Active Power

History

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.
• 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.