Featured in Search for buoyancy – 10-2017

Reinventing the wheel

Flywheel storage: Amber Kinetics is the winner of 2017’s Array Changing Technologies Award, chosen by an independent jury of industry experts as the most exciting technology in the downstream sector. pv magazine caught up with cofounder and CEO Ed Chiao to discuss the technology’s potential and what Amber Kinetics has planned over the next few years.

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Mark Hutchins

04 Oct 2017

Ed Chiao is cofounder and CEO of Amber Kinetics. The company recently announced a partnership with energy giant Enel and has plans to bring its flywheel storage solution to markets across the world.

pv magazine: Amber Kinetics is a relative newcomer to energy storage. What was behind the company’s founding?Ed Chiao: Amber Kinetics is a technology spin-off from UC Berkeley where for the past two decades Seth Sanders, a professor in the College of Engineering, has directed industry-leading research into innovative flywheel energy storage and power conversion technologies.Dr. Sanders …

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