Special Issue

Smart Grid

Development of Superconducting Technologies
for the Smart grid
Shinichi Mukoyama*

Superconducting wires that can send large current with low loss have beendeveloped and commercialized since the discovery of superconductivity a century ago. Practical use of superconductors in applications that include an MRI magnet has also
been progressing. Furthermore, since high-temperature superconducting materials, which havea critical temperature in the liquid nitrogen range, were discovered 25 years ago, superconductivity could be adopted in a wider range of applications such as electric power devices andindustrial equipment.
On the other hand, during this century, the rapidly growing population in the world is creating ahigher consumption of fossil fuels. Pervasive issues such as global warming, exhaustion of fossil
fuels and others are emerging. Superconducting technologies are not only considered an energy-saving technology, but also new technology that promotes the availability of a larger amountof renewable energy for the smart grid.
Furukawa Electric (FEC) has started to develop superconducting applications that can be used
for the smart grid. We are explaining the superconducting devices used for the smart grid andthe present status of FEC development in superconducting applications.

ABSTRACT1.

INTRODUCTION

Superconductivity is that phenomenon where some metals or compounds have no resistivity when it is cooled to
extremely-low temperature. The phenomenon was discovered by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes who was a physicist
of Leiden University one hundred-two year ago. He foundthat electrical resistance of mercury became zero at temperature of 4.2 K that was achieved by liquefaction of helium. In the year 1911, when the great physical phenomenon was discovered, the Xinhai [Hsin-hai] Revolution was
happening and the Qing dynasty, which controlled China,
was imploding in the next year. In Japan, Meiji emperor
passed away and Taisyo era started in the following year.
From then, the world was heading to a world war. On theother hand, around that time is the predawn of dramaticdevelopments in science field, such as the introduction ofEinstein’s theory of relativity and the quantum theory.
According to U.N. estimate1), 2), the world population of1911 was about 1.7 billion, and U.N. announced the population went over 7 billion at end of December 2012.
(Figure 1) Moreover, because the increasing of population
accelerates, the population may increase by 1 billion in
the next 20 years. The population increase affects severely the consumption of energy. In Figure 2, the consump-tion of energy in 1910 was about 1 hundred million ton
per year in fuel equivalent. The consumption of energy in2010 was 1 billion ton per year. It is ten times larger than
one of 19113).
Increasing population and consumption of energy will
create present issues of shortage of energy, food andwater, and future issues of depleted fossil fuel and global
warming. Regarding the continuous use of fossil fuels,
petroleum and natural gas would run short within 50
years, and coal would run short within 130 years. There
are also other problems such as looming abnormal
weather, harmful effect of ecology and outbreak of ahealth infection due to the global warming. Rising sea
level is a serious issue for countries that have economical
centers and residential area in low altitude place.
To avoid global warming issue, it is necessary that people avoids burning fossil fuel and exhausting hugeamount of carbon dioxide, decreases energy consumption by saving energy, and promotes energy supply fromrenewable sources such as wind-energy and solar energy. In particular, smart grid will be instrumental in theenergy saving and in the introduction of the renewableenergy. Consequently, FEC expects that superconducting
technologies will be one of the key technologies in thesmart grid and it will become a future growing business.

* HTS Project Team, HTS Engineering Department

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If we talk about the smart grid in terms of superconductivity, the smart grid is an electrical power system that controls energy flow from both the side of the supplier andconsumers, it optimizes the combination of various energy
sources and delivers the power in a highly effective, reliable and safe way. Especially, the introduction of wind andsolar power generation reduces the fuel energy percentage and greenhouse gas emissions, helping the development of human life and the economy. We believe thatsuperconductor technologies will be one of the technologies that promote the introduction of renewable energy.
FEC has developed a superconducting cable (HTS
cable), a superconducting fault current limiter (SFCL),
and superconducting energy storage. Each of thesedevices can be included among the superconducting
equipment in the Smart grid. An HTS cable is a power

SMES

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in the world.

Figure 1 Transition of the population of the world.

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transmission cable that can feed large electrical power ata low transmission loss in a conductor of small cross section by using superconducting wires in the conductor. If
the renewable energy generator is a new construction, we
also construct a new transmission line from the generator
to the power network. The HTS cable will be used in thetransmission line as a highly efficient transmission line.
FEC expects that the SFCL will be one of the powerdevices that permits a large number of renewable energy
generators and avoids the risk of a network accident suchas a ground fault and a circuit fault in a complex andhuge power network.
As for superconducting energy storage, there is asuperconducting magnetic energy storage system(SMES) and a fly-wheel energy storage system (FESS).
The electrical power is stored by the SMES as magnetic
energy, and by the FESS as kinetic (rotation) energy. We
are reporting the status of the development of thesedevices at FEC.

