Sandia National Laboratories is a multi-program laboratory managed and operated by Sandia Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation, for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-AC04-94AL85000. SAND2016-0090 PE

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Sandia’sRenewableEnergyResearchCarolAdkins

Director,EnergyTechnologies&SystemsSolutionsCenter

August30,2016

§ July1945:LosAlamoscreatesZDivision

§Nonnuclearcomponentengineering

§November1,1949:SandiaLaboratoryestablished

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Sandia’sHistory

Nuclearweapons

Production andmanufacturingengineering

1950sDevelopmentengineering

Vietnam conflict

1960sMultiprogramlaboratory

Energycrisis

1970sMissile defense

work

ColdWar

1980sPost−Cold War

transition

Stockpilestewardship

1990sSTART

Post 9/11

National security

2000sLEPs

Cyber,biosecurityproliferation

Evolvingnationalsecuritychallenges

2010s

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NationalSecurityChallengesHaveEvolved

Computing&InformationSciences

RadiationEffects&HighEnergyDensityScience

MaterialsScience

EngineeringSciences Nanodevices&Microsystems

Bioscience

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MaterialsSciences

Geoscience

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Sandia’sResearchFoundations

1970 1980 1990 2000 2010

Energycrisisofthe1970sspawnedthebeginningofsignificantenergywork

DistributedEnergyTechnologyLaboratory (DETL)

DOE’sTechTransferInitiativeestablishedbyCongressin1991

CRF&Cumminspartnership

SunshinetoPetrolPilotTest

ConsortiumforAdvancedSimulation

ofLightWaterReactors(CASL)

EnergyPolicyActof2005

SweepTwistAdaptiveRotor(STAR)

Climatestudyuncertaintiesto

economies

JointBioEnergyInstitute

CombustionResearchFacility (CRF)openstoresearchers

CombustionResearchComputationand

Visualization (CRCV)opens

StrategicPetroleumReserve

NRCcaskcertificationstudies&coremeltstudies

SandiaWindBlade

ProgramSolarToweropens

2011

WaterPowerProgram

MELCORcodereleased

1500 m -

1000 m -

500 m -

Belo

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ean

Sea

Leve

l

Vertical-axisWindTurbine

2012 2013

MesadelSolmicrogriddemo

MEPV

FukushimaRecovery

Criegeecombustionintermediates

PVRegionalTestCenters(RTCs)

CREW published

SWiFT Facility

CX-100(carbonsparcap)

SandiaCooler Biofuels:ionicliquid

pretreatment

AdvancedManufacturing

Initiative

ElectricityStorageHandbook

SolarGlareAnalysisTool(SGHAT)

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CREWpublished

BSDS(flatbackairfoil)

Sandia’sEnergyHistory– 40Years

Sandia’sEnergyR&DProgramToday

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OurWorkSupportsDOE’sWindVision

§ Weseektoincreasethedeploymentofwindenergysystemstooffsetcarbonintheatmosphereandincreasedomesticenergyproductbytechnologydevelopment,guidedbytheDepartmentofEnergyWindVisionof35%windpenetrationin2050:

• WindPowerResourcesandSiteCharacterization• WindPlantTechnologyAdvancement• SupplyChain,Manufacturing andLogistics• WindPowerPerformance, Reliability,andSafety• WindElectricityDeliveryandIntegration• WindSitingandPermitting• Collaboration, Education,andOutreach• WorkforceDevelopment”

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http://energy.gov/eere/wind/maps/wind-vision

Sandia’sEnergyR&DProgramToday

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Sandia’swindenergyprogramhasbeendevelopingtechnologysince1972andiscurrentlyfocusedon:

§ HigherEfficiency&EnvironmentallySoundEnergySources:Advancethenextgenerationofhighefficiency, environmentallysoundtechnologies tomeet thenation’senergydemand.

§ Safety,Security&ResilienceofEnergyInfrastructure:ProvideR&Dadvances toensurephysicalandcyberprotectionofthenation’senergyinfrastructureandbuildtheresilientsystem ofthefuture.

We’reLeveragingSandia’sCapabilities…

§ Wefocuson…• Advancingrotorsystemsinnovation• Providinginnovativeexperimentationopportunitiesforwindplanttechnologiesandoperations

• Quantifyingandreducinguncertaintiesinwindplantmodelingandexperimentation

• Enhancingwindplantreliability

§ Toprovideworld-classexpertise,weleverageourdeepwindexpertiseand Sandia’sbroaderexpertiseinmod-sim,highperformancecomputing,materialsscienceandreliability,andengineeringscience/V&VUQ.

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KeyActivitiesinSupportofDOE’sVisionandSandia’sSecure&SustainableEnergyFuture

§ Rotor/BladeDevelopments–NationalRotorTestbed,LargeRotors,LeadEdgeErosion(Paquette,Ennis,Maniaci,Kelley,Griffith,Naughton)

§ BladeMaterialsandManufacturing–AdvancedManufacturingMolds (Paquette,Naughton)

§ HighFidelityModeling,SimulationandUncertaintyQuantification(Barone,Maniaci)

§ BladeDefects,Damage,andRepair(Paquette,Roach)

§ FieldTestingandExperimentation (White,Crawford,Mitchell,Herges,Berg)

§ WindTurbineandPlantReliability (Karlson,Westergaard)

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WelcometoAlbuquerqueandThankYouforComing!

ThisworkissupportedbytheUSDOEEEREWindandWaterPowerProgram.