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1. Hawaiian Electric, Amber Kinetics Testing Kinetic Energy Storage Pilot
  
  Explore Renewables Now Mar 13 2018 Solar Photovoltaic , Utility Grid , Flywheel
  
  March 13 (Renewables Now) - Hawaiian Electric said on Monday it has launched operations of a 8-kW/32-kWh energy storage system (KESS) powered by Amber Kinetics’ flywheel technology. Hawaii-based company American Electric Co LLC installed the five-tonne flywheel at Hawaiian Electric’s Campbell Industrial Park generating station on Oahu. The system, which stores electricity as rotational kinetic energy, can charge and discharge for multiple duty cycles per day with no loss of capacity.
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  Mentions: Hawaii Colorado Amber Kinetics
2. UK to Host Europe's Largest Battery-and-Flywheel System
  
  Explore Energy Storage News Jun 5 2017 Solar Photovoltaic , Utility Grid , Flywheel
  
  The UK is to become home to Europe’s largest battery flywheel system in a first for the country which will provide fast acting frequency response services and aid the integration of renewables. The €4 million (US$4.51 million) project is being brought forward to support the project which will be delivered by a consortium of engineers from the University of Sheffield, flywheel specialists Schwungrad Energie and Adaptive Balancing Power, and product supplier Freqcon.
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  Mentions: Europe UK Ireland
3. Amber Kinetics & Hawaiian Electric to Test Flywheel Energy Storage
  
  Explore windpowerengineering.com Oct 5 2016 Solar Photovoltaic , Utility Grid , Flywheel
  
  Amber Kinetics and Hawaiian Electric Company have agreed to conduct a joint energy storage pilot project to test the capability of a flywheel system. Amber Kinetics will build and install an Amber Gen2 Model 25 steel flywheel system, the first commercially available four-hour duration flywheel, at Hawaiian Electric’s Campbell Industrial Park generating station on O‘ahu, where the utility will evaluate its operation. Amber’s innovative steel flywheel is a multi-hour energy storage system capable of charging and discharging electricity for multiple duty cycles per day. A flywheel is a rotating mechanical device that is used to store and release energy. The storage system can provide renewable firming and peak energy shifting, flexible capacity, and ancillary services like voltage smoothing and frequency response for reliable utility operation.
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4. Amber Kinetics Announces Game Changing Energy Storage Contract with PG&E
  
  Explore pennenergy.com Jan 21 2016 Solar Photovoltaic , Commercial & Industrial , Utility Grid , Flywheel
  
  Amber Kinetics, Inc. announces signing a landmark, multi-year Energy Services Agreement (ESA) with Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) for 20 megawatts of storage using its game changing, four-hour duration Gen-2 Flywheel Systems©. The company believes its steel flywheel technology will drive down pricing while enhancing operational safety and flexibility for utility-scale energy storage.
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  Mentions: California U.S. ESA
5. First Flywheel Hybrid Energy Storage Plant in Europe is Opened
  
  Explore pennenergy.com Dec 11 2015 Solar Photovoltaic , Smart Grid , Utility Grid , Flywheel , Lead
  
  Europe’s first flywheel hybrid energy storage plant has been officially launched in Ireland. The plant in Rhode, County Offaly, is owned and operated by Irish energy company Schwungrad Energie and is expected to enter a test operational phase in February. The Rhode hybrid demo project comprises two Beacon Power 160 kW flywheels and Hitachi Chemical valve-regulated lead acid batteries of up to 240 kW.
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  Mentions: Europe Beacon Power Ireland
6. Amber Kinetics: Turning Flywheels Into Multi-Hour Energy Storage Assets
  
  Explore Greentech Media Dec 10 2015 Flywheel
  
  Last week, Amber Kinetics unveiled a four-hour duration flywheel system, one it says combines the efficiency and flexibility of an electrochemical battery with the durability and lifespan of a simple mechanical device. That’s a twofer that could be very valuable to utilities and grid operators -- and with a 20-megawatt, 80-megawatt-hour contract with utility Pacific Gas & Electric, the stealthy startup has a venue to prove it works.
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  Mentions: California Asia DoE
7. Alaskan Energy Storage Project Will Use Flywheels Too
  
  Explore CleanTechnica May 28 2015 Solar Photovoltaic , Utility Grid , Flywheel
  
  A Beacon Power project in Anchorage, Alaska, will use the company’s flywheel technology combined with electrochemical battery storage to construct a 320 kW system. The project is a pilot to see if it will work in conjunction with renewable forms of energy to counterbalance their periods of intermittency. If it is successful, similar systems could be built and used to support remote utilities along the Alaska Railbelt from the Kenai Peninsula to Fairbanks. Beacon is working with the Chugach Electric Association, a major local utility.
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8. First Hybrid-Flywheel Energy Storage Plant in Europe Announced in Ireland
  
