clean energy

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New program aims to BRIDGE gap in solar

November 18, 2024 • Hands-on training. Native American women learn to install photovoltaic panels as part of a collaboration with Sandia National Laboratories.

Categories: Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: clean energy, CRADA, national laboratories, Native American, solar installation, women in tech

A FORCEE for good: Growing Sandia’s climate and earth sciences internship

July 23, 2024 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Summer at Sandia National Laboratories typically means high temperatures, blazing sunlight and campuses filled with bright, eager interns. About 75 of these young innovators have come to Sandia this summer as part of the Future of Research for Climate, Earth and Energy Intern Institute. Another 75 interns...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, HR / Personnel

Topics: clean energy, internship opportunities, internships

Sandia National Laboratories intern Charles Xu tests the pressure of repair coatings on spent nuclear fuel canisters. Xu is an intern in the Future of Research for Climate, Earth and Energy Institute.

DOE awards $7.4M for energy projects at Sandia National Laboratories

June 28, 2024 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Department of Energy’s Office of Technology Transitions has awarded $7.4 million to develop seven projects at Sandia National Laboratories aimed at advancing clean energy technologies. Vanessa Chan, the Chief Commercialization Officer and director of DOE’s OTT office, announced the funding at an event in Albuquerque on...

Categories: Climate Change, Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: clean energy, commercialization, Department of Energy, national labs, Sandia, Sandia National Labs, technology transfer

Program in fusion energy attracted interns’ eyes

December 9, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.— A bold plan paid off this past summer when Sandia National Laboratories staff members LaRico Treadwell and Khalid Hattar combined their passions for increasing inclusion of people of color with developing materials to eventually derive energy from nuclear fusion. Standing to benefit from the pilot project were three...

Categories: Community / Education, Materials Science, Physics

Topics: chemistry, clean energy, diversity, fusion energy, HBCU, materials science, minorities, nuclear fusion, renewable energy, STEM

Eryal Reinhart, a summer intern at Sandia National Laboratories, is considering switching her major from engineering to materials science.

‘Iconic’ Sandia researcher wins Indigenous Excellence Award

October 28, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Her peers know her as an exceptional engineer. But to some Indigenous people, Sandra Begay is legendary. “Like many Native American students in STEM, I knew of Sandra before I met her,” said Suzanne Singer, who is Navajo and interned under Begay at Sandia National Laboratories in...

Categories: Awards

Topics: American Indian, clean energy, diversity, mentoring

Machine-learning technique from Sandia Labs could improve fusion energy outputs

October 12, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Machine-learning techniques, best known for teaching self-driving cars to stop at red lights, may soon help researchers around the world improve their control over the most complicated reaction known to science: nuclear fusion. Fusion reactions are typically hydrogen atoms heated to form a gaseous cloud called a...

Categories: Climate Change, Computing, Energy / Environment / Water, Military / Defense, Physics, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: clean energy, fusion, fusion reactors, machine learning

New Mexico firm uses motion of the ocean to bring fresh water to coastal communities

July 5, 2017 • Sandia Labs provides a fourth year of technical help ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Hurricane Katrina whipped up huge, powerful waves that caused severe destruction in 2005 along the U.S. Gulf Coast. Their size and strength convinced Phil Kithil of Santa Fe, New Mexico, there had to be a way to harness...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: clean energy, collaboration, desalination, economic development, national labs, NMSBA, partnerships, small business, tech transfer, wave power

More small, clean-energy businesses will tap into Sandia technical expertise

April 25, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Department of Energy has chosen five more small, clean-energy businesses to work with Sandia National Laboratories to speed the commercialization of next-generation technologies and gain a global competitive advantage for the U.S. “Sandia is excited to bring these small businesses together with our scientists and engineers...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: clean energy, collaboration, economic development, national labs, small business, small business vouchers, tech transfer

Wave energy researchers dive deep to advance clean energy source

October 13, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — One of the biggest untapped clean energy sources on the planet — wave energy — could one day power millions of homes across the U.S. But more than a century after the first tests of the power of ocean waves, it is still one of the hardest energy sources...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy

Topics: clean energy, energy, water, water power, wave, wave energy, wave power, WEC

Small businesses can apply for Sandia clean-energy help

October 10, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Department of Energy (DOE) today launched the third round of its Small Business Vouchers Pilot, which lets companies in the clean-energy sector apply for technical help from Sandia National Laboratories and other DOE labs. Johanna Wolfson, Technology-to-Market director in the office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: clean energy, collaboration, economic development, national labs, partnerships, small business, tech transfer

More small businesses get Sandia help in clean-energy voucher pilot

August 18, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the selection of five more small, clean-energy businesses to work with Sandia National Laboratories to bring next-generation technologies to market faster. “These are innovative companies working to build the clean-energy economy,” said Mary Monson, Sandia’s senior manager of industrial partnerships....

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: clean energy, collaboration, economic development, national labs, partnerships, renewable energy, small business, tech transfer

Small businesses to work with Sandia on clean technologies

March 10, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today that it’s chosen seven small clean-energy businesses to work with Sandia National Laboratories to bring next-generation technologies to market faster. “Sandia is excited to help these companies commercialize their products and advance the clean-energy economy,” said Jackie Kerby Moore,...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: clean energy, collaboration, economic development, renewable energy, small business, tech transfer

Algae raceway paves path from lab to real-world applications

February 2, 2016, Media Advisory • LIVERMORE, Calif.— In a twist of geometry, an oval can make a line. The new algae raceway testing facility at Sandia National Laboratories may be oval in shape, but it paves a direct path between laboratory research and solving the demand for clean energy. As the nation and California adopt...

Categories: Biology, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: algae raceway, Arizona Center for Algae Technology and Innovation, BETO, bioeconomy, biofuels, clean energy, Department of Energy, Department of Energy Bioenergy Technologies Office, Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia clean-energy assistance pilot is open for business

September 23, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Small businesses in the clean-energy sector can apply for technical help from Sandia National Laboratories and other U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) labs through a new pilot. David Danielson, DOE assistant secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), announced the launch of the Small Business Vouchers...

Categories: Renewable energy, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: clean energy, collaboration, economic development, national labs, renewable energy, small business, tech transfer

Nothing but water: Hydrogen fuel cell unit to provide renewable power to Honolulu port

August 28, 2015 • HONOLULU — A new chapter in clean energy is starting in Hawaii. At Young Brothers Ltd.’s Port of Honolulu facility, Sandia National Laboratories is leading the Maritime Hydrogen Fuel Cell project to test a hydrogen-fuel-cell-powered generator as an alternative to conventional diesel generators. The project kickoff was marked with a...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy, Transportation

Topics: clean energy, energy, Hawaii, hydrogen, hydrogen fuel cell, maritime, renewable energy, Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia pilot to assist small clean-energy companies

July 9, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) chose Sandia National Laboratories as one of five leads in a pilot that will give small, clean-energy companies access to national laboratory expertise and resources. Sandia will receive $2.75 million of DOE’s $20 million investment to launch the voucher pilot for...

Categories: Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, clean energy, collaboration, economic impact, national labs, renewable, small business, tech transfer

Twistact and Optimization of Building Efficiency projects chosen for DOE’s LabCorps

April 1, 2015 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Sandia National Laboratories’ Twistact and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL) Optimization of Building Efficiency projects were selected today as the Livermore Valley Site’s participants in the Energy Department’s LabCorps pilot program. “This program underscores the value of the partnership between Sandia Livermore, Lawrence Livermore and i-GATE to...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, clean energy, commercialization, energy, entrepreneurship, LabCorps, technology transfer, twistact