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Windpower TV -- Stephen Trotter, ABB managing director Power Systems Division UK and Ireland

5 November 2013

UK: Moving from a largely centralised energy generation system to one that is more widely distributed poses plenty of challenges to the grid, ABB managing director Power Systems Division UK and Ireland Stephen Trotter tells Windpower Monthly.

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Trotter speaks about the technology advances that will make transmitting power more efficient over long distances as part of the drive towards a modernised, more flexible grid.

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