Page • What is geothermal energy? Geothermal energy is an abundant energy resource and refers to energy generated by extracting natural heat from rock deep beneath the Earth’s surface. Geothermal energy can be used to generate electricity, heat buildings, and drive industrial processes while emitting few to zero greenhouse gases. It is...
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Geothermal Research Facilities
Page • Sandia sustains many different, unique capabilities for designing, characterizing, and assembling novel geothermal technologies. Learn more about the various facilities used by our geothermal research program. .highlight-article { padding: 16px 16px 40px 16px; width: auto 100%; } .lower-btn { position: absolute; bottom: 10px; margin-top: 16px; } .highlight-title { font-size: .8em;...
Geothermal Technologies Field Evaluation Site
Facility • A large plot of land, known as Tech Area III, allows Sandia’s geothermal research program to evaluate large systems. For example, the program has 1,000 feet of drilling pipe that was used for evaluating acoustic communications for logging-while-drilling tools, 160 feet of wired pipe for permanent subsurface monitoring, and short-depth...
Geothermal Technology Evaluation Lab
Facility • Sandia maintains a large laboratory facility for the development, assembly, and testing of geothermal technologies. Sandia’s evaluation and assembly facility provides several testing, processing, and packaging stations and capabilities for high-temperature packaging, high-temperature and high-pressure testing, high-temperature and high-pressure rheometer, chemical processing, and a dynamometer test station. Image depicts the...
Giorgio Bacelli
Staff Page • Dynamics & Control Engineer. Biography Giorgio Bacelli is a research engineer in Sandia’s Water Power Technologies Program. Giorgio is working on the development and implementation of control strategies for Wave Energy Converters (WECs). He received his Master of Science in electronic engineering from Universita’ Politecnica delle Marche and his doctorate...
Global database for PV system performance
News Article, May 13, 2025 • Sandia scientists are part of the PV international consortium that created an international database for PV system performance bringing together photovoltaic performance data and meteorological values from PV systems located in all climate zones. Read more in this article from PV Magazine. Go to article
Gopal Yalla
Staff Page • Postdoctoral Researcher. Biography Dr. Gopal R. Yalla joined Sandia in 2023 as a member of the Wind Energy Computational Science Department. Prior to joining Sandia, Gopal earned his PhD in Computational Science, Engineering, and Mathematics with a concentration in Teaching and Mentoring from the Oden Institute at The University of...
Grid Integration and Power Systems
Page • Grid Integration and Power Systems Sandia National Laboratories leverages expertise and capabilities across the laboratory to investigate the integration, operation and control of wind power into energy systems to increase system reliability. As wind power deployment increases, new research challenges and opportunities continue to arise in a range of topics,...
Grid Resilience and Energy Storage Research
Page • Cybersecurity work at Sandia leverages extensive federal investment over many decades and the laboratory’s 60-year history ensuring a safe, reliable nuclear stockpile. Since the dawn of electronic information processing, Sandia has been required to ensure secure operations from the level of individual computing devices to national-scale networks. This mission has...
Grid System Planning for Wind: Wind Generator Modeling
Page • Grid System Planning for Wind: Wind Generator Modeling Because transmission planners are required to study wind technologies’ impact on the grid, wind generation dominates the interconnection queues and the need for generic, standard, and validated publicly available models for variable generation technologies. Sandia continues its effort to fully develop, validate,...
H. Evan Bush
Staff Page • R&D, S&E Systems Engineering. Biography Dr. H. Evan Bush is an R&D, S&E Mechanical Engineer and Senior Member of the Technical Staff in the Concentrating Solar Technologies group. Evan’s research focuses on solar thermochemical cycles, materials, and reactors for thermal energy storage, H2 generation, and the production of chemical commodities...
HAMQEA
Page • To accurately understand physical processes and their potential relationship to environmental stressors at a marine hydrokinetic (MHK) site, a Spatial Environmental Assessment Tool (SEAT) has been developed by combining numerical models and spatial analysis techniques to facilitate understanding of the potential risks involved within environmental assessments. This tool has been...
Hard Rock Drilling Facility
Facility • Geothermal resources are typically associated with igneous and metamorphic rocks, which are harder than the sedimentary rocks through which most oil and gas wells are drilled. The Hard Rock Drilling Facility features a vertical coring machine designed and developed at Sandia. It is used for: Evaluating hard-rock penetration technologies, Researching...
