Electric power equipment Powered by AMSC® conserves resources -- operating more efficiently, carrying greater amounts of power safely and reliably, and improving the quality of energy delivered to customers.

Leveraging superconductivity's high power density and enhanced electrical efficiency, rotating machines that incorporate AMSC's HTS wire can be as little as one-third the weight and half the size of comparably powered traditional alternatives. Reducing size and weight frees valuable real estate that often can be turned into additional revenue generation or amenities.

Superconductor rotating machines typically have as little as half the electrical losses of a conventional machine when at full power.

Superconductor generators offer higher efficiencies than conventional machines over their full range of operation while delivering lower lifetime ownership costs, in part due to their enhanced reliability and improved MTBF.

The successful completion of full-power testing of the world's first 36.5 megawatt (49,000 horsepower) high temperature superconductor (HTS) ship propulsion motor at the U.S. Navy's Integrated Power System Land-Based Test Site in Philadelphia is the first successful full-power test of an electric propulsion motor sized for a large Navy combatant and, at 36.5 megawatts, doubled the Navy's power rating test record. 

This system was designed and built under a contract from the Office of Naval Research to demonstrate the efficacy of HTS motors as the primary propulsion technology for future Navy all-electric ships and submarines. Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) funded and led the successful testing of the motor.

Incorporating coils of HTS wire that are able to carry 150 times the power of similar-sized copper wire, the motor is less than half the size of conventional motors used on the first two DDG-1000 hulls and will reduce ship weight by nearly 200 metric tons. It will help make new ships more fuel-efficient and free up space for additional warfighting capability. 
 

Superconductor Ship Propulsion Motors  for military and commercial applications demanding improved propulsion efficiency combined with shock resistance, low noise, and small size permitting increased passenger or freight payloads, or pod mounted configurations, and increases flexibility in ship design. 
 

Superconductor Ship Propulsion Generators for military and commercial applications demanding low noise, small foot prints and light weight to improve system performance and flexibility.  HTS Utility Generators for designed to supply power directly to the transmission grid.
 

Rotating Machine Development History