RE: [Full-Disclosure] east coast powergrid / SCADA [OT?]

["Bernie, CTA" <cta@hcsin.net>]

I did hear that there was a company that just coincidentally 
received a patent on a unique superconductor based arrester 
valve the day before the blackout. This valve is designed to 
suck down excess power surges and they could cost millions of 
dollars.  

<snip>
…Intermagnetics to develop surge protection system for utilities
Marco Leavitt - The Business Review

Using $6 million from the U.S. Department of Energy, 
Intermagnetics General Corp. and a new European partner will 
develop a system to protect power grids from surges in current… 

…Philip Pellegrino, president of Intermagnetics subsidiary 
SuperPower Inc., said that negotiations were underway with a 
utility to install a prototype at a substation. He declined to 
say if the prototype would be installed locally, or name the 
utility. 

"It is a major, major utility in the United States," he said. 

To be known as a Matrix Fault Current Limiter, the system will 
utilize proprietary technology developed by SuperPower. 

…SuperPower's technology is unique in that it uses magnetic 
fields to ensure that the load is evenly distributed across the 
rods, preventing them from overloading, Pellegrino said. Other 
researchers have been unable to ensure that the transition from 
superconductivity to resistance, which takes place in a fraction 
of a second, was done uniformly enough across the system to 
prevent burnout, he said. 

The Department of Energy's Argonne, Los Alamos, and Oak Ridge 
national laboratories will also participate in the project. 
In a separate project, the Department of Energy is providing 
half of the funding for a $26 million project to install a 350-
meter superconducting cable along the Hudson River and under 
Interstate-90, connecting two Niagara Mohawk substations… 
<snip>

hmmm? 



On 16 Aug 2003 at 17:20, Richard M. Smith wrote:
> Do we know the names of companies that make the equipment
> designed to safegaurd the power grid?  Better yet, what are the
> product names?
> 
> This Web page is pretty cool:
> 
> http://powerworld.tech.com/Java/Eastern/
> 
> Richard
> 

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