Page • The Microgrids, Infrastructure, and Advanced Controls Launchpad (MIRACL) project is a four-year research effort funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Wind Energy Technologies Office, led by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory with partners at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Idaho National Laboratory and Sandia. The project aims to increase deployment...
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Microsystem Assembly and Brazing Facility
Facility • The Microsystem Assembly and Brazing Facility offers advanced capabilities for epoxy die bonding, soldering, wire bonding, seam sealing, holistic packaging and materials process analysis, metal deposition (e.g., PVD, CVD, ALD), 3D printing (e.g., PEEK, Composite, FDM), laser machining, temperature cycling and aging, and PWA rapid prototyping. The image depicts a...
Microsystems Engineering, Science, and Applications (MESA)
Facility • The Microsystems Engineering, Science, and Applications (MESA) Complex integrates the numerous scientific disciplines necessary to produce functional, robust, integrated microsystems and represents the center of Sandia’s investment in microsystems research, development, and prototyping activities. Visit the MESA website Take a virtual tour of MESA
Miguel D. Leyba
Staff Page • R&D S&E, Systems Engineering. Biography Miguel D. Leyba joined Sandia National Laboratories in 2020, as a Senior R&D Electrical Engineer. He has been a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Sandia since 2023, as part of the National Solar Thermal Test Facility team, which is an extension of the Concentrating...
Miguel Jimenez Aparicio
Staff Page • Senior Member of Technical Staff. Biography Miguel Jimenez Aparicio is a Senior Member of Technical Staff in the Electric Power Systems Research Department at Sandia National Laboratories. His research focuses on fast, signal-based protection for distribution systems under scenarios of high renewable energy penetration. Miguel is also involved on the...
Mobile Instrumentation Data Acquisition System (MIDAS)
Facility • Sandia created the Mobile Instrumentation Data Acquisition System (MIDAS) to provide on-site data acquisition and analysis capabilities for testing of radioactive and hazardous materials packages. MIDAS allows researchers, designers, and regulators to examine and understand how a package behaves in a variety of environments. MIDAS is exceptionally consistent and widely trusted throughout...
Modeling
Page • Informed policy and decision-making related to the Arctic requires better understanding of this complex region. Achieving this understanding depends on not only increasing the amount of data available for analysis, but also improving existing Earth system models—efforts that call for a coordination across multiple disciplines. What We Do Sandia’s climate...
Modeling, data opportunities available for photovoltaic performance and modeling community
News Article, July 28, 2023 • The Photovoltaic (PV) Performance and Modeling Collaborative (PVPMC) has announced several upcoming solar research opportunities that may be of interest to the PVPMC community, including PV modeling comparisons and the chance to participate in the Department of Energy’s Solar Data Bounty Prize. 2023 Blind PVPMC Modeling Comparison Call for Participants:...
Molten salt facility awarded $2.5M to restart testing
News Article, June 16, 2025 • Concentrating solar thermal power and nuclear industries may soon have a safe, reliable, radiation-free environment to test components in flowing, molten nitrate salts. The U.S. Department of Energy's Solar Energy Technologies Office awarded $2.5 million in funding to Sandia to restart the Molten Salt Test Loop facility at the National...
Molten Salts and Materials Testing
Page • Molten Salts and Materials Testing The National Solar Thermal Testing Facility is a leader in advanced molten salt testing, achieving world record temperatures of up to 750° Celsius. The NSTTF boasts the world's largest molten salt research and development test loop supporting both concentrating solar power and industrial processes. Currently,...
Nathan Schroeder
Staff Page • R&D Mechanical Engineer. Biography Nathan Schroeder is an R&D Mechanical Engineer working at the National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF). Nathan is involved in Gen 3 particle- based acquisition and controls systems. He has conducted over 200 hours of falling particle receiver test operation as part of the Generation 3...
Nathaniel deVelder
Staff Page • Postdoctoral Researcher. Biography Nathaniel deVelder is a postdoctoral researcher in the Wind Energy Computational Sciences Department at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM. He holds a master’s of science and PhD from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where he worked jointly in the Wind Energy Center and the Theoretical and Computational...
