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Siemens Cuts the Charging Time for Electric Cars with a New Charging Point by 50% Siemens is launching a charging point Charge CP700A on the European market which can charge electric cars with a normal battery capacity within an hour. The charging power has been doubled to 22kW in the new series, which cuts the charging time in half.
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Everything from a Single Source: Siemens to Supply Pre-Manufactured Packaged Substations for Heavy Industries With the acquisition of the E-House manufacturing business of Tesla Power & Automation based in Houston, Texas, Siemens is expanding its portfolio in the field of medium-voltage equipment and strengthening its competence in the design and production of pre-manufactured modular power distribution systems (E-Houses).
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Siemens to Invest More Than 50 Million US Dollars in Facilities and R&D Centers for High-Voltage Equipment in Mexico On 2 February 2011, the new Siemens production facility was officially openend in Mexico at a ceremony attended by high-ranking representatives from politics and industry.
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Data Hub for IT Systems: Siemens Supports Salzburg AG's Smart Grid Pilot Project by Providing a Meter Data Management System Siemens Energy is supplying the Austrian power provider Salzburg AG with its Energy IP meter data management system for their "Smart Grid Model Region" pilot project. This project has been launched to test intelligent electricity meters under real-life conditions. The meter data management system will serve as a data hub for other IT systems to enable the meter data to be efficiently used for the utility's business processes.
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Siemens Receives its Largest-Ever Onshore Wind Order from the US Siemens has received its largest onshore wind order to date. The purchaser is the US utility MidAmerican Energy headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa. Siemens will deliver a total of 258 wind turbines, each with a capacity of 2.3MW for several wind farms in Iowa. After commissioning in January 2012, the combined capacity of 593MW will be sufficient to supply 190,000 US households with clean electricity.
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Siemens to Supply Converter Stations for HVDC Connection Between Estonia and Finland – Transmission Capacity Between the Two Countries to Increase Threefold Siemens Energy is building converter stations in Püssi, Estonia, and Anttila, Finland, for the new high-voltage DC (HVDC) connection between the two countries ("EstLink 2"). The system, with a transmission capacity of 650MW at a DC voltage of ± 450kv, will increase the capacity for transmission between the Baltic and Nordic countries from 350MW to 1000MW. It will also make the power supply more reliable.
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Siemens to Erect Shoreside Power Supply System for Offshore Platform in the Barents Sea – 50% Reduction of CO2 Emissions The Goliat floating offshore platform for the production, storage and offloading of oil and gas north of Norway in the Barents Sea will not, as is customary practice, be supplied with power generated by onboard gas turbines and generators but from the shore via a 106km-long subsea cable. This will result in a 50% reduction of CO2 emissions.
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Siemens has Been Named Overall Winner of the Manufacturing Excellence Award The Berlin Meßgerätewerk sets new standards for highly efficient production processes.
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Germany’s Power Grid Could Already Handle 1 Million Electric Vehicles - Smart Grids are a Reasonable Medium-Term Objective The National Electromobility Platform’s “Charging Infrastructure and Network Integration Working Group” publishes interim report.
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Open Communication with Smart Metering: Siemens Joins up With Meter Manufacturer EMH In the lead-up to making its meter data communication protocol AMIS DLC available to the public in January 2011, Siemens Energy is working together with EMH metering GmbH & Co. KG, Wittenburg, Germany, in the field of smart metering.
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Siemens Technology Stabilises South American Power Grids: Three Large FACTS Orders from Brazil and Paraguay The focus of the three orders that Siemens Energy has recently received from South America is on flexible alternating-current transmission system technology (FACTS) for stabilising power grids. Under the terms of two of these orders, Siemens will be supplying ten fixed series compensation systems (FSC), three static VAr compensation systems (SVC) and the new Siemens technology SVC Plus to Brazil.
