The Superconducting Flywheel Energy Storage Systems using the Superconducting Magnetic Bearing

Abstract

　The flywheel energy storage systems (FESS) can be stabilized the fluctuation of the output of the solar photovoltaic power generation system. FESS has been developed as a joint project of five enterprises subsidized by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO). Key technology of FESS is the high temperature superconducting magnetic bearing (SMB). It consists of high temperature superconducting coils for its stator and high temperature superconducting bulks for its rotor. The FESS demonstration machine was reinstalled in the power plant, and the examination of the charge/discharge with solar photovoltaic power by the FESS demonstration machine was operated.