Amber Kinetics
Merrill Sutherland is a seasoned Human Resources Executive with extensive experience in personnel practices and policies, currently serving as the Global General Manager of Human Resources at Amber Kinetics since 2019. Merrill has held various roles at Amber Kinetics, including Director of US Operations & Human Resources and Senior Human Resources Manager, focusing on redefining recruiting, employee development, and compensation strategies. Additionally, Merrill has been a Managing Partner at Lower Blacks Fork River Partners since 2014 and previously contributed significantly at SilPac, enhancing the company's transition to a major systems integrator in the semiconductor industry. Merrill's early career includes a role as Product Marketing Manager at MilliporeSigma, where management of product lines resulted in significant sales growth. Merrill holds a Bachelor of Science in Operations Management and Supervision from Colorado State University.
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Amber Kinetics
Amber Kinetics is a low cost flywheel energy storage system, developing a flywheel system from sub-scale research prototype to full-scale mechanical flywheel battery and will conduct both a commercial-scale and a utility-scale demonstration.Amber Kinetics’ aim is to deliver a cost-effective prototype flywheel system that can be grid connected andelectrically charged and discharged. The system has built-in sensing components that determines frequency and voltage characteristics of the grid and overrides the grid signal to manage the amount of electricity discharged.Amber Kinetics’ flywheel stores energy in a spinning rotor that is connected to an electric motor that converts electrical energy into mechanical energy. To recover the energy the motor is electrically reversed and used as a generator to slow down the flywheel converting the mechanical energy back into electrical energy.Amber Kinetics improves the traditional flywheel system by engineering breakthroughs in three areas, magnetic bearings, low-cost rotor, and high-efficiency motor generator. Its technology can also be used to optimize existing infrastructure.Amber Kinetics was founded by Seth Sanders. It is based in California City, California.