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Thomson Reuters recognizes ABB as a Top 100 Global Innovator, honoring ABB’s commitment to drive innovations, commercialization and intellectual property protection. This award recognizes companies around the world for their outstanding commitment to global innovation, the protection of ideas and the commercialization of inventions. “This award is a strong endorsement of our focus to develop innovative solutions for automation, energy efficiency and the power grid,” said ABB CEO, Ulrich Spiesshofer. Over the last year, ABB has announced several innovation milestones including a combined low-voltage circuit breaker and energy manager…

MIT Technology Review’s 2013 list of 50 disruptive companies shows that innovation is far from dead. The development of the breaker , announced by ABB last November, marked the resolution of a 100-year-old challenge. Thomas Edison’s inability to find a solution for interrupting high-voltage DC is one of the reasons why he lost the War of the Currents in the 19th century and why today’s grids are mostly built on alternating current (AC). The innovation makes it possible for the first time to create a grid based on high voltage direct current (HVDC)…