The deal may signal the start of a smart-grid buying spree for cash-equipped conglomerates like Toshiba eager to tap the vast capital outlays expected from electric utilities over the next decade.
"It will signal a dramatic shift to a cleaner, more sustainable method of providing frequency regulation on the grid," Beacon CEO Bill Capp told the GridWeek conference in Washington last week.
In parallel basis selection algorithms of sparse signal representation, there will be serious bias in amplitude estimation when frequency is not in grid.