---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 13477"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "13477"
heading: "High-temperature superconductivity program"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/13477"
units:
  - "Chapter 134 — Energy Policy"
  - "Subchapter IX — Energy and Environment"
  - "Part B — Electricity Generation and Use"
---

# §13477. High-temperature superconductivity program

- (a) **Program—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) shall carry out a 5-year program, in accordance with sections [13541](/usc/42/13541.md) and [13542](/usc/42/13542.md) of this title, on high-temperature superconducting electric power equipment technologies. Elements of the program shall include, but are not limited to—
  - (1) activities that address the development of high-temperature superconducting materials that have increased electrical current capacity, which shall be the emphasis of the program for the near-term;
  - (2) the development of prototypes, where appropriate, of the major elements of a superconducting electric power system such as motors, generators, transmission lines, transformers, and magnetic energy storage systems;
  - (3) activities that will improve the efficiency of materials performance of higher temperatures and at all magnetic field orientations;
  - (4) development of prototypes based on high-temperature superconducting wire, that operate at the highest temperature possible, and refrigeration systems using cryogenics such as nitrogen;
  - (5) activities that will assist the private sector with designs for more efficient electric power generation and delivery systems which are cost competitive with conventional energy systems; and
  - (6) development of prototypes that have application in both the commercial and defense sectors.

  The [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) is also encouraged to expedite government, laboratory, industry, and university collaborative agreements under existing mechanisms at the Department of Energy in coordination with other Federal [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1).

- (b) **Authorization of appropriations—** There are authorized to be appropriated to the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) for carrying out this section $21,900,000 for fiscal year 1993 and such sums as may be necessary for subsequent fiscal years, to be derived from sums authorized under [section 13471(c) of this title](/usc/42/13471.md?p=c).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–486, title XXI, § 2117, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 3075.)