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ABB to Supply Products for China’s Highest-Voltage AC Power Line
ABB has won an order to supply products for the highest voltage AC power line ever built in China.
ABB will supply the Xi’an XD Transformer Company, one of China’s largest power engineering contractors, with eleven 1,100-kilovolt (kV) bushings—key components of transformers and circuit breakers that increase the stability of high-voltage power transmission systems. The products will be installed on China’s first 1,000-kV AC power line, a pilot project in a larger program to deliver electricity generated in the
north and south-west of China to power-hungry regions in the east.
The 654-km power line, connecting Jindongnan in Shanxi province and Jingmen in Hubei province, is scheduled
to start operations in 2008. The order is worth about $2.6 million to ABB.