Industrial voltage drop and peak shaving
Protect equipment, flatten the load profile, and lower the monthly demand charge with one piece of equipment behind the meter.
What this looks like in practice
Industrial sites with large motors, pumps, presses, and compressors need voltage support or brief moments of very high power. Those peaks set the demand charge the site pays every month and accelerate wear on every machine they spike through.
A flywheel sits between the grid and the load, protecting equipment and saving on maintenance, materials, and downtime. It also smooths the peaks when they come. The grid sees a flatter load profile, the monthly demand charge drops, and the equipment lives longer.
The peaks the equipment creates are what set the demand charge. A flywheel takes them out before they reach the meter.
Three jobs in parallel, one piece of equipment
A Teraloop flywheel runs all three modes automatically. Voltage support always wins if the others are active. The operator sees one piece of equipment and one HMI.
Voltage support
When grid voltage drops, the flywheel injects reactive current into the bus within 10 milliseconds to hold the voltage above the trip threshold of critical motors. Highest-priority mode.
Peak shaving
When a press or motor draws a brief spike, the flywheel covers it from stored energy. The meter sees a flatter profile, and the monthly demand charge drops.
Load shifting
Stores excess on-site solar or co-generated energy and releases it when demand is high, reducing purchases from the grid during peak tariff hours.
Why a flywheel here
Sub-10 ms voltage support
Holds the voltage above the trip threshold of critical motors and pumps before damage starts.
Made for daily cycling
Industrial peaks happen hundreds of times a day. Millions of cycles with no capacity fade. No replacement cycle inside a 25-year operating life.
Behind the meter, low maintenance
Containerised, plug-and-play, no flammable chemistry on the production floor. Minimal maintenance and no consumables.
Tell us about your site.
Share the bus configuration and the voltage events you have been seeing. Our engineering team will come back with a sizing and a starting estimate.