National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center (NISAC)
Facility • The National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center (NISAC) is a modeling, simulation, and analysis program within the Department of Homeland Security comprising personnel in the Washington, D.C., area, as well as from Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. NISAC prepares and shares analyses of...
National Security
Page • National Security Solutions to National Security Technology Barriers With our deep understanding of wind technology and national security, we quantify barriers and identify pathways to technical solutions. Sandia leads efforts to reduce barriers through: Wind turbine radar interference research and interagency teaming for on- and offshore wind farms Radar interference...
National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF)
Facility • Operated by Sandia for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF) is the only large-scale concentrating solar power (CSP) and solar thermal test facility in the United States. The primary goal of the NSTTF is to provide experimental facilities, equipment, and personnel for testing, validating, and...
National Solar Thermal Test Facility and University of Arizona partner for HelioCon project
News Article, January 31, 2024 • Sandia’s National Solar Thermal Test Facility is partnering with the University of Arizona's Professor J. Roger Angel for one of four projects the Heliostat Consortium awarded last year. The project, “Twisting Heliostats with Closed Loop Tracking,” targets the U.S. Department of Energy’s goals for heliostat cost reduction, sustained multifaceted innovation,...
National Solar Thermal Test Facility prepares for new tower construction
News Article, January 23, 2023 • Construction on the new tower at Sandia National Laboratories’ National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF) is planned to begin Feb. 16, 2023, with a groundbreaking ceremony to take place at the facility. The tower is part of the Phase III, $25 million award announced by The U.S. Department of Energy...
National Solar Thermal Test Facility to take part in American Solar Energy Society Virtual Tour
News Article, September 30, 2022 • Sandia National Laboratories’ (Sandia) Renewable Energy programs will participate in the American Solar Energy Society’s National Solar Tour Oct. 1-2, 2022. The largest grassroots solar, renewable energy, and sustainable living event in the nation will offer a glimpse into the renewable energy research and development taking place at Sandia, and...
New connector links structural, electrical systems
News Article, January 10, 2022 • Sandia has filed a patent for a simple modification to traditional rivets that may help engineer safer systems. Kyle LeBlanc and Tim Briggs worked with machinist Brian Holliday to create what they are calling the wire rivet — a rivet with a lengthwise gap that, when crimped together through mechanically...
New England Conference of Public Utilities Commissioners Webinar Series
Page • Energy storage is a key ingredient in helping the region meet our energy goals. Storage can play an important role in unleashing the power of renewables, relieving generation, transmission, and distribution demands, and hastening our energy transition to a cleaner future. To further our knowledge and share information, NECPUC Commissioners...
New Jersey Board of Public Utilities Webinar Series
Page • Energy storage is the key to unleashing the power of renewables, relieving generation, transmission, and distribution demands, and hastening the energy transition to a decarbonized future. The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities Commissioners, Staff and invited representatives from other State agencies participated in a series of energy storage webinars...
New Mexico Public Regulation Commission Webinar Series
Page • The Energy Transition Act of NM (NM ETA) requires the state’s retail electricity sales to be carbon free by 2050. The New Mexico Public Regulation Commission (NM PRC) began meeting that objective recently when it unanimously approved a plan to replace the coal-fired San Juan Generating Station near Farmington, N.M.,...
New Microgrid Design Toolkit tutorial site
News Article, April 30, 2024 • Sandia National Laboratories developed the Microgrid Design Toolkit (MDT), a decision support software for microgrid designers that is publicly available for download. Intended for use in the early stages of the design process, MDT uses powerful search algorithms to identify and characterize alternative microgrid designs in terms of user-defined inputs and...
New report explores factors increasing electricity load growth and solutions for meeting future demand
News Article, August 27, 2025 • Electricity demand is on the rise both in the US and around the globe. A new Sandia report provides a comprehensive review of electricity load growth drivers, the challenges associated with these growth factors, and the proposed solutions for meeting increasing demand. The report, “A Review of Load Growth Drivers...
New report uses data to uncover similarities across Permian Basin counties
News Article, November 4, 2024 • A new report by the Permian Energy Development Lab provides a framework for studying a large and diverse geographic area by aligning counties based on shared characteristics rather than just physical proximity. The report, “Community archetypes in the Permian Basin and their relationship to energy resources,” highlights the differences and...
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