ABB has announced that it will install a fully integrated and standardized microgrid at its Vadodara facility in Gujarat, India to help boost renewable energy generation while reducing dependency on fossil fuel. This microgrid, with a rooftop photo voltaic field at the company's biggest manufacturing location in India with around 3,000 employees, will help ensure uninterrupted power supply.
Microgrids are considered a viable and cost-efficient solution to not only improve access to electricity, but also to address other pressing issues related to energy supply, including growing demand, climate change, energy security and reliability for both industries and villages. In 2015 ABB exhibited the first multisource microgrid pilot at its Automation and Power World event in New Delhi, India. Over a period of 3 days, 1,350 kg of CO2 was saved and enough electricity was generated to power approximately 12,000 rural households.
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