ABB awarded three hydro power refurbishment projects.NORWALK, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--August 15, 1996--ABB Inc. announced today one of its units has been awarded three contracts worth a total of approximately $15 million for major generator stator replacement contracts at hydroelectric power plants throughout the United States. 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 Power Generation Inc. Hydro Power, Littleton, Colo., will perform the stator replacements, which improve a hydroelectric turbine's efficiency and life expectancy. Pacific Gas & Electric Co. awarded ABB a generator upgrade at its Electra Hydro Station, located on the Mokelumne River in Jackson, Calif. ABB will upgrade the plant's 48-year-old Unit 3, increasing its capacity from 29.7 to 37 MW, supplying and installing a new stator and reinsulating the unit's field poles. Susquehanna Electric Co. selected ABB to replace the stator on Unit 5 at the utility's 11-unit Conowingo Hydro Station. The project involves replacing the stator winding and stator core on the 40 MVA MVA abbr. motor vehicle accident MVA Motor vehicular/vehicle accident, see there hydro generator. Susquehanna Electric is a subsidiary of PECO PECO Países da Europa Central e Oriental (Portugal) PECO Philadelphia Electric Company PECO Public Education Capital Outlay PECO Pelagic Cormorant (phalacrocorax pelagicus) Energy Company of Philadelphia. The plant is located on the Susquehanna River at U.S. Route 1 in Maryland U.S. Route 1 in Maryland is an 81-mile segment of the U.S. highway that runs through central Maryland. Route description From Washington, D.C., U.S. Route 1 (a.k.a. Rhode Island Avenue) enters Maryland in the community of Mount Rainier. . The Chelan County Public Utility District No. 1 of Wenatchee, Wash., as previously announced, selected ABB to perform four stator replacements on Units No. 8 through 11 at its Rocky Reach Hydro Project. Each unit has a rating of 132 MVA and a speed of 85.7 RPM. The plant is located in mid-Washington state, on the Columbia River. ABB Power Generation Inc. Hydro Power offers a complete range of hydro power equipment and services for diversified power plant applications. ABB Power Generation Inc., based in Midlothian, Va., also provides a complete range of gas and steam turbines and turbine services for combined cycle, cogeneration, peaking and baseload power applications. ABB (Asea Brown Boveri) Inc. (http://www.abb.com/americas/usa), based in Norwalk, Conn., engineers products and services for power generation, transmission and distribution; industrial processes; and transportation. The company and its subsidiaries have sales of approximately $5.2 billion. Their parent, ABB Asea Brown Boveri ABB, formerly Asea Brown Boveri, is a multinational corporation headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland, operating mainly in the power and automation technology areas. ABB is one of the largest engineering companies as well as one of the largest conglomerate companies in the Ltd. (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), employs approximately 210,000 people and had revenues in 1995 of $34 billion. CONTACT: ABB Inc. Karen Armour, 203-750-2217 (office) or 203-655-9461 (residence) |
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