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Solar Test Facility Upgrades Complete, Leading to Better Sandia Capabilities to Support Power Industry

On January 8, 2013, in Concentrating Solar Power, Energy, Energy Storage, Facilities, National Solar Thermal Test Facility, News, News & Events, Recovery Act, Renewable Energy, Solar, SunShot

A recent overhaul of the DOE’s National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF), operated by Sandia, is dramatically improving researchers’ ability to understand and use concentrating solar power (CSP). The $17.8M upgrade to the NSTTF adds state-of-the-art test capabilities, and the resulting research is expected to lead to more solar power use on the electric grid. [...]


Energy and Water in the Western and Texas Interconnects

On March 23, 2011, in

Partners Background Objectives Tasks Benefits/Outcomes Links Lead Lab Sandia National Laboratories Principal Investigator Vincent Tidwell PO Box 5800; MS 1137 Albuquerque, NM 87185 (505)844-6025 vctidwe@sandia.gov Project Partners Organization Point of Contact Argonne National Laboratory John Gasper Electric Power Research Institute Robert Goldstein Idaho National Laboratory Gerald Sehlke National Renewable Energy Laboratory Jordan Macknick Pacific Northwest [...]


Solar Energy Grid Integration Systems (SEGIS)

On November 10, 2010, in

Solar engineering, especially photovoltaic (PV) technologies, has been growing by leaps and bounds. This is fueled by intense private-sector interest in renewable energy (RE) power generation (on both the residential and commercial scale) and state mandates that utilities generate defined percentages of the electricity they provide from RE sources. Thirty five states have adopted these [...]


Last Updated: November 29, 2012
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