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Fast Forward - Issue 15

Trevor Gregory, CEO, ABB Limited

Trevor Gregory, Managing Director of ABB in the UK is asking, if Climate Change is an opportunity.


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The Energy Challenge – How are you responding? The Energy Challenge – How are you responding?

Duncan Botting, head of technology and business development for ABB in the UK, continues his look at the Government’s latest Energy Review and the challenges it poses for everyone.

Model railway project Model railway project

Bernard Johnson, programme controller for the ABB SRPU team, explains how detailed planning, coordination, collaborative working and an uncompromising approach to health and safety helped make the project so successful that in the end nobody noticed it!

Driving for safety and environmental goals Driving for safety and environmental goals

In its unrelenting push for safer working in better environments, ABB has been refining its reporting and monitoring procedures.

HV surge arresters provide lightning protection HV surge arresters provide lightning protection

ABB has developed a specialist retrofitting service for HV surge arresters that provide a cost-effective route to update outdoor substations to modern specifications.

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Alliance powers up for central England Alliance powers up for central England

National Grid has chosen the substation alliance in which ABB is a leading participant as its preferred partner for substation development and construction in central England.

Port Ham moves indoors Port Ham moves indoors

As ABB prepares Central Networks’ new £12 million 132kV indoor GIS station at Port Ham, Gloucester for final commissioning, the old outdoor substation is beginning to disappear from view.

MV package heads for the Niger Delta

Lilliker Brothers has ordered a complete package of MV switchgear and transformers from ABB for a distribution substation project in the oil-rich Niger Delta region of southern Nigeria.

The UK’s top rail event The UK’s top rail event

ABB will be exhibiting at Railtex 07, the UK’s leading rail show. The company is on stand M34.

SVA puts Stalybridge substation protection and automation systems to the test SVA puts Stalybridge substation protection and automation systems to the test

The SVA at ABB's Stone engineering facility is currently packed with 60 panels of substation protection and automation equipment as it undertakes out what is probably the largest automated FAT of its type ever carried out in the UK.

Power supply boost for York

ABB has won a £3.3 million turnkey contract to reinforce CE Electric UK’s Melrosegate 132/33 kV substation – a major 33kV supply point for the city of York.

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