Can Flywheels Help Balance Electricity Supply and Demand? Nov 20, 2009
Can Flywheels Help Balance Electricity Supply and Demand ... Can Flywheels Help Balance Electricity Supply and Demand. (Scientific American)
Beacon Power to begin construction on $69M plant Nov 15, 2009
The $69 million plant would operate with 10 pods of 20 flywheels each and store energy from the electric grid. The technology is designed to transfer energy back to the grid to avoid power surges when extra power is needed. (Albany Business Review, NY)
PSC approves energy storage plant Oct 16, 2009
The $69 million plant, which would operate with 10 pods of 20 flywheels each, will store energy from the electric grid. The technology is designed to transfer energy back to the grid to avoid power surges when extra power is needed. (Albany Business Review, NY)
Beacon Power Corp. picks Glenville as second NY site Oct 3, 2009
Founded: 1997Proposing: 20-megawatt energy storage plantsEstimated costs: $69 million for Stephentown, Rensselaer County; $50 million for Glenville, Schenectady CountyHow they work: Ten enclosed pods of 20 spinning flywheels draw excess energy from the grid, store it and then return it when needed. Most Read Stories. (Albany Business Review, NY)
Can Wind Power Be Stored? Sep 30, 2009
WIND IN A BOTTLE: From flywheels to batteries, companies are developing ways to store energy from renewable sources ... Among the leaders is a Massachusetts company that plans to use hundreds of "flywheels" to store 20 megawatts of electricity, enough to power 200 homes for a day. (Scientific American)
Spinning Flywheels Said to Make Greener Energy Sep 21, 2009
company's spinning flywheels to store, pace electric energy and make grid greener ... Spinning flywheels have been used for centuries for jobs from making pottery to running steam engines ... Beacon Power's flywheels each weighing one ton, levitating in a sealed chamber and spinning up to 16,000 times per minute will make the electric grid more efficient and green, the company says. (ABC News -- Wire)
Beacon Power Gets U.S. Energy Loan After Three Years, 96 Forms, $1 Million Jul 8, 2009
July 8 (Bloomberg) -- , a maker of energy- storing flywheels, completed 96 forms filling seven three-ring binders in its effort to get a U.S.-backed loan. The Tyngsboro, Massachusetts, company with $68,000 in revenue last year says it spent more than $1 million pursuing federal guarantees for $42 million in financing to install its flywheels in New York state ... The company will use the $42 million toward a $60 million project to install 200 flywheels that would store power from the electrical... (Bloomberg -- US)
Flywheel operator closes in on $43M loan from feds Jul 3, 2009
The Stephentown system will involve 20 underground pods of 10 flywheels each ... Of that, $615 million is for energy storage, including flywheels. (Albany Business Review, NY)
Federal spark for power project Jul 3, 2009
Plans call for an array of 200 encased flywheels spinning at up to 16,000 revolutions per minute ... The flywheels are turned by motors run on excess power from the electrical grid. (Albany Times Union)
Mass. firm gets loan for NY energy storage system Jul 3, 2009
The market for Global Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage Systems (SMES) is growing but at a slower pace when compared to other technologies such as capacitor technologies and flywheels. The reason is that SMES devices are comparatively expensive with parasitic loses and low energy density. (Fresno Bee -- Business)
Saving energy and the environment with Flywheels Apr 7, 2009
Flywheels also have a higher tolerance for rapid cycling ... "Future work will investigate the feasibility of using flywheels in subway rail stations to accelerate one train with the braking energy recovered from another. Doing so will not only save energy but can be used to defer or eliminate the costs of adding utility substations as rail service grows.". (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
NYISO seeks adds to grid Mar 26, 2009
Flywheels are mechanical batteries that use kinetic energy to store electricity from the grid that otherwise would be wasted ... NYISO filed a new set of rules and regulations, known as a tariff, with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on March 19 to allow flywheels and other technologies to provide such regulation service ... A FERC spokeswoman did not immediately know how common it is for flywheels to be used in other states to supply the electrical grid. (Albany Times Union)
The Solid State Revolution Mar 17, 2009
There will be no more flywheels. No more fans. (FastCompany)
