PV Connectors December 16, 2021 10:40 am Mission To increase the robustness of the US solar infrastructure by identifying, quantifying and mitigating the risks posed by poorly-installed,... View Article
Sandian Contributes to Western Electricity Coordinating Council Photovoltaic Power Plant Model Validation Guideline August 21, 2015 9:48 pm As part of the Western Electricity Coordinating Council’s (WECC’s) Modeling and Validation Work Group, Sandia researcher Ryan Elliott (in Sandia’s... 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
Sandia Research on PV Arc-Fault Detection Submitted for US Patent March 4, 2015 6:52 pm Sandia National Laboratories/Tigo Energy researchers recently submitted an application for a US patent related to research on arc-fault detection and... 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
Combining ‘Tinkertoy’ Materials with Solar Cells for Increased Photovoltaic Efficiency December 4, 2014 6:16 pm Sandia researchers have received a $1.2M award from the DOE’s SunShot Initiative to develop a technique that they believe will... 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
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
Renewable Energy November 10, 2010 8:49 am Research that advances renewable energy technologies Sandia National Laboratories has performed advanced research in renewable energy since the 1970s. The... View Article