THE ENERGY INTERVIEW
With US $ 1.4bn in annual revenues, 4,000 engineers deployed across more than 15 countries, and responsibility for over 18 million installations globally, ELSE is, as Mateusz puts it,“ a silent enabler of the energy transition”
By deploying a battery energy storage system instead, ABB enabled the customer to avoid that bottleneck entirely. In fact, the battery managed capacity requirements that the grid simply could not meet.
Better still, the battery’ s flexibility allowed the customer to participate in grid balancing markets, generating revenue from the outset. The result was no upfront spend, a predictable operational cost and positive cashflow from day one.
“ We’ re no longer asking customers to spend money to be sustainable,” Mateusz explains.“ We’ re showing them how sustainability pays.”
ABB’ s approach to circularity Mateusz and the team at ELSE are also pressing forward with a host of initiatives promoting circularity internally and externally. The business now offers end-of-life services for its products in 22 countries, and the division is seeing strong interest from data centres in particular.
30 April 2026