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Public-private partnership awarded $120 million to develop energy storage
November 30, 2012 • Joint Center for Energy Storage Research sets aggressive technology development goals A team including Sandia National Laboratories will receive $120 million over five years from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to establish a new research hub to develop batteries and other energy storage technologies. The Joint Center for Energy...
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Sandia helps DOE bring large-scale solar systems to market
November 27, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is advancing viable, low-carbon power through collaborating on five U.S. Regional Test Centers (RTCs) where industry can assess the performance, reliability and bankability of large-scale photovoltaic energy systems. “With the trend in the solar industry toward larger systems and greater capital investment – substantial...
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Solar test facility upgrades complete, lead to better capabilities at Sandia for power industry
November 13, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A recent overhaul of the Department of Energy’s National Solar Thermal Test Facility, operated by Sandia National Laboratories, is dramatically improving researchers’ ability to understand and use concentrating solar power. The $17.8 million upgrade to the NSTTF adds state-of-the-art test capabilities, and the resulting research is expected...
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Northrop Grumman, GE partnerships tap wide range of Sandia Labs expertise
November 5, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories has signed a pair of cooperative research and development agreements (CRADAs) that could broadly add to the Labs’ research into combustion, defense, energy and nuclear security. The umbrella CRADAs, which enable Sandia and its partners to pursue multiple projects in a variety of categories,...
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Sandia to co-host international workshop on photovoltaics integration
October 29, 2012 • Sandia National Laboratories, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and European Distributed Energies Research Laboratories (DERlab) have organized a workshop on utility operating experience with high-penetration levels of solar photovoltaics (PV). The workshop, “Utility Experience with High Penetration PV,” is scheduled Monday, Dec. 3, in Berlin. The workshop will take...
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Four technology transfer awards go to Sandia Labs
October 22, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories has won four awards from the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) for Sandia’s efforts to develop and commercialize innovative technologies. The FLC’s Far West/Mid-Continent regional awards recognized Sandia’s technology transfer work with crystalline silico-titanates (CSTs), biomimetic membranes, the i-Gate Innovation Hub and DAKOTA software. “It...
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Sandia Labs benchmark helps wind industry measure success
October 4, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories published the second annual 2012 Wind Plant Reliability Benchmark on Monday, and the results should help the nation’s growing wind industry benchmark its performance, understand vulnerabilities and enhance productivity. Until now, wind farm owners and operators had no way to compare their output with...
Categories: Computing, Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy

Sandia gains national recognition for sustainable energy management
September 27, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has received a 2012 Department of Energy Sustainability Award for energy management of its computer servers. The awards recognize DOE national laboratories and sites nationwide for outstanding accomplishments in sustainability, specifically in managing pollution, waste, energy, water and vehicle fleets. Sandia’s award in the...
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Sandia probability maps help sniff out food contamination
September 27, 2012 • Uncovering the sources of fresh food contamination could become faster and easier thanks to analysis done at Sandia National Laboratories’ National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center (NISAC). The study, in the International Journal of Critical Infrastructures, demonstrates how developing a probability map of the food supply network using stochastic network...
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Students painlessly measure knee joint fluids in annual Sandia contest
September 26, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Texas Tech University repeated last year’s victory in the novel design category of Sandia National Laboratories’ annual competition to design new, extraordinarily tiny devices, while Carnegie Mellon University won the educational microelectromechanical (MEMS) prize for the second year in a row. This year’s contest attracted engineering students...
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Sandia solar researcher chosen as one of continent’s ten most brilliant scientists
September 24, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia researcher Greg Nielson is “one of the 10 most promising young scientists working today,” says Popular Science magazine. Nielson garnered one of the magazine’s “Brilliant 10” awards for helping lead the Sandia effort to create solar cells the size of glitter. Past Brilliant 10 honorees have...
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Dry-run experiments verify key aspect of Sandia nuclear fusion concept
September 17, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Magnetically imploded tubes called liners, intended to help produce controlled nuclear fusion at scientific “break-even” energies or better within the next few years, have functioned successfully in preliminary tests, according to a Sandia research paper accepted for publication by Physical Review Letters (PRL). To exceed scientific break-even is...
