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Sandia uncovers hidden factors that affect solar farms during severe weather

August 31, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers combined large sets of real-world solar data and advanced machine learning to study the impacts of severe weather on U.S. solar farms, and sort out what factors affect energy generation. Their results were published earlier this month in the scientific journal Applied Energy....

Categories: Climate Change, Computing, Renewable energy

Topics: climate change, hurricanes, machine learning, severe weather, snowstorms, solar energy, solar farms, solar panels

Sandia initiatives to protect US energy grid and nuclear weapons systems

March 23, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — To deter attempts to disable U.S. electrical utilities and to defend U.S. nuclear weapon systems from evolving technological threats, Sandia National Laboratories has begun two multiyear initiatives to strengthen U.S. responses. One is focused on defending large U.S. electrical utility systems from potential attacks by hostile nations,...

Categories: Climate Change, Cybersecurity, Energy / Environment / Water, Homeland security, Military / Defense, Nuclear Weapons, Physics, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: electromagnetic, electrons, geomagnetic, Hermes, hurricanes, lightning, neutrons, nuclear weapons, petawatt, Saturn, solar storms, transformers, utilities, X-rays, Z