DC HTS cableLong distancetransmission
lineElectrical powerstoring technology
for load levering

Power cable

FCL

High efficiency andcompact powertransmission line

Short -circuitcurrent control
in system
Fly wheel
Electrical power
storage device
Figure 3 Superconducting devices in Smart grid.

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3. HTS CABLE
Figure 4 shows the structure of the HTS cable that wasmade from high-Tc superconducting tapes (HTS wire).
HTS cable consists of a cable core and a cryostat pipe.
The cable core consists of a copper stranded cylindricalconductor that is called former, a conductor layer that is awound HTS tapes around the former, an electrical insulation layer (dielectric layer) that is a wound dielectric
papers around the conductor layer, an HTS shield layerthat is a wound HTS tapes around the insulation and aprotective layer. The cryostat pipe is utilized for flowing
liquid nitrogen (LN2) that cools the cable core at about-200 degree C. The cryostat pipe needs a thermal insulation layer between the pipes. Moreover a vacuum
between the two corrugated pipes is maintained in thecryostat pipe in order to obtain a high thermal insulation
property. We call the HTS cable that has one cable corein the cryostat pipe as a ‘single core cable’, the HTS
cable that has three cable cores in the cryostat pipe as a‘three core cable’, The single core cable is used in highvoltage cables such as 275 kV cable, which has thickdielectric, and the three core cable is used in medium
voltage cables as 66/77 kV cable, whose cable cores has
a small diameter.

Figure 4 Single core HTS cable (275 kV 3 kA).

Figure 5 Three core HTS cable (66/77 kV 3 kA).

3.1 Development of Bi Based HTS Cable
FEC started HTS cable development by using HTS conductor from the time when HTS material was discovered.
FEC presented a demonstration of a prototype cable thatconsisted of a cable core of 5-m length, a 66 kV-2 kAp, acryostat pipe and terminations in collaboration with
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO)4). In 2000, FEC
fabricated 66 kV three core cable of 20 m length and tested it 5).
We have participated in the New Energy and Industrial
Technology Development Organization (NEDO) projects
since 2000, such as Super-ACE project, M-PACC project,… etc., We have implemented the innovations of HTS
cable technologies and the basic cable technologies
such as AC loss, insulation, electrical and mechanicalproperties and the accessories such as a termination, acable joint and a cryogenic system, … etc. 6).
In the Super-ACE project (2000-2005), in order to investigate the practical development of a long length HTS
cable, we demonstrated a 500 m HTS cable, which was
the longest cable at that time in the world, and FEC
installed it at Yokosuka Lab. in Central Research Instituteof Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI) as shown in Figure 6.
The cable was a single core cable of 77 kV and 1 kA in a
cable, with 143 mm diameter installed in a cable conduit.
The cable manufacture and the cable installation contractor were FEC. Long term voltage current loading tests
were conducted by CRIEPI and FEC. The test started
from March 2004, and for one year we conducted various
tests to get cooling properties, thermal mechanical properties, electrical properties, and superconductive properties of the cable and the system as necessary experiences for the practical installation7).
3.2 Development of the Yttrium Based HTS Cable
FEC started the development of the Yttrium based HTS
cable (YBCO HTS cable) that uses YBCO wires from 2006
in the NEDO project. The wire has a property of a highcritical current and a potential of low cost. FEC evaluatedthe applicability of YBCO wire to the cable, and conducted a short circuit test of 31.5 kA, 2 sec by using 20 mlong cable during cooling the cable at 77.3 K 8). Full blown
YBCO HTS cable development was installed in the
M-PACC project of NEDO from 2008 to 2013. Previous
HTS cable development has aimed medium voltage cablewith 10 kV to 77 kV because it can be replaced with aconventional underground cable in the urban area. The
HTS cable needs compact and large transmission capacity compared to the conventional cable. On the other
hand, recent high voltage cables have been developed
for the backbone network in many countries. The backbone network in Japan consists of overhead lines of 275
kV to 500 kV and the underground cables of 275 kV. FEC
has advanced a 275 kV 3 kA HTS cable development thatis the highest voltage and the largest power in the world
as a part of the M-PACC project 9).The electrical insulationis the most important technology in the 275 kV HTS cable
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10 m highUnderground