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Siemens to Open up Smart Metering Communications for Meters Produced by Other Manufacturers In January 2011 Siemens Energy will open up its previously proprietary Distribution Line Carrier (DLC) communications protocol, which utilises the low-voltage network as a metering communications channel. The company will thus also give utilities the opportunity to deploy meters produced by other manufacturers within its automated metering and information system AMIS. By opening up its DLC communications protocol Siemens is setting a milestone in the direction of open communication with smart meters and takes the first step toward establishing a new standard in high-efficiency metering communications via power line.
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Smart metering as basis for smart grids: Siemens presents future-oriented holistic Solution At this year's Metering Europe conference and exhibition in Vienna, Siemens presented a holistic smart metering solution as a key component for setting up smart grids. This solution consists of an AMIS automated metering and information system and an Energy IP metering management system.
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Reliability in Demand: Siemens to Supply New Network Control System to DB Energie Following an invitation to tender issued by the EU Siemens Energy secured an order in early May 2010 to supply a new network control system based on its Spectrum Power 4 system. The purchaser is DB Energie GmbH based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The network control system is planned for deployment in the 110kV main system control center in Frankfurt am Main and the alternate control station in Limburg an der Lahn.
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Siemens Breaks Ground for New Transformer Factory in Russia In the presence of Alexei Gordeyev, governor of the Voronezh region in southwestern Russia, and Udo Niehage, CEO of the power transmission division in the Siemens Energy Sector, the ground-breaking ceremony was held for Siemens' new transformer factory in the Maslovsky industrial park at the south border of the urban district of the City of Voronezh on 3 September 2010.
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Siemens to Build Combined Cycle Power Plant in the Netherlands Siemens Energy has received an order from the Netherlands for turnkey construction of a combined cycle power plant. Purchaser of the 435MW plant Diemen 34 in the vicinity of Amsterdam is the Dutch utility Nuon, a subsidiary of Vattenfall A.B. Siemens will also handle plant maintenance. With an efficiency level as high as approximately 59%, maximised operating flexibility and low nitrogen oxide emissions the gas-fired plant will supply more than 750,000 Dutch households with ecofriendly power.
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Siemens HVDC Technology to Transmit Eco-Friendly Electric Power from Georgia to Turkey Siemens Energy is to install two turnkey high voltage direct current (HVDC) back-to-back links in Georgia to connect the Georgian power supply network with the grid system in Turkey. As part of the Black Sea Transmission Network Project, one of the most significant infrastructure projects in Georgia, the two HVDC back-to-back links are each to transmit 350MW of controlled electric power generated in various hydropower plants in Georgia to Turkey.
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Siemens Transformer Works in India Delivers its First HVDC Transformer In late July, 2010, the first HVDC transformer left the Siemens transformer works in Kalwa, around 30km to the east of Mumbai on the west coast of India. The converter transformer with a rating of 500MVA and an operating voltage of 500kV is the first of a total of eleven transformers that Siemens is building in its Indian works for the high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission system of Adani Power Limited.
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Making Grids Even Smarter: Siemens Acquires Software that Warns of Possible Blackouts Siemens Energy has acquired Quick Stab from SCS Info Tech in New York, a software package used to prevent blackouts in power supply grids, thus expanding its portfolio by a further key component for setting up smart grids. This software is already in use among utilities in Asia and Europe, Latin America and the US.
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Siemens Wins CSP Today Award - Solar Field Innovations Enhance Competitiveness of CSP Technology At the CSP Today Awards Ceremony held at the fourth annual Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Summit in San Francisco, US, organised by CSP Today, Siemens Energy won the award for CSP Competitiveness. Two key innovations were the decisive factors: improved solar field optical efficiency, thanks to the new UVAC 2010 solar receiver, and the use of industrialised manufacturing techniques to support the construction of solar fields for parabolic trough power plants.
