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Successful G3P3 receiver test is a step towards commercial scalability
News Article, September 18, 2024 • Researchers at the National Solar Thermal Test Facility have successfully tested the Generation 3 Particle Pilot Plant’s falling particle receiver. This new receiver is double the size of its predecessor and operates at two megawatts of concentrated radiative energy. The test represents an important step toward the commercial scalability of...

Summer Ferreira
Staff Page • Manager, Resilient Energy and Distributed Systems Integration. Biography Dr. Summer Ferreira is the Manager of the Resilient Energy and Distributed Systems Integration (REDSI) department within the Electric Grid Security group at Sandia National Laboratories. Since 2019, she has led REDSI in addressing the critical need for resilient energy solutions at...

Supercritical Transformational Electric Power (STEP) Nuclear Energy
Page • What is STEP? The Supercritical Transformational Electric Power (STEP) Generation program constitutes a crosscut to facilitate the commercialization of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide (sCO2) technology. STEP is co-sponsored by the offices of Nuclear Energy (NE), Fossil Energy (FE) and Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE). The STEP mission is to reduce the...

Surf’s up! Free webinar on wave energy
News Article, March 20, 2024 • Join our free webinar on March 26 at 11 a.m. Eastern Time with Sandia National Laboratories’ Ryan Coe, Giorgio Bacelli, Dominic Forbush and Tim Donnelly. They will share and discuss recent results from WEC co-design testing on the “WaveBot” device at the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division Maneuvering...

SWiFT Research Program
Page • Wind-plant underperformance is estimated to reduce revenue by 10% to 40% percent due to turbine–turbine interaction and represents the most significant opportunity to reduce the levelized cost of wind energy. The U.S. Department of Energy has established the Wind Plant Optimization Center, also called the Atmosphere to Electrons [A2e] program,...

Techno-Economic Performance Metrics
Page • There are a wide variety of needs and uses for Marine and Hydrokinetic (MHK) techno-economic performance metrics. They accomplish a variety of objectives, including enabling consistent evaluation and benchmarking of device/component performance in marine energy across all stages of development; helping to discern technology/industry advancement and identify cost-reduction pathways. Methodology...

Technology Commercialization Fund Voucher Call is now open
News Article, June 17, 2024 • Do you know an entrepreneur, innovator, or community partner looking for technical assistance to bring their technology to market? Consider sharing the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Technology Transitions Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF) Open Voucher Call. The new $2.1 million opportunity will make $100,000 vouchers available to innovators, entrepreneurs,...
Image of five scientists. In the middle, one woman holds up a gear, looking through it. Image also includes the Office of Technology Transitions logo and the American-Made logo.

Testing Capabilities
Page • High-Temperature & High-Flux Testing Capabilities The site was built and instrumented to provide test facilities for a variety of solar and non-solar applications. Solar Tower 1. 350W/cm2 2. 6.2 MWth Solar Furnace 1. 16 kW 2. 600 W/cm2 Molten Salt Test Loop 1. Three Test Loops 2. 60% NaNo3/40% KNO3...

Thad Haines
Staff Page • Senior Member, Technical Staff. Biography Thad Haines is a senior member of the technical staff with the Resilient Energy and Distributed Systems Integration department at Sandia National Laboratories where his work contributes to better understanding issues related to resilience, stability, and controllability of electrical power systems due to increased renewable...

The Impact of Snow on PV Performance
Page • The Impact of Snow on PV Performance Introduction With the rapid growth of solar across northern regions, the impact of snow shading on modules is a growing concern. Published estimates of energy losses range from 1 to 12 percent annually, with monthly losses as high as 100 percent, depending on...

The WaveBot goes to Carderock
News Article, February 21, 2024 • The WaveBot, a scale-model wave energy converter (WEC), bobs up and down in the water as researchers cluster around a row of monitors in the control room of the largest wave tank in the United States. This is the WaveBot’s fourth trip to the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock...
The WaveBot at the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division Maneuvering and Seakeeping Basin (MASK) in Bethesda, Maryland.

