ABB wins $30 million order to upgrade two critical Australian HVDC links
Zurich, Switzerland, March 27, 2018 - Upgrades of historic Murraylink and the Directlink transmission connections will secure future power reliability and energy exchange.ABB has won an order to replace the control and protection systems for two vital high-voltage transmission links in Australia that achieved significant technical breakthroughs when ABB installed the systems nearly two decades ago. The order, worth approximately $30 million, will modernize the Murraylink and Directlink high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission links with the latest ABB AbilityTMMACH control system.