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Sandia uses electric-grid analytics to combat wildfire risks and aid post-wildfire recovery

News Article, February 1, 2024 • Wildfires impact the safety and security of society. The electric grid can initiate wildfires and is susceptible to wildfires. Sandia’s wildfire grid resilience program aims to mitigate and determine the risk of ignition, reduce wildfire spread, and decrease the consequences of major wildfires through new tools and better-informed decision making....

Sandia Wave Energy Power Take-off (SWEPT) Laboratory

Facility • The Sandia Wave Energy Power Take-off (SWEPT) Laboratory offers mobile, specialized testing for systems that produce power from wave energy. SWEPT is used to test wave energy converter (WEC) power take-off (PTO) systems. WECs are unique because they convert the oscillatory mechanical energy from ocean waves to generate electricity, which differentiates them...

Sandia Wind Energy Technologies Program takes lead for six incubator awards

News Article, November 8, 2023 • Sandia National Laboratories received the lead on six new incubator awards announced by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Wind Energy Technologies Office on October 20. WETO provided the wind-specific seed funding for a new program to create novel pathways to innovation while allowing the national labs a higher degree of risk...

Sandia Wind Turbine Loads Database

Page • Sandia Wind Turbine Loads Database eval_id: Simulation number The Sandia Wind Turbine Loads Database is divided into six files, each corresponding to approximately 16 years of simulation. The files are text files with data in columnar format. The first line in each file is a header line defining the contents...

Sandia wins 5 R&D 100 awards and a silver specialty award

News Article, September 19, 2022 • Competing in an international pool of universities, corporations and government labs, Sandia National Laboratories researchers captured four R&D 100 Awards this year and supported a fifth. One entry also won the R&D 100’s Special Recognition Market Disrupter Silver Award. R&D World Magazine — formerly R&D Magazine — presents the awards...

Sandia-led team develops an end-to-end Generative AI platform to automate and protect confidential communications

News Article, September 30, 2025 • A Sandia-led team, in partnership with Idaho National Laboratory, recently made a significant step toward secure and efficient inter-organizational collaboration using advanced generative AI technologies. Large Language Models (LLMs) are part of artificial intelligence systems that rely on massive datasets to understand and generate human language. LLMs use patterns...

Sandia’s concentrating solar quarterly seminar addresses challenges associated with surfaces at high temperatures

News Article, June 22, 2022 • Sandia National Laboratories’ Concentrating Solar Power Program will present its third quarterly concentrating solar seminar, “Textured Surfaces for Applications in Concentrating Solar Power,” on June 23, 2022, from 8:30 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. MDT. Professor Ranga Pitchumani, of the Advanced Materials and Technologies Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical Engineering...

Sandia’s geoscience group organizes conference on the mechanical behavior of salt

News Article, July 30, 2025 • Sandia’s Geoscience Research and Applications Group organized and sponsored the 11th SaltMech conference July 8-10, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. SaltMech XI focused on research findings and practical experiences regarding the mechanical behavior of rock salt in the context of safe use in mining, energy storage and waste disposal. Retired Sandian Keri Sobolik...

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Sandia’s Grid Modernization team for PR100 report receives Secretary’s Honor Award

News Article, March 28, 2024 • A multi-laboratory research team, including members from Sandia’s Grid Modernization group, received a 2023 Secretary’s Honor Award for its contributions to the Puerto Rico Grid Resilience and Transition to 100% Renewable Energy Study (PR100).The prestigious award recognizes the Department of Energy’s employees and contractors who make positive, lasting impacts on...

Sandia’s marine researchers to host MASK Basin WEC Workshop Information Session

News Article, May 11, 2023 • Join Sandia National Laboratories as it hosts the “WEC Design, Modeling, Control, and Testing Workshop Information Session,” Tuesday, June 6, 2023, from 9:30 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. MT. During this informative session, you’ll learn what to expect at the in-person WEC workshop hosted by Sandia later this year. The in-person...

Wave Energy Converter floats in MAASK Basin pool

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