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During the seven-year LPT project, National Grid invested in 32 km of tunnels to house 200 km of cables over 10 circuits that now carry up to 20 percent of London’s electricity. The tunnels house National Grid’s transmission cables as well as the local electricity network’s distribution cables. Building the tunnels means that National Grid has enabled straightforward access to maintain and upgrade

The innovative high voltage PASS (plug and switch systems) switchgear solution enables the fast-track connection of the new battery energy storage project at Glassenbury, Kent. The site is owned by the renewable energy investor Low Carbon, which was one of only seven businesses to be successful in the 2016 enhanced frequency response (EFR) tender process carried out by National Grid, the leading

ABB’s global engineering and consulting group has been enlisted by utility giant E.ON to work on a green field energy plant in Sweden E.ON’s Swedish subsidiary has awarded a contract to ABB to ensure its new Combined Heat and Power (CHP) facility, on the outskirts of Stockholm, is set up to run efficiently and safely through implementing a world class alarm management system. ABB will oversee

“The UK has a great opportunity to build a world leading digital technology industry that will benefit UK exports and the economy, but our own infrastructure, transport and manufacturing companies are not investing enough in these technologies”, said ABB’s UK managing director, Ian Funnell, speaking to an audience of around 200 Members of Parliament (MPs), policymakers and business leaders at the

IONITY, which plans to build a network of electric-vehicle service stations across Europe to make long trips as feasible for electric vehicles as for fossil-fueled vehicles, today opened its first station – in Neuenkirch, Switzerland on the A2 motorway. The station, a pilot project near Lucerne, features six of ABB’s most advanced high-speed chargers, the Terra HP. The 350kW Terra HP chargers can

Airports are very busy places. Providing people with access to travel and connectivity, even the partial shutdown of an airport would lead to a major hassle for travelers and huge operational disruption. For several years now, ABB’s fixed type MNS switchgear have provided power to the Athens International Airport. ABB, with its well-established installed base spanning two decades and ready

ABB has completed the Maritime Link, formally handing over the interconnector to Emera, a leading energy and services company headquartered in eastern Canada. The link made history on December 8, 2017, by conducting the first exchange of electricity between the islands of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. It went into service on January 15, 2018 as ABB continues to work with Emera and the system

Today at DataCloud Europe 2018, Rittal and ABB announced a new global level strategic alliance. Based on their proven partnership in the uninterruptible power distribution business, both companies aim to expand their solutions approach for modular, secure and high-availability data center infrastructure, primarily in countries, such as North and South America, Asia and Europe. The strategic