Superconducting technologies for renewable energy

Abstract

The main trends in the development of modern wind-mills are increasing of the output power and efficiency which leds to the increasing of their weight and sizes. The application of high temperature superconducting (HTS) technologies can solve these problems. The article describes of the designs 1 MVA superconducting synchronous generator and 5MJ flywheel energy storage systems (FESS) with HTS magnetic suspension for autonomous wind power engineering.