News
New leaflet on grid protection
A leaflet is now available on SuperGrid Institute’s resistive superconducting fault current limiter (RSFCL), which is a grid protection technology providing an ultra-fast passive response to prevent the propagation of high over-voltages in AC and DC networks. System protection also represents the focus of SCARLET’s WP5 and has seen a lot of progress recently, as […]
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2025 Project Meeting in Lisbon
This year’s SCARLET project meeting was very nicely organised by our Portuguese partner WavEC Offshore Renewables on 24-25 of June in Lisbon, Portugal. The status and latest updates of all the work packages were discussed in detail, along with organisation and planning for the next decisive months. As always, it was quite inspiring to see […]
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SCARLET at CCA 2025
SCARLET’s Antonio Morandi presented the project at the International Workshop on Coated Conductors for Applications (CCA 2025), which was hosted last month by CERN and the University of Geneva. His presentation was entitled “HTS power transmission (and distribution): status and prospects” and highlighted the last decade of progress on superconducting power cables. This included the […]
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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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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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Coming up: Les Journées d’Aussois
SCARLET will be featured in the upcoming Journées de Cryogénie et de Supraconductivité, taking place in Aussois, France from the 15th to the 18th of October. This regular meeting aims to facilitate interactions and exchanges between research labs and French industry. It is a good opportunity for researchers and engineers to come up to speed […]
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2024 Project Meeting in Lyon
This year’s SCARLET project meeting was skillfully organised by our partner the SuperGrid Institute on 17-18 of September in Lyon, France. Apart from the latest project updates and planning for the next months, we also enjoyed a tour of the institute’s state-of-the-art labs and high power source test platform – the first of its kind […]
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Op-ed on innovation for power transmission
In a recent article published in Tagesspiegel Background Energie & Klima, John Fitzgerald – CEO of SCARLET partner SuperNode Ltd – discussed novel cable technologies to make the German transmission grid fit for a decarbonised future. He emphasized the need for innovation-friendly regulation to trigger the necessary investments in novel cable technologies such as superconductors. […]
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SCARLET in Rivista Platinum
SCARLET’s Antonio Morandi from the University of Bologna described the project background, aims and highlights for the Italian magazine Rivista Platinum “Aziende & Protagonisti”. Special attention was given to the hydrogen-cooled superconducting cable, which is led by the Italian partner ASG Superconductors with active involvement from Morandi’s group. The challenges of safely integrating this innovative […]
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