🇪🇪 Flywheel reinvention revolutionising our power grids!

Flywheels are an ancient technology going right back to the potters wheels of 3,000BC. But this simple technology is now being developed to provide kinetic inertia that can help stabilise the voltage frequency of utility grids around the world. So could this be another step on the way to full grid decarbonisation in the coming years?

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Research Links

Beacon Power

Siemens / Moneypoint
https://www.dieselgasturbine.com/news/Siemens-Energy-World-s-largest-flywheel-shipped/8019928.article#:~:text=The%20177%2Dton%20flywheel%20will,developing%20at%20ESB’s%20Moneypoint%20site.

https://esb.ie/media-centre-news/press-releases/article/2022/11/04/minister-ryan-welcomes-esb-s-50m-investment-in-synchronous-compensator-at-moneypoint

S4 Energy & ABB

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/10/04/abb-to-stabilize-dutch-grid-with-9-mwh-battery-flywheel-storage-facility/

Storenetic

https://www.stornetic.com/our-technology/enwheel

https://www.stornetic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/a-WhitePaper-Benefits-of-FlyWheels-for-Short-term-Grid-Stabilisation.pdf

IRENA – Electricity Storage & Renewables Report

https://www.irena.org/-/media/Files/IRENA/Agency/Publication/2017/Oct/IRENA_Electricity_Storage_Costs_2017.pdf

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