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Sandia Solar Energy Test System Cited in National Engineering Competition

On May 16, 2013, in Concentrating Solar Power, Energy, Energy Storage, Facilities, National Solar Thermal Test Facility, News, News & Events, Partnership, Renewable Energy, Solar

Bridgers & Paxton Consulting Engineers, Inc., of Albuquerque, N.M., earned a National Recognition Award for exemplary engineering achievement in the American Council of Engineering Companies’ (ACEC) 47th annual Engineering Excellence Awards for the Molten Salt Test Loop (MSTL) project, part of Sandia’s NSTTF. Designed and built to exacting specifications, Sandia’s MSTL system provides a means [...]


PV Paper Published in IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy

On May 1, 2013, in DETL, Energy, Facilities, News, News & Events, Photovoltaic, Photovoltaic Systems Evaluation Laboratory (PSEL), Renewable Energy, Solar, Solar Newsletter, Systems Analysis

Sandians Mathew Lave and Joshua Stein ( both in the Photovoltaics and Distributed Systems Dept.) along with Jan Kleissl (University of California–San Diego) published “A Wavelet-Based Variability Model (WVM) for Solar PV Power Plants” in the April 2013 IEEE Transactions issue. (Matthew Lave was a Sandia student intern when this work was being done and [...]


DOE Completes Construction of State-of-the-Art Wind Plant Performance Facility

On April 17, 2013, in Energy, Events, News & Events, Partnership, Renewable Energy, SWIFT, Wind Energy

The U.S. Department of Energy and Vestas R&D have completed construction of a new state-of-the-art wind plant research facility at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. The Scaled Wind Farm Technology (SWiFT) facility is the first U.S. facility specifically designed and constructed to tackle the challenges of the DOE Wind Farm of the Future program. [...]


Better Monitoring and Diagnostics Tackle Algae Biofuel Pond Crash Problem

On April 17, 2013, in Biofuels, Biomass, Capabilities, Energy, News, News & Events, Renewable Energy, Research & Capabilities, Sensors & Optical Diagnostics, Systems Analysis, Transportation Energy

Sandia is developing a suite of complementary technologies to help the emerging algal biofuels industry detect and quickly recover from algal pond crashes, an obstacle to large-scale algae cultivation for potential biofuels. Sandia is addressing the algal pond crash issue in three complementary ways: developing a real-time monitoring tool for algal ponds that can detect [...]


New Book Highlights Pressing Need for Hydrogen-Powered Vehicles

On April 17, 2013, in CRF, Energy, Energy Storage, Facilities, News, News & Events, Renewable Energy, Transportation Energy

Sandia reveals the breadth of its hydrogen fuel expertise in the recently published Hydrogen Storage Technology—Materials and Applications. Sandia researcher Lennie Klebanoff (Hydrogen and Combustion Technologies Dept.) is confident that the book will give readers a sense of urgency about the need to get zero-emission hydrogen fuel cell vehicles on the road, and to get [...]


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