ABB wins 600 MW HVDC order to reinforce Japanese power supply through HVDC JV with Hitachi
Zurich, Switzerland, April 23, 2019ABB announced today that it received a significant order for two blocks of frequency converter systems for the Higashi Shimizu project in Japan from Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc. (“Chubu Electric”). The order has been placed through the established Hitachi-ABB joint venture, Hitachi ABB HVDC Technologies, Ltd. In this project, the system to be delivered uses Voltage Source Converter (VSC) High-Voltage Direct Current Transmission (HVDC) power transmission technology, enabling interconnection between systems, with different frequencies implemented by