The VYCON Lights Out Data Center – Flywheel Energy Storage System is an 8,000kW energy storage project located in Texas, US.
The electro-mechanical energy storage project uses flywheel as its storage technology. The project was announced in 2014.
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Description
The key applications of the project are resiliency and electric supply reserve capacity – spinning.
Contractors involved
VYCON is the technology provider for the project.
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The data center will be protected by multiple 750kVA double-conversion uninterruptible power system (UPSs) modules paired with a total of eight megawatts of VYCON’s VDC-XE kinetic energy storage systems.
Methodology
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