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Sandia and OurEnergyPolicy.org release “Goals of Energy Policy” poll that suggests call for ambitious agenda
September 12, 2012 • LIVERMORE, Calif.— U.S. energy policy should simultaneously pursue security of its energy supply, economic stability and reduced environmental impacts, says a national poll of energy professionals jointly prepared by Sandia National Laboratories and OurEnergyPolicy.org. The findings of the national poll, “The Goals of Energy Policy,” show that the vast majority...
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“Toxic” political discussions limit climate response, says invited speaker at Sandia
August 14, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The inability of natural and social scientists to convince political leaders that “we’re spinning a roulette wheel over climate change” puts humanity at “extreme risk,” said Massachusetts Institute of Technology management professor Henry Jacoby, former co-director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of...
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Alaskan North Slope climate: hard data from a hard place
August 13, 2012 • Researchers examine clouds (from both sides now) and the structure of the atmosphere BARROW, Alaska — Sandia National Laboratories’ researcher Mark Ivey and I (science writer Neal Singer)  are standing on the tundra at an outpost of science at the northernmost point of the North American continent. We are five miles northeast...
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Increased productivity, not less energy use, results from more efficient lighting
August 6, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two researchers have reprised in the journal Energy Policy their groundbreaking finding that improvements in lighting —  from candles to gas lamps to electric bulbs  — historically have led to increased light consumption rather than lower overall energy use by society. In an article in the journal...
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Sandia researcher Jeff Tsao examines the set-up used to test diode lasers as an alternative to LED lighting. Skeptics felt laser light would be too harsh to be acceptable. Research by Tsao and colleagues suggests the skeptics were wrong.

Predictions by climate models are flawed, says invited speaker at Sandia
July 25, 2012 •  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Richard Lindzen, a global warming skeptic, told about 70 Sandia researchers in June that too much is being made of climate change by researchers seeking government funding. He said their data and their methods did not support their claims. “Despite concerns over...
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Global warming unequivocal in its advance, says invited speaker at Sandia
July 24, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Global warming is unequivocal in its advance and will lead to more record-setting temperatures, said Warren M. Washington, a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, in the seventh lecture of Sandia National Laboratories’ Climate Change and National Security series. The talk was given in mid-May....
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Sandia SolarTrak technology helps arrays worldwide follow the sun
July 3, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – When Alex Maish was a researcher at Sandia National Laboratories in the early 1980s, he had a pet project, a low-cost, high-precision way to continuously move solar panels into the best possible position to catch sunlight and generate energy. By the early 1990s the technology was ready...
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Sandia engineer named DOE Energy Pioneer
July 2, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The U.S. Department of Energy named Chris Evans an Energy Pioneer for his work in identifying and implementing energy conservation practices at Sandia National Laboratories. The award recognizes people who go above and beyond their jobs in energy management for the federal government. Evans has been involved...
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Sandia wins four R&D 100 Awards
June 20, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers — competing in an international pool of universities, corporations and government labs — captured four prestigious R&D 100 Awards in this year’s contest. R&D Magazine presents the awards each year to researchers whom its editors and independent judging panels determine have developed the year’s...
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Solar nanowire array may increase percentage of sun’s frequencies available for energy conversion
June 18, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers creating electricity through photovoltaics want to convert as many of the sun’s wavelengths as possible to achieve maximum efficiency. Otherwise, they’re eating only a small part of a shot duck: wasting time and money by using only a tiny bit of the sun’s incoming energies. For...
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Sen. Bingaman tells Sandia Wind Turbine Blade Workshop that renewable energy is important to US policy
May 30, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M — Sen. Jeff Bingaman said Wednesday the on-again, off-again nature of U.S. energy tax incentives and the uncertainty over federal spending on research and innovative technology presents a major challenge to the wind energy industry and other alternative energy industries. Bingaman, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources...
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