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Superconducting storage is inherently short term, as the capex per unit of energy storage capacity is rather high. I doubt it's competitive with batteries even for diurnal storage. It might have niche uses, for example smoothing demand (on time scale of hours, not days) from intermittent high power users like electric arc furnaces.
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