Superconductor study provides recommendations for the electricity networks of the future of Hurth, September 3, 2009 – superconductor development and industry experts are now in the Federal Ministry of economy, the study concept for an efficient energy supply of metropolitan areas”before. The invited guests from politics, industry experts and representatives of the energy industry will gain insight into the impressive potential of young technology. The debate on energy efficiency, electricity generation and consumption are on everyone’s lips. Less public attention, however, has the power. This force to rethink international power exchanges, offshore wind farms, or the growing energy demand in our major cities. Solutions that reduce bottlenecks and minimize losses, encounter great interest for example the superconductivity when network operators. One of the major issues is the low-loss transport of large amounts of energy: superconductor cable can in same cross-section around five times more electrical energy transfer than copper wire.
This plays a role, where scarce the space under the road and a road drill-down is very expensive especially in large cities. New resources such as the superconducting current limiter play a role in the networks of the future, because to achieve a low impedance of the network requirement for network quality and stability, higher short-circuit currents are the result in particular in connection with the increasing supply of renewable energy sources. Superconducting current limiters are sure to dominate these high currents. In addition, they are in normal operation almost without resistance. Not only in the presentation of the results on September 3, the authors expect a lively debate. No doubt individuals will encounter worked out theses at manufacturers, network operators, research institutions and Government in the present study different reviews”, so Univ.-Prof.
Dr.-ing. Hans-Jurgen Haubrich, Chairman of the Board of the Research Association for electrical equipment and Power industry association, would be achieved in his foreword to the study when a substantive discussion between all parties would thus stimulated, an important objective of this thesis.” The timing is propitious like never. As an example of the distribution network of a major city, inter alia, the study shows how the supply structure will change in the near future about the decentralized power supply or the electrification of individual transport”, so Dr. Werner Prusseit, President of the industry association superconductivity e.V. is often impossible to use the new technical challenges with the relatively old network structures. With the high-temperature superconductivity technology available today already over 20 years after their discovery, that enables the implementation and expansion of networks by forward-looking standards.” The study’s authors are aware that the loss reduction by superconducting equipment still not can outweigh their costs. But superconductor systems allow network structures often, the other places new savings potentials Open”, so Prusseit. On the question of where the new technology is already economically, the study provides answers.”