Beacon Power (BCON) to Negotiate $2.25M Award from U.S. Department of Energy for Energy Technology Development
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently chose Beacon Power Corp. to negotiate a $2.25 million award in support of developing a next-generation flywheel energy storage system with the capability to quadruple energy storage for one-eighth of the cost of Beacon's current Smart Energy 25 (Gen 4) flywheel system. The decision was made by the Advanced Research Projects Agency -- Energy (ARPA-E), an agency within DOE that provides research and development capital to fund transformational new energy technologies and systems. "We are extremely pleased to be included among this very select list of cutting-edge energy storage projects funded by ARPA-E,"…