U.S. Department of Energy Announces $10 Million for Projects Working to Develop and Domestically Manufacture High Performance Superconductors | AltEnergyMag
Summary
Enabling widely available low-cost, high-temperature superconducting (HTS) tapes could have major implications for the United States transition to a net-zero energy future. This funding supports the Biden-Harris Administrations Investing in America agenda to reach a clean energy future by bolstering American-made manufacturing, improving grid infrastructure, and strengthening domestic supply chains. "The following three projects are set to receive funding through the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energys (ARPA-E) Novel Superconducting Technologies for Conductors Exploratory Topic: University of Houston (Houston, Texas) will scale up manufacturing of HTS tape to overcome barriers of implementing HTS in clean energy applications, including low-loss transmission cables, compact nuclear fusion reactors, high-power wind turbine generators, and highly efficient motors and generators. HTSI will develop new tools that expand the area on the metal tapes where the superconducting layers are deposited, resulting in production speeds five to ten times higher than present-day levels while also improving the quality and consistency of the materials. (Award amount: $5,000,000) MetOx Technologies (Houston, Texas) will dramatically lower HTS manufacturing costs by improving equipment throughput, material efficiency, and tape performance.
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