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EPRI Proprietary Licensed Material<br />

1987 The Strategic Defense Initiative was developing large directed energy devices and needed<br />

energy sources in the 1000 MW range <strong>f<strong>or</strong></strong> periods <strong>of</strong> 1 hour. They joined with EPRI and<br />

supp<strong>or</strong>ted the design <strong>of</strong> a dual-use ETM. Bechtel and EBASCO were chosen to lead teams that<br />

followed two different paths <strong>f<strong>or</strong></strong> manufacturing large-scale SMES.<br />

1987 The need <strong>f<strong>or</strong></strong> pulsed power (megawatts <strong>f<strong>or</strong></strong> seconds) to establish power quality <strong>f<strong>or</strong></strong><br />

industry, utility and military applications stimulated the <strong>f<strong>or</strong></strong>mation <strong>of</strong> the <strong>com</strong>pany<br />

Superconductivity Inc., which began the development <strong>of</strong> micro-SMES systems. Much <strong>of</strong> the<br />

ef<strong>f<strong>or</strong></strong>t in this period was supp<strong>or</strong>ted by the Power Conditioning and Continuing Interface<br />

Equipment (PCCIE) <strong>of</strong>fice <strong>of</strong> the US Air F<strong>or</strong>ce at McClellan Air F<strong>or</strong>ce Base in Sacramento, CA.<br />

1993 DARPA established funds <strong>f<strong>or</strong></strong> a SMES installation. The <strong>or</strong>iginal plan was <strong>f<strong>or</strong></strong> Babcock<br />

and Wilcox (B&W), now BWX Technologies (BWXT), to design and construct a 30 MW, 0.5<br />

MWh unit and install it in Anch<strong>or</strong>age, Alaska, to enable spinning reserve on the Alaska Railbelt<br />

electric system. After several changes in plans, a smaller coil, 100 MJ, was selected as a size<br />

that could be ac<strong>com</strong>modated within the new budget. The smaller coil was to have been installed<br />

at American Electric Power’s Inez Substation to supp<strong>or</strong>t operation <strong>of</strong> their unified power flow<br />

controller (UPFC), but again changing budgets and program goals <strong>f<strong>or</strong></strong> the partners in the project<br />

resulted in a mutual decision to cancel it at AEP. In about 2000 BWXT licensed the coil design<br />

to the Center <strong>f<strong>or</strong></strong> Applied Power Systems (CAPS) at Fl<strong>or</strong>ida State University (FSU). The coil is<br />

nearly <strong>com</strong>pleted and it should be installed in early 2003 at CAPS.<br />

1993 Several studies <strong>of</strong> the impact <strong>of</strong> SMES systems <strong>f<strong>or</strong></strong> system stability are carried out. They<br />

were supp<strong>or</strong>ted by the US Department <strong>of</strong> <strong>Energy</strong>. T<strong>or</strong>re described these and other studies in an<br />

EPRI rep<strong>or</strong>t 1006795. One <strong>of</strong> the studies eventually led to the concept <strong>of</strong> an energy st<strong>or</strong>age<br />

system that is distributed across a wide area <strong>of</strong> a power system but which responds to system in<br />

an integrated fashion.<br />

1994 The US Navy initiated a study <strong>of</strong> energy st<strong>or</strong>age systems associated with a move to an<br />

all-electric ship. SMES was one <strong>of</strong> the st<strong>or</strong>age systems studied. Westinghouse constructed a 50<br />

MJ coil that has been transferred to FSU <strong>f<strong>or</strong></strong> future system evaluation.<br />

1997 American Superconduct<strong>or</strong>’s subsidiary, Superconductivity Inc. began the development <strong>of</strong><br />

D-SMES devices and established a program to install 6 devices in n<strong>or</strong>thern Wisconsin.<br />

There are small installations <strong>of</strong> SMES test facilities in Europe and Japan. None <strong>of</strong> these devices<br />

has the capacity <strong>of</strong> the larger units in use today in the United States and South Africa. The<br />

Japanese have maintained a program <strong>of</strong> SMES development. They have generally had a wait<br />

and see approach to construction, but have constructed several small industrial and university<br />

systems. The structure <strong>of</strong> the SMES ef<strong>f<strong>or</strong></strong>t in Japan in 1999 is given at the end <strong>of</strong> the<br />

Bibliography.<br />

Summary <strong>of</strong> Potential SMES Applications<br />

Power Systems Engineers recently <strong>com</strong>pleted a review <strong>of</strong> previous SMES studies on a variety <strong>of</strong><br />

applications. This ef<strong>f<strong>or</strong></strong>t is available in the EPRI rep<strong>or</strong>t referenced below.<br />

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