Page • Protective relaying is a critical aspect of the electric power grid to provide safe and reliable operation. Sandia is working to improve power system protection to make it faster and more accurate by developing novel cutting-edge protection techniques. Fault testing of inverters in Sandia’s DETL facility Electromagnetic Transient (EMT) simulation...
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Powering the Blue Economy
Page • The ocean seascape is an immense, relatively unexplored part of our earth with tremendous potential to provide global social, economic, and environmental benefits. Sandia National Laboratories’ Water Power Technologies program performs research and development that aligns with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Powering the Blue Economy™ initiative. Powering the Blue Economy™...
Powering the moon: Sandia researchers design microgrid for future lunar base
News Article, May 17, 2022 • Reliable, resilient microgrid to sustain astronauts, mining and fuel processing Sandia National Laboratories is well-known for designing reliable and resilient microgrids for military bases and vital city services. Now, Sandia researchers are working with NASA to design one for the moon. This is not the first time Sandia has partnered...
PR100 Final Results Public Webinar
News Article, January 23, 2024 • Puerto Rico has committed to 100% renewable energy by 2050—and the new Puerto Rico Grid Resilience and Transition to 100% Renewable Energy (PR100) Study results can help them get there. Join the U.S. Department of Energy on Feb. 7 at 2:30 ET for a presentation of final results from PR100....
Probabilistic Grid Reliability Analysis with Energy Storage Systems (ProGRESS)
Page • The Probabilistic Grid Reliability Analysis with Energy Storage Systems (ProGRESS) software tool is a Python-based open-source tool for assessing the resource adequacy of the evolving electric power grid integrated with energy storage systems (ESS). This tool utilizes a Markov Chain Monte Carlo-based stochastic simulation engine to create diverse scenarios that...
Programs
Page • Sandia’s research programs span the breadth of work in energy — from electric grid modernization to renewable energy, from nuclear power plant safety to electric vehicle technologies. Through fundamental and applied R&D and physical and computational research, we are leveraging our capabilities to solve complex energy problems. Our research programs...
Project spotlight: Building resilience: The future of marine energy at Sandia’s LIGHT Lab
News Article, September 16, 2025 • Making marine energy a feasible addition to the United States’ energy portfolio is about more than building tidal turbines or wave energy convertors (WECs). It’s also about the unseen tethers that keep these systems operating far from shore. Beneath the waves, mooring lines hold marine energy devices in place, and...
Project spotlight: Enhancing energy resilience with AI microgrid technology
News Article, September 10, 2025 • Block diagram illustrating the MOSAIC microgrid controller concept. The vulnerability of electrical grids to disruptions can lead to widespread power outages, particularly affecting remote and rural communities. As the United States strives for energy independence and reliability, developing resilient energy solutions is essential. Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories’ Resilient Energy...
Project spotlight: WEC co-design for reference models: A concurrent approach
News Article, September 10, 2025 • As the world seeks reliable and affordable energy solutions, harnessing the power of ocean waves presents a promising opportunity. Wave energy converters (WECs) are innovative devices designed to capture the kinetic and potential energy of waves and convert it into usable electricity. However, developing effective and reliable WECs is challenging...
Projects
Page • Photovoltaic Projects Sandia’s Photovoltaic (PV) core capabilities include field testing combined with indoor characterization and energy prediction systems modeling to optimize PV performance, reliability, and degradation. Commercial off-the-shelf and emerging technologies such as cell type, module composition and architectures, and balance of systems components are studied. Sandia partners with national...
Projects
Page • Key Projects Advanced WEC Dynamics & Controls Numerous studies have shown that advanced control of a wave energy converter (WEC) power take off (PTO) can provide significant increases (on the order of 200-300%) in WEC energy absorption. These increases can in turn lead to reductions in levelized cost of energy...
