Cape Town power
ABB has been awarded $53m by South African power utility Eskom to strengthen the transmission network in the
The order, which was booked in the fourth quarter of 2008, is expected to be completed by 2010.
ABB said that it will design, manufacture, install and commission six 765kV capacitor banks at the Alpha, Beta, Mercury and Perseus substations.
The installations, which form part of an initiative to increase power capacity in
The compensators used in the project are part of a family of technologies known as Flexible Alternating Current Transmission Systems (FACTS).
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