Cable offset

Terminals
5 m-R bending

220 m

Offset section (15 m)

U-bend section
Termination A

U-bend section
Termination #B

10 m highsection

Underground Section(80 m ，depth 60 cm)
LN 2 tank

Stirling cooler

LN 2 pump

Figure 6 Layout of 500 m HTS cable demonstration in the Super-ACE project.

development. The thickness of the cable insulation isincreased in proportion to the operation voltage. If thedielectric loss and the AC loss are high, the temperatureof the conductor rises and the superconductivity is not
maintained because most electrical insulation materials
have bad thermal conductivity. Therefore, the high voltage HTS cable requires low cable losses such as AC loss
and dielectric loss. These technologies are explained indetail in the next paper. We need to study the reliability ofthe electrical insulation for a power cable. First we selected a dielectric material that doesn’t electrically breakdown for long period, and we made cable samples andtested them under AC breakdown test and impulse breakdown test to get their permissive stresses for the design.
Under a low voltage at which the sample doesn’t break
down, it is thought that a partial discharge in the insulation deteriorates dielectric property. We have measured
Partial Discharge Inception Volt (PDIV) and a degradation
factor of the long-term life, by obtaining the initiation time
under supplying less than PDIV for long time. The insulation thickness of 275 kV HTS cable insulation was determined by using the design stress that was estimated fromthese data of the breakdown and the longtime stability.
With respect to the hysteresis loss in the superconducting layer, we have reduced it by using the 3 mm widthtape for the layer, and by winding the tapes with a small
gap between tapes. From the method, the AC loss
achieved was 0.12 W/m at 3 kA, which is 50 % less than aprevious HTS conductor. This AC loss value leads to thatthe transmission loss of the 275 kV HTS cable becomes
about one forth compared to conventional Cross-linked
polyethylene (XLPE) cable of the same capacity. In gener-

PVC sheath
Cryostat pipe
HTS shield layer
HTS conductor layer

133 mmFormerProtective layer
Electrical insulation
Specification
Voltage

77 kVCurrent

1 kA

Thermal invasion

1 W/m

Wire

BSCCO

Figure 7 Structure of 500 m HTS cable.

al the energy save effect of superconducting devices ismore important in large capacity devices than in small
capacity devices. It is expected the use of the 275 kV HTS
cable into real power networks will reduce emission ofcarbon dioxide. 10), 11)

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Figure 8 S
 hort-circuit current test of the 66 kV-3 kA YBCO HTS
cable (A cable joint, and a 10 m cable that was set in
the back from the joint were fabricated by FEC).

power networks and by the introduction of renewableenergy generators. If the fault current magnitude surpasses the capacity of a protection relay system, the relay
cannot break the circuit. And, if all relays were to be
replaced, it would be at a large cost. It is proposed to
introduce the fault current limiter to the networks in orderto suppress fault current.
SFCL presents low impedance when operating at a low
current at its superconducting state during steady state
condition, but its impedance rises quickly when operating
at normal conductivity during fault condition.
Conventional relay has a certain delay time from thedetection to the operation. SFCL can suppress the firstwave of the fault current and can reduce maximum current. FEC has developed the SFCL, called resistive superconducting fault current limiter, by making use of the transition between superconductivity and normal-conductivity.

Cu stranded former

Fault current without FCLHTS conducting layer : 2 layers
3 mmW Cu plated YBCO wire
PP laminated paper
HTS Shield layer : 1 layer
5 mmW Cu plated YBCO wire
Cu protection layer
Cryostat pipe
PE shieth O.D. 150 mm

Suppressed Fault current with FCL

Figure 10 Principle of resistive SFCL
(Suppressing Fault Current).

Figure 9 Structure of the 275 kV 3 kA HTS cable.

4.

