Beacon Power Corporation, a company that designs and develops products and services to support electricity grid operation, announced that it has built and tested an integrated matrix of ten high-power flywheels that when operated together can absorb and supply a full megawatt (MW) of electricity. The system, located in Beacon's headquarters, will be the first of up to 5 MW of flywheel-based regulation capability that will be produced this year and commercially deployed to generate revenues from the provision of regulation services.
"We've proven that a matrix of our Smart Energy 25 flywheels, together with associated electronics, software and other components, can store and release a megawatt of electricity."
-- Bill Capp, President and CEO, Beacon Power
Sometimes I wonder if the authors of these articles know anything about energy. They're very good at leaving out critical information.
Stephen
How much energy does it take to get up, run, keepgoing and for HOW LONG. Other questions like costs, weight and availability have all been unanswered since I irst started tracking this inventionin2005.
Like so many beore have said "If it sounds too goo to be true - it usually is"
Peter
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