Solving Island Grid Challenges

Company Hawaiian Electric Company (HECO)
Location Hawaii

Challenge

The Hawaiian Islands face unique power challenges since they are unable to acquire power from another utility through a grid of interconnected transmission lines in the event that they require back up power.

Solution

Amber Kinetics and Elemental Excelerator installed Hawaii’s first ever long-duration flywheel energy storage system

The system provides reliability, power smoothing to support PV array production, scheduled energy shifting to aid the integration of renewable energy.

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