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Sandia economist selected fellow of energy association
News Article, January 10, 2024 • Peter Kobos, an economist and manager of Sandia National Laboratories’ water power research program, was recently selected as a senior fellow of the United States Association for Energy Economics. (Photo by Lonnie Anderson) Peter Kobos, an economist and manager at Sandia National Laboratories, has been selected as a senior fellow...
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Sandia engineer elected fellow of two prestigious national societies
News Article, March 2, 2022 • Babu Chalamala, an engineer and manager of Sandia National Laboratories’ energy storage group, was recently elected fellow of two prestigious national societies. On Jan. 26, he became a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. On Dec. 7, he became a fellow of the National Academy of...

Sandia hosts first workshop devoted to photovoltaic connectors
News Article, July 16, 2024 • The Sandia-EPRI co-hosted Photovoltaic (PV) Connector Reliability Workshop will take place Wednesday, July 17, 2024, from 1-5 p.m. ET, in Charlotte, N.C. The event will occur in tandem with the larger EPRI 7th Annual Wind and Solar Operation and Management (O&M) Innovation Workshop held July 16-18, 2024. The specialized gathering...
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Sandia joins global consortium focused on AI applications for improving the grid
News Article, December 16, 2025 • Sandia National Laboratories signed a Memorandum of Understanding to become a member of the Open Power AI Consortium. Led by the Electric Power Research Institute, this consortium aims to develop and deploy cutting-edge AI solutions for the electric sector with the goals to reduce operating costs and to improve customer...
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Sandia launches new cyber labeling webpage
News Article, August 1, 2024 • Sandia partnered with five other DOE national laboratories to investigate the applicability of a labeling program for operational technology, such as solar inverters and smart meters. We are now excited to share research findings on our new cyber labeling webpage.   Our cyber labeling research is intended to answer a variety...

Sandia microgrid expert named IEEE Fellow
News Article, July 1, 2024 • Michael Ropp, Electrical Engineer Sandia National Laboratories electrical engineer Michael Ropp has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, one of the world’s largest technical professional organizations. Ropp’s research focuses on developing algorithms to improve the resiliency of the electrical grid, particularly with the addition of...

Sandia National Labs joins DOE’S SHASTA initiative to advance underground hydrogen storage capabilities
News Article, September 8, 2022 • The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Subsurface Hydrogen Assessment, Storage and Technology Acceleration (SHASTA) collaboration, a project designed to use unique capabilities and expertise of key national laboratories to determine the viability, safety, and reliability of storing hydrogen in subsurface environments, has added Sandia National Laboratories as its fourth research...

Sandia partners with other labs to bolster nuclear security
News Article, July 24, 2023 • Sandia is collaborating with international partners to collect data to better protect nuclear sites from cyberattacks and physical intrusions. As part of the multiyear research project with Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, Sandia developed software to emulate a cyberattack on a site’s central alarm station during exercises, with the goal of improving...
DUAL ATTACK — Sandia global security staff works with a team from a private Canadian nuclear power plant during a cyberattack exercise on May 17. The mock cyberattack was followed by a simulated physical intrusion. The exercise was the culmination of two-year project involving Sandia, Idaho National Laboratory and Canadian Nuclear Laboratories. (Photo by Craig Fritz)

Sandia releases Microgrid Design Toolkit 1.4 to the public
News Article, October 31, 2024 • Sandia has released the latest Microgrid Design Toolkit 1.4 software download to the public. MDT 1.4 expands on Sandia’s existing MDT build, which serves as a decision support software for microgrid designers. Download the Microgrid Design Toolkit Intended for use in the early stages of the design process, MDT uses...
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Sandia researcher contributes to Wind report published by National Academy of Sciences
News Article, March 18, 2022 • The National Academy of Sciences recently published the new report, “Wind Turbine Generator Impacts to Marine Vessel Radar,” co-written by Sandia wind energy researcher Ben Karlson. While wind energy development is expected to grow along the U.S. Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf and expand into the Gulf of Mexico and the...

Sandia researcher Stan Atcitty named IEEE fellow
News Article, April 10, 2023 • Sandia National Laboratories Senior Scientist Stan Atcitty has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), one of the world’s largest technical professional organizations. Atcitty’s research focuses on power electronics needed to integrate energy storage and distributed generation with the electric utility grid. Six of...

Sandia researcher wins career achievement award from Asian technical society
News Article, September 29, 2022 • The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers has selected Sandia National Laboratories materials scientist Hongyou Fan to receive its 2022 Career Achievement Award. “It is evident that you embody the reason SASE created this category, and we are proud to present you this award,” wrote the organization’s CEO and Executive...

