Matthew L. Lazarewicz
Beacon Power Corporation
Mr. Lazarewicz served as Vice President of Engineering at Beacon Power from February 1999 to
February 2002 when he was named Vice President & Chief Technical Officer. Prior to joining Beacon
Power, Mr. Lazarewicz worked for 25 years in the General Electric in various capacities in Power
Systems and Aircraft Engines. Matt is a Registered Professional Engineer in the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts and received both Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Lazarewicz also completed his Master's Degree in Management
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management.
He is vice-chairman of the Electricity Storage Association and is a member the IEEE Power Engineering
Society, where he serves as Chairman of the Energy Storage Working group within the Distributed Generation
and Energy Storage Subcommittee. He is also a member of CIGRE, ASME and the NEMA's Electricity Storage Council.
Flywheel Based Energy Storage for Grid Services
Abstract: It has been about 5 years since the NYSERDA /DOE supported a 100kW flywheel based frequency
regulation demonstration program in Amsterdam, NY. Today we can see the world's first 20MW Flywheel based
regulation plant in Stephentown, NY which was commissioned just a few months ago. This presentation describes
what a flywheel is, why maintaining grid frequency at 60 HZ is important, how wind will impact the regulation
requirement, and, of course, highlights the 20 MW plant, how it performs compared to traditional generators
providing regulation, and presents some lessons learned for future plants. It shows how flywheels are ideally
suited for this high power application and suggests how they may be used to provide the even higher power
requirements of frequency response in the future.