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...
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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...
Will McNamara
Staff Page • Policy Analyst. Biography Will McNamara serves as Grid Energy Storage Policy Analyst for Sandia National Laboratories with a focus on energy storage policy development at the federal and state levels. Will has spent his entire 23-year career in the energy and utilities industry with a concentration on regulatory and legislative...
William Snyder
Staff Page • Electronics Technologist. Biography William Snyder designs site plans and assists with fabrication and implementation of solar installations in the Photovoltaics (PV) and Materials Technology Program at Sandia National Laboratories. His work at the Photovoltaic Systems Evaluation Laboratory (PSEL) includes site planning, one-line diagram creation for detailed record of facility grid...
William Vining
Staff Page • Member, Technical Staff. Biography William Vining is an intern in the Resilient Energy and Distributed Systems Integration group and a graduate student studying Computer Science at the University of New Mexico. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science also from the University of New Mexico. Prior to joining Sandia he...
Wind Energy
Page • Wind Energy Advancing technology, siting wind farms both on and offshore, and reducing wind’s cost of energy Sandia’s Wind Energy Technologies program leads scientific research that furthers the modernization, reliability and security of our nation’s critical energy assets. As a trusted U.S. Department of Energy laboratory, we strive to advance...
Wind Energy Workshops
Page • Wind Energy Workshops 2026 Blade Workshop Postponement Announcement Thank you for your interest in Sandia National Laboratories’ Wind Blade Workshop. The 2026 event has been postponed due to unforeseen scheduling constraints. We are actively exploring our options for next year, and we appreciate your support. We’ll update this webpage as...
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