Sandia scientists achieve breakthrough in tackling PFAS contamination
News Article, June 5, 2023 • A team at Sandia National Laboratories is developing materials to tackle what has become one of the biggest problems in the world: human exposure to a group of chemicals known as PFAS through contaminated water and other products. Sandia is now investing more money to take their research to the...
Jessica Kustas, left, and Andre Benally work with a mass spectrometer at Sandia National Laboratories while trying to pair up technologies to go beyond just absorbing PFAS. (Photo by Craig Fritz)

Sandia showcases Heavy-Duty Optical Engine Laboratory capabilities to California Energy Commission and Noble Thermodynamics Systems partners
News Article, March 4, 2026 • Sandia National Laboratories recently hosted representatives from the California Energy Commission (CEC) and Noble Thermodynamics Systems, Inc. (NTS) at the Sandia Livermore campus. The visit provided the CEC with an overview of how Sandia’s Heavy-Duty Fuel-Flexible Optical Engine Laboratory capabilities are leveraged to support NTS’ development of the Argon Power...
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Sandia snow-shedding paper chosen as an ‘Editor’s Pick,’ featured in Best of Advanced Materials Technologies 2021
News Article, June 7, 2022 • A photovoltaics (PV) research team led by Sandia National Laboratories recently learned that their journal article, "Facilitating large-scale snow shedding from in-field solar arrays using icephobic surfaces with low-interfacial toughness," was chosen as an Editor's Pick and is featured in the annual Best of Advanced Materials Technologies issue. The Best...
Imagesof snow-covered, photovoltaic panels, where snow has shed from panels with new snowphobic coatings developed at Sandia.

Sandia solar facilities to host American Solar Energy Society conference tour
News Article, March 25, 2022 • The 51st Annual National Solar Conference will be held June 21-24, 2022, in Albuquerque, NM, at the University of New Mexico campus and online. Hosted by the American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and the New Mexico Solar Energy Association (NMSEA) this year’s technical sessions will include topics such as: Grid...

Sandia studies vulnerabilities of electric vehicle charging infrastructure
News Article, November 17, 2022 • Review of vulnerabilities helps prioritize grid protections, informs policy makers With electric vehicles becoming more common, the risks and hazards of a cyberattack on electric vehicle charging equipment and systems also increases. Jay Johnson, an electrical engineer at Sandia National Laboratories, has been studying the varied vulnerabilities of electric vehicle charging...
Kaedi Sanchez plugs in her car at a City of Albuquerque electric vehicle charger before heading to work. Sandia National Laboratories researchers have been studying the vulnerabilities of electric vehicle charging infrastructure, including public chargers, to better inform policymakers. (Photo by Craig Fritz)

Sandia switches to hydrogen weather balloons
News Article, May 24, 2023 • Hundreds of miles north of the Arctic Circle, Sandia National Laboratories researchers ensure the collection of important weather and climate data. By switching the gas used in their weather balloons, they have reduced their metaphorical footprint on the fragile Arctic ecosystem. More than three years ago, the Sandia-operated atmospheric measurement...
A hydrogen-filled weather balloon launches automatically from a Department of Energy atmospheric measurement facility in Utqiaġvik, formerly known as Barrow. About three years ago, Sandia National Laboratories switched from launching helium-filled balloons to launching hydrogen-filled balloons to reduce costs and carbon emissions. (Photo by Ben Bishop)

Sandia team receives prestigious recognition at ARPA-E EVs4ALL Annual Meeting
News Article, August 12, 2025 • Sandia recently received a Best Booth award for exceptional content, engagement and innovation at the 2025 ARPA-E Summit held in March. The award was presented to the Sandia team during the ARPA-E EVs4ALL Annual Meeting in Detroit. The award-winning booth showcased an innovative framework for the safety evaluation of batteries....
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Sandia to Host Discussion of Progress in Fusion Energy
News Article, March 14, 2022 • What is fusion energy? Why are we hearing more about it recently? Could fusion energy change the world? Sandia invites the public to learn more about these and other questions related to fusion energy startups and technological innovations on March 29, 2022, 10-11:00 a.m. MDT on Microsoft Teams. This virtual...
PHOTO: The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) is a collaborative nuclear fusion research and engineering project aiming to build the world’s largest magnetic fusion device, also known as a tokamak, in southern France. CREDIT: ITER Organization

Sandia to study snow-related energy losses using Morgan Solar’s sensor
News Article, August 11, 2023 • Photovoltaic researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are partnering with tech-company Morgan Solar to identify and quantify the amount of energy lost when a solar PV plant is covered in snow. Scientists will evaluate Morgan’s I IOT sensor, the IV DAQ, which captures continuous in situ data and can operate in...

Sandia uses electric-grid analytics to combat wildfire risks and aid post-wildfire recovery
News Article, February 1, 2024 • Wildfires impact the safety and security of society. The electric grid can initiate wildfires and is susceptible to wildfires. Sandia’s wildfire grid resilience program aims to mitigate and determine the risk of ignition, reduce wildfire spread, and decrease the consequences of major wildfires through new tools and better-informed decision making....
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