Author: Adela Marian
SCARLET at Electrostatics 2025
SCARLET’s Luhan Zu presented his work on electrical insulation at cryogenic temperatures last week at the Electrostatics Conference in Bologna. His presentation was entitled “Influence of polypropylene content in PPLP for high voltage insulation at cryogenic temperature” and is part of a collaboration among ESPCI, Nexans and ASG Superconductors. This work explores how polypropylene ratios […]
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New Blog featuring SCARLET
A new blog entitled “How can we solve the power grid’s major land-use challenge?” was recently authored by SCARLET coordinator Marte Gammelsæter and published on the SINTEF website. The blog presents the challenges brought by the rapid increase in renewable energy and the grid expansion that comes along with it. It then highlights superconducting cables […]
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SCARLET at Jicable HVDC’25
Next week SCARLET will be featured at the Jicable HVDC’25 symposium taking place in Torino, Italy. University of Bologna’s Mattia Simonazzi will present his work on “Grid integration of high-power MVDC superconducting cables based on HTS and MgB2” in a special session aimed at young researchers, after his paper was accepted by the Jicable technical […]
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Join us for EUCAS 2025
The 17th European Conference on Applied Superconductivity (EUCAS) will take place in Porto, Portugal from September 21 to September 25. SCARLET will be featured in the following presentations: “Novel setup for measuring lapped insulation at cryogenic temperature” (1-MP-CT.8) on 22/09/2025 at 12:00-13:15 “Characterization and tests of the HTS tape and the preliminary pancake for the […]
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SCARLET at Arendalsuka
Next Tuesday SCARLET will be featured at the Arendalsuka, the largest political gathering in Norway, which was held annually since 2012. SCARLET coordinator Marte Gammelsæter will present the project and answer questions in the framework of Energy Tuesday, organized by SINTEF at the weeklong meeting. Her presentation is entitled “Superconducting power: More current, zero losses, […]
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Meet us at CIRED 2025!
In a couple of weeks, SCARLET will be presented in a guided poster tour at the upcoming Conference and Exhibition on Electricity Distribution (CIRED 2025), taking place in Geneva, Switzerland from the 16th to the 19th of June. With over 1600 conference attendees and 3000 exhibition visitors, this meeting is the most important annual conference […]
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World first achieved by SuperGrid Institute
SCARLET’s Christophe Creusot and his colleagues at SuperGrid Institute recently achieved a world first for applied superconductivity: 50 kV DC breaking using a superconducting fault current limiter in combination with a circuit breaker. The current was limited from 43 kAp to 5.5 kA, namely by 87% compared with the prospective current, and the DC circuit […]
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New SCARLET article
At the start of the new year, a new SCARLET article was published: entitled “Comparative Analysis of MgB2 Cable Layouts for 1 GW Superconducting Transmission – Insights From the SCARLET Project“, this scientific paper appeared in the journal IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, after having been presented at the Applied Superconductivity Conference last September. The […]
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Superconductivity for Railway Application
Last week the Workshop on Superconductivity for Railway Application took place at the headquarters of the International Union of Railways (UIC) in Paris, France. SCARLET was introduced to global railway profesionals by Christian Eric Bruzek from ASG Superconductors S.p.A., who then focussed on the hydrogen-cooled cable and its applications. The meeting aims to bring together […]
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Partner News: Superconducting record set by VESC
SCARLET partner VESC recently set a new record for applied superconductivity by demonstrating a current of 190000 amperes through a superconducting busbar, thus matching the operating current of an aluminium smelter. The demonstrator consists of two current leads with a compact superconducting busbar of less than 30 cm in diameter in between them. The tests […]
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