The company’s Hybrid HVDC breaker – which marries ultrafast mechanical actuators with semiconductor IGBT valve technology – can interrupt power flows equal to the output of a nuclear power station ...

ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, today announced a breakthrough in the ability to interrupt direct current, solving a 100-year-old electrical engineering puzzle and paving the ...

The rapid expansion of high voltage direct current (HVDC) grids, driven by the massive integration of renewable energy sources, has underscored the critical role of DC circuit breakers (DCCBs) and ...

Switzerland-based ABB today announced that it has developed the world’s first circuit breaker for high voltage direct current (HVDC), solving what it says has been “a 100-year-old electrical ...

ABB has announced a breakthrough in the ability to interrupt direct current, and has claimed to solve a "100-year-old electrical engineering puzzle." After years of research, ABB has developed the ...

Swiss-based ABB Inc. feels the development of a new DC breaker for high-voltage transmission will help shape the energy grid of the future. Nikola Tesla (Westinghouse) and Thomas Edison (GE) battled ...

Power giant ABB has unveiled what is billed as the world’s first high-voltage direct current (HVDC) circuit breaker, removing a key barrier to development of the “overlay” DC grids needed to tie large ...

Digital technology is a fascinating subject. We have spent many years digitizing nearly every aspect of the power delivery system, which resulted in our smart grid. We have been so successful that the ...