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ABB’s new Food Safe stainless steel motors for food and beverage plants can withstand high pressure cleaning, helping to maintain hygiene standards while reducing downtime.

Working with Volvo Bus to develop electric bus solutions for improved urban mobility, ABB will deliver OppCharge charging solutions to Birmingham Airport

ABB is introducing the new PQ family of multi-functional products to improve grid stability, power quality and energy efficiency. Electrical networks need to adapt as distributed energy resources (DER) like wind and solar contribute an ever-greater portion of the energy mix, and as large data centres, electric vehicle charging points and electrified railways come online. In this environment, both

As ABB’s contract to deliver HVDC converter stations in the Hampshire and France for the IFA2 link hits its half-way mark, Gavin Pritchard, ABB Project Director for IFA2, shares an update about the challenges of leading a construction project with sites on both sides of the English Channel. We’re around halfway through our 43-month contract to build converter stations for the 1,000 MW IFA2 HVDC

As Network Rail approaches the start of its five-year Control Period 6 (CP6) funding cycle in April 2019, the network operator is exploiting more value for money out of its installed base of ABB Ability™ Ellipse® to provide a scalable structure for its digital railway strategy. Having the overall drivers of safety, performance and cost control, Network Rail is keen to reduce potential risk to its

ABB Power Grids in the UK is ready to solve the toughest power system challenges with its power consulting capabilities. It considers power challenges from every angle and uses technologies such as virtual reality to enable customers to ‘walk through’ projects. Many of the technologies on the UK grid were deployed more than a half-century ago, at a time when concepts like renewable energy or the

Having started as Technology Manager for ABB’s Power Grids business in September 2018, Darren Jones explains how adopting new technologies and innovative approaches can help Distribution Network Operators (DNOs) in their transition to become Distribution System Operators (DSOs). The biggest single trend in the UK’s electricity market today is the DNO to DSO transition. All of the UK’s operators

ABB has won a competitive tender to secure its biggest ever contract for high-voltage service from First Hydro Company. During the project, ABB will replace one of six GCBs at the Dinorwig Power Station in Wales for $4.5 million. First Hydro Company has also put in place a framework agreement with a view to replacing the site’s other five units by 2028 following success with the first unit. The

ABB completed two major substation projects in October 2018 to support National Grid’s Richborough Connection, a brand new transmission line between Canterbury and Richborough in Kent. The new AC line is the onshore connection for the Nemo Link HVDC interconnection between the UK and Belgium, which was energised on 5th December 2018. National Grid’s investment will enhance energy security for the

Users of low voltage variable speed drives (VSD) can now keep processes running, test new applications or prove predicted energy savings before purchase, through a leasing program provided by the ABB authorised value provider network. ABB has invested significantly in the rollout of a variable speed drive hire fleet across the United Kingdom and Ireland, with units extending from 3 kW up to