The need to modernise electricity grids so that they can transport energy more efficiently and safely, and the integration and exchange of energy between countries, are now key issues both for operators in the energy sector and for the economic and political agenda. Added to this is the energy transition: energy produced from renewable sources, which is distributed and variable over time, must be managed and stabilised within existing networks and ideally transported or shared efficiently between the networks of different countries, also for the purposes of network balancing.

Superconductivity based on an innovative material such as our MgB₂ wire, which the Italian company ASG Superconductors has succeeded in bringing to industrial level for the development, design and production of cables, SMES storage systems and Fault Current Limiters, is strategic and enables cost-effective innovation in energy transport and storage.

When it comes to transport, applied to cables, we are talking about a factor of 20 more energy transmitted compared to traditional technologies, and, importantly, without losses, which today range between 5% and 20% depending on measurements and systems, for the same amount of space, with obvious positive implications in terms of civil engineering and operating cost savings.
This paves the way for a range of applications where it is necessary to transport a lot of energy in a small space, and even in existing infrastructure where space is limited. Think of a data centre in the city centre or a port that will need to supply fleets of electric ships via cold ironing.

Some of our specialisations

• Superconducting wires and cables
• Superconducting storage systems
• Superconducting fault current limiters
• Magnetic systems
• Service