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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, 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...

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....