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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 Read More

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

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

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

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 Read More

On December 18, 2024, Ujjwol Tamrakar and Dilip Pandit delivered a presentation titled “Frequency and Voltage Regulation in Power Systems using BESS” as part of the Nigeria Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) Training Webinar Series under the Net-Zero World (NZW) initiative. Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) have emerged as a strong candidate for providing frequency… Read More