applications and Technologies (EESAT) Conference
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...

Sandians Publish articles in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society
Post, August 24, 2021 • Sandia National Laboratories has improved the predictability of lithium-ion battery safety through understanding the common aspects of thermal safety over a diverse range of safety-related measurements.  A series of two open-access articles in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society describe recent work funded by the Office of Electricity Energy Storage...

Sandians Publish Framework for Energy Storage System Dispatch
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...

Sandians Publish Front Cover Artwork in ChemElectroChem Journal
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...

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...

Sandians shine at EESAT 2026: Key roles and panels highlight energy storage innovations
Post, April 13, 2026 • On January 5 and 6, 2026, several Sandians participated in the 14th IEEE Electrical Energy Storage Applications and Technologies (EESAT) conference held at the Omni Tucson National Resort & Spa in Tucson, Arizona. Rodrigo Trevizan served as the Technical Chair and moderated Technical Session 5 – Electric Vehicle Integration. David...
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