{"id":1148,"date":"2010-09-27T09:09:09","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T13:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2010-09-27T09:09:09","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T13:09:09","slug":"flywheel-developer-awarded-arpa-e-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=1148","title":{"rendered":"Flywheel Developer Awarded ARPA-E Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1150\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1150\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/PowerLines_Sunset_Brookhaven.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1150\" title=\"PowerLines_Sunset_Brookhaven\" src=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/PowerLines_Sunset_Brookhaven.jpg\" alt=\"PowerLines at sunset (Brookhaven National Lab)\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/PowerLines_Sunset_Brookhaven.jpg 200w, https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/PowerLines_Sunset_Brookhaven-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1150\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Brookhaven National Lab)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beaconpower.com\/\">Beacon Power Corporation<\/a>, a developer of energy storage systems and services in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts, signed a contract with the U.S. Department of Energy&#8217;s Advanced Research Projects Agency &#8211; Energy (ARPA-E) to develop components of a more advanced flywheel energy storage system over a two-year period.<\/p>\n<p>Beacon Power says the contract is valued at $2.8 million. ARPA-E grant recipients share a portion of the program cost, and Beacon will contribute $560,000, or 20% of that $2.8 million.<\/p>\n<p>Flywheels provide power companies a way of storing energy from intermittent sources, such as wind or solar, and releasing the energy in a smooth flow as required by current grid technology, a process called frequency regulation. The goal of the project according to Beacon Power, is to store four times the energy at one-eighth the cost per kilowatt-hour of its current Smart Energy 25 (Gen 4) flywheel system. Gen 4 flywheels are now in production and being deployed on the grid to provide frequency regulation service.<\/p>\n<p>Beacon expects the ARPA-E-funded flywheel system, if carried through to a commercial product, to be suitable for a variety of new applications. One such application of particular interest to Department of Energy is to provide a greater ramping and load-balancing resource for intermittent renewable energy assets, and thereby reduce the amount of fossil-based backup power that might be used to provide the same effect. This feature is expected to significantly encourage renewable power generation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beacon Power Corporation, a developer of energy storage systems and services in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts, signed a contract with the U.S. Department of Energy&#8217;s Advanced Research Projects Agency &#8211; Energy (ARPA-E) to develop components of a more advanced flywheel energy storage system over a two-year period. Beacon Power says the contract is valued at $2.8 million. 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