Success story ABB: reliable partner for system migration and service at the Heilbronn thermal power station Operations started at Unit 7 in Heilbronn over 35 years ago. At the time, it was one of the largest conventional power station units of the energy group EnBW. Since then, and particularly in the last three years, ABB has been a reliable partner for the power station, undertaking the progressive migration of control technology for turbine and boiler protection in the station’s three active units – Units 5, 6 and 7. Constructed in the 1950s, Units 1 and 2 of the Heilbronn power station were decommissioned in 1988, followed many years ago by the decommissioning of Unit 3 and 4, which had an output of 200 megawatts (MW) each. Now, a walk through the control centre for Units 1

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