Most likely applications to benefit from the five-phase technology are those which require lighter, smaller and more efficient and reliable generating systems. Therefore energy applications including renewables, aerospace, oil and gas, hybrid electric vehicles markets can all benefit from this technology. Production cost is not expected to be an issue as the five-phase systems we propose use existing manufacturing techniques. However, Strathclyde University has set an objective to harness the key benefits of the fivephase technology by developing two prototype generators for the wind energy and aerospace market sectors. These sectors in particular require bespoke-designed generators hence standard of-the-shelf models are not appropriate; therefore there is an easy route to these markets by collaborating with a
potential customer. Both Strathclyde generators are expected to be ready for test later this year; two test rigs are under construction at the time of writing this paper.