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Successful G3P3 receiver test is a step towards commercial scalability
News Article, September 18, 2024 • Researchers at the National Solar Thermal Test Facility have successfully tested the Generation 3 Particle Pilot Plant’s falling particle receiver. This new receiver is double the size of its predecessor and operates at two megawatts of concentrated radiative energy. The test represents an important step toward the commercial scalability of...

Surf’s up! Free webinar on wave energy
News Article, March 20, 2024 • Join our free webinar on March 26 at 11 a.m. Eastern Time with Sandia National Laboratories’ Ryan Coe, Giorgio Bacelli, Dominic Forbush and Tim Donnelly. They will share and discuss recent results from WEC co-design testing on the “WaveBot” device at the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division Maneuvering...

Technology Commercialization Fund Voucher Call is now open
News Article, June 17, 2024 • Do you know an entrepreneur, innovator, or community partner looking for technical assistance to bring their technology to market? Consider sharing the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Technology Transitions Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF) Open Voucher Call. The new $2.1 million opportunity will make $100,000 vouchers available to innovators, entrepreneurs,...
Image of five scientists. In the middle, one woman holds up a gear, looking through it. Image also includes the Office of Technology Transitions logo and the American-Made logo.

The WaveBot goes to Carderock
News Article, February 21, 2024 • The WaveBot, a scale-model wave energy converter (WEC), bobs up and down in the water as researchers cluster around a row of monitors in the control room of the largest wave tank in the United States. This is the WaveBot’s fourth trip to the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock...
The WaveBot at the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division Maneuvering and Seakeeping Basin (MASK) in Bethesda, Maryland.

There goes the sun: annular solar eclipse
News Article, October 20, 2023 • Glimpse phases of the annular solar eclipse as it passes Sandia’s National Solar Thermal Test Facility in Albuquerque on Oct. 14. The first photograph includes multiple exposures as the sun and moon traveled left to right, as well as an exposure without the eclipse. The second photograph comprises multiple exposures...
a mirrored heliostat reflects the phases of the 2023 solar eclipse.

Using the power of the sun to roast green chile
News Article, July 7, 2022 • Greener approach to a New Mexican staple opens possibilities for sustainable food roasting Sandia National Laboratories engineer Kenneth Armijo, who grew up on a chile farm in Sabinal, located between Albuquerque and Socorro, New Mexico, thought there was a “greener” way to roast green chile. The results of his experiments...

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...

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...
Waves crashings against the beach

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...
Waves crashings against the beach
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