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Victoria O’Brien presented an invited talk entitled “Cybersecurity of Battery Energy Storage Systems” for the IEEE North Jersey Section, hosted by the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), on November 14, 2024. The presentation focused on methods to ensure a robust cybersecurity posture for battery energy storage systems and highlighted Victoria’s work in repurposing anomaly… Read More

Victoria O’Brien, Rodrigo Trevizan, and Vittal Rao from Texas Tech University conducted a study focused on detecting, identifying, and classifying false data injection attacks that corrupt voltage sensors in battery stacks. The results of this study were published in a journal article entitled “Online and Offline Identification of False Data Injection Attacks in Battery Sensors… Read More

Samantha Macchi, Travis Anderson, and their colleagues at Sandia National Laboratories published a front cover artwork for Volume 11, Issue 20 of the ChemElectroChem journal on October 16, 2024. This publication follows their previous full article titled “Influence of Linker Group on Bipolar Redox-Active Molecule Performance in Non-Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries.” The graphic vividly illustrates… Read More

Atri Bera, along with a team of researchers from Sandia National Laboratories and Michigan State University, published a chapter on Pumped Hydroelectric Storage (PHS) systems as part of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Energy Storage Handbook on October 31, 2024. Pumped hydroelectric storage is the most widely used electrical energy storage technology globally, providing… Read More

Ujjwol Tamrakar, a member of the Sandia Energy Storage Technology and Systems Department, presented a talk titled “Accelerating Deployment of Energy Storage through HIL Simulation and Testing” during the panel session on “Coordinated Storage Networks as Grid Assets: Control Challenges and Opportunities” at the IEEE IECON conference held on November 4, 2024. This presentation highlighted… Read More

The United States Air Force awarded the Sandia Energy Storage Demonstration Projects Team for their support of the Ellsworth Air Force Base battery energy storage system project with the 2024 Air Force Community Partnership Awards on October 28, 2024. This project was a collaborative effort involving the National Rural Electric Cooperatives Association (NRECA), Pacific Northwest… Read More

Rodrigo Trevizan, along with Matt Reno from Sandia National Laboratories and Zheyuan Cheng from Quanta Technology, submitted a journal paper titled “A Method for Location of Faults in Meshed Secondary Low-Voltage Power Distribution Systems” to the IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery on November 8, 2024. The detection of faults in low-voltage systems is a pressing… Read More

Samantha Macchi and her colleagues at Sandia National Laboratories have investigated the effect of chemical structure on the performance of bipolar redox molecules in non-aqueous flow batteries. Their findings are detailed in a report titled “Influence of Linker Group on Bipolar Redox-Active Molecule Performance in Non-Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries,” published in the journal ChemElectroChem on October 3,… Read More