Driving efficiency through energy expansion
Economic realities are reprioritizing decarbonization as organizations work to maintain operational excellence in the face of rising demand. Reducing emissions remains a critical objective for a lower-carbon future, even as energy-intensive industries respond to this surge while managing tighter regulations, measurable ROI expectations, and the need to protect lifecycle value.
To achieve long-term viability, businesses must recognize that energy expansion and energy transformation are happening at the same time. We need more energy, and we also need more efficient ways to produce, distribute and consume it. That requires using every tool available so that companies can maintain and secure supply while controlling emissions and cost, enabling operations to run leaner and cleaner.
Improving efficiency reduces how much new supply organizations need to add, and optimization ensures that new and existing assets work together without hurting performance.
Here, we share lessons and examples on how organizations are meeting these challenges head-on, strengthening resilience, driving competitive advantage and market leadership, with content focused on the realities of shaping decarbonization in an expanding energy ecosystem. ABB’s commitment to enabling a lower-carbon future means partnering to optimize existing assets, integrate new technologies and drive measurable progress without disruption.
Many of today’s plants still have fragmented systems, siloed data and tech from multiple vendors, increasing operational complexity. Connecting assets, processes and data deliver real-time visibility and streamline workflows. By integrating automation, electrical and digital domains, you can reduce operational risk, boost productivity and create a unified, efficient system that supports lower-emission, higher performance operations that do not compromise supply, reliability or profitability.
In today’s expanding energy environment, you can’t afford downtime or reliability risks. A layered, modular approach to transformation projects integrates new technology with legacy systems across both conventional and emerging energy sources, so operations can scale and adapt without disruption. As energy options expand, this ensures affordability and secures supply and cost management.
Enable reliable and commercially compelling operations within a world of energy transformation while advancing a more efficient, lower carbon economy built on performance and resilience. Collaborate with technical and engineering experts early, ensuring systems are right-sized and right-designed to minimize cost, strengthen operational reliability and support long-term profitability.
Demonstrating value: Case studies in energy systems integration
Explore detailed, real-world examples of how phased investment delivers measurable ROI, minimizes financial risk, and sustains shareholder value.
IRPC Thailand
IRPC Thailand
Enhancing efficiency and optimizing cogeneration plants for IRPC Thailand to improve commercial output.
Petrochemical
Kreigers Flak CGS
Enabling smart operations and optimizing energy flows for cross-boarder hybrid energy system stretching from the Baltic sea to Germany and Denmark.
Offshore wind
DS Smith
Improving efficiency with digitalization for DS Smith’s power plant lowers gas consumption.
Power generation
Schwarzenbruck
Unlocking efficiency potential by controlling and optimizing energy flows for Schwarzenbruck
Wastewater
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ABB Energy Industries empowers operational teams to navigate the transition to a more efficient, lower carbon economy. Our automation, electrification and digital and energy solutions help reduce carbon emissions, optimize energy use, and ensure seamless integration with legacy systems—delivering measurable sustainability and operational excellence. We partner with customers to move forward with confidence and outperform in a rapidly evolving energy landscape, combining engineering specifications for electrification projects, and automation technologies for energy efficiency to master the integration of new systems with legacy infrastructure. We provide the technical depth required to ensure progress without disruption as industry implements energy expansion strategies and help deliver a measurable technical ROI.