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News Release from: ABB Power Technologies
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 19 December 2006
US $450 million power transmission
contract signed
ABB's contract covers three substations and a telecommunication package for Qatar's Phase VII grid expansion project, a countrywide effort to increase power in areas of high growth.
ABB, a power and automation technology group, has won a US $450 million contract from Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation - Kahramaa - to support the country's rapid growth by expanding the power transmission system The contract scope includes three substations and a telecommunication package for Qatar's Phase VII grid expansion project, a countrywide effort to increase power in areas of high growth, where electricity demand is greatest
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 14 Sep 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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"ABB's advanced substation technology is underpinning a huge expansion of Qatar's power transmission capacity, ensuring the region has a reliable supply of electricity", said Bernhard Jucker, head of ABB's Power Products division.
"ABB's fast delivery and safe, reliable products and systems are helping develop one of the fastest growing power markets in the world".
ABB is scheduled to energise the substations in the first half of 2008.
It's the latest in a series of recent ABB orders in the region, and the biggest transmission and distribution substations order ABB has ever received.
In November 2005, ABB won a US $170 million contract from Kahramaa for 12 substations and power cables for Qatar's Phase VI grid expansion project, and a US $220 million contract for Phase I of the Gulf Grid project, linking the electrical grids of six Gulf states, including Qatar.
For the latest project, ABB will engineer, procure, construct and commission three substations, and supply 37 bays of 400kV gas-insulated switchgear (GIS); 66 bays of 220kV GIS; 36 bays of 132kV GIS; and 41 bays of 66kV GIS.
ABB will also supply 25 transformers, rated from 40 to 800MVA.
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