Switzerland, Zurich: ABB will supply the complete electric power and propulsion package for the Virgin Voyages’ new cruise ship due for delivery in 2020, which will be the first of a fleet of three innovative ships designed and built with environmental responsibility in mind.
Kenya Power has commissioned a $128M gas-insulated substation (GIS) in Nairobi, a modernized indoor 220 kV substation that will replace the 50-year-old facility at Juja Road, boosting power transformer capacity by more than 50 percent.
ABB has unveiled a new power transformer at the 2018 Hanover Fair, which, according to the company, will be the world’s first integrated solution for digitally enabled power transformers.
Switzerland: ABB will supply an 800 MVA phase-shifting transformer to the Swiss transmission system operator, Swissgrid, for the Mühleberg substation located in the central part of the country.
ABB has won an order worth more than $40 million to upgrade and expand the Muara Tawar combined cycle power plant in West Java, Indonesia.
ABB has won a $30 million order from ScottishPower Renewables to supply two STATCOMs that will smooth out the voltage fluctuations that are an inherent feature of intermittent wind energy.
ABB has won a $20 million contract from Network Rail to provide a trackside power electronics solution for new high-speed electric trains.
ABB has successfully tested a new solution to replace petroleum-based mineral oil insulating medium with environmentally friendly natural ester fluid in the world’s largest sealed 200 MVA, 420 kV single-phase transformer.
Marocco: In cooperation with Energie Eolienne du Maroc, ABB will be supplying a $16 million hybrid substation for a wind farm developed by Nareva in Morocco.
Switzerland, Zurich: ABB has won orders from three major US utilities for its new solution to deliver hardened and bullet resistant transformers, and facilitate the protection of critical grid assets.
ABB has won an order from Alstom to supply 1600 traction transformers for 800 new electric freight locomotives in India, which will expand Indian Railways’ capacity.
Switzerland, Zurich: ABB announced that Timo Ihamuotila has been named Chief Financial Officer and member of the Executive Committee, effective April 1, 2017.
Switzerland, Zurich: ABB said the company’s third-quarter orders declined 14 percent due to the hesitation of customers although the cost-saving programs helped improve the Swiss power transformer maker’s profit margin, according to the official press release.
Australia, Perth: About 80 workers will lose their jobs at the ABB’s Malaga factory in Perth, which this time last year celebrated 60 years of transformer manufacturing in Western Australia.
Switzerland, Zurich: As ABB decides to keep its Power Grid business, within its Next Level strategy revealed on 4 October the company has also announced two new strategic partnerships for the execution of transmission and distribution projects.
While Swedish media recently reported on the activist shareholder Cevian wanting to break up ABB’s Power Grids business and sell it in parts to strategic buyers, in today’s (4 October) update of strategic review, ABB leadership has revealed it will continue the transformation of Power Grids under ABB ownership.
Swiss engineering group ABB has signalled that it may retain its power grids division under a new strategy to be unveiled next month — despite calls for a break-up of its businesses from an activist investor, about which Transformers Magazine has earlier reported.
Switzerland, Zurich: Canadian utility Hydro-Québec (HQ) has placed orders with ABB worth over $85 million to upgrade its 800 kV air-insulated switchgear (AIS) substations and transmission grid with new power transformers, shunt reactors and circuit breakers.
Cevian Capital, an activist hedge fund and the second largest shareholder of ABB, continues to push for a split of the engineering giant, according to Swedish media.
ABB is delivering a range of high-efficiency transformer products for the world’s most energy-efficient pulp mill, located in Äänekoski, central Finland.
Switzerland, Zurich: ABB is supplying two new 400 kV substations for the Pen y Cymoedd wind energy project, being developed in south Wales by Vattenfall.
Switzerland: ABB has won orders worth around USD 40 million from Poland’s national transmission system operator (TSO) to provide transformers that will extend and upgrade the transmission grid.
Switzerland, Zurich: ABB presented the results of the second quarter of 2016, highlighting solid progress on profitability.
Switzerland, Zurich: ABB has won an order worth more than $30 million from Norway’s transmission system operator Statnett for two substations that will strengthen grid reliability and boost power supplies in Norway.
Switzerland, Zurich: ABB has completed the upgrade of the Celilo HVDC (high-voltage direct current) converter station in Oregon, part of Pacific Intertie, the first major HVDC link in U.S. transmission history, originally commissioned by ABB in 1970.
As part of leadership succession planning, ABB has appointed Tauno Heinola as Managing Director of ABB in Australia, effective 1 October 2016.
Switzerland, Zurich: ABB has won an order from Singapore Power (SP) PowerAssets for the supply of five shunt reactors to be installed in three SP PowerAssets substations.
Switzerland, Zurich: ABB has been awarded an $11 million contract from the Indonesian state-owned utility Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) to extend existing substations across Indonesia in order to strengthen reliability of its Java-Bali transmission and distribution networks and meet the growing demand for power in Java.