FAULT CURRENT LIMITTER

Short-circuit accidents often happen on a transmission
line because the line comes into contact with other things
such as a tree, an animal or a crane, the line is hit bylightning, the line is cut by the load of the snow or theelectrical breakdown of a transformer because of aging. If
the accident of earth fault and short-circuit fault happens,large current flows in the line to the fault point because of
the reduced impedance at the point. The fault sometimes
forces a blackout in the network. In Japan, the blackout
rate is very low because the power utilities check thepower equipment periodically to avoid faults. In case of a
fault, the fault line is instantaneously shut off by a protection relay. The protection relay has been improved as
breaking speed of the current relay is less than 0.1 sec,
which is about 1/10 compared to old relays. However
fault current is increased by enhanced and complex

FEC group has developed two types of SFCL. One is
an SFCL that uses YBCO thin film superconducting plate,
and the other is the SFCL that uses 2G HTS wires bySuperPower Inc. (SP) which is Furukawa’s subsidiarycompany in U.S. Both SFCLs utilize superconducting/normal state transition on the YBCO thin film plates and the2G wires, respectively. SFCL utilizing the YCBO elements
which has a state named superconducting/normal statetransition (S/N state transition). This element presents azero electrical resistance in its normal operation state anda high electrical resistance when an over current exceeds
a specific threshold, thus limiting this over current. The
SFCL houses multiple YBCO elements in a cryostat which
is a sealed container kept at low temperature by liquid
nitrogen. Figure 11 shows thin-film superconducting plate(thin film) and conceptual diagram of SFCL. The thin film
has been developed by FEC by introducing the process
of metal organic deposition (MOD) technology developedby Agency of Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)12).
The structure of the thin film consists of an intermediate
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Development of Superconducting Technologies for the Smart gridlayer, a superconducting layer and a metallic protective
layer on the sapphire substrate (plate). In the SFCL using
the thin film, a SFCL unit joints the 32 thin film plates per
one phase films in 4 parallel and 8 serial, and the thin film
is connected to current leads that feed current to the
SFCL units. We have designed the SFCL with 6.6 kV 400
A as a protection device for distribution networks and forrenewable generation system.

SuperPower Inc., a subsidiary of the FEC group has
developed a 138 kV proof-of-concept SFCL, as depicted
in Figure 12, and has further developed and tested FCL
modules using SuperPower 2G HTS wires. The SFCLs
are intended to be used in the protection equipment of ahigh voltage transmission network.

Figure 11 Conceptual design of SFCL and thin film YBCO superconducting plate. These were designed and fabricated by FEC.

0.4 m

FCL unit combined 2G HTS wires

Figure 12 SFCL with 2G HTS wires developed by SuperPower Inc.

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Table 1

Specifications of the SFCL developed by SuperPowerInc.

Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) to supply the wire to SMES
development.

Transmission SFCL
Line Voltage

138 kV

Load Current (rms)

1,200 A

Power

40 kA

Limited Fault

10 kA

Limiting Capability
Type of Superconductor

65-75 %
2G HTS wire

Working Temperature

68 K – 77 K

Recovery Under Load

RUL Capable

Repetitive Fault Freq.

Any

Fault Duration
System Dependence
Ground Footprint 3 Phase
MVA/Footprint

5.

165.6 MVA

Prospective Fault

Any
100% Passive
6 m2
27.6 MVA/m2

SUPERCONDUCTING ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM

Renewable energy such as a wind generation and a solar
panel that are expected to have a higher share of generated power depending the condition of wind and sunlight.
To utilize the natural energies effectively, it is necessary
and important to prevent fluctuation of the output. Theenergy storage system is one of the candidate solutions
to absorb the fluctuation and to make output flat. The
storage system required has to have the main features ofa quick response, and repetitiveness of charge and discharge. Therefore, a battery based on chemical reaction
doesn’t provide a quick response and we have to consider a lifetime under repetitive charge and discharge. The
superconducting energy storage system (SESS) such as
SMES and FESS has semi-permanent lifetime.
5.1 SMES
Chubu Electric Power company (Chuden) and Toshibadeveloped the SMES for stabilization of power networks
in Superconducting power network technology project
supported by NEDO and METI from 2004 and they conducted a field test of 20 MJ class SMES in 2007. The
SMES was connected to a real network in Hosoo water
generation of Furukawa Nikko Power generation Inc.13)
The system used NbTi wires manufactured by Nikko factory of FEC and the system was cooled with liquid helium.
(Figure 13)
Regarding HTS SMES used HTS wires, Chuden and
FEC have developed the HTS SMES in the M-PACC project. The HTS SMES is expected to be low cost and small
size compared to the LTS SMES 14) . Chuden has
addressed test of 20 MJ elementary coil and design highfield and compact coil of 2 GJ class. Chuden also addresseda refrigerator cooling technology for easy maintenance.
FEC has developed a 2G wire by Metal Organic Chemical

Capacity : 10,000 kW
Storage Energy : 19 MJ
Operation Temp. : 4.2 K
Operation Current : 1350 A

Operation Voltage : 1.1 kVMaximum magnetic field : 4.4 T

Figure 13 LTS SMES that set in Hosoo water power plant of
Furukawa Nikko Power generation Inc.. (2007~2008).

