ABB has won an order worth $53 million from the South African power utility Eskom, to strengthen the transmission network in the Western Cape region.
The company will design, manufacture, install and commission six 765-kilovolt capacitor banks at Alpha, Beta, Mercury and Perseus substations. The installations, which form part of an initiative to increase power capacity in Cape Town and surrounding areas will allow Eskom more flexibility and reduce its reliance on the existing Koeberg Power Station. The compensators used in the project are part of a family of technologies known as flexible alternating current transmission systems (FACTS).
The order was booked in the fourth quarter of 2008 and is expected to be completed by 2010.
“ABB’s FACTS technology allows more power to be delivered more efficiently using existing infrastructure,” said Peter Leupp, head of ABB’s Power Systems division. “This reduces the need to build additional transmission lines, lowering environmental impact and minimising cost.”
The project includes ABB’s Mach2 technology, which is an advanced control and protection system, and the most widely applied platform for high voltage direct current (HVDC) and FACTS solutions, which brings the benefit of fast, flexible, realtime control. Fuse-less capacitor units and high-speed bypass switches will further increase system reliability.
“This project offers ABB the scope to again partner with Eskom to achieve its priority on the delivery of efficient power,” says Carlos Pone, CEO of ABB in South Africa.
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