Oli Glaser wrote:
>> A local company, Beacon Power (http://www.beaconpower.com) is using
>> flywheels for short term power grid storage and peaking.  Individual
>> units are 100KWh.  They have or are building plants with a bunch of
>> these to rapidly respond essentially instantly to short term power
>> demand fluctuations.  Large power plants take minutes to hours to
>> respond to demand
>> changes.
>
> Interesting stuff, wish they used them around my area, always seem to
> be getting fluctuations, lights dimming etc recently.

Not very useful without defining "my area".

Beacon Power is a local startup company, but they are in the global market.
I think one of the plants being built with their flywheels is in California.


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