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American Transmission Company (ATC) purchased six STATCOM solutions from AMSC to provide voltage stabilization to the Rhinelander Loop transmission grid in Wisconsin. The Rhinelander Loop was previously owned by Wisconsin Public Service, a subsidiary of WPS Resources Corporation.

BC Hydro installed a D-VAR® system to mitigate significant voltage problems in Fort St. James, British Columbia . Fort St. James is located at the end of a radial transmission line where it is susceptible to voltage problems during peak load, faults, and the presence of large motors. The D-VAR has successfully stabilized the voltage and has helped deliver reliable power to the people and businesses of Fort St. James.

Central Japan Railway Company ("JR Central") successfully utilized AMSC's high temperature superconductor (HTS) wire in a prototype electromagnetic coil designed for use as the lifting component in JR Central's magnetically levitated ("maglev") train system.

AMSC was selected by CERN, the world's largest particle physics research organization, to provide 14,000 meters of high temperature superconductor (HTS) wire for current lead devices that will be used in CERN's Large Hadron Collider, a 17-mile long, high energy particle accelerator.

AMSC was selected as the HTS wire supplier by the Applied Superconductivity Laboratory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), which oversaw a power cable project in Gansu and a fault current limiter (FCL) project in Changsha City. Beijing-based Chang Tong Cable Company, together with CAS, manufactured a 75-meter (250 foot) power cable using 12 kilometers of AMSC wire. CAS will also coordinate the assembly of the fault current limiter - an advanced design that will use 18 kilometers of AMSC wire.

Entergy installed AMSC STATCOM systems for substations in West Texas and Mississippi to help improve the reliability of the local power grids.

Connecticut Light & Power Company (CL&P, a subsidiary of Northeast Utilities) purchased three of AMSC's D-VAR units to actively manage voltage levels in lines bringing power into the area. By constantly monitoring and responding to variations in voltage, the system allowed an additional 100 megawatts of power to flow through existing transmission lines into the overtaxed portion of CL&P's grid in southwest Connecticut.

PacifiCorp utilized the first ever D-VAR solution for a wind farm application. The D-VAR helps regulate voltage at the Wyoming Wind Energy Project at the Foote Creek substation. The D-VAR has successfully helped the wind farm meet interconnection requirements.

Rayburn Country Electric Cooperative of Rockwall, Texas, uses a pair of D-VAR systems to mitigate voltage stability problems on a 138kV transmission grid serving 26,000 Rayburn customers.

AMSC's D-VAR transmission grid reliability system provides critical voltage support to the electric power grid for Scotland's Orkney Islands. Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) is the local grid owner and operator.

Based in Beijing, China, Sinovel Wind Corporation is one of the world's leading wind turbine manufacturers. Every wind turbine manufactured by Sinovel to date contains core electrical components manufactured by AMSC. In addition to the 1.5 megawatt (MW) turbines being produced by the company today, Sinovel is jointly developing 3 MW and 5 MW wind turbines with AMSC Windtec.

Vision Quest Windelectric, a subsidiary of TransAlta Corporation and Canada's largest wind farm developer, purchase a D-VAR system to regulating voltage at the Summerview Wind Farm, which is located approximately 100 miles south of Calgary, Alberta Canada. AMSC's D-VAR system enabled the wind farm to meet the voltage control standards required for interconnection to the regional power grid - the Alberta Interconnected Electricity System.

Canada's largest wind farm developer, Vision Quest Windelectric, a subsidiary of TransAlta Corporation purchase a D-VAR system to provide reactive power support, regulating voltage at the Summerview wind farm, which is located approximately 100 miles south of Calgary, Alberta Canada. AMSC's D-VAR system will enable the wind farm to meet the voltage control standards required for interconnection to the regional power grid - the Alberta Interconnected Electricity System.