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Don’t set it and forget it — scan it and fix it with tech that detects wind blade damage
June 24, 2019 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Drones and crawling robots outfitted with special scanning technology could help wind blades stay in service longer, which may help lower the cost of wind energy at a time when blades are getting bigger, pricier and harder to transport, Sandia National Laboratories researchers say. As part of...
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Wind blade robotic crawler

Rooftop solar panels get boost from Sandia tool that previews a year on grid in minutes
June 20, 2019 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Homeowners and businesses may now have an easier time getting solar panels on rooftops thanks to software developed at Sandia. The new software can run a detailed, second-by-second simulation, known as quasi-static time series analysis, that shows utility companies how rooftop solar panels at a specific house...
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Matthew Reno, Sandia National Laboratories

CRADA enables resilient microgrid research between Sandia, Emera Technologies
November 15, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Imagine a hurricane similar in magnitude to 2017’s Maria that pummels through islands and small communities, stripping out power lines and wreaking havoc on residents’ lives. Only imagine this time around there is a local power system that is more r…
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Some like it cryogenic
October 15, 2018 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Rendering of First Element Fuel’s liquid hydrogen retail fuel pump. The pump includes a canopy on top and the fuel storage is pictured in the rear. (Image courtesy of First Element Fuel) Click on the thumbnail for a high-resol…
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Rendering of First Element Fuel’s liquid hydrogen retail fuel pump. The pump includes a canopy on top and the fuel storage is pictured in the rear.

Small business recycling ventures propelled by Sandia engineering
September 27, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Along Route 66 in rural, eastern New Mexico is a defunct ethanol plant in Tucumcari. Still hanging inside the building, calendars from 2010 mark the year it closed, and six massive fermentation tanks — each one 35 feet tall and 55,000 gallons — sit empty. Drought has...
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Tucumcari Bio-Energy

From concept to commercialization: 40 years of concentrating solar power research
July 26, 2018, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — From testing space shuttle tiles to making electricity from sunlight, the world’s first multimegawatt solar tower has contributed to energy research, space exploration, defense testing and solar energy commercialization since it was commissioned at Sandia National Laboratories in July 1978. The solar tower is a key component...
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Historical sepia toned photo of a crowd looking at the Solar Tower.

Raising the heat to lower the cost of solar energy
May 21, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories will receive $10.5 million from the Department of Energy to research and design a cheaper and more efficient solar energy system. The work focuses on refining a specific type of utility-scale solar energy technology that uses mirrors to reflect and concentrate sunlight onto a...
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First 3-D printed wind-blade mold, energy-saving nanoparticles earn Sandia national awards
April 25, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has won the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer’s national 2018 Technology Focus Award for designing the first wind turbine blades fabricated from a 3-D printed mold, which could dramatically shorten the time and expense of developing new wind energy technology. The labs also...
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3D-printed wind turbine blade

Wind energy team to compete nationally after winning Sandia Labs’ first pitch competition
November 27, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In an effort to help researchers think about their ideas from a business perspective, Sandia National Laboratories collaborated with startup accelerator ABQid in the labs’ first Pitch Competition this fall.A team working to commercialize wind energy f…
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Optimizing hydrogen-powered passenger ferries focus of Sandia Labs study
July 13, 2017 • LIVERMORE, California — Maritime transportation has emerged as one solution to the traffic gridlock that plagues coastal cities. But with urban passenger ferries operating in sensitive environments and tourist areas, hydrogen fuel cell-powered passenger ferries offer a qui…
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Joe Pratt and Myra Blaylock

Sandia receives ENERGISE award to study how to help utilities better manage power systems
January 31, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories has been awarded a three-year, $2.5 million award to help utility companies better visualize, manage and protect power systems as they include increasing numbers of distributed energy resources (DER) such as wind and solar. The project creates open-source advanced distribution management system (ADMS) algorithms...
Categories: Awards, Renewable energy, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Sandia’s solar glitter closer to market with new licensing agreement
January 31, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An Albuquerque company founded by a Sandia National Laboratories scientist-turned-entrepreneur has received a license for a “home-grown” technology that could revolutionize the way solar energy is collected and used. The licensing agreement was signed Jan. 23 between mPower Technology Inc. and Sandia for microsystems enabled photovoltaics (MEPV)....
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Sandia Labs, Singapore join forces to develop energy storage
December 6, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the government of Singapore’s Energy Market Authority (EMA) that will tap into the labs’ expertise in energy storage. EMA is the statutory body in Singapore responsible for ensuring a reliable and secure energy supply,...
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Dan Borneo, center in blue shirt, and other researchers from Sandia National Laboratories met with government representatives in the Southeast Asian island city-state of Singapore. Sandia will help Singapore’s Energy Market Authority set up the country’s first grid energy storage test-bed through a Comprehensive Research and Development Agreement. (Photo courtesy of Sandia National Laboratories) Click on the thumbnail for a high-resolution image.

Turning ubiquitous lignin into high-value chemicals
September 16, 2016 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Sandia National Laboratories researchers Arul Varman, left, and Seema Singh, who is the principal investigator, are part of a team that mapped the metabolic pathway of a bacteria that lives solely off lignin. The breakthrough, p…
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Sandia researcher wins high-voltage award
August 2, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Awards arrive at different levels of intensity, but no one can deny that Sandia National Laboratories researcher Mark Savage has won the highest voltage prize of all — the IEEE William G. Dunbar Award — for work achieved at extremely high voltage. Asked why he was selected...
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Mark Savage

Sandia Labs tapped again to lead national solar evaluation centers
May 3, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories won a three-year renewal of a Department of Energy contract to manage the U.S. Regional Test Centers (RTCs), a network of five sites across the country where industry can assess the performance, reliability and economic viability of solar photovoltaic (PV) technologies. The program currently...
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U.S. rooftops get a thumbs-up for solar after Sandia testing
April 14, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Most U.S. rooftops in good repair can take the weight of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems. That’s the conclusion of a three-year study by a research team led by Sandia National Laboratories. “There is a misperception in the building industry that existing residential rooftops lack the strength to...
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Enormous blades could lead to more offshore energy in U.S.
January 28, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new design for gigantic blades longer than two football fields could help bring offshore 50-megawatt (MW) wind turbines to the United States and the world. Sandia National Laboratories’ research on the extreme-scale Segmented Ultralight Morphing Rotor (SUMR) is funded by the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced...
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Todd Griffith

Sandia Labs playing key role in grid modernization
January 14, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is leading the Security and Resilience area of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Grid Modernization Laboratory Consortium (GMLC) and bringing its strong research capability in grid modernization to help the nation modernize its power grid. The consortium includes scientists and engineers from across 14...
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