8. Conclusions

By satisfactorily freeing electricians from the strong and harmful constraints of fault currents, the superconducting fault current limiter is of particular interest to electricity producers and distributors. It offers not only technical advantages (improved power supply, voltage wave and stability), but also economic benefits (e.g. reduced oversizing of equipment, provided its own cost is not too high). The efforts made by electricity distributors in numerous projects bear witness to this.

These superconducting limiters have reached a certain degree of maturity and can be considered pre-industrial. The successful experience of prototypes installed in industrial networks confirms the interest and strong potential of this highly innovative technology.

This functional attractiveness is perfectly in line with the current strong demands on networks...