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Electrify America Selects Suppliers for EV Chargers Installation in US

Electrify America has selected ABB, BTC Power, Efacec and Signet to jointly install more than 2000 ultra-fast electric vehicle (EV) charging systems across the US. The chargers will be installed across 484 stations in the US. The ...

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Automated Packaging Systems Launches New Integrated Bag Packaging System

Automated Packaging Systems (APS) has launched a new fully-integrated counter and bag packaging system for high speed counting and packaging of small products. The Data Count U 162 Counter from DATA Detection Technologies has been ...

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Safeguarding Operational Life of Switchgear at Power Plants

ABB announces an enhanced solution using the VD4G vacuum generator circuit breaker to extend the safe operational life of electrical power plants. The solution can be used to modernise both ABB or non-ABB installed base. It can be used ...

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BPF Holds Second Factory Tour at Stewart Company

The British Plastics Federation recently held its second ‘Mould Tour’, which took place at the Stewart Company facility in Banbury. The event gave attendees a unique opportunity to learn about the Stewart Company’s approach, how the ...

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The World's Most Powerful Tidal Turbine Hits Peak Power

The world’s most powerful tidal turbine, developed and manufactured by Scottish engineering company Scotrenewables Tidal Power Limited, has reached full rated power at the European Marine Energy Centre, Orkney. After undergoing grid ...

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ABB Delivers Substation to Enable Power Flow From Solar Park in Dubai

ABB has successfully energized a major substation that will help evacuate power from the Mohamed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum (MBR) Solar Park, a key element of the vision to generate 7 percent of Dubai’s power from clean energy sources by 2020; ...

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China Opens More Economy Areas for Foreign Capital

China's moves to further ease foreign investment policies will open doors in some monopoly sectors this year while prohibiting local governments from curbing foreign companies, experts said. Their comments came after the State Council ...

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ABB and Aibel to Partner on Offshore Wind Connections

Aibel to take turnkey Engineering, Procurement and Construction responsibility for offshore platforms ABB to focus on delivering core high voltage direct current technology ABB and Aibel today announced a strategic partnership ...

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ABB Launches Flexible ''Plug and Play'' Microgrid Solution to Boost Use of Renewables

ABB today announced a modular and scalable “plug and play” microgrid solution to address the globally growing demand for flexible technology in the developing market for distributed power generation. The cost-efficient, containerized ...

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Workshop on Technologies and Equipment for Global Energy Interconnection Held in Berlin, Germany

The conference on technologies and equipment for global energy interconnection was held in Berlin from December 10 to 11, 2015 local time. This conference was co-hosted by State Grid Corporation of China or SGCC, and German Electrical and ...

ABB's Sic-Based Battery Charger for Trains Shrinks Size Tenfold and Cuts Weight by 80%

At the InnoTrans trade show in Berlin, Germany (20-23 September), ABB of Zurich, Switzerland is launching a next-generation battery charger based on silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductors for use in all rail applications. Train ...

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NCSU's SiC-Based Inverter Achieves 12.1kW/L, Close to DOE's Target of 13.4kW/L by 2020

Researchers at the Future Renewable Electric Energy Distribution and Management (FREEDM) Systems Center at North Carolina State University (NCSU) have used off-the-shelf silicon carbide (SiC)-based components to develop an inverter with ...

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ABB to Present New Technologies at WEFTEC

The Swiss-Swedish power and automation company, ABB, will showcase a range of products and services at WEFTEC to help reduce energy consumption and maintenance costs. WEFTEC will take place in New Orleans from 24 – 28 September and ABB ...

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