#Switzerland

Switzerland: ABB’s Chief Executive Officer Ulrich Spiesshofer abruptly stepped down after nearly six years of leading the Swiss engineering company.

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.

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.

Switzerland, Zurich: ABB has developed, manufactured and energized a 1,200 kV ultra-high-voltage power transformer to support India’s plans to build a 1,200 kV transmission system, supplementing the existing 400 kV and 800 kV transmission grids.

Switzerland, Zurich: ABB has received orders to supply gas-insulated switchgear (GIS) and shunt reactors to Red Eléctrica de España (REE), the transmission agent and operator of the Spanish electricity system, to support the upgrade of the electricity transmission infrastructure on the Canary Islands.

Switzerland, Zurich: ABB has developed an UHVDC transformer bushing capable of handling 10,000 MW of direct current electrical power rated for 800 kV, which enables larger transmissions of power over longer distances.

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.

Switzerland, Zurich: ABB has launched a new traction transformer designed to reduce the weight of on-board components and ensure more energy-efficient rail networks, according to the manufacturer statement.

Researchers at the Switzerland’s Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) have found a way of looking inside the iron core of transformers, a significant step towards understanding how transformers work today and in the development of more efficient transformers in the future.

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: 1,100 kV UHVDC power link has the capacity to transmit 12,000 MW of electric energy over 3,000 kilometres.

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.

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: Five substations have been commissioned in India to integrate a 648 MW solar project at Kamuthi in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu to the national transmission grid.

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.

Switzerland, Zurich: ABB and Cavotec have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly offer shore-to-ship power solutions to global ports markets, boosting “green ports”.

Switzerland, Geneva: CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) came to standstill after a small weasel gnawed through a 66 kV transformer inside an electrical facility outside the main building, causing a wide power outage around CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) and shutting down the 27-km long particle smasher on Friday morning.

Switzerland, Zurich: Orders worth $300 million have been placed for the supply of converter transformers for two long-distance ultra-high-voltage direct current (UHVDC) transmission links in China capable of transporting up to 10,000 MW of power at the 800 kV voltage level.

Switzerland, Zurich: ABB will supply the complete integrated electrical and automation system for an experimental electro mechanic module Mo.S.E. in Venice, Italy, which is a flood barrier system designed to block the high tides and storm surges that enter the Venetian Lagoon.

Switzerland, Zurich: ABB has been selected to participate in the FITNESS (“Future Intelligent Transmission NEtworkSubStation”) project of SP Energy Networks, a UK-based electricity transmission and distribution network operator, to provide a digital substation scheme to protect, monitor and control the transmission network in parts of Scotland.