Comments on: Daily Sprout http://gigaom.com/cleantech/daily-sprout-206/ Sun, 27 May 2012 10:16:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ed Penn http://gigaom.com/cleantech/daily-sprout-206/#comment-28250 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:00:27 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=45182#comment-28250 Beacon Power Corporation (from an earlier news realease)
plans to begin construction on Nov. 23 of its 20-megawatt energy storage plant planned for Stephentown in rural Rensselaer County, N.Y.

The $69 million plant would operate with 10 pods of 20 flywheels each and store energy from the electric grid. The technology is designed to transfer energy back to the grid to avoid power surges when extra power is needed……

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