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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...

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...

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...

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...

Post, May 3, 2026 • Rechargeable alkaline zinc batteries could supply safer and lower-cost energy storage for large-scale, stationary battery installations compared to similar alternatives. However, their commercial development and use for grid-scale energy storage is still in its infancy, in part due to the poor reversibility of zinc anodes in alkaline electrolytes. This means...

Post, August 10, 2026 • The Call for Abstracts is open for TechConnect World 2027, March 23-25 2027 in Boston MA.  Join the premier innovation and applied research conference now in its 30th year to share your research in a venue focused on connecting top applied research and early-stage innovations from universities, labs, and startups with industry end-users and...

Post, June 9, 2026 • Flow batteries hold promise to reliably store energy for longer periods of time and at a scale and cost useful for the electrical grid. Flow batteries are designed for large-scale energy storage applications, but transitioning from lab-scale systems to practical deployments presents significant challenges. Sandia’s Will McNamara recently addressed the Battery Council International’s Flow Battery Industry Group, outlining...

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...

Post, April 13, 2026 • Henry Guan, Tim Wilcox, Waylon Clark, and Charlie Hanley from Sandia National Laboratories attended the ribbon cutting event on February 10 for a battery energy storage project in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The project, located at the IBEW Local 995 facility in Baton Rouge, is one of 20 microgrids, called Community...

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...

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....

Post, April 8, 2024 • The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Electricity (OE) today announced the selectees of $15 million in awards at the Long Duration Energy Storage (LDES) Council Summit on April 8, 2024. These awards are through the Storage Innovations 2030: Technology Liftoff (SI Liftoff) funding opportunity announcement (FOA) to advance...

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...

Post, April 13, 2026 • Ujjwol Tamrakar presented a talk titled "High-Fidelity Testing and Validation of Energy Storage Controls" at the RT25 Conference on October 29, 2025. This presentation focused on a high-fidelity Controller Hardware-in-the-Loop (CHIL) testing platform designed for the development and testing of innovative control strategies for grid-connected energy storage systems. The platform...