{"id":135,"date":"2019-10-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ieee-pppeac.org\/?p=135"},"modified":"2026-11-13T04:43:16","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T04:43:16","slug":"flywheel-energy-storage-a-utility-scale-energy-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ieee-pppeac.org\/?p=135","title":{"rendered":"Flywheel Energy Storage: A Utility Scale Energy Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PPPEAC hosted a seminar on Thursday, October 3, 2019, from 4:30 to 5:30 PM. The event took place at the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Maeder Hall, 92 Olden Street, Princeton, NJ. Prof. Seth R. Sanders gave the talk.<\/p>\n<h3>Flywheel Energy Storage: A Utility Scale Energy Solution<\/h3>\n<p>The talk reviews the energy storage landscape, including opportunities and both established and emerging technologies. A flywheel works like a battery, with kinetic energy storage in place of electrochemical processes. Engineers have long seen flywheels as a fit only for short-term uses such as frequency regulation. This talk shows that flywheels can be designed to shift energy economically over several hours. California&#8217;s AB 2514 calls for 1.3 GW of flexible energy storage by 2024. The talk also covers product and project development at Amber Kinetics.<\/p>\n<h3>About the speaker<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Prof. Seth R. Sanders<\/strong> is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley. He is an IEEE Fellow and a co-founder and Chief Scientist of Amber Kinetics, a maker of utility-scale flywheel energy storage systems. His research covers electrical energy and power conversion.<\/p>\n<h3>Links<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/855d9a3d58f2\/seminar-flywheel-energy-storage\">Original newsletter<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PPPEAC hosted a seminar on Thursday, October 3, 2019, from 4:30 to 5:30 PM. The event took place at the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Maeder Hall, 92 Olden Street, Princeton, NJ. Prof. Seth R. Sanders gave the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ieee-pppeac.org\/?p=135\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meetings"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ieee-pppeac.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ieee-pppeac.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ieee-pppeac.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ieee-pppeac.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ieee-pppeac.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ieee-pppeac.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"https:\/\/ieee-pppeac.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ieee-pppeac.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ieee-pppeac.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ieee-pppeac.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}