Page • One of Sandia’s goals is to develop, demonstrate and deploy solutions for a secure, safe, and resilient energy future. The commercial nuclear power generation component of the nuclear energy fuel cycle contributes to this goal by supporting: The sustainability of the current operating nuclear power plants by assessing and implementing...
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Computer Science Research Institute (CSRI)
Facility • The Computer Science Research Institute (CSRI) brings university faculty and students to Sandia for focused collaborative research on Department of Energy computer and computational science problems. CSRI focuses on research in areas of computer and computational science that are critical to the Sandia’s and the Department of Energy’s mission. The...
Concentrating Solar Seminar Series
Page • Concentrating Solar Seminar Series Thermal Energy Storage recording now available The National Solar Thermal Test Facility welcomed Scott Hume of the Electric Power Research Institute and Luke McLaughlin of Sandia National Laboratories for the Concentrating Solar Seminar Series session, “Thermal Energy Storage.” Watch the seminar recording. Overview and Opportunities for...
Concentrating Solar Seminar Series to examine advances in metrology, deep learning-based airborne monitoring methods
News Article, August 22, 2023 • Join Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) manager Margaret Gordon and CSP researcher Randy Brost on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023, from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. MT as they host the next installment of the Sandia National Solar Thermal Test Facility Concentrating Solar Seminar Series. This series’ installment will focus on advances...
Concentrating Solar Technologies Program to host System Advisor Model (SAM) seminar
News Article, November 28, 2022 • Sandia National Laboratories’ Concentrating Solar Technologies Program, as part of its Concentrating Solar Seminar Series and in conjunction with the National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF), will present, “System Advisor Model (SAM) for Concentrating Solar Power,” facilitated by Paul Gilman, on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00...
Concentrating Solar Thermal Technologies
Page • Concentrating Solar Thermal Technologies Concentrating Solar Seminar Series Take A Virtual Tour Developing and testing concentrating solar thermal technologies for over 40 years The National Solar Thermal Test Facility is the only test facility of its kind in the United States, providing a range of high flux and extreme temperature...
Conference Proceedings
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Control and Optimization of Networked Energy Technologies Laboratory (CONET)
Facility • Researchers at the Control and Optimization of Networked Energy Technologies (CONET) Laboratory conduct research, development, and testing on networked and distributed systems. Research at CONET is interwoven with cybersecurity objectives and focuses on: coordinated communications, controls and distributed systems, optimal dispatch, protection and reconfiguration, and prognostics and decision support. In order to...
Craig Rodine
Staff Page • Principal Member, Technical Staff – S&E Cybersecurity R&D. Biography Craig Rodine is Principal Investigator for multiple DOE-funded projects, directing R&D on communications and cybersecurity applied at the ‘converged energy edge’. These projects cover a range of areas and interests, including Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Infrastructure; the foundations of cybersecurity in...
Creating diamonds to shed light on the quantum world
News Article, September 26, 2022 • Diamonds are a scientist’s best friend. That much is at least true for physicist Andy Mounce, whose work with diamond quantum sensors at Sandia National Laboratories has earned him the DOE’s Early Career Research Award. As a scientist in Sandia’s Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, he specializes in making microscopic sensors...
Creating the self-healing grid of the future
News Article, March 14, 2024 • Michael Ropp, Electrical Engineer Self-healing electrical grids: It may sound like a concept from science fiction, with tiny robots or some sentient tech crawling around fixing power lines, but in a reality not far from fiction a team of researchers is bringing this idea to life. What’s not hard to...
CSP seminar series session focuses on bulk solids handling
News Article, January 8, 2025 • Sandia’s National Solar Thermal Test Facility welcomes Greg Mehos, director of Greg Mehos & Associates LLC, for the next session of the Concentrating Solar Power Seminar Series. “Storage and Flow of Bulk Solids,” will take place on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, from 10:00 a.m. MST to 11:00 a.m. MST. When compared to...
