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The significant progresses in high Tc superconducting wires or tapes have excited a great deal of research interests in power application. This paper will review the recent progresses of power application of superconductor in China. An improved bridge-type fault current limiter was tested and a 10.5 kV/1.5 kA demonstrator has been operated at a substation in Hunan Province in 2005. A 75 meter, 10.5 kV/1.5 kA three phase HTS cable has been installed and operated at the Changtong Cable Headquarter in the end of 2004, and a 30 meter, 35 kV/2 kA HTS power cable was installed at substation and has been operated since July 2004. A 10.5 kV/400 V/630 kVA HTS transformer has been installed and operated at TBEA Electric Factory in 2005. A 500 k J/150 kVA SMES unit was developed and tested. 1.0 M J/0.5 MW SMES will be installed in a power grid in 2006. Besides, a new kind equipment of fault-current-limiting SMES is being developed and a 100 kJ/25 kW prototype has been made and tested. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

China's first HTS power cable project was started in the second half of 2002 and on site system installation was finished at Puji Substation of China Southern Power Grid in March, 2004. This cable system consists of three 33.5 m, 35 kV/2 kArms cables, six terminations, and a dosed cycle liquid nitrogen cooling station. The conductors of the cables were made of 4 layers of BSCCO 2223 HTS tapes. Off grid field testing and live grid trial operation has been carded out since the completion of the installation. In this paper, we will report the key technical parameters of the system. Descriptions of the installation site, demonstration of the system installation, and results of testing and trial operation will also be presented and discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]