5.2 Flywheel Energy Storage system (FESS)
Railway technology research institute (RTRI), Kubotech,
Mirapuro, Yamanashi Prefecture, and FEC started a nextgeneration flywheel electrical storage system development, in collaboration, in Development of Safe and low
cost large scale electrical storage system technologies
supported by NEDO.
A FESS stores electrical power that solar panels generate by rotating a heavy wheel in the equipment15). If electricity generated is decreased due to cloudy weather, flywheel outputs electricity to refill the decreased generationof electricity. The system that we are developing aims
strong property in repetitive operation and good efficiency in the operation by using a superconducting technology to float the rotating wheel. FEC developed a HTS coilthat is an element of the superconducting magnetic bearing. In the FESS project, design and fabrication of the
FESS will be carried out from 2014 to 2016, and a prototype of the FESS will be tested at Mt. Yonekura in
Yamanashi prefecture with solar panels constructed in2017.

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7.
Motor
generator
Cryo-cooler

Electromagnetic
clutch
Vacuum vessel

FlywheelSuperconducting
coilSuperconducting
magnetic
bearings

Superconducting
bulk

Figure 14 Conceptual design of Flywheel Energy Storage System(FESS).

6.

FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

It is thought that one of the solutions for achieving
responsibility in reduction of the CO2 emission in future is
to introduce a lot of new power sources that do not use
fossil fuel. Due to the high degree expectation of renewable energy, the quantity and the schedule of the introduction may be large and fast. However, if a lot of the distributed power sources are connected into the network,
many kinds of problems would be occur. Especially, since
the renewable energy source of the distributed powersource leads to power fluctuation, there is the issue that
introduction of the renewable power source will receive
limit quantitatively not to accept lager quantity than thepermitted capacity of the network. The HTS cable, SFCL
and FESS that are mentioned above seem to have possibility solved these problems. If the superconducting
devices are listed as components of a smart grid, we
think, that could make the design flexibility and the economical efficiency higher. Moreover we could design
smart grid system that earns large profit. Therefore, theHTS devices should be developed considering cost andearly development by the time of its practical implementation in 2020. If an HTS device is used as infrastructure
equipment, it is required to provide reliability, stability andsafety. To confirm the reliability and so on, field test of thereal network is important. FEC expects to participate in
the field demonstration with power utilities or power producers.

SUMMARY

The superconducting phenomenon was discovered a century ago, a High-Tc superconducting material was also
discovered one fourth century ago, and Tokyo Central
Laboratories of FEC started a development of superconducting wires half century ago and started producing andselling NbTi wires in 1968. FEC has commercialized manykinds of material of superconducting wire since then, andFEC has supplied these wires in the applications of MRI
magnet, accelerator, nuclear fusion, and other advanced
applications. However, the business scale is smaller thanmain business fields of FEC such as power cable, telecommunication cable and non-ferrous materials, and thescale of the quantity keeps for long time as almost same.
The major causes are that superconducting materials are
expensive and these need to be cooled at cryogenic temperature. The applications that outweigh these negative
points are the devices and the feature that can’t be realized by conventional material such as aluminum and copper. However, it appears that the HTS material might
expand its applications in energy saving devices and economical devices, because the cooling penalty is improvedby changing liquid nitrogen from liquid helium as coolant,
and cost of the wires will be expected to be good cost
performance. This year, FEC acquired HTS wire maker ofSuperPower Inc. in U.S. , which sell 2G wires around theworld.
The smart grid seems to be a useful technology for not
only developed countries like Japan but also, especially,
for the improvement of the infrastructure of developing
countries. Modern society has been depending on thelarge consumption of energy consumption, in particularby burning fossil fuel. The introduction of the smart grid
will allow the development of a smart society and of an
efficient social environment. We are confident that superconducting technologies would continuously contributeto the improvement of societies and technologies, from asmart grid and environment view point.
Acknowledgment
A part of the studies has been carried out in the projects
supported by NEDO. Author gratefully acknowledges all
the people who have engaged these works.

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