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  • Join the 2026 Office of Electricity Energy Storage Program Annual Meeting & Peer Review!

    Registration is open for the DOE Office of Electricity Energy Storage Program’s annual meeting and peer review on July 27-30 in Dallas, Texas. Join researchers and staff from national laboratories, industry, government, and academia to summarize and advance the latest energy storage research, development, and application. Read More

  • Talk outlines flow battery trends for industry leaders  

    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 key emerging technological trends for the flow battery sector. He emphasized… Read More

  • Sandia supports development of faster battery models

    Sandia researchers contributed to a new publication that describes 10x faster physics-based battery models. Accurate battery models are essential for safe control and extended lifetime of batteries in applications ranging from consumer electronics to grid energy storage. Physics-based battery models offer significantly higher accuracy in predicting battery performance, but they are typically too computationally demanding to implement… Read More

  • Amid rising grid demands, supercapacitor-based energy storage technologies can help microgrids respond

    Amid rising grid demands, supercapacitor-based energy storage technologies can help microgrids respond Read More

  • Study: Anode design keeps alkaline zinc batteries’ rechargeability intact 

    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 that over time and use,… Read More

  • Best poster award: AI-Agents for advanced battery data analytics

    Research to enable advanced battery data analytics using multi-modal AI agents was recognized as among the six best posters at the AI x Energy Summit. Sandia’s Sel Ly presented the poster titled, “Multi-modal AI-Agents for advanced battery data analytics” at the summit, held in San Diego, CA, USA on March 19-20, 2026. The research was… Read More

  • Presentation shares benefits, challenges of grid-forming battery energy storage systems

    On March 26, Sandia researcher Oindrilla Dutta presented at an industry session at the 41st IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC). The presentation focused on grid-forming battery systems. These systems can provide significant benefits to the grid by mitigating transients, enabling black start, offering fault ride through, and supplying uninterrupted power to critical… Read More

  • Educating federal agencies on the role of energy storage in AI data centers

    On February 24, researchers Jackie Huynh (PNNL) and Yuliya Preger (SNL) delivered a requested presentation on the “Role of Energy Storage in AI Data Centers” at the quarterly meeting of the Federal Consortium for Advanced Batteries (FCAB). FCAB brings together program managers from dozens of federal agencies from Departments including Energy, War, Commerce, and State… Read More