ABB electric drives save a record 310 million megawatt hours in 2011
Energy savings equivalent to the output of 31 nuclear power station blocksZurich, Switzerland, June 11, 2012 – ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has released its annual estimate of the savings achieved by its installed base of drives. About 310 million megawatt-hours (MWh) of electric power was saved by ABB drives in 2011, an increase of 19 percent compared with the previous year. Electric drives are used to regulate the speed and power consumption of electric motors. Industrial electric motors account for about 25 percent of all the electricity consumed worldwide.