Cy Fujimoto
Staff Page • Chemist. Biography Cy Fujimoto is a Principle Member of the Technical Staff in the Nanoscale Sciences Department at Sandia National Laboratories. Cy’s work focuses on developing membrane separators for electrochemical applications. In the Office of Electricity’s program, he is developing membranes for several flow battery chemistries and partners with various...
Cyber and Physical Security
Page • Sandia delivers grid security and grid modernization through research, development, and evaluation of solutions to maintain operations in an adversarial, compromised environment. A Growing Threat Electric power systems and power-system operators are more reliant on telemetry, automated controls, and communications than ever before in an effort to improve energy reliability,...
Damian Gallegos-Patterson
Staff Page • R&D Mechanical Engineer. Biography Damian Gallegos-Patterson joined Sandia National Laboratories’ Water Power Technologies Program in 2022. Damian’s work focuses primarily on test coordination and analysis for wave energy converters (WECs). Damian received a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering (2019) from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology and a...
Dan Houck
Staff Page • R&D, S&E, Mechanical Engineering. Biography Dr. Dan Houck joined Sandia National Laboratories in 2020 and is a member of the Wind Energy Design and Experimentation Department. His research supports experiments at the Scaled Wind Farm Test (SWiFT) facility, including the National Rotor Testbed. Much of his research focuses on the...
Daniel Gaebele
Staff Page • R&D Electrical Engineer. Biography Daniel Gaebele is a R&D electrical engineer at Sandia National Laboratories’ Water Power Technologies Program. His research focuses on wave energy converter (WEC) control co-design and control co-optimization, sociotechnical assessments of WECs for blue economy applications, and WEC seasonal deployments. Daniel Gaebele received his bachelor’s and...
Daniel Riley
Staff Page • Research Engineer. Biography Daniel Riley is a research engineer in the Photovoltaics (PV) and Materials Technology Program at Sandia National Laboratories. The scope of Daniel’s work includes PV modules and systems with focus in data acquisition, characterization, and modeling. Daniel has also developed skills for characterizing and modeling non-standard PV...
Data & Software
Page • Software CACTUS Code for Axial and Cross-flow TUrbine Simulation (CACTUS) is a turbine performance simulation code, based on a free wake vortex method, under development at Sandia National Laboratories as part of a Department of Energy program to study marine hydrokinetic (MHK) devices. The current effort builds upon work previously...
Data Modeling Analysis
Page • What We Do Around the world, stable and secure social, economic, and political systems are founded on a reliable supply of resources, including water, energy, and food. Yet natural events and human influences challenge the ability to ensure resources are available at local, regional, and global scales. Researchers at Sandia...
David Maniaci
Staff Page • Rotor Blade and Wind Plant Aerodynamics Lead. Biography Dr. David Maniaci is a principal member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories and is the rotor blade and wind plant aerodynamics lead in the Wind Energy Computational Sciences Department. He is currently leading efforts on the verification, validation and...
David Rosewater
Staff Page • Electrical Engineer. Biography David Rosewater received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Montana Tech of the University of Montana, Butte, MT, USA, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA. He currently works as a...
David Schoenwald
Staff Page • Principal Member, Technical Staff. Biography David Schoenwald is a Principal Member of the Technical Staff in the Electric Power Systems Research Department at Sandia National Laboratories. Dr. Schoenwald focuses on control system design to improve dynamic stability of electric power systems. He also develops performance standards for grid-scale energy storage...
Deadline nears for European PVPMC Workshop abstracts
News Article, June 9, 2025 • The deadline for 2025 European Photovoltaics Performance Modeling Collaborative Workshoppresenter abstracts is June 15, 2025. The popular workshop will be held in Ayia Napa,Cyprus, Oct. 29 – 31, 2025. Co-organized by Sandia National Laboratories, EPL Technology Frontiers Ltd., and thePhaethon Centre of Excellence at the University of Cyprus, this two-day...
Defense and Disaster Deployable Turbine (D3T)
Page • When conflicts and natural disasters unfold around the world and military or civil humanitarian response is needed, quick access to energy on location is critical to ensuring a successful mission or crisis response. The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Defense and Disaster Deployable Turbine (D3T) project is evaluating the market...
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