  Explore Stock Market Quotes and Financial News May 26 2015 Solar Photovoltaic , Smart Grid , Utility Grid , Flywheel
  
  Irish company Schwungrad Energie Limited is behind the initiative which will be based in Rhode, Co. Offaly and is being developed in collaboration with the Department of Physics & Energy at University of Limerick. It has received the support of Beacon Power, LLC, a US based company and global leader in the design, development and commercial deployment of proven flywheel energy storage technology at the utility scale.
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  Mentions: Europe Beacon Power Ireland
9. Beacon Power and Chugach Electric Association to Deploy Hybrid Flywheel and Battery Energy Storage Project in Alaska
  
  Explore Marketwired May 26 2015 Solar Photovoltaic , Utility Grid , Flywheel
  
  Beacon Power, the world's leading manufacturer of grid-scale flywheel energy storage systems, announced that it has entered into an agreement with Chugach Electric Association to supply flywheels for an innovative hybrid energy storage project in Anchorage, Alaska.
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  Mentions: Pennsylvania U.S. Massachusetts
10. First Hybrid-Flywheel Energy Storage Plant Announced For Europe
  
  Explore CleanTechnica Apr 5 2015 Solar Photovoltaic , Utility Grid , Flywheel
  
  The first grid-connected hybrid flywheel project in Europe was recently announced by Ireland’s Minister of State at the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation. SchwungradEnergie Limited, an Irish company, is behind the project and will collaborate with the Dept. of Physics and Energy at the University of Limerick. An American company, Beacon Power, is providing some support. Rhode, Co. Offaly (in the Midlands area) will be the site of the project.
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  Mentions: Europe Beacon Power Ireland
11. Flywheels Get Their Spin Back With Beacon Power's Rebound
  
  Explore IEEE Spectrum Dec 24 2014 Solar Photovoltaic , Utility Grid , Flywheel
  
  Flywheel-based energy storage got a black eye with the 2011 bankruptcy filing of Beacon Power Corp., a leading energy storage company, based in Massachusetts, whose technology upgrades pushed flywheels to grid-scale applications. But that blemish proved ephemeral. New investors pulled Beacon Power out of bankruptcy, and last July the firm started a second commercial facility, in Hazle, Pa., to provide power-grid-regulation services. Beacon is attacking new markets that would take the technology in a new direction, followed closely by new grid-scale flywheel competitors.
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  Mentions: Massachusetts Beacon Power
12. Renewable Energy: Flywheels For Backup Power
  
  Explore todaysfacilitymanager.com Dec 16 2014 Flywheel
  
  Vital to the mission of Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children in Dallas, TX is reliable operation of advanced MRI technology as well as other high-tech medical instrumentation. Twice in the hospital’s history, its imaging suite was completely shut down because of power outages beyond the staff’s control. Currently, the facility is prepared for power outages caused by natural or man-made disasters of any type. The imaging suite there contains a pair of 300kW kinetic energy storage flywheels for emergency backup power.
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  Mentions: Texas Connecticut Vycon
13. L.A. Metro's VYCON System Reducing Energy Consumption
  
  Explore METRO Magazine Oct 31 2014 Solar Photovoltaic , Flywheel
  
  VYCON announced that the April installation of its REGEN kinetic energy storage system at the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) Red Line Westlake/MacArthur Park Subway station is realizing nearly 20% in energy consumption. Based on the data obtained so far, it is estimated an annual savings of 541 megawatt hours (MWh), enough to provide power to 100 average California homes.
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  Mentions: NREL Vycon
14. Canadian Flywheel Design Putting Mississauga Firm on the Energy Management Map
  
  Explore Design Engineering Oct 30 2014 Flywheel
  
  Sometimes what seems like bad luck can turn out to be a life-changing catalyst – the thing that sets us on a course we never could have imagined. That’s been the extraordinary experience of Jeff Veltri. A non-work-related injury in young adulthood ended his five-year stint as a pipe fitter and sent him back to school, into Ryerson University’s mechanical engineering program. He was employed for a while and then started his own firm, working over the next ten years on industrial, biomedical and military projects. “I’ve always been an inventor and a tinkerer, taking things apart to see how they worked,” Veltri says. “But I’ve always had the goal of being able to both create and manufacture a product.”
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  Mentions: Canada Ontario Temporal Power
15. VYCON's Environmentally Friendly Kinetic Energy Flywheel Systems Chosen to Protect Mexico City International Airport
  
  Explore Marketwired Aug 13 2014 Solar Photovoltaic , Military , Flywheel
  
  VYCON, the designer and manufacturer of environmentally friendly, high-speed energy storage flywheel systems, today announced that the The Benito Juárez International Airport (AICM) in Mexico City, has purchased three of VYCON's award-winning kinetic energy storage flywheel systems. These backup systems will increase power protection to the airport's vital runway lighting and other critical navigation systems. AICM is the second largest airport in Latin America, serving over 31 million passengers per year.
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  Mentions: Mexico Boeing Vycon
16. Beacon Sees Demand Doubling for Energy-Storage Flywheels
  
