The Power to Adapt
Designed to connect and protect an evolving grid.
ABB's Distribution Solutions division provides medium voltage components, switchgear, and solutions that connect and protect the evolving electrical grid, ensuring reliable and predictable energy distribution. We link high-voltage systems to medium and low-voltage consumers, ensuring continuous power delivery to industrial, commercial, and residential users while enabling the integration of renewable energy sources into the grid. Our smart solutions, powered by AI, enhance grid resilience and optimize the usage of the electrical system.
We support our customers and partners in staying ahead of increasing electrification needs, technology, and regulatory changes, providing the power to adapt to a rapidly evolving energy landscape.
ABB “Give a speech” sessions
<p><i>(Experts Forum, Level 3, 50 chairs)</i></p>
Session 1 (26th Aug)
Engineered to outrun complexity: a software-defined vision for grid automation
Speaker:
Sami Raitakoski, Global Leader Grid Components Business Line, Distribution Solutions
Date & Time:
26th August 2026, Wednesday, 14:30-15:30
This presentation highlights the evolution from traditional relay-based systems to software-defined approaches in response to increasing system complexity, dynamics, and evolution of performance demands. Sami shares ABB’s strategic perspective on this shift, spanning from embedded systems to edge and cloud-enabled platforms, and discusses how it supports more flexible, scalable, and intelligent power system operation - building on ABB’s strong installed base, digital innovation capabilities, and deep expertise in protection, grid automation and cyber security.
Session 2 (27th Aug)
Beyond grid modernization: enabling resilient and autonomous power systems
Speaker:
Marco Nunes, Global Grid Edge Leader, Distribution Solutions
Date & Time:
27th August 2026, Thursday, 11:00-11:25
This presentation highlights the need to transform power grids amid rising complexity, renewable integration, and reliability challenges, underscoring the limitations of legacy infra-structure and the risks of underinvestment.
Marco explores how digital substations, centralized protection, grid automation, Edge computing, and AI are driving the transition toward more resilient, efficient, and increasingly autonomous power systems.
Hear from our experts
<p><b>Attend our experts’ technical presentations</b> and visit <b>booth C166</b> to explore our technologies.<b></b></p>
Topics: Sustainability and circular economy of T&D equipment
- A Decade of Smart Medium Voltage Switchgear: LPITs and IEC 61850 Advancements
From paper to practice: Discover the technologies behind this paper - UniGear ZS1 and Relion REX615 protection relay - at our CIGRE booth. - Mechanical Stresses in GIS Grid components
- Power Switchgear Retrofitting: Lessons from ANSI Standards Built on Four Decades of American Experience
- Impact of Low Power Instrument Transformers on Medium Voltage Gas Insulated Switchgear Sustainability
From paper to practice: Discover the technologies behind this paper - UniGear ZS1 - at our CIGRE booth. - Breakthrough for Rogowski coils (LPCTs) in medium voltage switchgear: benefits, standardization, and challenges in protection and testing applications
From paper to practice: Discover the technologies behind this paper - UniGear ZS1 with AdvaSense sensor and Relion REX615 protection relay - at our CIGRE booth.
Topics: Protection and control in networks with unconventional sources
- Digital substation-roadmap for practical implementation
From paper to practice: Discover the technologies behind this paper - Centralized and virtualized protection and control (CPC) (SSC600 device) and REX600 - at our CIGRE booth
Topics: Materials for electrotechnical purposes and modelling
- Extend mechanical and electrical operations as enabler for grid flexibility
From paper to practice: Discover the technologies behind this paper – Vacuum circuit breaker VD4 evo in UniGear ZS1 - at our CIGRE booth. - Additive Manufacturing of Reusable Moulds for Rapid Prototyping of Electrification Devices
Topics: Next-generation telecommunications technologies to support grid decarbonisation and Digitalization
- Benchmarking Line Differential Protection under emerging Communication Infrastructures
From paper to practice: Discover the technologies behind this paper - Centralized and virtualized protection and control (CPC) (SSC600 device) and REX600 - at our CIGRE booth.