Renewable Energy

The Advanced Materials Laboratory (AML) is one of seven laboratories that comprise Sandia’s Materials Science and Engineering Center. The AML has expertise in the development of materials and coatings for marine renewable energy and provides...

Bioscience is one of Sandia's research foundations, an area considered key to the success of the Lab's national security programs. In the Applied Bioscience Laboratory (ABL) at Sandia California, the bioscience research focus is...

The Battery Abuse Testing Laboratory (BATLab) at Sandia is an internationally recognized leader in energy storage system safety research. The BATLab is committed to serving the energy storage community and the national interest with cutting-edge research...

Established as the first Department of Energy user facility in the 1970s and designated as a DOE collaborative research facility in 2008, the Combustion Research Facility (CRF) has served as a national and international leader in...

The Computer Science Research Institute (CSRI) brings university faculty and students to Sandia for focused collaborative research on Department of Energy computer and computational science problems. CSRI focuses on research in areas of computer...

Researchers at the Control and Optimization of Networked Energy Technologies (CONET) Laboratory conduct research, development, and testing on networked and distributed systems. Research at CONET is interwoven with cybersecurity objectives and focuses on: coordinated communications, controls...

The Electronics Development Lab offers capabilities for high temperature electronic fabrication and assembly, the evaluation of electromagnetic hardware, optical evaluation, 3D printing, and long-term storage of sensitive electronics while under electro-static protection. Image depicts...

The Sandia FACT Site provides the equipment and seismically quiet surroundings required for testing infrasound and seismic sensors, instrumentation, and monitoring systems. This site allows for geothermal tools to be tested with a wireline truck to...

The Geochemistry Laboratories at Sandia support the investigation of basic scientific questions including material behaviors at mineral-fluid interfaces and the effects of chemical environment on fracture.  Experimental geochemistry studies allow researchers to build and...

The Geomechanics Laboratory allows its users to measure rock properties under a wide range of simulated service conditions up to very high pressures, elevated temperatures, and complex load paths. The laboratory's capabilities make it...

A large plot of land, known as Tech Area III, allows Sandia’s geothermal research program to evaluate large systems. For example, the program has 1,000 feet of drilling pipe that was used for evaluating...

Sandia maintains a large laboratory facility for the development, assembly, and testing of geothermal technologies. Sandia’s evaluation and assembly facility provides several testing, processing, and packaging stations and capabilities for high-temperature packaging, high-temperature and...

Geothermal resources are typically associated with igneous and metamorphic rocks, which are harder than the sedimentary rocks through which most oil and gas wells are drilled. The Hard Rock Drilling Facility features a vertical...

Sandia’s High Operating Temperature (HOT) Facility houses a 20-foot-tall drill rig, heating chamber, and process gas heater. HOT can simulate conditions deep underground by elevating the temperatures directly to the drill bit and can...

The technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories have access to High Performance Computing (HPC) Production Clusters for solving, visualizing, and interpreting large, complex science and engineering problems.  Currently there are 4 such Linux clusters...

The Hydrogen Effects on Materials Laboratory is the cornerstone of Sandia’s research expertise in hydrogen compatibility of materials and a core capability stewarded by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s (EERE) Hydrogen and Fuel...

Sandia’s Hydrogen–Surface Interactions Laboratory includes an array of specialized capabilities assembled to address the obstacle of directly detecting hydrogen in furthering our understanding of hydrogen–surface interactions. The lab includes an angle-resolved ion energy spectrometer...

Sandia staff in the Hydrogen Transport and Trapping Laboratory evaluate many features of the interactions between hydrogen and materials. In particular, the effects of hydrogen on mechanical properties can be strongly influenced by transport (or diffusion)...

The Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) is a San Francisco Bay Area research partnership that combines scientific expertise, resources, and support of four national laboratories, five academic institutions, and one industry partner. Led by Lawrence Berkeley National...

Current speed and wave measurements are critical for assessing the resource and hydrodynamic characteristics at an MHK site.  Sandia’s team has the capability and sensors/instrumentation for conducting field- and laboratory-scale measurements, such as ADCPs,...

The Microsystem Assembly and Brazing Facility offers advanced capabilities for epoxy die bonding, soldering, wire bonding, seam sealing, holistic packaging and materials process analysis, metal deposition (e.g., PVD, CVD, ALD), 3D printing (e.g., PEEK,...

The Microsystems Engineering, Science, and Applications (MESA) Complex integrates the numerous scientific disciplines necessary to produce functional, robust, integrated microsystems and represents the center of Sandia’s investment in microsystems research, development, and prototyping activities. Visit the...

Operated by Sandia for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF) is the only large-scale concentrating solar power (CSP) and solar thermal test facility in the United States. The primary...

Sandia’s Photovoltaic Systems Evaluation Laboratory, or PSEL, provides expertise and test support within several facilities and outdoor sites for evaluating PV and other distributed energy technologies. It includes the following capabilities: PV systems evaluations...

Manufacturers of solar technologies partner with the Regional Test Centers program to have the performance of their products validated at one or more of six climatically distinct sites in the United States, including locations...

The Water Power Technologies department leverages these capabilities in robotics to support wave energy converter (WEC) design and testing. Visit the Robotics website

The Sandia Wave Energy Power Take-off (SWEPT) Laboratory offers mobile, specialized testing for systems that produce power from wave energy. SWEPT is used to test wave energy converter (WEC) power take-off (PTO) systems. WECs are unique...

Scaled Wind Farm Technology Facility (SWiFT) Enabling rapid, cost-effective research and making unique assets available to improve wind plant performance, advance technology, and build trusted partnerships. The Sandia Scaled Wind Farm Technology (SWiFT) Facility,...