Beacon Power’s Bankruptcy Autopsy
Jeff St. John: October 31, 2011
Can the beating heart of a 20-megawatt flywheel energy storage farm be kept alive after the corporate body has flatlined?
Can the beating heart of a 20-megawatt flywheel energy storage farm be kept alive after the corporate body has flatlined?
Beacon Power, maker of flywheels for grid backup power, has filed for bankruptcy after landing a $43.5 million federal loan guarantee. It’s not as bad as Solyndra, but it’s still pretty bad.
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Why not harvest megawatts from subway trains?
Ambitious and massive battery deployment for grid-scale storage still in planning stages.
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Selling frequency regulation services instead of flywheel energy storage hardware
Any day now or not for a decade, depending on whom you ask
General Motors and ABB are still in early testing, but another pilot by S&C and AEP starts next month.