The UK now has an active market for grid inertia, marking a significant step toward ensuring stability in an electricity grid increasingly reliant on intermittent renewable energy sources. The first successful bidder to provide this inertia service was a notably straightforward yet effective technology: an electric motor spinning a massive … [continued]
GKN Land Systems is now working to greatly increase its production of its noted Gyrodrive electric flywheel hybrid technology for buses, owing to the successful completion of trials in London. For those that are unfamiliar with it, the Gyrodrive technology utilizes a high-speed composite flywheel, along with a GKN EVO electric … [continued]
Some more great cleantech stories from the week that we haven’t yet covered. This week, I decided to just organize them by topic (note, of course, that some topics overlap — in such cases, I put a little note about which other categories each article could be filed under after titles for those of you only interested in a particular topic). Check out these other interesting cleantech stories …
[Updated below.] A new clean tech company called Kinetic Traction Systems, Inc. has just launched, and its success could have some interesting implications for the 2012 Presidential election year. That’s because KTSi manufactures flywheels that harvest energy from the braking power of trains, and their factory is located right here … [continued]
Flywheels are the ultimate green energy storage machines. They store energy mechanically, like a wind-up toy, so they don’t involve large quantities of lead, acid, or other environmental hazards, and they have a much longer lifespan than conventional batteries. That makes flywheels an ideal storage format for sustainable energy, but … [continued]
The flywheel is an old technology that dates back to Neolithic-era spindles and potter’s wheels. Flywheels made a huge splash during the Industrial Revolution (anyone remember steam engines?) and now they’re ready to take center stage in the new wave of sustainable energy. [social_buttons] In sustainable energy, flywheels come into … [continued]
