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Georgios Fragkos

Staff Page • Principal Member, Technical Staff. Biography Dr. Georgios Fragkos is a Principal Member of the Technical Staff on the Resilient Energy and Distributed Systems Integration program. He obtained his 5-year joint diploma degree in Computer Science from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece in 2018. He received his M.S. and...

Geothermal

Page • What is geothermal energy? Geothermal energy is an abundant energy resource and refers to energy generated by extracting natural heat from rock deep beneath the Earth’s surface. Geothermal energy can be used to generate electricity, heat buildings, and drive industrial processes while emitting few to zero greenhouse gases. It is...

Geothermal Research Facilities

Page • Sandia sustains many different, unique capabilities for designing, characterizing, and assembling novel geothermal technologies. Learn more about the various facilities used by our geothermal research program. .highlight-article { padding: 16px 16px 40px 16px; width: auto 100%; } .lower-btn { position: absolute; bottom: 10px; margin-top: 16px; } .highlight-title { font-size: .8em;...

Geothermal Technologies Field Evaluation Site

Facility • A large plot of land, known as Tech Area III, allows Sandia’s geothermal research program to evaluate large systems. For example, the program has 1,000 feet of drilling pipe that was used for evaluating acoustic communications for logging-while-drilling tools, 160 feet of wired pipe for permanent subsurface monitoring, and short-depth...

Geothermal Technology Evaluation Lab

Facility • Sandia maintains a large laboratory facility for the development, assembly, and testing of geothermal technologies. Sandia’s evaluation and assembly facility provides several testing, processing, and packaging stations and capabilities for high-temperature packaging, high-temperature and high-pressure testing, high-temperature and high-pressure rheometer, chemical processing, and a dynamometer test station. Image depicts the...

Giorgio Bacelli

Staff Page • Dynamics & Control Engineer. Biography Giorgio Bacelli is a research engineer in Sandia’s Water Power Technologies Program. Giorgio is working on the development and implementation of control strategies for Wave Energy Converters (WECs). He received his Master of Science in electronic engineering from Universita’ Politecnica delle Marche and his doctorate...

Global database for PV system performance

News Article, May 13, 2025 • Sandia scientists are part of the PV international consortium that created an international database for PV system performance bringing together photovoltaic performance data and meteorological values from PV systems located in all climate zones. Read more in this article from PV Magazine. Go to article

Gopal Yalla

Staff Page • Postdoctoral Researcher. Biography Dr. Gopal R. Yalla joined Sandia in 2023 as a member of the Wind Energy Computational Science Department. Prior to joining Sandia, Gopal earned his PhD in Computational Science, Engineering, and Mathematics with a concentration in Teaching and Mentoring from the Oden Institute at The University of...

Grid Integration and Power Systems

Page • Grid Integration and Power Systems Sandia National Laboratories leverages expertise and capabilities across the laboratory to investigate the integration, operation and control of wind power into energy systems to increase system reliability. As wind power deployment increases, new research challenges and opportunities continue to arise in a range of topics,...

Grid Resilience and Energy Storage Research

Page • Cybersecurity work at Sandia leverages extensive federal investment over many decades and the laboratory’s 60-year history ensuring a safe, reliable nuclear stockpile. Since the dawn of electronic information processing, Sandia has been required to ensure secure operations from the level of individual computing devices to national-scale networks. This mission has...
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