ABB wins $76 million substation order in U.K.

ABB在英國贏得價值7,600萬美元的變電站訂單

Innovative switchgear technology to strengthen power supply in key city

創新的接電技術將為主要城市加強供電能力

Zurich, Switzerland, March 13, 2006 - ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, said today it has won a $76 million turnkey substation contract with the U.K. utility, National Grid, to strengthen the power supply southeast of Manchester, one of the country’s largest and most important cities.

瑞士蘇黎世3月13日訊，全球領先的電力和自動化技術集團ABB公司今天宣布獲得了獨家承包英國國家電力網一個變電站的價值7600萬美元合同，加強英國最大和最重要城市之一的曼徹斯特東南部的供電能力。

ABB will replace an existing outdoor 275 kilovolt (kV) substation now nearing the end of its service-life with an indoor substation based on compact, state-of-the-art, gas insulated switchgear (GIS). GIS technology will reduce the size of the installation, currently as big as four soccer fields, by 90 percent.

ABB將用基于體積較小的頂級的氣體絕緣接電開關裝置（GIS）的室內變電站替換現有的服務年限將到的室外275千伏特的變電站。GIS技術將大大減少安裝體積，僅是現在占地有四個足球場大變電站的十分之一。

“Our state-of-the art GIS technology will help ensure reliable power delivery to one of the U.K.’s most important commercial centers,” said Samir Brikho, head of ABB’s Power Systems division. “It is the latest in a series of orders from National Grid, underlining their confidence in our innovative technology and our ability to execute large projects.”

ABB電力系統部門主管Samir Brikho指出：“我們頂級的GIS技術將保障向英國最重要的的商業中心之一的可靠電力輸送。這是來自英國國家電網一系列訂單中最新的一個。，這表明了他們對我們創新技術和執行大型項目實力的信心。”

As well as replacing the 45-year-old 275 kV air insulated switchgear (AIS) substation, the project includes reconfiguring overhead lines coming into the substation, as well as system reinforcements. An adjacent 400 kV AIS substation will also be extended.

除了替換已服役了45年的275千伏特的空氣絕緣裝置（AIS）變電站外，該項目還包括連向該變電站的高架線，以及系統加固。臨近一個400千伏特的AIS變電站也將擴大。

The new GIS substation is scheduled to be operational by November 2008; all remaining work is to be completed by February 2009.

新的GIS變電站預計在2008年11月開始運營，余下全部的工作將在2009年2月完工。