Swiss power and automation technology group ABB said that it has won an order worth around $140 million to deliver transformers to the State Grid Corporation of China for a high-voltage power corridor that will strengthen the Chinese electricity network and help meet rising demand in the Shandong coastal region.
According to the company, the power link will transmit 4,000MW of electricity at 660kV over 1,350km, from the Ningxia province to Shandong. The corridor will use high-voltage direct current (HVDC) technology to maximize transmission efficiency.
ABB’s transformers will serve the stations that convert power to direct current for transmission and back to alternating current for distribution, and will be supplied in co-operation with local Chinese partners.
Bernhard Jucker head of ABB’s power products division, said: These high-specification transformers will enable efficient transmission of a large quantity of power across a long distance and with minimum losses.
Recently, ABB declared that it has won a contract for about $490 million as part of the El Merk oil and gas project in Algeria. It’s the third major infrastructure project awarded to ABB within the last two weeks.
The contract from Groupement Berkine, an Algeria entity that is co-managed by Sonatrach and Anadarko, is part of a plan to develop hydrocarbon deposits in the El Merk basin in the Algerian Sahara Desert. ABB is leading a consortium on the project with a total value of $650 million.
