Superconducting Cables for Grid Applications: A Case Study of a Municipal Demonstration Link

Authors

  • Dagmar-S Holmberg-Sve Department of Power Electronics, Medelpad Institute of Advanced Technology, Sundsvall, Sweden Author
  • Landry Jaurregui Department of Materials Science, Vexin Institute of Advanced Technology, Gisors, France Author
  • Emil-K Angelov-Pen Department of Thermal Engineering, Osogovo Institute of Advanced Technology, Kyustendil, Bulgaria Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22674608

Keywords:

Superconducting Cables for Grid Applications; Next-generation R&D; Evidence synthesis; Reproducibility; Research methodology

Abstract

Superconducting Cables for Grid Applications has moved quickly from a niche engineering question to something a wider
community can now investigate with reasonably reliable tools, but the evidence behind it has not always kept pace. We pull
together the current evidence for superconducting cables for grid applications, covering the methodological, practical, regulatory
and cost angles, with an eye on where practice has genuinely settled and where engineers and reviewers are still largely working
it out for themselves. Selective, context-specific adoption looks better supported by the evidence gathered here than either broad
rollout or blanket avoidance.

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