March 2010 marked the 10-year anniversary of SuperPower Inc., and the company celebrated with the opening of a new exhibit on superconductivity at the Schenectady Museum and Suits-Bueche Planetarium. The company’s successes with second generation HTS wire over the course of the last decade are the focus of the new exhibition. New York Congressman Paul D. Tonko was the keynote speakers at the March 15 event.
“The early group of scientists, engineers and technicians at SuperPower forged ahead fueled by a passion to succeed in scaling up this promising technology,” said Dr. Venkat Selvamanickam, SuperPower Vice President and Chief Technology Officer.
While superconductor technology has emerging applications in industry, healthcare, science and research and aerospace, the company stresses that there are still a number of challenges to ensuring broad acceptance of HTS technology.
Arthur P. Kazanjan, general manager at SuperPower commented that the company is looking forward to the progress they expect in the next few years, such as improving wire manufacturing processes and performance attributes and achieving the costs targets that will make them more available for broad-scale adoption.
