Beacon Power Closes $5 Million Loan for Plant Expansion.

TYNGSBORO, Mass. -- Beacon Power Corporation (NASDAQ: BCON), a company that designs and develops advanced products and services to support more stable, reliable and efficient electricity grid operation, announced today that it has closed on a $5-million loan that will help fund expansion of its flywheel production facility and create new clean technology jobs. The loan, which was first announced on June 13th, comes from a funding collaboration between the Emerging Technology Fund of Massachusetts Development Finance Agency and the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative's Business Expansion Initiative.

"This funding shows how important clean technology and associated job growth are to forward-thinking states like Massachusetts," said Bill Capp, Beacon president and CEO. "Our flywheel systems have been recognized by state, federal, and industry officials as being able to play an important role in the building of a more dependable power grid. That grid will include significantly more renewable energy sources and sustainable technologies such as energy storage to support their deployment. We're grateful for the vision and leadership of Governor Patrick's administration and these two state agencies. We look forward to using these funds to build out our manufacturing capacity as we move into commercial production."

The earlier announcement of a loan agreement was made at a plant inauguration event held on June 13th at Beacon's Tyngsboro, Massachusetts, headquarters. The event was attended by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, U.S. Congresswoman Niki Tsongas, and other officials from local, state and federal government.

About Beacon Power

Beacon Power Corporation designs, develops and is taking steps to commercialize advanced products and services to support stable, reliable and efficient electricity grid operation. The Company's primary business strategy is to commercialize its patented flywheel energy storage technology to perform frequency regulation services on the grid. Beacon's Smart Energy Matrix, now entering production following approval for use in three of the country's five open-bid regulation markets, is designed to be a non-polluting, megawatt-level, utility-grade flywheel-based solution that would provide sustainable frequency regulation services. Beacon is a publicly traded company with its research, development and manufacturing facility in the U.S. For more information, visit www.beaconpower.com.

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