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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...

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;...

Page • Sandia leverages expertise and capabilities across the laboratory to investigate the integration, operation, and control of wind power into energy systems to increase system reliability and resilience. As wind power deployment increases, new research challenges and opportunities continue to arise in a range of topics including: Wind plant controls to...

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...

Page • Wind generation dominates the interconnection queues and the need for generic, standard, and validated publicly available models, for variable generation technologies continue as transmission planners are required to study these technologies’ impact on the grid. Sandia is continuing its efforts to fully develop, validate, and disseminate wind-turbine generator (WTG) models...

Page • To accurately understand physical processes and their potential relationship to environmental stressors at a marine hydrokinetic (MHK) site, a Spatial Environmental Assessment Tool (SEAT) has been developed by combining numerical models and spatial analysis techniques to facilitate understanding of the potential risks involved within environmental assessments. This tool has been...

Page • Presented by: Hawaii Public Utilities Commission,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 transition to a decarbonized future. Policymakers, regulators, and other employees affiliated with state energy...

Page • Hydrogen Extremely Low Probability of Rupture (HELPR) is a modular, probabilistic fracture mechanics platform developed to assess the structural integrity of natural gas infrastructure for transmission and distribution of hydrogen natural gas blends. HELPR contains fatigue and fracture engineering models to allow fast computations while its probabilistic framework enables users...

Page • Flagship course reaches milestone Molten salt facility awarded $2.5M to restart testing A surprise contender for cooling computers: lasers Sandia National Labs’ energy mission seeks to enhance national security and prosperity through sustainable, transformative approaches to energy problems. Learn More News .highlight-article { padding: 16px 16px 40px 16px; width: auto...

Page • Sandia contributes to the science of advanced hydrogen and fuel cell technologies by providing a deep, quantitative understanding and scientific basis for materials interaction with hydrogen and safety. Sandia researches and develops methods to discover materials for hydrogen production, storage and use, evaluating their properties and performance. Sandia has expertise...

Page • A diagram of a hydrogen fueling station for rail transport. Click image to enlarge. Sandia’s hydrogen for rail program enables the safe and effective use of hydrogen systems for rail applications. Our contribution includes reviewing existing codes and standards related to hydrogen systems for rail, as well as assessing the...

Page • At the Combustion Research Facility, researchers can replicate the high energy flux and rapid heating rates that materials encounter in a concentrating solar reactor. Sandia maintains the equipment, technical expertise, and partnerships required to develop technology for solar thermochemical hydrogen production and thermal storage. Sandia’s experimental materials development and characterization...

Page • Sandia’s Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) team develops methodologies to identify hazards, understand risk drivers, and develop strategies to reduce risk in hydrogen infrastructure. The models, data, methods, and tools developed by Sandia facilitate the use of science and engineering to inform the revision of codes and standards that ensure the...

Page • Sandia’s hydrogen safety codes and standards research program develops the technical data and scientific understanding to inform science-based improvements to the codes and standards that define the safe use of hydrogen. Research includes studies on the fundamental behavior and characteristics of a hydrogen release, such as dispersion, accumulation, ignition, flame...

Page • Sandia’s hydrogen safety, codes, and standards research program develops the technical data and scientific understanding necessary to inform science-based improvements to the codes and standards that define the safe use of hydrogen. These codes and standards are critical for the broader commercial use and deployment of hydrogen. Our research includes...

Page • As part of a multilab consortium, researchers at Sandia are advancing hydrogen storage materials. Sandia maintains extensive facilities for the design, synthesis, and characterization of hydrogen storage materials. Our major hydrogen storage research activities include: fundamental studies of hydrogen interactions with solid-state materials; design and synthesis of promising on-board reversible...

Page • Sandia leverages analytic capabilities and laboratories to support experimentation and research for characterizing the suitability of subsurface hydrogen storage. We study multiple subsurface environments — including domal salt structures, bedded salt/sedimentary formations and porous media — to store and recover hydrogen for safe and effective industrial use. Sandia’s microbiology experts prepare...