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Siemens Energy Receives First Photovoltaic Order from Czech Republic Siemens Energy has received its first order from the Czech Republic for the turnkey construction of a large ground-based photovoltaic plant. The customer is the construction company D.P.E.S. s.r.o. based in Prague. The plant, with a rating of 4MWp, will be erected in Dobré Pole, Czech Republic. After completion, scheduled for end of 2010, the solar power plant will provide nearly 1,000 households in the Czech Republic with environmentally friendly power.
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Improved Business Prospects for Siemens in the Energy Technology Market Business prospects in the Energy Sector of Siemens AG have improved. "There are signs of an upturn in sections of the market for infrastructure in the field of energy technology. Our customers are again increasing their investments in new projects and placing orders. The number of invitations to tender, for which we have submitted bids, has recently increased noticeably," said Wolfgang Dehen, member of the Managing Board of Siemens and CEO of the Energy Sector, at an investors event.
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First 800-kV High-Voltage Direct-Current Link in China Now Fully Operational Siemens Energy and the utility China Southern Power Grid have put into operation the second pole of the world-record HVDC system, which is capable of transporting huge amounts of clean hydro power to Guangdong Province. The transmission capacity has now been doubled to 5,000MW.
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Siemens Receives Order from Italy for Photovoltaic Plant Siemens Energy has received an order from Italy for a photovoltaic plant with a peak output of 15MW. The customer is Ital Green Energy, a subsidiary of the Marseglia Group. The San Donaci solar power plant located in the Apulia region is to be connected to the Italian grid by late 2010 and will then supply clean electricity to around 5,500 Italian households.
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Shell Selects Siemens as its Single Main Power Distribution Contractor Shell has signed a five-year global framework agreement with Siemens AG for the provision of integrated power distribution systems used in Shell's projects all over the world. Based on this agreement Siemens Energy will provide Shell with power distribution technology used in Shell's refinery, gas and chemical as well as exploration projects as the sole main power distribution contractor. Shell's annual capital expenditure for power distribution ranges between $300 million and $400 million.
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Siemens Receives Order from Transpower to Connect Offshore Wind Farms via HVDC Link Order Worth More Than €500 Million for the Consortium A consortium of Siemens Energy and Prysmian Powerlink has received an order worth more than €500 million from the German transmission grid company Transpower. The BorWin2 offshore consortium will connect two North Sea offshore wind farms to the grid on behalf of Transpower, a subsidiary of the Dutch grid operator TenneT.
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Siemens Receives Order for Advanced Gas Turbine for Expansion Project in Texas Siemens Energy has been awarded a contract for the supply of a SGT6-5000F gas turbine for Xcel Energy's Jones Station expansion project, located near Lubbock, Texas. Xcel Energy is a major US utility that provides eight Western and Midwestern states with energy-related products and services. The 486MW rated Jones Station is a natural gas-fueled, steam-electric generating station with two 1970s-vintage operating units.
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Siemens Wins Order for Expansion of Abu Dhabi's Power Grid Siemens Energy has received an order from the Abu Dhabi Transmission & Dispatch Company (Transco), Abu Dhabi's national electricity grid operator, as part of the project to expand the country's power distribution network. Siemens and its partner Electromechanical LLC will supply five turnkey transformer substations including switchgear for the project. Siemens' share of the order is worth a total of approximately EUR150 million.
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Siemens to Build Power Transformer Production Plant in Voronezh Region Siemens is to build a production facility for power transformers in Russia. Siemens Russia and the regional government of Voronezh signed an agreement enhancing the existing cooperation on the construction of a power transformer production plant in the territory of the Voronezh region. The agreement was signed by Dietrich Moeller, CEO of Siemens Russia/Central Asia, and Alexei Gordeyev, governor of the Voronezh region.
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Federal Grid Company and Siemens Sign Strategic Cooperation Agreement The Federal Grid Company (FGC) in Russia and Siemens AG have signed a Strategic Cooperation Agreement. The document is determined on the development of cooperation between the companies in the implementation of new Siemens technologies such as low-loss high-voltage DC transmission (HVDC) or smart grids on FGC objects.
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