----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Olin Lathrop" <olin_piclist@embedinc.com>
To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <piclist@mit.edu>
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 5:45 PM
Subject: Re: [TECH] Nice accumulator


> 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".

True, "my area" is NW England, near Manchester..

> 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.

Nice website, plenty of information there. 


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