Large smart grid for Stockholm

ABB is to work on a joint development project with the Nordic utility Fortum to design and install a large-scale smart grid in a district of the city of Stockholm.

The R&D project will test the concept of a power network in the Stockholm Royal Seaport area as part of a larger initiative to cut emissions in the Swedish capital by two thirds by 2020. It is one of 16 global projects supported by the Clinton Climate Initiative Program, with a focus on sustainable and efficient generation, transmission and distribution of power.

ABB and Fortum will develop a variety of solutions to ensure that excess power generated from renewable-energy sources in the district itself (from sources such as rooftop solar panels) can be fed into the power grid to enable electric vehicles to draw electricity from the grid or feed it back in, to store energy and to provide more flexibility in the distribution grid, helping to lower consumption and emissions.