Page • The continued security and economic health of the United States depends on a sustainable supply of energy and water. The availability of adequate water supplies has a profound impact on the availability of energy, while energy production and power generation activities affect water availability and quality. Thermoelectric power plants in...
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Water Power
Page • Marine and Hydrokinetic (MHK) technologies harness energy from waves, currents, tides and ocean thermal gradients to generate clean, renewable energy Sandia’s Water Power Technologies department leverages key research and engineering capabilities in support of the growing MHK industry. View our Water Power Program Overview video! Click each pin on the map to...
Water Power Facilities & Implementation
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Water Power Personnel
Page • Staff Contact an expert within Water Power Technologies Program. Support Staff Abby Bearden Business Operations Analystamshupe@sandia.gov Marisa Montes Technical Business Development Specialistmmontes@sandia.gov
Water Security
Page • What We Do Sandia’s decision support analysis for water utilities increases the security and resilience of water distribution networks. Example connectivity analysis showing critical hydraulic pathways upstream from a tank (red) and downstream to customers (blue). Water distribution systems are a crucial component of urban infrastructure. They provide essential services,...
Water Treatment
Page • What We Do Since the early 2000s, Sandia has addressed the security challenges associated with growing limitations on water availability through novel water treatment technology development and simple, low-cost solutions to complex water challenges. Our Capabilities Our science and engineering capabilities include: Atomistic to Molecular Chemical and Geochemical Modeling Advanced...
Water Webinars
Page • Sign up to be Notified About Future Webinars Check back soon for more Water Power webinars, or complete the form below to be notified of the next one. In case you missed it Pioneer WEC Concept Design Report Webinar – Apr. 2024 MASK4 Test Report and Data Webinar – March...
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...
What we do
Page • Sandia's National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF) performs research and development activities to advance concentrating solar power (CSP) technologies for electricity, process heat, hydrogen, and fuels. Tower-based systems Our expertise in CSP systems is based on decades of experience and service to industry. Read more about our CSP performance and...
What we research
Page • Our research is focused on advancing cutting edge technologies from fundamental first principles to high-Technology Readiness Level demonstrations ready for commercialization. Our research spans a broad range of technologies with applications in the next generation of concentrating solar power, systems integration and demonstrations for industrial processes from 100-2000°, thermal energy...
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 • Advancing technology, siting wind farms both on and offshore, and reducing wind’s cost of energy. Sandia’s Wind Energy Technologies department leads scientific research that furthers the modernization, reliability, and security of our nation’s critical energy assets. As a trusted DOE laboratory, we strive to advance innovation using world-class testing and...
Wind Energy Workshops
Page • Thank you for attending the 2024 Sandia Blade Workshop! Be sure to check our 2024 Sandia Blade Workshop webpage for archived presentations and the full workshop program. We look forward to meeting again in 2026!
Wind Plant Data Science & Artificial Intelligence
Page • Optimal, accurate experimental design and rigorous data analysis deliver robust validation. Sandia leads robust validation efforts to forward the industry, in particular for complex flow and load problems. Accurate data and sensing is the pathway to smarter wind technologies, where Artificial Intelligence (AI) ultimately provides better answers and optimal performance....
Wind Publications
Page • FY23 Abbas, Nikhar J., Pietro Bortolotti, Christopher Kelley, Joshua Paquette, Lucy Pao, Nick Johnson, “Aero-servo-elastic co-optimization of large wind turbine blades with distributed aerodynamic control devices,” Wind Energy, (August 2023): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/we.2840. Brown, K., P. Bortolotti, E. Branlard, M. Chetan, S. Dana, N. deVelder, P. Doubrawa, N. Hamilton, C. Ivanov, J....
Wind Software Downloads
Page • Sandia maintains ongoing efforts to develop computational tools to significantly improve the structural and aeroelastic analysis capability available to the wind industry. These analytical capabilities may be used to guide the design of new blades as well as to verify/improve the design of existing blades. The validity of these tools...
Women @ Energy blog features Sandia director
News Article, March 7, 2022 • Amy Halloran featured on DOE STEM Rising website Amy Halloran became the director of nuclear fuel cycle and grid modernization for Sandia in 2021. Her team works in diverse areas of research, from ensuring the electric grid can handle renewable energy sources to enhancing the safety of nuclear energy to...
Work with us
Page • The National Solar Thermal Test Facility performs systems characterization and testing for concentrating solar technology stakeholders. Collaborations with industry, small businesses, universities, government agencies, and other labs bring new technologies to the marketplace and contribute to the economic well-being of the nation. At Sandia’s National Solar Thermal Test Facility, we...
Work With Us
Page • Work With Us Sandia National Laboratories’ energy programs partner with large and small businesses, universities, and government agencies. With multiple agreement types to select from, partners can access world-class science, engineering, experts, and infrastructure. Get to know Sandia’s history and mission. Explore Sandia’s energy-related programs, cutting-edge facilities, and Technology Deployment Centers. Browse partnership success...
Workshops and Presentations
Page • Recent Workshops 2024 Sandia-EPRI Hosted PV Connector Reliability Workshop Day 2, Wednesday, July 17, 2024 Session 1: View From the Trenches Why this Workshop/Why NowLaurie BurnhamSandiaAn EPC PerspectiveKyle PhelpsMcCarthyAn Independent Engineer’s OutlookBill BrooksBrooks EngineeringAn Asset Owners Perspective: Solar Connectors and Grass FiresCraig RichardsonEntergy Session 2: Connector Failures: Field and Lab...
WPTO releases 2020-2021 Accomplishments Report, highlights Sandia water power technologies contributions
News Article, April 4, 2022 • The U.S. Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) recently released its 2020-2021 Accomplishments Report. The compilation includes achievements from Sandia National Laboratories’ Water Power Technologies program over the past year, while working alongside its National Lab partners, and other collaborators: SWEPT facility hosts AquaHarmonics power take-off system testing. The first test by an...
WPTO, Sandia, and NREL partner for marine technologies prize
News Article, April 7, 2023 • The U.S. Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office recently launched the Innovating Distributed Embedded Energy Prize (InDEEP) in partnership with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories. The prize aims to forge a path for early-stage marine energy technologies to one day help power the nation’s grid...
WTRIM
Page • Wind Turbine Radar Interference Mitigation (WTRIM) This effort is aimed at solving deployment barriers for wind-energy systems by testing and evaluating mitigation methods which reduce or eliminate wind turbine effects on radar systems. This effort includes collaboration with industry, five government organizations (DOE, DOD, DHS, DOT-FAA, and NOAA) and two...
Yuliya Preger
Staff Page • Chemical Engineer, Battery Reliability. Biography Yuliya Preger is a Senior Member of Technical Staff in the Energy Storage Technology and Systems Group at Sandia National Labs. She earned her PhD and BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and MIT, respectively. Her current work is centered on the...
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