ABB has signed a five-year framework contract with Austrian Power Grid (APG), Austria's transmission system operator, potentially worth more than $100 million to supply gas-insulated switchgear (GIS) in the largest electricity grid expansion to date in Austria worth $1.13 billion.

ABB will be supplying GIS for the construction of a transmission grid that will help strengthen the infrastructure in order to gradually integrate electricity generated by more renewable sources.

The network connects wind power generators in eastern Austria to pumped storage power plants in the western part of the country.

Under the #mission2030 plan, Austria targets to achieve 100 percent electricity consumption from renewable energy and a fully carbon-free society by 2030. This goal also honors the European Union's renewable energy targets1 of 32 percent by 2030 and 75 percent by 2050.

Source: ABB