SCARLET video
Superconducting cables can transmit electricity with zero losses, use 90% less copper, and deliver gigawatt-level power in a much smaller footprint. This means they can help expand the grid faster, cheaper, and more sustainably. A new video showing how the partners in the SCARLET project are helping shape Europe’s electricity transmission was released this week. […]
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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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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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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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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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