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Page • Defense and Disaster Deployable Turbine (D3T) 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 Defense and Disaster Deployable Turbine project...

Page • Working with the DOE and DoD to Enhance National Energy Security Sandia’s world-class technologies, experience, software, and facilities provide support to military customers to address and solve national security energy needs. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to...

Page • The Demonstration Projects Team at Sandia National Laboratories plays a crucial role in supporting the energy storage industry and collaborating with key stakeholders through public/private partnerships to advance the Department of Energy's (DOE) objectives of enhancing and modernizing the nation's power grid. Our efforts are essential for ensuring a reliable,...

Page • Click image to enlarge Sandia performs research on systems engineering processes and postclosure safety assessment methods to plan, develop, implement, and evaluate deep geologic disposal facilities for spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW). Geologic disposal options for nuclear waste include mined repository concepts in salt, argillite, and...

Page • Distributed Wind Aeroelastic Modeling (dWAM) Researchers primarily use aeroelastic modeling to assess the structure and performance of a wind turbine. However, even with its many advantages, aeroelastic modeling tools are still not widely used in the wind industry. The Distributed Wind Aeroelastic Modeling (dWAM) project began with the National Laboratory...

Page • Distributed Wind Energy Distributed wind could potentially provide electricity to remote, rural, and island power systems that exist largely off the main electric grid. Determining the viability of using wind turbines as a source of distributed energy is an important undertaking with broad impact for the nation. Sandia National Laboratories...

Page • The DTOcean project pioneered a new, open-source collaborative development model for wave and tidal array design tools that considers the entire ocean energy farm throughout its lifecycle. The software helps to find optimal array designs that minimize the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) and identify cost drivers, allowing the industry...

Page • Sandia leverages a broad range of dynamics and controls capabilities, incorporating experts from robotics, defense, energy systems, and aerospace, to support research on wave energy, tidal energy, and offshore wind. Related Projects and Facilities Advanced WEC Dynamics and Controls SWEPT Lab WEC Co-Design WEC Design Optimization

Page • Educating industry stakeholders on energy storage topics is an important activity for the energy sector. Energy storage can help meet emerging resilience and reliability needs; with the rapid pace of innovation in the energy storage industry, national laboratories help educate stakeholders on emerging technologies’ capabilities and limitations.    Sandia’s energy storage educational outreach team engages directly with stakeholders to obtain and share...

Page • Electric Grid Grid modernization for ensuring safety, security, and resilience Modernizing our electrical grid is a tremendous undertaking, requiring the coordination and collaboration of a wide range of stakeholders, including government, regulators, utilities, and—perhaps most importantly—the myriad of consumers. Sandia supports national efforts to modernize the electric grid by: Developing...

Page • With increasing numbers of electric vehicles (EVs) on the road, Sandia researchers are developing cybersecurity threat and grid integration models to accelerate the safe and secure deployment of smart EV charging infrastructure on the nation’s power system. Understanding the Impact to Electric Grid Operations An electric vehicle at a charging...

Page • Sandia develops innovative technologies and methodologies through scientific analyses and experiments to enhance the safety of the nuclear fuel cycle and the supporting infrastructure. We provide a scientific basis to support Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) licensing and regulatory decisions and advance the technical foundation for severe accident analysis/management and high...