Intermagnetics General Corp.'s subsidiary SuperPower Inc. (Latham, New York, U.S.) received top ranking in a federally sanctioned review for advancing second-generation high-temperature superconducting (HTS) wire technology. SuperPower was one of the 14 industry and national laboratory participants in the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) 2003 annual peer review event.

An independent committee ranked the progress of SuperPower and other participants in the peer review process based on performance against previously stated goals, goals for the next years and the level or research integration with the national laboratory (or industry) partners.

James Daley, superconductivity manager in the DOE's Office of Electric Transmission and Distribution, said, “SuperPower has focused its efforts on a scalable manufacturing process in the past year and has made remarkable progress, as this year's reviewers concluded. Second-generation HTS wire technology has been a program priority for eight years because of the potential to dramatically lower cost. These results confirm that excellent performance can be achieved using inherently low-cost processes, a necessary and important achievement.”
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