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2024 Sandia Blade Workshop
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...

Bioscience research holds promise to help address environmental damage
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.

The WaveBot goes to Carderock
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.

Sandia uses electric-grid analytics to combat wildfire risks and aid post-wildfire recovery
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....

National Solar Thermal Test Facility and University of Arizona partner for HelioCon project
January 31, 2024 • Sandia’s National Solar Thermal Test Facility is partnering with the University of Arizona's Professor J. Roger Angel for one of four projects the Heliostat Consortium awarded last year. The project, “Twisting Heliostats with Closed Loop Tracking,” targets the U.S. Department of Energy’s goals for heliostat cost reduction, sustained multifaceted innovation,...

HelioCon’s latest request for proposals supports widespread use of concentrating solar power
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...

PR100 Final Results Public Webinar
January 23, 2024 • Puerto Rico has committed to 100% renewable energy by 2050—and the new Puerto Rico Grid Resilience and Transition to 100% Renewable Energy (PR100) Study results can help them get there. Join the U.S. Department of Energy on Feb. 7 at 2:30 ET for a presentation of final results from PR100....
aerial photo of Puerto Rico city

Sandia economist selected fellow of energy association
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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Researchers share HyBlend Phase I results and progress at H2IQ Webinar
December 11, 2023 • Sandia hydrogen and metallurgy expert Chris San Marchi joined collaborators from other national labs for the Department of Energy Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office monthly H2IQ Hour in October. The researchers provided an overview of materials and analysis research conducted under the HyBlend initiative. The recorded webinar and slides are...
Oil, Gas Or Water Transportation With Pipe Line Valves On Soil With Defocused Background

Detecting nuclear materials using light
November 22, 2023 • Sandia partners with former employee to get tech on the market Sandia National Laboratories researcher Patrick Feng, left, and Former Sandian Joey Carlson, right, hold Organic Glass Scintillators they helped create to detect radioactive materials. (Photo by Randy Wong) LIVERMORE, Calif. — Blueshift Optics, owned by former Sandia employee Joey...
Two researchers hold up a scintillator, a blue disk

Bioenergy Cybersecurity Workshop presentations now available
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

New tool models viability of closed-loop geothermal systems
November 20, 2023 • Web tool looks belowground for an economically viable renewable energy source ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Geothermal power has a lot of promise as a renewable energy source that is not dependent on the sun shining or the wind blowing, but it has some challenges to wide adoption. One of these challenges is...
Illustration of a closed-loop geothermal system with various important factors labeled.

Sandia Wind Energy Technologies Program takes lead for six incubator awards
November 8, 2023 • Sandia National Laboratories received the lead on six new incubator awards announced by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Wind Energy Technologies Office on October 20. WETO provided the wind-specific seed funding for a new program to create novel pathways to innovation while allowing the national labs a higher degree of risk...

Using X-ray science to hit hydrogen storage targets
November 7, 2023 • Using soft X-ray techniques available through Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source (ALS), a Sandia team including Mark Allendorf and Farid El Gabaly with collaborators from the Hydrogen Materials Advanced Research Consortium (HyMARC) are probing the chemistry of promising hydrogen storage materials to understand how they absorb and release hydrogen. The...

There goes the sun: annular solar eclipse
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.

Labs researchers capture R&D 100 Awards
October 18, 2023 • Among the R&D 100 awards and nominations Sandia took part in this year, two awards featured innovations with implications for energy and manufacturing. R&D World magazine honors inventors by identifying the 100 most technologically significant products and advancements each year and recognizing the winning innovators and their organizations. Winners are...

Internship prepares Native students for careers in tribal energy
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
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

Sandian named Scientist of the Year
September 11, 2023 • “I was the only farm worker who had a calculus book in his car,” Sal Rodriguez joked when I asked him about his upbringing. But it was no joke. The son of immigrants, Sal grew up in the tiny town of Calexico, California and worked in the fields to put...
A researcher stands in front of a bank of windows on a bright, sunny day

HelioCon Highlight: Solar Dynamics, NSTTF to demonstrate off-the-shelf wireless control system
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

Sandia to study snow-related energy losses using Morgan Solar’s sensor
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...

What do you do with a shrunken laser?
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...
Ashok Kodigala holds a gold plated wafer filled with thousands of minute lasers made at Sandia National Laboratories MESA facility.

Stunning discovery: Metals can heal themselves
August 8, 2023 • Scientists for the first time have witnessed pieces of metal crack, then fuse back together without any human intervention, overturning fundamental scientific theories in the process. If the newly discovered phenomenon can be harnessed, it could usher in an engineering revolution — one in which self-healing engines, bridges and airplanes...
A researcher examines data on a large screen while standing among laboratory equipment lit with red light.
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