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2010-07-09 - An award-winning ABB solution is helping a leading U.S. power company to secure grid reliability in one of the country’s largest metropolitan areas, integrate large but unpredictable volumes of wind power, react to grid disturbances in record-breaking times, and save almost one million megawatt-hours of energy and associated CO2 emissions a year.
2010-06-17 - The largest grid-connected solar power plant in the Nordic countries, built on the roof of an ABB factory, has been powered up during an inauguration ceremony attended by Finland’s Minister of Economic Affairs and dignitaries from academia, industry and business.
2010-06-09 - New ABB solar inverters* for residential and commercial buildings as well as a megawatt station for photovoltaic power plants are being introduced to the market for the first time at the Intersolar fair in Munich, Germany - the world’s largest exhibition for the solar industry.
2010-06-08 - ABB medium-voltage drives have slashed the energy consumption of two boiler feed pumps at a coal-fired power plant in Germany by 25 percent. The solution increases plant revenues by $800,000 a year and reduces annual CO2 emissions by 10,200 tons.
2010-05-21 - An ABB condition management system is providing the world’s most energy-efficient cruise liner with round-the-clock remote monitoring of its vital energy-saving electric propulsion systems.
2010-04-12 - The ABB Jürgen Dormann Foundation for Engineering Education has extended its program of helping talented but needy engineering students to Mexico.
2010-04-07 - ABB process control systems have successfully managed the world’s first large-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility since 1996. To date nearly 12 million tons of carbon dioxide have been captured and safely stored 1,000 meters below the seafloor. More than half of the world’s large-scale CCS facilities are now controlled by ABB technology.
2010-04-01 - Eddie O’Connor is CEO of Mainstream Renewable Power and a leading advocate of a Supergrid of interconnected wind farms off the coast of Europe. Paul van Son is CEO of the Desertec Industrial Initiative, founded in 2009 to promote plans for a network of solar power plants to supply the Middle East, North Africa and Europe through a transcontinental supergrid. The world needs to start preparing for a new era of electricity, they say.
2010-03-01 - ABB FlowMaster flowmeters are helping the Saudi Arabian capital, Riyadh, to cut leakage in its water distribution network by around 40 percent. The flowmeters were repeatedly selected for their outstanding accuracy and performance.
2010-01-21 - ABB has developed a revolutionary water treatment technology that cleans oily wastewater – by far the largest waste product in oil and gas production - quickly, cost-effectively and energy-efficiently, ready for discharge with zero environmental impact.