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HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. -- Officials announced Thursday a hundred new jobs are coming to Huntersville, Mecklenburg County.

ABB is the world's largest provider of power grid transmission and distribution equipment and technology.

They plan to build a new 90 million dollar manufacturing facility in the town. The new facility will manufacture high voltage cables for transmitting electricity. Workers will be paid, on average, more than $64,000 a year.

ABB says the factory is vital for improving its power transmission system in the U.S.

"Having the transmission lines to connect that important energy resource to refurbish the aging infrastructure is very important,” said Aftab Khan, ABB's Vice-President & General Manager for grid systems in U.S. “And this factory and the footprint that we will have in the U.S. is very important to support that need."

The Swiss company also announced it will add 30 new engineering jobs in Wake County.

ABB already employs nearly 800 workers statewide with its U.S. headquarters based in Cary.