ABB is the world's biggest manufacturer of power transmission and distribution equipment, offering a wide range of advanced products to enhance grid reliability and support the systems that keep our world running.Click here to watch ABB's blackout video
Click here to watch ABB's blackout video
As technology advances, we have become increasingly reliant on secure electricity supplies to carry out our daily tasks. Without them, the lights go out, trains stop running and computers shut down. The knock-on effects are not only inconvenient, they are costly and, in some cases, life threatening.
With demand for electricity rising year on year and concern for the environment bringing more renewable energy sources online, transmission system operators are under increasing pressure to enhance the flexibility of their grids to improve capacity and accommodate the demands of deregulated power markets.
As the world leader in power technologies, ABB offers sustainable solutions to the challenges of today, and tomorrow. This portal provides easy access to information about ABB's power products and services, its expertise in power transmission systems and electrical optimization, grid reliability and blackout prevention.
2010-03-08: ABB’s first solar inverter, the PVS800, is a reliable, economic and compact solution for connecting photovoltaic arrays to the grid. It is the latest addition to ABB’s wide portfolio for the solar industry
2010-03-08: ABB pioneered FACTS technology in the 1950s and remains the market and technology leader to this day. In the past 50 years ABB has executed around 750 FACTS projects worldwide and has stood for the vast majority of technology breakthroughs.
2010-02-23: The new award-winning supercomputer center of New Zealand digital effects company Weta Digital – makers of Avatar and other blockbuster movies – is protected from the potentially devastating effects of power grid disturbances by a uniquely compact and energy-efficient technology pioneered by ABB.
2009-12-11: ABB’s hugely successful ZX gas-insulated medium voltage switchgear family is now equipped with an ABB innovation that replaces the complex wiring topology of a switchgear cabinet with a single plug-and-play device – the X-Plug™.
2009-10-30: Inaugural meeting of Desertec industrial initiative brings carbon-neutral power supplies a step closer
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