Torus Boosts Output 76% at Salt Lake Factory
The company says its GigaOne plant, which began production about six months ago, has lifted company-wide output by more than 76%.
Updated on Nov. 6, 2026 in Manufacturing
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Torus has increased company-wide production by more than 76% since bringing its GigaOne factory online about six months ago. The 545,000 square foot Salt Lake City facility builds equipment for the Torus Station, a hybrid system pairing the Spin flywheel with the Pulse lithium iron phosphate battery.
Why it matters
The hybrid design routes rapid load changes to the flywheel, which the company says may reduce battery degradation and the frequency of battery replacement. Torus is working toward annual production equivalent to 1GW of nameplate capacity.
Torus reports a 76% company-wide production gain, but it has not disclosed pod counts or MW/MWh output, so the scale of that gain cannot be independently sized. Its 545,000 square foot GigaOne plant is roughly fourteen times the area of the existing 37,000 square foot South Salt Lake facility, which continues to operate.
The players
Torus
Torus is an energy storage company that builds hybrid flywheel and lithium iron phosphate battery systems for grid support and utility applications.
The details
GigaOne manufactures equipment for the Torus Station, which combines the Spin flywheel, designed to discharge fully in six minutes, with the Pulse lithium iron phosphate battery. The flywheel stores energy mechanically in a rotor inside a vacuum-sealed steel enclosure installed below ground, handling short high-power events in milliseconds while the battery supplies sustained energy. The company says the systems support frequency and voltage stability, power quality, peak-load management and utility demand-response participation. GigaOne has also opened lines for HVAC equipment and power-cap assemblies.
Timeline
Six months ago: GigaOne factory brought online and production increase began.
2020: BEST reported on an 8.8MW Netherlands project combining lithium-ion storage with flywheels.
Beginning of 2025: Torus workforce stood at 88 employees.
Industry Shift
The Spin-plus-Pulse architecture follows the 2020 Netherlands project, which paired 7.12MWh of lithium-ion storage with 3MW of flywheels. GigaOne's expansion moves that hybrid design from a single installation toward factory-scale manufacturing.
For Salt Lake City residents and utilities, the expansion signals more local production capacity for grid-scale storage equipment. Customers evaluating hybrid systems can weigh the claimed cycle-life gap between the flywheel and battery components when comparing options.
The takeaway
Pairing a fast-responding flywheel with a slower battery is a practical way to reduce wear on the battery. Watch for independent verification of the cycle-life claims as production ramps.
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Source note: This article includes information reported by Best Magazine.
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