Beacon Power, which received a $43 million DOE loan guarantee from the same program that Solyndra did, is bankrupt after running out of money. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech ...

China has connected to the grid its first large-scale standalone flywheel energy storage project in Shanxi Province’s city of Changzhi. The Dinglun Flywheel Energy Storage Power Station broke ground ...

Adaptive Balancing Powers MD Dr Hendrik Schaede Bodenschatz standing in front of one of ABP's revolutionary high-performance flywheel energy storage and charging system. Adaptive Balancing Power ...

The Port of Rotterdam (PoR) is working to future-proof operations, aiming to be a CO 2 neutral port in 2050. These ambitions align with plans made by port tenants, such as Rhenus Logistics. They, and ...

Typically, most all-electronic uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs) will handle loads in the tens of kVA range. Handling hundreds of kVA requires an electromechanical UPS, like a flywheel-based unit.

Beacon Power Corp.—maker of a much-watched flywheel system that is designed to regulate grids using efficient energy storage—last week garnered the New York State Public Service Commission’s (PSC’s) ...

Although true flywheel-based kinetic energy recovery systems (KERS) never quite caught on in racing or in production hybrids, a company in Israel has been working on putting the technology to use ...