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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...
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