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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new circuit breaker design for high-voltage direct current means supergrids connecting resources on a global scale will be more efficient and reliable. Supergrids connecting electricity networks and ...

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