Active Power UPS Technology

Active Power's solutions feature flywheels as their central technology, using kinetic energy - energy stored as motion - instead of traditional electrochemical batteries. At the core of Active Power's ability to solve customer problems is out flywheel energy storage technology.

Why Flywheel?

Our CleanSource flywheel technology is elegant, efficient and economical, enabling us to create innovative uninterruptible power supplies, DC energy storage systems and modular power and IT solutions that solve power problems for data center, health care, industrial and manufacturing customers around the world.

Active Power's Flywheel Technology

The concept behind flywheels is quite simple: Objects in motion continue in motion unless acted upon by an outside force. Flywheels have been used for more than 5,000 years in textile spindles and potters' wheels and were adapted to machine use during the Industrial Revolution.