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Medium Voltage products, solutions and services

ABB provides a full range of medium voltage solutions for the utility, industrial and commercial customers with safe, reliable and smart technologies for the distribution of electricity.

The extensive global offering includes distribution automation products, switching, limiting, measuring and sensing devices, switchgear, modular substation packages and related services.

RETHINKING PROTECTION AND CONTROL FOR THE DIGITAL AGE

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ENERGY TRANSITION CAMPAIGN

The Power to Adapt

The energy grid is undergoing a transformation as networks shift towards renewable energy sources. ABB Electrification Distribution Solutions partners with businesses to navigate these changes by ensuring a reliable flow of electricity, and with our new SF6-free switchgear portfolio, we support utilities and industries on their energy transition journey and help customers adapt to a future-ready grid while meeting regulatory demands.

UTILITIES EVENT

ENLIT Europe 2024

Every day, we put the pieces in place to help our customers – and the world – solve today’s biggest energy challenges.  Meet us at ENLIT Europe, the event that addresses every aspect of the energy agenda, on Oct 22 – 24, 2024, Hall 5, Booth A60. We’ll be there with our Electrification leaders, sales colleagues and technical experts to share our latest technology, discuss how to tackle the energy transition, and to sit down with you to understand your specific needs during these changing times.

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ABB Connect Partner Hub

ABB Connect Partner Hub is a dynamic online community and offers multiple valuable services for our customers.

News and features

REX640 adds new variant to fit smaller switchgear

ABB’s all-in-one protection relay for advanced power generation and distribution applications Relion REX640 supports a variety of digital switchgear solutions and ABB has now also introduced a narrow hardware variant.

ABB survey reveals most European companies want to shift from fossil fuels, but many lack resources

In a survey of 850 European purchase decision-makers, 71% prioritize shifting from fossil fuels, but over half need more resources for their strategies

Swedish utility invests in futureproofing substations

When it was time to upgrade four of its substations built in the 1980s, Swedish DSO Sala-Heby Energi Elnät chose to upgrade their installed medium-voltage switchgear with ABB's Relion protection relays and refurbishing the circuit breakers.

Taking the next step to support the grid of the future

ABB introduces a new all-in-one protection relay for power generation and distribution applications to ensure maximum flexibility and cost-effectiveness throughout the relay life cycle.

White paper: Rethinking protection and control for the digital age

The power grid will continue to change which means that the solutions enabling it must continue to evolve. Explore why centralized and virtualized protection solutions are gaining traction in the digital age in this white paper.

African gold mine digs deep for safe and reliable power supply

ABB and PPE Technologies have worked closely on a complex African mining project to upgrade key electrical infrastructure for one of the largest gold mines in Ghana. ABB provided products for PPE’s switchgear solution, including Relion protection relays and circuit breakers.

ABB Review: Centralizing protection

In this ABB Review article, Jani Valtari explores how combining the functions of multiple relays into one device, centralized protection and control (CPC) reduces network complexity to better manage substation protection. And CPC as a virtualized image further enhances scalability and flexibility.

Video: Innovative earth-fault protection method meets the latest safety standards

Press release: Innovative protection method optimizes safety and power supply quality

A world-first innovative earth-fault protection method for compensated distribution networks. With it, network operators can install earth-fault protection that offers an optimal balance between safety and power supply quality.

Virtual substation protection, control and automation

In this T&D World article, Henry Niveri explores virtualization as a solution to many of the challenges medium-voltage substation operators are facing today.

Touch voltage-based earth-fault protection ensures compliance with safety codes

In this blog, Olli Rintamäki introduces touch voltage-based earth-fault current protection and how with this new method, network operators can gain optimal balance between safety and power supply quality.

ABB shores up reliable power supply at Southeast Asia’s largest floating solar plant

The Cirata floating solar power plant will generate 192 megawatt peak of clean energy, enough to power 50,000 Indonesian homes. UniGear ZS1 switchgear equipped with Relion protection relays ensure the reliability of its electricity supply.

Substation reconstruction in Montenegro ensures reliable power to key consumers

Montenegrin distribution system operator CEDIS chose ABB's medium-voltage solution to improve the reliability and quality of the power supply to end users in Podgorica.