HelioCon Highlight: Solar Dynamics, NSTTF to demonstrate off-the-shelf wireless control system September 6, 2023 9:20 am Earlier this year the Heliostat Consortium, co-led by Sandia National Laboratories and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), announced seven... View Article
Recently installed spinner lidar to improve accuracy, prediction of Sandia and wind industry simulation tools July 10, 2023 9:25 am Sandia National Laboratories’ Wind Energy Technologies researchers successfully installed and deployed the spinner lidar on the hub of a General... View Article
Project spotlight: WEC-Sim software simulates wave energy converters to improve WEC design and overall performance April 26, 2023 9:25 am To help meet the United States goal of net-zero emissions by 2050, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories’ Water Power Program... View Article
Partnering for Innovation: U.S. Entrepreneurs Gain Access to the National Labs July 27, 2022 10:35 am Project teams from Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia), the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) convened... View Article
University of Wisconsin–Sandia Team Awarded SunShot CSP: APOLLO Funding October 21, 2015 9:57 pm With recently awarded funding from the US Department of Energy SunShot Initiative’s CSP: APOLLO Program (Concentrating Solar Power: Advanced Projects... View Article
SWiFT Facility Prepared for More-Efficient Operations & Advanced Turbine-Turbine Wake-Interaction-Control Research October 16, 2015 11:19 pm This past summer, activities at the DOE/SNL Scaled Wind-Farm Technology (SWiFT) facility picked up in preparation for an enhanced, more-efficient... View Article
Stion Commissions PV System at Sandia Regional Test Center September 23, 2015 7:35 pm Thin-film solar module manufacturer Stion has commissioned a 12 kW fixed latitude ground-mounted photovoltaic (PV) system at the DOE’s New... View Article
Floating Oscillating Water Column Reference Model Completed February 24, 2015 12:06 pm The DOE-supported Reference Model Project was developed to provide publicly available technical and economic benchmarks for a variety of marine... View Article
National Rotor Testbed Rotor Design Integrated Airfoil Performance Results February 24, 2015 11:58 am The National Rotor Testbed (NRT) team is examining the effect of airfoil choice on the final design of the new... View Article