- ABB (NYSE:ABB) has delivered the world’s most powerful traction frequency converter system to E.ON, the leading German utility.
- Rated at 413 MW, the system efficiently converts electricity from Germany’s three-phase high-voltage grid with a rated frequency of 50 Hz to the 16.7 Hz required by the single-phase 110 kV grid of Deutsche Bahn.
- The converter station is capable of supplying up to 25% of the power required by the German railways.