Page • Presented by: California Energy Commission,U.S. DOE Office of Electricity Energy Storage Program,and Sandia National Laboratories Energy storage is the key to unleashing the power of renewables; relieving generation, transmission, and distribution demands; and hastening the transition to a decarbonized future. Policymakers, regulators, and other employees affiliated with state energy offices...
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Page • Sandia’s geothermal research program sustains multiple capabilities that reduce the cost and risk of research for novel geothermal technology while advancing national R&D capabilities. Geothermal capabilities available at Sandia span high temperature, pressure, and vibration testing; fabricating new components and systems; and evaluating drilling components. Browse our unique capabilities below....
Capabilities
Page • Capabilities Our facilities, tools, and partners form the basis of our energy programs’ capabilities. The energy programs draw on the Laboratories’ core competencies—leveraging decades of work supporting national security areas—to quickly address emerging needs.
Carlos Michelen
Staff Page • R&D Engineer & Data Scientist. Biography Carlos Michelen is a senior member of the technical staff in Sandia National Laboratories’ Water Power Technologies Program. His research interests include machine learning and data science methods for marine renewable energy applications, open source code development, statistical methods, computational fluid mechanics, and computational...
Carlsbad Sandia Site
Facility • Carlsbad Sandia acts as the scientific advisor to the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) repository project for WIPP regulatory compliance and recertification. Carlsbad Sandia’s geochemistry work is primarily laboratory-based, with focused research on engineered barrier structure and chemistry interactions, gas generation and corrosion analysis, solubility and Pitzer interaction...
Carolee Wheeler
Staff Page • Office Administrative Assistant. Biography Carolee Wheeler is the Office Administrative Assistant for the Wind Energy Computational Sciences and Wind Energy Design and Experimentation Departments. Much of Carolee’s work is providing behind the scenes support to ensure both departments’ administrative processes are accomplished in an orderly and timely manner. Carolee holds...
Case Western Reserve University researchers use AI and machine learning to improve ‘photovoltaic’ power plants
News Article, January 29, 2021 • Researchers from Case Western University, the University of Central Florida, and New Mexico-based Sandia National Laboratories will focus on developing Case's ArgoPV technology. Read the complete article at Case Western Reserve University. Go to the article
Celebrating Sandia’s hydrogen capabilities
News Article, December 10, 2025 • Sandia contributes to the science of advanced hydrogen and fuel cell technologies by providing a deep, quantitative understanding and scientific basis for materials interaction with hydrogen. Sandia researches and develops methods to discover and synthesize materials for hydrogen production, storage and use, evaluating their properties and performance. Sandia’s hydrogen safety,...
Cement & Concrete
Page • Sandia has longstanding experience developing and testing cements, supplemental cementitious materials, and low-cost, alternative heating technologies. Our capabilities span modeling, testing, characterization, monitoring, and life-cycle assessments for traditional Portland cement as well as next-generation compositions. Development and testing of next-generation cement formulations Large-scale materials testing and in-situ monitoring High-temperature process-heat...
Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT)
Facility • The Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT) is a Department of Energy/Office of Science Nanoscale Science Research Center operating as a national user facility devoted to establishing the scientific principles that govern the design, performance, and integration of nanoscale materials. CINT features laboratories for low-vibration for sensitive characterization, chemical and biological synthesis, a...
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