ABB To Provide Gas And Steam Turbines For Merchant Plant in Dighton, Mass.NORWALK, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 5, 1997--A unit of ABB n. 1. Among weavers, yarn for the warp. Hence, Noun 1. ABB - an urban hit squad and guerrilla group of the Communist Party in the Philippines; formed in the 1980s Inc. has been awarded a $27 million contract to supply the power train for a 170 megawatt merchant power plant - the first of its kind -- to be built in Dighton, Mass. The Dighton facility will be the first "pure" merchant plant as it has no energy sales contracts in place, but will compete in the deregulated market on its ability to generate low cost power and support the local grid system. The merchant plant is scheduled to begin commercial operation in June 1999 and will sell electricity to the NEPOOL NEPOOL New England Power Pool grid system. Under the contract, ABB Power Generation Inc. of Midlothian, Va., will provide a single-shaft power train configuration, including a gas turbine and steam turbine Steam turbine A machine for generating mechanical power in rotary motion from the energy of steam at temperature and pressure above that of an available sink. By far the most widely used and most powerful turbines are those driven by steam. driving a common generator, to Dighton Power Associates Limited Partnership. Energy Management, Inc. is the partnership's managing partner. ABB Power Generation Inc. provides a complete range of turbine generators and services for diversified power plant applications. It is a unit of ABB Inc. ABB Inc. http://www.abb.com/americas/usa, with headquarters in Norwalk, Conn., serves customers in power generation, power transmission and distribution, industrial and building systems, financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , and transportation. The company and its affiliates had annual U.S. revenues of approximately $5.4 billion in 1996 and employed 22,000 people at manufacturing and other facilities in 41 states. ABB Inc. is part of the ABB Group, the international engineering company with approximately 215,000 employees worldwide in 1996 and revenues of $35 billion. Shares in ABB Group's parent companies, ABB AB and ABB AG, are traded, respectively, on the NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on (ABBBY) and OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). (ABBGY) stock markets. CONTACT: ABB Inc., Norwalk William Kelly, 203/750-2246 e-mail: william.s.kelly@usabb.mail.abb.com |
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