CHATSWORTH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pentadyne Power Corporation, (www.pentadyne.com) the world leader in flywheel energy storage systems, announced the GTX flywheel has been selected as one of BuildingGreen’s Top-10 products of the year by the editors of Environmental Building News and GreenSpec®. This eighth annual award recognizes the most innovative and exciting green building products added to the GreenSpec® Directory during the past year or covered in Environmental Building News. “Our selections of the Top-10 Green Building Products represent a wide range of product types in many different application areas,” noted GreenSpec BuildingGreen founder and executive editor Alex Wilson. This year’s list is particularly diverse, ranging from a recycled-content concrete block, to a flywheel energy storage system for data centers, a mobile solar generator for job-site power, and an advanced modular classroom for schools. “Many of the Top-10 products this year have multiple environmental attributes,” said Wilson. “Pentadyne is honored to have our carbon flywheel energy storage system chosen as one of BuildingGreen’s Top-10 Products. This recognition showcases our flywheel’s green and energy efficient benefits. Just one flywheel eliminates 32,000 lbs of toxic lead and sulfuric acid from a facility, while allowing users to significantly increase back-up power reliability and save money,” stated Jeff Colton, Pentadyne’s Sr. Vice President of Sales and Marketing. The GTX flywheel provides ride-through power and voltage stabilization for large-scale uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems in facilities such as data centers, hospitals, and casinos. It is designed to provide high power output and energy storage in a compact, self-contained package and offers 25 percent more energy storage than previous models, allowing users to reduce the number of flywheels required. Pentadyne flywheel systems are reliable and environmentally sound alternatives to lead acid batteries which emit greenhouse gasses and dump lead and sulfuric acid into the environment. BuildingGreen’s Top-10 product selections, as in previous years, are drawn primarily from new additions to the company’s GreenSpec Product Directory. About 200 products have been added to the GreenSpec database during the past year. “New products are being introduced all the time, making it a challenge for our staff to keep up,” said Wilson. The GreenSpec database includes more than 2,100 product listings, representing several times as many actual products. A big driver in the development of green products continues to be the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED® Rating System (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), which awards points for the use of certain product types or for the energy or water savings that certain green products can achieve. “Designers of LEED buildings are looking for green products, and manufacturers are responding,” said Wilson. In the online version of GreenSpec, users can find products organized by LEED credits. GreenSpec is the leading national directory of green building products. Products are selected based on criteria developed over the past 17 years. Manufacturers do not pay to be listed in GreenSpec, and neither GreenSpec nor Environmental Building News carry advertising; both are supported by users of the information. “Our policy of not accepting money from product manufacturers allows us to be objective in our review of products,” said Wilson. The GreenSpec product database is also available online as part of BuildingGreen.com.
