ABB wins £11.8m SPEN contract for substation upgrade
The upgrade will increase power capacity and allow more renewable generation to connect to the network in southwest Scotland.
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ABB wins £99m Hinkley Point C contract
Hinkley Point C will be the UK’s first new nuclear power plant to be built for a generation and will provide seven per cent of the country’s electricity from 2025. The order was booked in the third quarter of 2017.
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Aberdeen set to benefit from £10m electricity network boost
The investment programme over the next two years will see new electrical equipment installed across the city, including new, innovative devices to restore power to SSEN’s customers should faults occur.
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Accelerated deployment could exacerbate design issues, warns heat industry
Private sector heat network operators have voiced concerns that rapid deployment will exacerbate the current problems with the quality of design and implementation of schemes in comparison to those in continental Europe.
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Accelerating innovation
Substation monitoring has been an area of interest amongst distribution network operators (DNOs) for some time, as the way consumers use and interact with the network changes due to the relatively rapid growth of photovoltaic installations, electric vehicles, domestic-level battery storage and so on. Before these relatively new technologies were widely adopted, it was sufficient to manually record a reading from an analogue maximum demand indicator during a physical inspection once or twice a year, but this is no longer considered sufficient by many in the industry who are now interested in annual and diurnal patterns, harmonics and more.
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ABB and Rolls-Royce announce global microgrids cooperation
A microgrid is a small scale electric grid that combines power from distributed energy generation sources such as combined heat and power plants, diesel- and gas-powered gensets and renewable sources with batteries. The microgrid provides the overall control to coordinate these resources to meet the requirements of industrial, residential or consumer loads. Microgrids can either function off-grid, or connected to the main power grid. The ability of microgrids to seamlessly separate themselves from the main grid, in the event of a potential grid fault or emergency, is an increasingly important feature.
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ABB brings “plug and play” microgrid solution to market
ABB’s new containerised microgrid solution groups a range of existing products to achieve a “plug and play” module which can support the optimisation of renewables and isolation of communities or businesses from the national grid during planned or unplanned power outages.
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ABB extends eco switchgear range
The product is the same size as the firm’s existing ZX2 medium voltage switchgear but is insulated with a climate-friendly alternative to the traditional sulfur hexafluoride (SF6).
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ABB installs microgrid solution
The firm has supplied a containerised microgrid solution to support a gas-fired power station to optimise and automate its operations, increase energy efficiency, reduce fossil fuel consumption and enable uninterrupted power supply from Alinta Energy’s Newman Power Station, which supplies mining operations in the Pilbara.
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ABB to connect offshore wind with HVDC in UK first
The contract to connect two wind farms in the Dogger Bank region of the North Sea is the first use of the HVDC technology, already deployed to connect international interconnectors to the UK grid, in the UK’s offshore wind market.
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