First superconductor integrated into urban grid ´works without a hitch´ [News Briefing]

THE WORLD´S LONGEST superconductive cable and the first to have been integrated into an urban electricity grid has celebrated six months of flawless operations. Part of the AmpaCity project, the 1km-long 10kV hightemperature superconductive (HTS) cable was built into the inner city grid in Essen, Germany, at the end of April 2014.