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“We’ve Got the Power”: Sandia technology test delivers electricity to the grid
News Article, August 9, 2022 • First test of cutting-edge Brayton cycle technology put power into local grid For the first time, Sandia National Laboratories researchers delivered electricity produced by a new power-generating system to the Sandia-Kirtland Air Force Base electrical grid. The system uses heated supercritical carbon dioxide instead of steam to generate electricity and...
"Two men stand before a cabinet of power system controllers"

2024 European PVPMC Workshop announces call for abstracts
News Article, April 15, 2024 • Sandia National Laboratories’ PV Performance and Modelling Collaborative has released a call for abstracts for the 2024 European PVPMC Workshop. The Technical University of Denmark, European Energy, and Sandia will host the event taking place in Copenhagen, Denmark, Aug. 21-22, 2024.  Workshop organizers are currently inviting session abstracts on the...
Long line of PV panels with sun setting behind them

2024 Sandia Blade Workshop
News Article, March 1, 2024 • The 2024 Sandia Blade Workshop will be held Sept. 16-20, 2024, at the Embassy Suites in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The workshop brings together wind industry experts, wind farm stakeholders and operators, manufacturers, and researchers. Speakers and attendees will address the major topics for wind turbine blades, network with colleagues, and...

A SEAT at the global table: Environmental modeling software endorsed by the Ocean Decade
News Article, June 6, 2024 • Figure: Example of a SEAT output showing risk of potential changes in seabed dynamics (i.e., erosion or deposition) caused by modified wave and circulation forces induced by a WEC array interacting with local sediment bed composition. Sandia National Laboratories’ Spatial Environmental Assessment Toolkit has received an endorsement from the United...

Albuquerque mayor honors Sandia researcher who invests in his community
News Article, November 22, 2024 • Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller recently honored Sandia solar researcher Ken Armijo for his outstanding community service and volunteer impact in the local community. Armijo, along with several other volunteers and one volunteer organization, were recognized in late October during a ceremony for their diverse contributions and work to support those...

Algae scrubbing for waterway remediation and biofuel production
News Article, December 3, 2024 • Photo caption: Principal Investigator Ryan Davis and team have advanced an algae flow-way system that reclaims major nutrients, metals, and organic and inorganic carbon from surface waters. Sandia researchers are advancing algae flow-way systems that screen out pollutants from the environment. Designed to simultaneously remediate water and grow algae for...
A researcher in a lab coat sits beside a flow way containing algae

Atrisco Heritage Academy High School Solar + Storage Project
News Article, October 27, 2022 • Sandia recently partnered with Albuquerque Public Schools, NM Energy Minerals and Natural Resources Department, the Department of Energy, and OE Solar for the opening of the district’s largest solar installation together with the state’s most extensive battery energy storage system. The $3.2 million solar + storage project at Atrisco Heritage...
Atrisco Heritage Ribbon Cutting

Back to the drawing board: Reinventing offshore wind turbines
News Article, August 16, 2022 • New Sandia software allows for design of innovative floating turbines Brandon Ennis, Sandia National Laboratories’ offshore wind technical lead, had a radically new idea for offshore wind turbines: instead of a tall, unwieldy tower with blades at the top, he imagined a towerless turbine with blades pulled taut like a...
An illustration of a vertical axis wind turbine

Bioenergy Cybersecurity Workshop presentations now available
News Article, November 21, 2023 • Developing and manufacturing biofuels involve automated, networked technologies at many stages of the process. Just as we secure our computers at work or home, how do we ensure that these technologies—and the biofuel production they support—are protected against hacking, malware, and cyberattacks? The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO),...
Algae in petri dishes for experiment

Bioscience research holds promise to help address environmental damage
News Article, February 28, 2024 • Palm kernel oil is used in almost 40% of beauty and food products worldwide, but the $12 billion industry is estimated to account for millions of acres lost to deforestation and 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Sandia bioscientist Di Liu recently demonstrated novel metabolic routes to produce lipids containing...
Waxen red-orange tinted seeds sit atop a rock.

CSP seminar series session focuses on bulk solids handling
News Article, January 8, 2025 • Sandia’s National Solar Thermal Test Facility welcomes Greg Mehos, director of Greg Mehos & Associates LLC, for the next session of the Concentrating Solar Power Seminar Series. “Storage and Flow of Bulk Solids,” will take place on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, from 10:00 a.m. MST to 11:00 a.m. MST. When compared to...

Exploring explosives for expanding geothermal energy
News Article, June 23, 2022 • Sandia researchers test explosives and propellants to create geothermal power sites Why are scientists setting off small-scale explosions inside 1-foot cubes of plexiglass? They’re watching how fractures form and grow in a rock-like substance to see if explosives or propellants, similar to jet fuel, can connect geothermal wells in a...
Technicians and students examine a plexiglass cube fractured by a small explosion

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

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...
Two technologist stand atop the solar tower with the helioststa and control room behind them

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...

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...

Icephobic surfaces for ice, snow shedding in utility scale solar
News Article, December 15, 2021 • A Sandia National Laboratories-led research team has developed a transparent, polymeric-based coating that helps photovoltaic panels continuously shed snow and ice. Read the complete article in Renewable Energy World. Go to the article

IEA Task 13 report offers new guidelines for photovoltaic bifacial tracker systems
News Article, September 20, 2024 • Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories were part of an international team to publish a new report featuring best practices for bifacial photovoltaic tracking systems. In August, the International Energy Agency Photovoltaic Power Systems Programme Task 13 released, “Best Practices for the Optimization of Bifacial Tracking Systems 2024,” which provides an...

International team plans to transform battery databases
News Article, January 30, 2023 • A consortium of researchers, including Sandia battery experts Yuliya Preger and Valerio De Angelis, are working together to stimulate battery innovation by developing battery databases. Ultimately, they hope to expand the role of batteries in supporting the transformation of electric grid infrastructure including the integration of renewable energy resources and...
Two researchers stand by battery testing equipment

Internship prepares Native students for careers in tribal energy
News Article, September 20, 2023 • Three interns who participated in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Indian Energy-sponsored student internship program shared their experiences in a recent post published to DOE's website. The program is administered by Sandia — Sandra Begay, a member of the Navajo Nation, has been implementing the program on behalf...
a researcher and two interns standd alongside each other with mountains in the background

Making materials more durable through science
News Article, September 12, 2023 • A team at Sandia National Laboratories developed a molecule that helps change the way some materials react to temperature fluctuations, which makes them more durable. It’s an application that could be used in everything from plastic phone cases to missiles. Polymers, which include various forms of plastics, are made up...
A researcher holds a vial of a new batch of a new, more durable material
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