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PR100-Distributed Wind
Page • PR100-Distributed Wind A recent study by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Grid Deployment Office set out to analyze variable energy in Puerto Rico. Researchers at six national laboratories supported the Puerto Rico Grid Resilience in a Renewable Energy Study (PR100). Scientists developed a final report and Implementation Roadmap detailing a range of results and...

Professional development series delves into common energy storage practices across states and applications
News Article, January 19, 2026 • State energy regulators and utility commissioners can learn more about energy storage, accommodating data centers, and large loads at an upcoming NARUC-hosted professional development series. Sandia’s Will McNamara, a technical systems analyst with a 30-year career in the energy and utilities industry, is one of the instructors. Course information derives...
Photo: Aerial view of industrial battery units storing electricity in the desert. / Credit: Getty Images

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: 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...
Block diagram illustrating the MOSAIC microgrid controller concept.

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...

Publications
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Publications
Page • Publications Fiscal Year 2025 Ahn, S., and V. S. Neary. “High-Resolution Atlas of Extreme Wave Height and Relative Risk Ratio for US Coastal Regions.” Ocean Engineering (2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2024.119684. Bodini, N., P. Moriarty, S. Letizia, J. Mann, S. Wharton, G. Deskos, P. Doubrawa, J. Fast, N. Hamilton, T. Herges, C. Kaul,...

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 collaborative releases workshop call for abstracts
News Article, January 8, 2026 • The PV Performance Modeling Collaborative has released a call for abstracts for its 2026 workshop set to take place May 12-14 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This year's workshop will focus on the technical aspects of photovoltaic module and system performance, covering topics such as solar resource assessment, uncertainty quantification, performance...
PVPMC 2025 Albuquerque, New Mexico, workshop group photo taken outside the hotel.

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...
Three differnt pv panels in 3 rows and facing the sun.

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...

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 • Radar Friendly Blades 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,...

Randy Brost
Staff Page • Concentrating Solar Optics Laboratory Lead. Biography Randy Brost leads optical metrology research within Sandia National Laboratories’ Concentrating Solar Technologies group. His work focuses on developing improvements to indoor and outdoor heliostat optical metrology to benefit the CSP industry, research and education. He is trained as a computer scientist, and throughout...

Randy Shurtz
Staff Page • Mechanical Engineer, Fire Science. Biography Randy has worked in the Fire Sciences and Technology Department at Sandia since 2016. His research interests include advancing understanding and predictive capabilities in areas relevant to fire safety, including thermal testing in fire scenarios and modeling of thermal runaway in lithium ion battery systems....
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