The story
1992–2000
Active Power was founded in 1992 as Magnetic Bearing Technologies, Inc., where the company manufactured magnetic bearings for a variety of applications.
In 1996, the company changed its name to Active Power and the following year introduced its first flywheel DC product.
In 1999, Active Power deployed its first flywheel UPS product which fully integrates flywheel energy storage and power electronics.
2001–2009
In 2007, the company opened its APAC headquarters in China.
2010–present
In 2010, The University of Texas at Austin chose to deploy Active Power UPS at its university data center.
In 2011, Active Power shipped its 3,000th flywheel.
In 2011, Active Power received a multimillion-dollar, multiple PowerHouse order from Hewlett-Packard.
In 2012, Heineken selected Active Power to provide critical power protection at its bottling facility off the coast of Madagascar.
Read the full text
In 2013, the company shipped its 4,000th flywheel including its next generation CleanSource HD UPS product.
In 2014, Capgemini selected Active Power to provide critical power infrastructure for a UK data center expansion.
In 2014, Verizon Terremark significantly expanded the power capacity of their Silicon Valley data center by deploying four PowerHouse units.
In 2016, it was acquired by Piller Power Systems. The new system with longer UPS runtime was launched.
From Wikipedia’s article on Active Power, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5