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Page • Presented by U.S. DOE Office of Electricity Energy Storage Program and Sandia National Laboratories 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. DOEE Staff & Stakeholders are invited to participate in a...

Page • The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) is the nation’s only licensed and operating deep geologic repository for transuranic nuclear waste disposal. Sandia supports activities including modifications to the repository’s operating permits, periodic recertifications of the repository, and on-going monitoring of the repository performance against regulatory requirements. Building on a fifty year history...

Page • The continued security and economic health of the United States depends on a sustainable supply of energy and water. The availability of adequate water supplies has a profound impact on the availability of energy, while energy production and power generation activities affect water availability and quality. Thermoelectric power plants in...

Page • What We Do Sandia’s decision support analysis for water utilities increases the security and resilience of water distribution networks. Example connectivity analysis showing critical hydraulic pathways upstream from a tank (red) and downstream to customers (blue). Water distribution systems are a crucial component of urban infrastructure. They provide essential services,...

Page • What We Do Since the early 2000s, Sandia has addressed the security challenges associated with growing limitations on water availability through novel water treatment technology development and simple, low-cost solutions to complex water challenges. Our Capabilities Our science and engineering capabilities include: Atomistic to Molecular Chemical and Geochemical Modeling Advanced...

Page • Sign up to be notified about future webinars Check back soon for more Water Power webinars, or sign up below to be notified of the next one. Sign up for Sandia Water Power updates In case you missed it Synthetic Mooring Line Workshop Webinar – Dec. 2025 Pioneer WEC Concept...

Page • In the United States, thermoelectric power plants are collectively the largest users of water, accounting for nearly half of all water withdrawals. As demands for water are projected to grow and more stringent regulations are put in place, power plants will increasingly see water as a key limit on operations. To...

Page • Overview Artist’s impression of a wave energy farm (Illustration by Alfred Hicks, NREL) Sandia National Laboratories and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory are teaming to develop assessment methods and identify technical challenges, both common and unique to the US WEC industry. This effort, known as Wave-SPARC (Systematic Process and Analysis...

Page • WECs are unique from other existing energy generation technologies. Instead of converting relatively steady input mechanical energy that fluctuates about some mean (e.g., wind, nuclear, hydroelectric), WECs must absorb a purely oscillatory energy input. This unique quality necessitates the usage of advanced control to maximize energy generation and minimize levelized...

Page • Wave energy converter (WEC) designs to date have mostly followed a traditional design/build/test approach that requires potentially costly iteration. This approach, illustrated in the upper half of Figure 1, limits the performance of end designs due to its iterative and expensive nature. This project will create an open-source tool that...

Page • Protecting Our Electric Grid from Wildfires and Eliminating Grid Initiated Wildfires Sandia’s wildfire grid resilience program aims to mitigate the ignition and decrease consequences of major wildfires through new tools and improved information pre-wildfire, early response during wildfires to increase safety and minimize damage, and accelerated recovery following wildfires to...

Page • Wind Energy Advancing technology, siting wind farms both on and offshore, and reducing wind’s cost of energy Sandia’s Wind Energy Technologies program leads scientific research that furthers the modernization, reliability and security of our nation’s critical energy assets. As a trusted U.S. Department of Energy laboratory, we strive to advance...

Page • Wind Energy Workshops 2026 Blade Workshop Postponement Announcement Thank you for your interest in Sandia National Laboratories’ Wind Blade Workshop. The 2026 event has been postponed due to unforeseen scheduling constraints. We are actively exploring our options for next year, and we appreciate your support. We’ll update this webpage as...

Page • Wind Hybrid Integration Platform (WHIP) The Wind Hybrid Integration Platform project focuses on developing an AI-driven Distributed Energy Resource Management System that leverages the unique capabilities of distributed wind to provide grid services, alongside solar and energy storage technologies. Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy through the Wind Energy Technologies...

Page • Wind Interconnection Standards Platform (WISP) The Wind Interconnection Standards Platform project aims to assist the distributed wind industry in overcoming existing barriers for distributed wind power converter in adopting interconnection standards such as IEEE 1547-2018. The U.S. Department of Energy’s Wind Energy Technologies Office and Office of Technology Commercialization awarded the...

Page • Wind Plant Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Optimal, accurate experimental design and rigorous data analysis deliver robust validation. Sandia leads robust validation efforts to forward the industry, in particular for complex flow and load problems. Accurate data and sensing is the pathway to smarter wind technologies, where Artificial Intelligence ultimately...