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ABB is a $31 billion Swiss firm that was late to the smart grid party but made up for lost time with several important acquisitions and strategic changes to the ABB smart grid plan. ABB's smart grid ambitions are to provide the full range of smart-grid related gear and software. One part of ABB's smart grid strategy is to become the leader in the blending of information technology (IT) with operational technology (OT). It made important strides in that direction with the 2010 acquisition of Ventyx and the 2011 acquisition of Mincom.
The parent company provides power and automation technologies to a broad base of utility and industrial customers. Its product lines span transmission, distribution, turnkey substations, and industrial automation. It gets more than half its sales in Europe and has had early success in China.
See also Ventyx
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How are we going to turn our frail and neglected electric power transmission system into a secure and reliable smart grid? It’s a critical and timely issue, which is why we’ve loaded this toolkit with some of the best analysis, most-promising trends and smartest research relating to next steps in electric power transmission.
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If you want to see who's winning the big smart grid deals, you're in the right place. This week's featured winners inked contracts from Latvia to Malaysia to Alabama and beyond. We've also got a big ABB honor and an ABB acquisition to tell you about - plus a major smart grid milestone in Florida. Click so you don't miss any of it.
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If you remember the "Where's Waldo?" series, this week's smart grid wins are popping up here, there and everywhere just like the bespectacled Waldo did. Examples: Ventyx in Germany, Hill International in Afghanistan, ABB in China and Honeywell in Kuwait. And that's just getting started; click to take the full tour.
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ABB has launched what it describes as the world's first low-voltage circuit breaker with energy management functions, which could potentially produce significant energy savings. Looks like breakers aren't just for protecting circuits anymore.
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We're hearing about strong growth from ABB's U.S. operations on several fronts. The power and automation company reported U.S. revenues rose 26 percent to a record $6.7 billion in 2012 and that its U.S. workforce swelled to 20,000 – up 37% from 2011. Click to see what's behind those numbers.
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Smart Grid News regularly publishes strategic overviews of key vendors to help utilities decide which companies will make good partners. Does the vendor see things as you do? Does its roadmap for the future match up with where you want to go? Today we take a close look at ABB - its worldview, key themes, strengths and challenges.
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We have some hefty wins on our list this week - from a $68.5 million Canadian contract to a $260 million order in Oregon. See who snagged those and other awards, and check our M&A win section to see which Texas company Toshiba just acquired.
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So you aren't in San Diego this week, where it's supposed to be 68 degrees on Thursday. Who needs sunshine and sandy beaches when you can bask in the glow of your computer screen, reading the latest announcements from the show? We've got a dozen-plus we think you'll be interested in.
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ABB's transformer factory in Lodz, Poland has manufactured a 450 MVA auto transformer to be supplied to a power station in Swiebodzice, in southwest Poland. In this video you will follow the transportation of 235 tons on the 320 kilometer journey to the site, and the final installation at the power station.
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Smart grid companies are decking their corporate hallways with yuletide treasures (or more specifically orders for everything from smart meters to regulation services to an HVDC converter station). Click for details on Itron's big win in South Africa, Echelon's pilot in Brazil and eight more reasons why certain smart grid CFOs should be jolly this week.
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Day after Thanksgiving here in the States and some folks are thankful no one ate the last piece of pumpkin pie. Others are thankful they're heaping new smart grid wins on their plates. Click to learn the details of new wins involving some industry stalwarts and up-and-comers.
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EV batteries still have a lot of life left in them after they can no longer be used to power cars, and companies have been hard at work on R&D to give them a second life as stationary energy storage devices. ABB and GM have demonstrated that using them as backup energy storage for homes can be done, and they say it's a first.
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ABB says it has solved a 100-year-old electrical engineering problem with the development of the world's first circuit breaker for high voltage direct current. The breaker breakthrough (we had to say it) sweeps away the long-standing roadblock to developing DC transmission grids.
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Doug Voda of ABB discusses how even smaller smart grid investments - for instance under $100,000 - can have big payoffs in this video interview with Teresa Handson of PowerGRID International.
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It's been a huge week for awards - the Global Cleantech 100 and Frost & Sullivan Enabling Technology Award among them. And yes, smart grid companies are well represented. Besides those winners to tell you about, we've got project wins, milestones and a new category we're calling the Winning Idea of the Week.
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