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Long Duration Energy Consortium
Luke McLaughlin is a senior member of the mechanical engineering staff at Sandia National Laboratories (SNL). Luke received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wyoming in 2022 and has since worked at the National Solar Thermal Test Facility at SNL. His areas of research include concentrating solar technologies, hybrid energy systems, long duration energy storage, and thermal energy storage (TES) – with a focus on developing next generation high temperature and high power technology for industrial process heat and power applications. Luke is the Tiger Team lead of the Technology Development, Evaluation, and Testing Tiger Team within the LDES National Consortium, and he was a contributing author to DOE's 2023 Thermal Energy Storage Technology Strategy Assessment.