Water Power Facilities & Implementation

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...

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...

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...

Sandia has extensive experience understanding the mechanical, hydrological, chemical, and thermal forces at play in geothermal systems and during drilling projects. Geothermal drilling and development require thorough characterization of the in-situ rock properties, fracture...

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...

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 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...