Under a $3m cost-share deal with the US Department of Energy, the power technology company’s research and development arm, GE Global Research (GEGR), aims to build a direct-drive turbine based on an innovative transmission design that uses superconducting technologies shown to have the potential to greatly reduce the total weight of a generator, while super-charging its production output.
Adapting superconducting electromagnet (SEM) technology created by GE Healthcare, GEGR reckons it can create a 15MW machine that has up to five times the torque density of its 4.1MW
