Sandian Contributes to Western Electricity Coordinating Council Photovoltaic Power Plant Model Validation Guideline August 21, 2015 9:48 pm Published by Admin 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 Published by Admin 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 Published by Admin 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 Published by Admin 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 Published by Admin 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 Published by eciscomm 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 Published by eciscomm 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 Published by eciscomm 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 Published by eciscomm 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 Published by eciscomm Research that increases the resilience of renewable energy Sandia National Laboratories has advanced research in renewable energy since the 1970s.... View Article