energy, deals, department of energy
Beacon Power Wins $43M DOE Loan
Wade Roush 7/9/09
Tyngsboro, MA-based flywheel energy storage company Beacon Power (NASDAQ: BCON) announced last week that the U.S. Department of Energy has extended a loan guarantee amounting to $43 million. The loan will provide more than half of the financing for a planned 20-megawatt commercial flywheel energy storage facility to be built in Stephentown, NY. But the loan comes at a high cost: the Business Insider reports this week that Beacon Power spent three years and $1 million on the application process.
Wade Roush is Xconomy's chief correspondent. You can e-mail him at wroush@xconomy.com, call him at (617) 252-7323, or follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/wroush.
