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Smart grid thinking

2009-02-05 - Peter Jones, Head of Technology for ABB Power UK, outlines the key elements that comprise ABB’s approach to smart grids

Solving short-circuit problems with the world’s fastest switching device

2009-02-05 - Circuit-breakers in medium voltage (MV) installations cannot provide any protection against exceptionally high peak short-circuit currents, as they are too slow.

New developments in standard bay solutions

2009-02-05 - Andy Osiecki outlines two important new developments in ABB’s approach to integrated control and protection equipment.

Sustaining innovation

2009-02-05 -

The 2008 IET Innovation Awards ceremony was hosted by TV presenter Maggie Philbin, best known for her time with BBC’s much loved Tomorrow’s World science programme.

Tackling current and future challenges

2009-02-05 - Trevor Gregory ABB UK Managing Director

Safe to a T

2009-02-05 - ABB is unwilling to rest on its laurels despite an excellent health & safety record across its businesses, the industries it serves and a very large number of customer sites.

The FACTS of renewable electricity

2009-02-05 - A Flexible AC Transmission (FACTS) system is to be installed in EDF Energy Networks’ distribution network on the Norfolk coast to level out load peaks and improve access to wind power.

UNITROL 6000 – the new generation of Static Excitation Systems (SES) and Automatic Voltage Regulators (AVR)

2009-02-05 - UNITROL 6000 is ABB's latest and most powerful generation of Static Excitation Systems (SES) and Automatic Voltage Regulators (AVR) designed to deliver high performance control for all kinds of synchronous generators and motors.

RED is a go for line differential protection and control

2009-02-02 - RED615, part of ABB’s 615 product series, is a phase-segregated two-end line differential protection and control intelligent electronic device (IED) that is perfectly harmonized for utility and industrial power systems, including looped and meshed distribution networks with or without decentralized power generation.

Automated solar power plant produces electricity day and night

2009-02-02 - Europe’s first large-scale solar energy plant – the 100 MW Andasol 1 and 2 in the Sierra Nevada of southern Spain – is opening up a new era in renewable emissions-free power generation

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