Sandia-led center to advance understanding of new solar panel technology July 16, 2021 12:00 pm The Department of Energy recently awarded $14 million to two national labs to form a Sandia-led center to improve the... View Article
2021 PV Performance Modeling and Monitoring Workshop Call for Abstracts July 7, 2021 11:48 am The 2021 PV Performance Modeling and Monitoring Workshop to be held Oct. 19-20, 2021, in Salt Lake City, UT, is... View Article
Materials developed at Sandia help extinguish solar panel fires before they ignite December 22, 2020 10:29 pm As solar panels become popular and their voltages increase, there is a need to have built-in capabilities to extinguish fires... View Article
Navy/Marine Engineering Command Visits Sandia July 15, 2015 11:55 pm Steven Chung, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest (NAVFAC SW),1 Dwight Deakin, Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR),2 Melanie Anderson (NAVAIR PAX... View Article
PV Plant Performance Technical Briefing Published in PV Power Tech March 4, 2015 6:51 pm The state of the art in PV system monitoring is relatively simplistic, relying either on comparisons of outputs between various... View Article
Sandian Selected for Outstanding Engineer Award December 10, 2014 3:37 pm The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Region 6: Southwest Area (encompassing New Mexico, Arizona, California, and Nevada) has... View Article
PV Reliability & Performance Model October 10, 2011 12:53 pm This Web Demo model is a simplified “player” version of the Photovoltaic Reliability Performance Model (PV-RPM) currently in development at... View Article
PV Publications April 22, 2011 9:49 am Recent Publications, Listed by Date. Click on publication title to view, right click to download. All files are in PDF... View Article
Photovoltaics April 20, 2011 11:44 am Sandia has performed Photovoltaic R&D for over 40 years. In 1976, Sandia tested the performance and reliability of the first... View Article
Balance of Systems and Soft Costs November 10, 2010 9:29 am The U.S. Department of Energy estimates that non-hardware costs, or “soft costs,” represent as much of 64% of the total... View Article