Projects & Technologies
Page • Sandia’s geothermal research program employs and develops technologies to reduce the cost and risk of generating electricity from geothermal sources and advance national R&D capabilities. Browse examples of our research below, which include work in rock stimulation, geothermal resource exploration, and subsurface instrumentation sensing and communications. $(document).ready(function () {...
Propelling 3D printing into the future
News Article, April 17, 2024 • 3D printing has changed the world. It’s allowed the aerospace, medical, automotive, manufacturing and many other industries to customize parts and prototypes in ways they never could before. It has drastically increased flexibility and cost effectiveness while reducing waste and production time. But many 3D-printed materials aren’t the strongest. A...
Proposed Arctic Science Facilities
Page • Science and research are critical to inform national policy and responses to rapid Arctic change. Conducting this science requires a world-class Arctic research facility with year-round access. What We Do Sandia and the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) have teamed up to advance the concept of a permanent, comprehensive...
Publications
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Publications
Page • Sandia National Laboratories’ researchers publish their research in journal articles, technical reports, presentations, books, and multimedia. Use the links below to browse titles and publications from our energy programs. Search & Browse Energy Program PublicationsBrowse publication lists and access full-text copies when available by program. Search All Sandia PublicationsSearch all...
PV Connectors
Page • PV Connectors Mission The mission of the PV Connectors project is to increase the robustness of the US solar infrastructure by identifying, quantifying and mitigating the risks posed by poorly installed, mismatched and/or poorly designed and manufactured connectors. Project Objectives This U.S Department of Energy-funded project has three primary objectives,...
PV News
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PV performance and modeling collaborative seeks 2025 workshop topics
News Article, January 10, 2025 • Sandia National Laboratories, CFV Labs and GroundWork Renewables are soliciting technical presentation proposals from the photovoltaic community for the 2025 PVPMC Workshop to be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, May 13-15, 2025. The workshop’s Call for Abstracts seeks submissions from stakeholders on topics such as modeling approaches, new data and other noteworthy...
PV Performance Modeling Collaborative accepting workshop proposals
News Article, February 1, 2023 • The PV Performance Modeling Collaborative (PVPMC) is currently accepting presentation proposals from the PV community for the 2023 PVPMC Workshop to be held May 9-10, 2023, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Co-sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories, GroundWorkRenewables and CFV Labs, the two-day workshop will examine the technical challenges and opportunities...
PV Performance Modeling Workshop to take place in May 2023
News Article, April 24, 2023 • The 2023 PV Performance Modeling Workshop will take place May 9-10, 2023, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Join Sandia National Laboratories, Groundwork Renewables, and CFV Labs for an exciting program including photovoltaic (PV) topics such as solar resources assessment, PV capacity testing, innovations in PV system monitoring, and modeling tools...
pyNUMAD
Page • pyNUMAD Python-Numerical Manufacturing And Design Tool or pyNuMAD is an object-oriented, open-source software program written in Python which simplifies the process of creating a three-dimensional model of a wind turbine blade. The tool organizes all blade information including aerodynamic and material properties and material placement into an intuitive application programming interface for...
QuESt Planning Tool
Page • A Long-term Power System Capacity Expansion Planning Tool Focused on Energy Storage Systems QuESt Planning is a capacity expansion planning model that identifies cost-optimal energy storage, resource, and transmission investments. This tool is part of QuESt 2.0: Open-source Platform for Energy Storage Analytics. To the right is a high-level overview of...
Rachid Darbali-Zamora
Staff Page • Principal Member of Technical Staff. Biography Rachid Darbali-Zamora is a Principal Member of Technical Staff (PMTS) in the Resilient Energy and Distributed Systems Integration (RDSI) group at Sandia National Laboratories. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico- Mayagüez in 2013 and 2016,...
Radar Friendly Blades
Page • A representative Doppler spectrum showing the impact of multiple blade rotations (red signals) on the radar background signal. Some wind farms have the potential to cause interference with the normal operation of radar systems used for security, weather forecasting, and air-traffic control. An object’s shape, material, size, and orientation with...
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