American Superconductor Corporation has announced that it has expanded its superconductor power cable strategic business alliance with LS Cable. A new agreement between the two companies outlines plans to collaboratively deploy more than 31 miles of SC power cables in commercial power grids in the coming five years. This is quite an increase over the original alliance, which called for the deployment of just 6.2 miles of superconductor power cables.
The alliance will encompass a variety of superconductor cable projects, such as distribution and transmission voltages as well as alternating current (AC) and direct current (DC) systems.
AMSC’s second generation HTS wire–or 344 superconductors–will be used by LS Cable in the superconductor power cable systems it manufactures, including a 22.9 kV cable system that will be installed in KEPCO’s Icheon substation near Seoul later in 2010.
AMSC Chief Operating Officer Dan McGahn said, “Our companies share this common vision and see tremendous opportunities for commercial deployments of transmission and distribution superconductor cable systems around the world.”
