Overview of SMES units application on smart grid systems

Many papers have introduced the wide application of SMES Unit in Power Systems. Since introduced at the first time in 1911 by Dutch Physicist Heike Kamerlingh, Superconducting magnetic technology has attracted many researchers to investigate its application in many areas. It was reported that its first application study in power systems was in transmission line stabilization in 1987. Since that the study of SMES application in power systems become even wider not limited only in system stabilization during faults but also in smoothing out power output from renewable energy based power systems. Moreover, the booming trend of smart grid with its complexity has attracted SMES researchers to involve the SMES in improving the reliability of smart grid systems.