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Beacon Power Corporation is building a 20 MW flywheel energy storage plant in Stephentown, New York, that will begin providing frequency regulation services at partial capacity in the fourth quarter of this year, and be fully operational in Q1 2011. CES will be responsible for a number of the plant’s market-facing operational functions, including market bidding, resource scheduling, facility monitoring and payment settlements. Beacon Power Corporation designs, develops and is commercializing advanced products and services to support stable, reliable and efficient electricity grid operation. Beacon’s Smart Energy Matrix, now in production, being operated and earning revenue, is a non-polluting, megawatt-scale, fast-response flywheel-based solution designed to provide less expensive, more sustainable and effective frequency regulation services to the nation’s power grid.
BP PLC, which has eight wind farms in the U.S., has started construction of the 250.8-megawatt Cedar Creek II project in Colorado. The London-based company is also building the 124.5- megawatt Goshen North wind park in Idaho, which will start this year. Next year, BP will build the 200-megawatt Golden Hills 1 wind farm in Oregon. The Cedar Creek venture is 67 percent-owned by Infigen Energy. The farm will sell its electricity to Xcel Energy Inc.’s Public Service Co. of Colorado.