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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

Victoria O’Brien presented two invited guest lectures entitled “Cybersecurity of Battery Energy Storage Systems” for universities in the Northeast United States. The first lecture took place on November 13, 2024, at the City College of New York (CCNY) during a graduate-level Renewable Energy course. This lecture discussed a novel approach for detecting cyberattacks in battery… Read More

Rodrigo Trevizan, along with Mukai Zhang and Vijay Gupta from Purdue University, and Sandia colleagues Ray Byrne and Babu Chalamala, had their paper titled “Secure Estimation for Power Grids with Distributed Energy Resources Under Actuator-Side Attacks” published in the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems on November 27, 2024. The research presented in this paper addresses… Read More

Reed Wittman presented the initial results of sodium-ion 18650 cells cycled at Sandia National Laboratories, in collaboration with the Hawai’i Natural Energy Institute and the University of Oviedo, at the 2024 Spring ECS PRiME meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii, on October 8, 2024. Sodium-ion batteries are rapidly being commercialized as a potential alternative to lithium-ion batteries… Read More

Reed Wittman, along with a team from Oak Ridge National Labs and the University of Tennessee, published an article titled “In Situ Liquid Electron Microscope Cells Strongly Attenuate Electrochemical Behavior,” which models electrochemical reactions in an in situ electrochemical Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope (STEM). This work was published on November 22, 2024. In situ transmission… Read More