Duncan Botting, head of technology and business development for ABB in the UK, continues his look at the Government’s latest Energy Review and the challenges it poses for everyone.
Bernard Johnson, programme controller for the ABB SRPU team, explains how detailed planning, coordination, collaborative working and an uncompromising approach to health and safety helped make the project so successful that in the end nobody noticed it!
In its unrelenting push for safer working in better environments, ABB has been refining its reporting and monitoring procedures.
ABB has developed a specialist retrofitting service for HV surge arresters that provide a cost-effective route to update outdoor substations to modern specifications.
National Grid has chosen the substation alliance in which ABB is a leading participant as its preferred partner for substation development and construction in central England.
As ABB prepares Central Networks’ new £12 million 132kV indoor GIS station at Port Ham, Gloucester for final commissioning, the old outdoor substation is beginning to disappear from view.
Lilliker Brothers has ordered a complete package of MV switchgear and transformers from ABB for a distribution substation project in the oil-rich Niger Delta region of southern Nigeria.
ABB will be exhibiting at Railtex 07, the UK’s leading rail show. The company is on stand M34.
The SVA at ABB's Stone engineering facility is currently packed with 60 panels of substation protection and automation equipment as it undertakes out what is probably the largest automated FAT of its type ever carried out in the UK.
ABB has won a £3.3 million turnkey contract to reinforce CE Electric UK’s Melrosegate 132/33 kV substation – a major 33kV supply point for the city of York.
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