Volvo has received a grant of 6.57 million Swedish kronor ($1.05 million U.S. at today’s exchange rate) from Swedish Energy Agency to jointly develop and test a flywheel kinetic energy recovery system ...

Although true flywheel-based kinetic energy recovery systems (KERS) never quite caught on in racing or in production hybrids, a company in Israel has been working on putting the technology to use ...

Beacon Power Corp. has successfully completed all critical performance tests on the Smart Energy 25 flywheel, and is moving forward to order the remaining materials necessary to build its first 10 ...

Meralco Industrial Engineering Services Corporation (Miescor), a subsidiary of distribution firm Manila Electric Co., is set to lead the engineering, procurement and construction of Amber Kinetics’ ...

The California Independent System Operator has certified Beacon Power's flywheel technology for use as a frequency regulation resource in the state. A letter from Jim McIntosh, director, grid ...

According to Wiki, Moment of Inertia is the mass property of a rigid body that defines the torque needed for a desired change in angular velocity about an axis of rotation. For us normal folk, it is ...

A research project involving academic and industry partners is using a specially created test environment to improve the safety of flywheel systems. The FlySafe collaboration, which is being led by ...