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Record-breaking, ultrafast devices step to protecting the grid from EMPs
March 15, 2022 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Scientists from Sandia National Laboratories have announced a tiny, electronic device that can shunt excess electricity within a few billionths of a second while operating at a record-breaking 6,400 volts — a significant step towards protecting the nation’s electric grid from an electromagnetic pulse. The team published...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Nanotechnology, Science / Technology / Engineering
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Foreground: Two men, one passing a nickel-sized wafer. Background: A device for testing the diodes on the wafer and a computer screen showing an array of dots/diodes

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
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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