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Waterless Power Generation
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...
Wave-SPARC
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...
Waylon Clark
Staff Page • Electrical Engineer, Demonstrations Lead. Biography Waylon has spent well over a decade working in the field of electrical engineering, project management, and technical leadership. His experience includes both brown and green-field project development stages from RFP to commissioning/operations. Expertise includes medium voltage substations, low voltage distribution, and process controls. Recently,...
Webinar to provide overview of TCF Open Voucher Call application process
News Article, July 3, 2024 • Interested in learning more about the new Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF) Open Voucher Call from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Technology Transitions? An informational webinar on July 18 at 2 p.m. ET will share eligibility, submission requirements, and more. During the webinar, program administrators will provide an...
WEC Co-Design
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...
WEC Design Optimization
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...
WEC-Sim v5.0 recently released
News Article, June 21, 2022 • Building on an R&D 100 award to include major code overhauls and an updated PTO-Sim library, WEC-Sim v5.0 has been released. The open-source code for simulating wave energy converters was developed in MATLAB/SIMULINK, with the ability to model devices that are comprised of rigid bodies, joints, power take-off systems, and...
What do you do with a shrunken laser?
News Article, August 9, 2023 • The laser is so small you need a microscope to see it properly. But it’s not just the size that scientists at Sandia National Laboratories are excited about. The buzz is that the laser can now be combined with other microscale optical devices to make self-driving cars safer, data centers...
Wildfire Electric Grid Resilience
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...
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