"Flywheels Keep the Grid in Tune"

KEMA consultant shares insights on flywheels to help stabilize the power grid in IEEE Spectrum article

Flywheels are currently in use to perform frequency regulation for grid stability. Battery-based frequency regulators are now being tested, too.

This July 2011 IEEE Spectrum article looks at the competition between flywheels and lithium batteries to perform frequency regulation “in the half-billion-dollar market for grid stability.” KEMA Senior Principal Consultant David Hawkins addresses how Beacon Power’s flywheels successfully perform frequency regulation.

Read the IEEE Spectrum article, “Flywheels Keep the Grid in Tune.”