  Explore Businessweek Aug 5 2014 Solar Photovoltaic , Utility Grid , Flywheel
  
  Beacon Power LLC, the energy-storage company that was sold in bankruptcy in 2012, expects to build 40 megawatts of new projects by the end of next year, Chief Executive Officer Barry Brits said in an interview. That’s double the size of the 20-megawatt project flywheel storage system it completed in Hazle, Pennsylvania, last month, he said. The Tyngsboro, Massachusetts-based company may build 100 megawatts in 2016.
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  Mentions: Pennsylvania DoE U.S.
17. Its Flywheel Storage Plant Has Reached Full Commercial Operation, Beacon Power Says
  
  Explore The Boston Globe Jul 31 2014 Solar Photovoltaic , Utility Grid , Flywheel
  
  In a statement, company president and chief executive Barry Brits said, “The project is another successful demonstration of Beacon’s energy storage technology, helping to facilitate a more stable grid here in Pennsylvania.”
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  Mentions: Pennsylvania Beacon Power
18. Korean Core Energy Storage System Tech to be Transferred to U.S. Company
  
  Explore BusinessKorea Apr 2 2014 Solar Photovoltaic , Utility Grid , Flywheel
  
  Mechanical engineering Professor Ha Seong-kyu at the ERICA Campus of Hanyang University announced on March 31 that his research team signed a contract with Beacon Power to transfer its flywheel energy storage device technology. According to the contract, the team receives a fixed royalty of US$330,000, along with 1.5 percent of the sales for the next 10 years. A flywheel energy storage device converts electricity to high-speed rotational motion energy and converts it back to electricity when necessary. Combined with wind power or photovoltaic power generators, it can ensure a continuous supply of electricity, even when wind or solar power supply is temporarily cut.
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  Mentions: U.S. Beacon Power
19. Formula One Derived Energy Storage Technology
  
  Explore energyharvestingjournal.com Jan 27 2014 Solar Photovoltaic , Utility Grid , Flywheel
  
  Williams Advanced Engineering, the division of Williams that commercialises Formula One derived technologies, is embarking on a project to install flywheel energy storage technology in two remote Scottish island communities to help stabilise their power grids, improve energy efficiency and reduce emissions from non-renewable power sources.
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20. Humboldt Power Facility Running at Half Capacity
  
  Explore Wilkes Jan 13 2014 Compressed Air/Gas , Flywheel
  
  An innovative plant that stores and releases electricity in underground flywheels at the Humboldt Industrial Park in Hazle Township is running at half power and should hit full capacity this summer when construction finishes, a company spokesman said. Eugene Hunt of Beacon Power LLC said the plant eventually will store up to 20 megawatts. Workers who started construction in June 2013 already have it running at 10 megawatts.
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  Mentions: DoE U.S. Beacon Power
21. Leading Pharmaceutical Company Selects Active Power
  
  Explore Stock Market Quotes and Financial News Oct 10 2013 Commercial & Industrial , Flywheel
  
  Active Power, manufacturer of uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems and modular infrastructure solutions, announced it has shipped more than three megawatts of total rated UPS capacity to one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world.
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22. Brief Overview: Hydro One Using Flywheel Storage System
  
  Explore Greentech Media Sep 25 2013 Utility Grid , Flywheel
  
  The Ontario-based company is working with Hydro One to provide up to ten 500-kilowatt flywheels for frequency regulation on a feeder that is connected to two 10-megawatt wind farms in southwest Ontario.
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  Mentions: Canada Ontario Beacon Power
23. Beacon Power Begins Commercial Flywheel Operation in Pennsylvania
  
  Explore Marketwired Sep 18 2013 Utility Grid , Flywheel
  
  Beacon Power ... has begun commercial operation of its latest flywheel energy storage facility, located in Hazle Township, Pennsylvania. (It is providing the) first 4MW Frequency Regulation Services for the PJM Interconnection.
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  Mentions: Pennsylvania DoE Massachusetts
24. Storage technology categories with examples of companies in each
  
  Explore environmentalresearchweb blog Sep 1 2013 Wave, Tidal, Hydro , Utility Grid , Compressed Air/Gas , Flywheel , Hydrogen , Lead , Lithium , Mechanical Storage , Nickel , Zinc
  
  There are many energy storage options which can be used balance grid systems so as to compensate for the variable output from some renewables. They include existing and newly emerging electro-chemical and electro-mechanical systems (batteries, pumped storage and compressed air storage), as well as a range of thermal and hydrogen based systems www.electricitystorage.org/ .
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  Mentions: China Sandia Labs Highview
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