ABB India has won its largest traction equipment order in India, worth more than Rs 270 crore to supply state-of-the-art converters for electric locomotives from Diesel Locomotive Works (DLW), in Varanasi.

The converters are custom designed for Indian Railways and will be manufactured at one of ABB's largest factories for locomotive applications in Nelamangala, near Bengaluru, in Southern India.

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ABB India will hold a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Company on 1 March 2019.

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The groundbreaking ceremony of ABB microgrid with battery energy storage at the campus of Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (IITR), was held to commence the smart campus development project. This is part of the larger R&D collaboration outlined in an MoU (memorandum of understanding) between ABB and IITR signed in July, 2018. The agreement for technology collaboration also includes the creation of a Smart Grid Resource Center, joint R&D facilities and support for PhD students.

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ABB India's power management technology is enabling the return of competitive international cricket to Lucknow at the new Ekana International Cricket Stadium and Sports Complex.

This new stadium forms part of the Uttar Pradesh government's vision to make Lucknow, the state capital city, a hub for sporting activities with facilities to match standards seen elsewhere in the world. ABB has also supplied substation technology with innovative hybrid switchgear for the Sawai Mansingh Cricket Stadium in Jaipur. These facilities have saved space, releasing precious land for other purposes and have improved the reliability and safety of the power supply.

ABB India has also supplied and commissioned 1 MW of solar inverters for the Lucknow Metro Project and leads the market with more than a 30 percent share for solar inverters. This initiative furthers the government directive for mass mobility infrastructure, be it metros or airports, to generate and use more green energy and reduce grid dependence. ABB inverters are the heart of the solar system ensuring the DC solar energy is converted to AC for common usage. They feed power to run lighting, lifts, escalators, air conditioners at the currently functional eight metro stations and the depot. The surplus power currently used to supply the depot will be used also to power future stations on the North-South corridor.

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