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  • Sandia analyst moderates panel at inaugural IEEE PES Energy & Policy Forum

    On April 15-17, 2025, Sandia technical systems analyst Will McNamara moderated a panel session on the last day of the first IEEE PES Energy & Policy Forum held in Washington, D.C. The Forum was a week-long event filled with engaging and informative sessions, aimed at exploring the challenges and opportunities facing the energy sector.The panel… Read More

  • Sandians Led the 2025 IEEE Electrical Energy Storage Applications and Technologies (EESAT) Conference

    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 in energy storage technologies and… Read More

  • Sandia Analyst Hosts Webinar on Energy Storage Accessibility and Affordability

    On January 7, 2025, Will McNamara was a featured speaker in a Sandia-hosted public webinar, in collaboration with the Clean Energy States Alliance (CESA), entitled “Bridging the Gap: How Emerging State Policies are Making Energy Storage More Affordable and Accessible.” The webinar aimed to summarize a recently published report of the same name (SAND2024-16491O) that… Read More

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

    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 Energy Storage Working Group for… Read More

  • Sandia Staff Member Moderates Panel on Long-Duration Energy Storage Policies at IEEE EESAT

    On January 21, 2025, Will McNamara moderated a panel discussion on long-duration energy storage (LDES) policies during the first day of the IEEE Energy Storage Applications and Technologies (EESAT) conference, at the request of David Rosewater, Organizing Committee Chair. The 90-minute session featured a diverse group of panelists, including Alyssa McQuilling, Research & Innovation Manager… Read More

  • Sandia Researchers Develop Open-Source Tool for Grid Reliability Analysis

    On January 21, 2025, Atri Bera and a team of researchers at Sandia National Laboratories announced the development of a Python-based open source software tool called Probabilistic Grid Reliability Analysis with Energy Storage Systems (ProGRESS), which is now available on GitHub. This tool is designed for assessing the resource adequacy of the evolving electric power… Read More

  • Sandia Scientists Release Open-Source Capacity Expansion Planning Tool for Energy Storage Systems

    On December 1, 2024, the Energy Storage Analytics team at Sandia National Laboratories announced the release of QuESt Planning, an open-source Python-based capacity expansion planning tool focused on energy storage systems. QuESt Planning is a long-term power system capacity expansion planning model that identifies cost-optimal energy storage, generation, and transmission investments while evaluating a broad… Read More

  • Sandia Engineer Presents Open-Source Tool for Energy Storage Sizing at IEEE EESAT Conference

    On January 20, 2025, Ujjwol Tamrakar presented a talk titled “An Open-Source Tool for Energy Storage Sizing and Placement in Electric Grids (QuESt-SSIM)” during the session “Energy Storage Applications” at the IEEE Energy Storage Applications and Technologies (EESAT) Conference. This presentation highlighted an energy storage sizing and placement tool designed for electric grids. As energy… Read More