One of the major challenges facing the electric industry is how to manage network fault levels, the magnitude of the electrical current that flows into a fault or short circuit. These current levels ...

A new theory could help build future superconducting alternating-current fault-current limiters for electricity transmission and distribution systems. The work identifies design strategies that can ...

American Superconductor Corporation announced that Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. (Hyundai) has achieved world record performance levels for fault current limiters (FCL), which it developed ...

American Superconductor (AMSC) and China's Institute of Electrical Engineering (IEE) recently announced that IEE has successfully demonstrated a superconductor-based fault current limiter—essentially ...