Superconductors info notes and press releases

Info notes

• Saving space in city centers: Medium voltage superconductor cables can replace high voltage power transmission
• 110 MVA at 20 kV: Prototype demonstrates potential of Superconducting Power Cables 
• Superconducting fault-current limiters: New tools in the box for handling high short-circuit power

Press releases

• Birmingham’s power grid is now reinforced with Nexans’ superconducting fault current limiters
• Nexans to provide superconducting cables for urban electric grid system in Chicago, North America
• Nexans’ superconductor technical conference addresses new challenges in energy transition
• Superconducting Power Grids – A step forward in energy transition
• RWE and Nexans form exclusive joint agreement
• World premiere in Essen: RWE integrates superconductor cable for the first time into existing power grid
• Nexans’ supplies two superconducting fault current limiters for permanent use on Birmingham's distribution network
• Typprüfung des neu entwickelten Supraleiterkabels für Projekt „AmpaCity“ erfolgreich abgeschlossen 
• Nexans and AMSC Introduce Fault Current Limiter for North American Utilities
• Remmel: „Technologie aus NRW für die beschleunigte Energiewende“
• RWE Deutschland, Nexans and KIT launch “AmpaCity” project: the world’s longest superconductor system to replace inner-city high-voltage cable
• Nexans goes live on grid with world’s first fault current limiter based on second-generation superconductors
• Nexans completes successful test of world’s first HVDC superconducting power transmission system
• Nexans SuperConductors moving to new premises
• Superconducting medium voltage cable from Nexans conducts record current: 3,200 amperes during load cycle tests
• Celebration on commissioning the superconducting fault current limiter at Vattenfall power plant 
• Nexans wins Energy Master Award 2010 for their Superconducting Current Limiter
• Nexans commissions in Germany the world’s first superconducting fault current limiter to protect a power plant’s internal power supply
• Bruker HTS and Nexans Announce Successful Completion of European Superconducting Cable Project
• Nexans supplies innovative Superconducting Fault Current Limiter to Applied Superconductor Ltd
• Successful commissioning of the world’s first transmission voltage superconductor cable in Long Island
• World’s first transmission voltage superconductor cable energised successfully in LIPA’s power grid
• Successful commissioning of the world’s first transmission voltage superconductor cable in Long Island 
• AMSC and Nexans announce successful testing of world’s first power transmission cable made with 2G HTS wire