Page • Sandia National Laboratories’ capabilities in hydropower include water resources engineering, river flow and storage modeling, hydropower plant measurements, plant cyber security and resilience, and grid and storage design optimization.

Page • Hydrogen Plus Other Alternative Fuels Risk Assessment Models (HyRAM+) is a software toolkit that integrates publicly available data and models relevant to assessing the safety in the use, delivery, and storage infrastructure of hydrogen and other alternative fuels (i.e., methane and propane). The HyRAM+ risk assessment calculations incorporate probabilities of...

Page • 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. Illinois Commerce Commission Staff & Stakeholders are invited to participate in a series of energy storage webinars presented in collaboration with US DOE Office...

Page • Research at the National Solar Thermal Test Facility is focused on three major challenges related to incorporating concentrating solar thermal heat into industrial processes: Decision support tools to assess costs, performance and technology options for a given process System integration engineering to develop interfaces to deliver on-site solar heat generation...

Page • Developing and de-risking technologies to reduce the carbon intensity of heat- and energy-intensive industrial processes. Sandia uniquely offers integrated expertise in basic sciences, such as materials science and scientific computing, with unique component and systems design, testing, and validation capabilities. Researchers within this program advance technologies that enable the use...

Page • Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) offers industry assistance to develop solutions to problems experienced through normal operations. Previous experience includes: Plant operation analysis and corrective measures to increase electricity output Environmental impacts from Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) plants and mitigating measures Solar glare analysis impacting FAA installations Molten salt component and...

Page • This project seeks to advance large offshore vertical-axis wind turbine (VAWT) rotor technology from concept to lab-scale prototype stage through four major research thrusts: VAWTs in deep-water have inherent advantages over HAWTs in deep-water, which is illustrated in the figure. This project aims to capitalize on these advantages for offshore...

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Page • DATETITLEAUTHOR(S)CITATIONDOI2021Towards the Automation of Remedial Action Schemes DesignHanyue Li, Komal Shetye, Thomas Overbye, Katherine Davis, Shamina Hossain-MckenzieProceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, p. 3378, 2021Towards the Automation of Remedial Action Schemes Design2021Circuit Topology Estimation in an Adaptive Protection SystemB. Poudel, D. Ruiz Garcia, A. Bidram, M....

Page • Publication TitleSAND#Publication DateAdvanced Reactors Spent Fuel and Waste Streams Disposition StrategiesSAND2023-08602RJune 2023Annual Status Update for OWLSAND2024-01154RNovember 2023ANS Disposal Standards Report-August 2023Advanced Reactor Safeguards and Security Reports; please refer to ARSS webpage--Brine Availability Test in Salt (BATS) FY23 UpdateSAND2023-08820RAugust 2023DECOVALEX-2019 task C Final ReportSAND2019-8670ROctober 2020Deep Borehole Disposal Safety CaseSAND2019-1915RFebruary 2019Deep Borehole...

Page • Click image to enlarge In 2019, Sandia began a knowledge management pilot program to collect, assemble, and preserve tacit knowledge from experts planning to retire on the Nuclear Energy Fuel Cycle (NEFC) components: Commercial Nuclear Power Generation (CNPG) and Back End of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle (BENFC). Under both CNPG...

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Page • Leadership for the energy programs at Sandia National Laboratories Toby Townsend Toby Townsend is the Associate Labs Director for the Integrated Security Solutions Division at Sandia National Laboratories. He has primary responsibility for Sandia’s Energy and Homeland Security mission portfolio. Fawn Turner Fawn Turner is Deputy for Sandia’s Energy and...

Page • Leading edge erosion is an emerging issue in wind turbine blade reliability, causing performance decreases and additional maintenance costs.  Accounting for performance losses due to common blade surface roughness, such as dirt and insects, does not account for the increased performance loss due to the more severe surface roughness caused...