ABB: Providing "Access to Electricity"

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"Sustainability is at the heart of our business. With our power and automation technology products and solutions, we help our customers use less energy, cut their consumption of raw materials and reduce waste. Sustainability helps improve our competitiveness."

- Jörgen Centerman, President and CEO, ABB in 2002.¹

"Access to electricity is a key to economic and social development. A thriving local private sector is an engine for development, and responsible action by global business may counter the present financial and economic marginalization of the least developed countries. We contribute by introducing technical and commercial solutions to facilitate electrification."

- Christian Kornevall, Senior Vice-President, Sustainability Affairs, ABB in 2004.²

Introduction

As in 2005, Switzerland-based engineering conglomerate, the ABB Group (ABB), operated through two divisions - power technologies and automation technologies.

Power Technologies provided services to electric, gas and water utilities in the areas of power transmission, distribution and automation; while automation technologies provided solutions for control, motion, protection, and plant integration across the full range of process and utility industries. Sustainability had been made an integral part of all of ABB's businesses. ABB was in the forefront in taking initiatives related to environment-friendly operations and socially responsible measures and activities. ABB's Access to Electricity (ATE) program, which was first implemented in Ngarambe, a village in southern Tanzania, in 2004, and subsequently extended to other areas, was designed to promote economic, environmental and social development in poor communities.

The key features of ATE were; providing electricity at an affordable rate to low-income communities, and building a bottom-up approach by engaging local partners to create appropriate solutions. ABB contributed its commercial and technical expertise in technical design, consultation, training, etc while the partners brought in their own competencies which helped in the social and economic development of the area.

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