Hawaii Public Utilities Commission Energy Storage Systems Workshops
Page • Presented by: Hawaii Public Utilities Commission,U.S. DOE Office of Electricity Energy Storage Program,and Sandia National Laboratories Energy storage is the key to unleashing the power of renewables; relieving generation, transmission, and distribution demands; and hastening the transition to a decarbonized future. Policymakers, regulators, and other employees affiliated with state energy...
HelioCon Highlight: Solar Dynamics, NSTTF to demonstrate off-the-shelf wireless control system
News Article, September 6, 2023 • Earlier this year the Heliostat Consortium, co-led by Sandia National Laboratories and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), announced seven awards related to a request for proposals (RFP) targeting the U.S. Department of Energy’s goals for heliostat cost reduction, sustained multifaceted innovation, and improved solar field performance. Sandia’s National Solar...
HelioCon’s latest request for proposals supports widespread use of concentrating solar power
News Article, January 29, 2024 • The Heliostat Consortium has released its next request for proposals focused on lowering the costs of heliostat technologies, improving performance, and creating new heliostat industry opportunities. Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, the consortium consists of National Renewable Energy Laboratory (lead) and partnering organizations Sandia National Laboratories and the...
HELPR
Page • Hydrogen Extremely Low Probability of Rupture (HELPR) is a modular, probabilistic fracture mechanics platform developed to assess the structural integrity of natural gas infrastructure for transmission and distribution of hydrogen natural gas blends. HELPR contains fatigue and fracture engineering models to allow fast computations while its probabilistic framework enables users...
Henk Laubscher
Staff Page • R&D, Mechanical Engineering. Biography Henk Laubscher is a young and creative mechanical engineer with a strong practical background and a passion for sustainability. His field of expertise is solar thermal energy and he holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering (thermal energy storage) that he obtained at Stellenbosch University, South...
Henry Guan
Staff Page • Electrical Engineer. Biography Henry Guan is an Electrical Engineer in the Energy Storage Technologies and Systems department at Sandia National Laboratories. He is a member of the Demonstration Projects team and focuses on energy storage system applications and system deployments. Henry received a B.S and M.S in Electrical Engineering from...
High Operating Temperature (HOT) Facility
Facility • Sandia’s High Operating Temperature (HOT) Facility houses a 20-foot-tall drill rig, heating chamber, and process gas heater. HOT can simulate conditions deep underground by elevating the temperatures directly to the drill bit and can enable drilling through different types of rock, such as granite. In addition to testing drilling tools...
High Performance Computing (HPC) Resources
Facility • The technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories have access to High Performance Computing (HPC) Production Clusters for solving, visualizing, and interpreting large, complex science and engineering problems. Currently there are 4 such Linux clusters available, Sky Bridge, Chama, Uno and Ghost, with a total of over 75,000 processing cores. The...
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Page • Asteroid hunting using heliostats? Flagship course reaches milestone Molten salt facility awarded $2.5M to restart testing Sandia National Labs’ energy mission seeks to enhance national security and prosperity through sustainable, transformative approaches to energy problems. Learn More News .highlight-article { padding: 16px 16px 40px 16px; width: auto 100%; } .lower-btn...
How do you ship a wave? In a box, of course. A WaveBox.
News Article, September 12, 2024 • A forklift loads the SWEPT Lab onto a flatbed truck A group of engineers watch as a forklift moves a shipping container onto a flatbed truck. The container is about to embark on a four-day trip from Albuquerque, New Mexico, to Corvallis, Oregon. Inside the container is a one-of-a-kind mobile...
Hydrogen and Fuel Cells
Page • Sandia contributes to the science of advanced hydrogen and fuel cell technologies by providing a deep, quantitative understanding and scientific basis for materials interaction with hydrogen and safety. Sandia researches and develops methods to discover materials for hydrogen production, storage and use, evaluating their properties and performance. Sandia has expertise...
Hydrogen Effects on Materials Laboratory
Facility • The Hydrogen Effects on Materials Laboratory is the cornerstone of Sandia’s research expertise in hydrogen compatibility of materials and a core capability stewarded by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s (EERE) Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office at the Department of Energy. The laboratory houses specialized assets for evaluating materials...
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