There goes the sun: annular solar eclipse
News Article, October 20, 2023 • Glimpse phases of the annular solar eclipse as it passes Sandia’s National Solar Thermal Test Facility in Albuquerque on Oct. 14. The first photograph includes multiple exposures as the sun and moon traveled left to right, as well as an exposure without the eclipse. The second photograph comprises multiple exposures...
a mirrored heliostat reflects the phases of the 2023 solar eclipse.

Thermal Energy Storage
Page • Thermal Energy Storage The National Solar Thermal Test Facility excels in the research and development of heat transfer fluids and thermal energy storage systems. Thermal energy storage has a number of benefits, including high-energy density, low costs, a readily available media storage, the ability to deliver heat and electricity, and...

Thermal Test Complex
Facility • The Thermal Test Complex (TTC) is an international resource for validation of fire physics models as well as the nuclear weapons complex hardware qualification facility for fires. Experimental fire research, validated modeling tools, and phenomenological model development capabilities form the basis of an integrated capability to solve high-consequence problems in fire prevention,...

Thomas Herges
Staff Page • Instrumentation & Aeronautical Engineer. Biography Tommy Herges leads instrumentation development activities for wind plant field campaigns in the Wind Energy Computational Sciences Department at Sandia National Laboratories. He has been a member of the Wind Energy Technologies department since 2013, where he has worked on advanced laser velocity measurements and...

Threat and Impact Modeling
Page • Sandia’s threat modeling work focuses on characterizing the wide-ranging impacts from natural hazards on our infrastructure sectors. Threats serve as the key input to resilience analysis, and accurate assessment of system performance depends on a knowledge of what is likely to go wrong when a disruption occurs. The threats are...

Thushara Gunda
Staff Page • Complex Systems Analyst. Biography Thushara Gunda is a Principal Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories. Her research portfolio focuses on data-driven decision making in complex systems, including water resources, energy, and security domains. Leveraging insights from interdisciplinary perspective is a key distinguishing feature of Thushara’s work. Her research...

Tim Riley
Staff Page • CEP, CSP, PMP. Biography Timothy G. (Tim) Riley began his professional journey as a helicopter crew chief in the U.S. Air Force and has been passionate about all things that fly or rotate ever since. Following his military service, Tim went on to enjoy an incredible 23-year career in NASA’s...

Timotius Oentung
Staff Page • R&D S&E, Cybersecurity. Biography Timotius Oentung currently works as a Research and Development (R&D) Software and Engineering (S&E) staff member for the Resilient Energy and Distributed System Integration (RDSI) organization. Prior to joining Sandia, he graduated with an MS in Cybersecurity and Privacy from the University of Central Florida with...

Todd Monson
Staff Page • Physicist. Biography Todd Monson is a Principal Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories, where for the past fifteen years his research has focused primarily on the synthesis and characterization of ferromagnetic and ferroelectric nanomaterials for energy related applications. Todd holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in physics from...

Tools
Page • Tools Browse select computational codes, data sets, models, software, tools, and toolkits from Sandia National Laboratories' energy programs Arctic Science & Security For software developed at Sandia that covers a variety of applications related to research in the Arctic, please visit the Arctic Software page. Search licensable technologies, patents, applications, and...

Tower-based power systems
Page • Tower-based power systems Solar Power Tower​ The 200 ft. Solar Tower at Sandia National Laboratories provides 212 computer-controlled heliostats to reflect concentrated solar energy onto the tower, producing a total thermal capacity of 6 MW and peak flux up to 300 W/cm2. The NSTTF offers a complete testing environment for...

Transportation & Fuels
Page • Transportation & Fuels Advancing affordable, available, and efficient energy use for America’s energy future Foundational physical and computational research at Sandia helps to accelerate innovation in transportation and fuels. Our research programs span multiple transportation modes, including passenger automobiles, heavy-duty freight, off-road machinery, marine, rail, and aviation, while also investigating...

Travis Anderson
Staff Page • Chemist. Biography Travis M. Anderson is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories. He received his B.S degree in Chemistry from Mercer University in 1997 and his Ph.D. degree in Inorganic Chemistry from Emory University in 2002. His research interests include synthetic inorganic chemistry, battery materials...

Tu Nguyen
Staff Page • Electrical Engineer, Analytics & Controls Lead. Biography Tu A. Nguyen is a Principal Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories. He is also a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and an editor of IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy. He received his B.S...
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