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,”...
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Study: Anode design keeps alkaline zinc batteries’ rechargeability intact
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...
Talk outlines flow battery trends for industry leaders
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...
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...
Technical support helps deliver, demonstrate energy storage for resilience, affordability, and emergency response
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...
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 Announces Selectees of $15 Million in Awards to Advance the Future of 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...
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...
U.S. Department of Energy Opportunity: Rapid Operational Validation Initiative for Flow Batteries
Post, August 4, 2023 • The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is issuing a lab call to develop the Rapid Operational Validation Initiative (ROVI), which will address critical gaps in data needs to evaluate energy storage, such as the lack of access to large and uniform sets of performance data that are necessary to accelerate...
Ujjwol Tamrakar showcases energy storage control strategies at RT25 Conference
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...
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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