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    Energy Efficiency Media Roundtable

    en-usJanuary 12, 2022
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    About this Episode

    Join us in this special episode of the ABB Solutions Podcast to listen to our ABB Energy Efficiency Media Roundtablefeaturing Morten Wierod, ABB Motion President, Jesse Henson, ABB's NEMA Motor Division President, and Prakash Rao Ph.D., Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Research Scientist.

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