MISSION AREAS

• Nuclear Weapons
• Energy Resources and Nonproliferation
  • Fuel and Water Systems
    • Fuels for the 21st Century Century
    • Clean and Abundant Water
    • Infrastructure Security and Resilience
  • Nuclear Energy
  • Global Security
  • Enabling Breakthrough Science & Discovery
• Defense Systems and Assessments
• Homeland Security
• Science, Technology, and Engineering

• The Energy-Water Nexus
• Sandia manages new DOE renewable energy program – Solar Energy Grid Integration Systems (SEGIS)
• Sandia researchers develop integrated energy-water model for planning/ management purposes
• Sandia spearheads the formation of the National Institute for Nano-Engineering
• Sandia to Play Key Role in Bay Area – Hosted DOE Bioscience Center
• Sandia Applies a Surety Approach in Creating Solutions to Energy Challenges

Our objective is to provide system perspective and critical technology solutions for fuel and water that assure secure and sustainable supply, safe and resilient delivery infrastructure, and clean and efficient use of resources.

An energy system is safe if it safely supplies energy services to the end user; secure if it resists malevolently caused disruptions; reliable if it maintains delivery when/where needed; sustainable if it matches resources with mission needs; and cost effective if it delivers energy services at the lowest predictable cost.

Goals

FIELDS OF PARABOLIC TROUGH MODULES stretch to the horizon of the Mojave Desert near Barstow, Calif. Sandia invention could be used to better align mirrors and make the trough power plant system more affordable and efficient. >> More

Fuels for the 21st Century

• Launch Joint Bioscience Energy Initiative (JBEI)
  • Monsanto-Sandia CRADA for Biofuel Research
• Pursue Synthetic Fuels

Clean and Abundant Water

• Water Resource Allocation

Infrastructure Security and Resilience

• Secure Oil/Gas Infrastructure
  • Future Energy Challenges
• Improve Military Base Energy Surety
  • Sustainable Energy Technologies for Military Bases

Partnerships

Instrument clusters near Barrow, Alaska, gather data useful in refining global climate models. (Photo by Mark Ivey) >> More

• National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
• GM, ExxonMobil, Shell, General Atomic
• Universities

Points of Contact:
Margie Tatro,
Director
Fuel & Water Systems
(505) 844-3154

Tasha Perea,
Line of Business Administrator
Fuel & Water Systems
(505) 845-0639

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