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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...

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...

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.,...

Page • Explore advances and publications from our geothermal research program. Publications Looking for more publications? Visit Sandia’s publications database.

Page • Click image to enlarge Over many decades, the Department of Energy has made significant investments in developing, building, and maintaining a large-scale testing capability at Sandia. These capabilities are used to provide qualification evidence for complex systems and materials used in packaging, storage, and transportation of radioactive materials. The testing...

Page • Nuclear Energy Ensuring environmental stability for national security, Sandia’s Nuclear Energy teams provide research and analysis to help ensure safe, secure, viable, and sustainable solutions to nuclear energy challenges, ranging from power generation to space launch safety to the management of spent nuclear fuel. Sandia develops innovative technologies and methodologies...

Page • Sandia’s nuclear facility cybersecurity risk research is focused on understanding the cybersecurity risk unique to the commercial nuclear energy sector. This research considers the use and designs of nuclear power plant safety control systems, the formal regulatory licensing process, and nuclear community stakeholder capabilities. Nuclear Energy Security Foundational Research Our initial...

Page • Sandia has played a pivotal role in the development of safety and risk assessment technologies for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) since the Browns Ferry event in 1975. The Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant fire highlighted the breadth of safety challenges that could arise beyond those assumed in developing...

Page • Sandia is the nation’s leading security laboratory, expressly missioned to support the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) with commercial nuclear power risk management. We integrate diverse capabilities to provide the scientific basis for risk-informed, performance-based advanced reactor security. Sandia’s nuclear security research has two areas of focus: Nuclear Energy Cybersecurity by Design,...

Page • Click image to enlarge Sandia is a recognized world leader in non-proliferation capabilities and leads the Center for Global Security and Cooperation (CGSC). The CGSC and its predecessors have supported global security and nonproliferation for more than 70 years and works to achieve global security through international technical engagement. We work with...

Page • Nuclear Waste Management Providing scientific information and analyses, as well as programmatic guidance, to both national and international entities, to facilitate resolving nuclear waste management challenges. Sandia started working in the nuclear waste research area in the early 1970’s and published its first report on nuclear waste in 1973. Sandia...