20 MW flywheel system underway

Tyngsboro, Mass: Beacon Power Corporation, a leading provider of fast-response energy storage systems, announced in August that it had been awarded a $5-million state grant toward construction of a 20-megawatt flywheel energy storage plant in Hazle Township, Pennsylvania. The Company received formal notice of the Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program grant award from the office of Governor Tom Corbett.