Superconductor technologies are increasingly making their way into electricity grids

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Jeff St. John | September 28, 2009 at 5:08 PM

Superconductor Cables, Fault Limiters for Transmission Lines

Superconductor technologies are increasingly making their way into electricity grids, as two recent deals illustrate.

Superconductor startup Zenergy Power (AIM: ZEN) has landed a contract to deliver a higher-voltage version of its superconductor fault current limiters now being used on distribution grids.

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And Devens, Mass.-based American Superconductor Corp. (NSDQ: AMSC) has signed a five-year agreement with Korea's LS Cable to supply wire superconducting cables for the nation's power grid.

LS Cable is already installing a superconducting cable distribution system for national utility Korea Electric Power Corp., expected to be up and running in 2010 (see Superconductors for the Grid).

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American Superconductor has seen its superconducting wire used in cables for such projects by AEP, as well as New York's Long Island Power Authority, in what was the first underground transmission voltage level superconductor cable system.

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