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Siemens to Extend 220 kV Substations in Kenya Siemens Energy has received a contract to extend the two high voltage substations Rabai and Embakasi in Kenya, which are part of the Mombasa-Nairobi transmission line project. Purchaser is the power transmission company Kenya Electricity Transmission. (Ketraco), located in Nairobi. Completion time of the project will be 20 months.
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Siemens Receives Follow-Up Order for Photovoltaic Plants in Central Italy Siemens Energy has received a follow-up order for the turnkey construction of eight photovoltaic plants in Italy.
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Siemens Secures Order for Fifth Offshore Wind Power Plant in Germany Borkum Riffgrund 1 will provide clean energy for approximately 330,000 households.
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Siemens to Build a Combined Cycle Power Plant in Mexico The plant is scheduled to achieve commercial operation in the summer of 2013, at which point it will be able to supply electricity to the company's copper mines. With Siemens' high-efficiency combined cycle power plant, Minera
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Siemens to Present Power Supply Solutions for Megacities at the Hanover Fair As part of the 'Metropolitan Solutions' exhibition in Hall 8 at the Hanover Fair from April 4 to 8, Siemens Energy will present four selected projects providing energy-efficient, eco-friendly power supply solutions for megacities.
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Siemens to Build Molten Salt Solar Thermal Test Facility in Portugal As part of the High-Performance Solar Thermal Power research project sponsored by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Siemens together with German partner companies is to build a power plant test facility operating with molten salt as heat transfer medium.
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Siemens and Suntech Enter Framework Agreement for PV Panels Siemens Energy has signed a framework agreement with Suntech Power the world’s largest manufacturer of photovoltaic (PV) modules. The photovoltaic modules to be supplied under this umbrella agreement are for several projects in Europe.
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Green Power from the North Sea: Siemens to Install Grid Link for DanTysk Offshore Wind Following the grid connections for the offshore wind farm clusters BorWin2 and HelWin1, Siemens Energy will also install a turnkey grid connection in the North Sea for the SylWin cluster. The purchaser is the Dutch-German transmission grid operator TenneT. In a consortium with the Italian cable manufacturer Prysmian Powerlink, Siemens will connect DanTysk, located west of the island of Sylt as the first wind farm to be connected via the SylWin collective connection.
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New Order for Combined Cycle Power Plant Featuring World-Record Siemens Gas Turbine Siemens has received an order from South Korea for the supply of its latest high-efficiency gas turbine (H Class). For the first time Siemens will supply a complete combined cycle power plant equipped with a new-generation gas turbine. Bugok 3 with an electrical capacity of 400MW will attain an efficiency above the record figure of 60% and supply electricity to more than 300,000 people. The purchaser is the Seoul-based utility GS Electric Power and Services Co., Ltd. The natural gas-fired power plant is scheduled to come on line in the summer of 2013.
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Siemens to Supply Instrumentation & Controls System and Steam Turbine-Generators for Solar Thermal Power Plant in the US Siemens Energy has received an order for the supply of an SPPA-T3000 instrumentation & controls (I&C) system and two steam turbine-generators for the Ivanpah solar thermal power plant located in the Mojave desert in California. The purchaser is BrightSource Energy Inc., a developer of utility-scale solar thermal power plants headquartered in Oakland, California. Siemens will supply the SPPA-T3000 for all three units of the Ivanpah project with a combined installed capacity of approximately 400MW.
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Siemens Hands Over Malženice CCPP in Slovakia to E.ON On 30 December 2010 Siemens Energy handed the Malženice combined cycle power plant (CCPP) in Slovakia over to the purchaser, E.ON. Thanks to Siemens' ultra-modern burner technology, nitrogen oxide emissions are very low. The new plant also features high on-line versatility, short start-up times and fast load cycling – properties that are becoming more and more important against the background of increasing shares of fluctuating wind power in the grid. Thanks to its high efficiency of 58% the power plant, with a net output of 417MW, will supply more than 900,000 households with environmentally friendly electricity.
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Siemens Well on Track to Become One of the World’s Top Three Providers of Wind Turbines New factories in China and the US secure strong footprint in the most important wind markets.
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Siemens Hands Over Severn Power Combined Cycle Power Plant in the UK to DONG Energy Ahead of Schedule Siemens Energy handed over the Severn Power combined cycle power plant located in Uskmouth in the vicinity of Newport, Wales, one week ahead of schedule to the customer DONG Energy. Thanks to Siemens advanced burner technology the plant’s nitrogen oxide emission levels are very low at approximately 15ppm (parts per million). The 834MW plant achieves full output after only 30min to 35min. The plant’s high operating flexibility means that it is capable of very quickly compensating for the fluctuating feed-in from wind turbines. With its efficiency of approximately 58% and low nitrogen oxide emissions, Severn Power will supply more than 1.5 million households with ecofriendly electricity.
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German President Wulff Visits Siemens Solar Receiver Production Plant in Israel On 29 November, on the occasion of a trip to Israel, German President Christian Wulff visited the Siemens solar thermal production plant in Bet Shemesh, Israel, approximately 20km west of Jerusalem. The Siemens plant produces high-efficiency solar receivers, which are key components of solar thermal power plants. The German head of state was provided with information on site on the individual steps involved in the production of these high-tech components and on prospects for the utilisation of CO2-free solar energy.
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Siemens Receives Second Order for Direct Drive Wind Turbines in the US Siemens Energy will supply 15 of its SWT-3.0-101 direct drive wind turbines for Minnesota Power’s Bison 1 wind power plant near Center, North Dakota. Minnesota Power modified its original order, replacing 33 Siemens SWT-2.3-101 geared wind turbines to now include 16 2.3MW SWT-2.3-101 and 15 innovative 3MW SWT-3.0-101 direct drive machines.
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Siemens Achieves Breakthrough with CO2 Reduction Technology Practically zero-emissions, ecofriendly CO2 capture from power plant exhaust gases demonstrated.
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Logistical Masterpiece: Supersize Transformer Leaves Siemens' Plant in Nuremberg on its Way to Wilhelmshaven With a payload of 495 metric tons, the heaviest transformer Siemens has ever built left the manufacturing plant in Nuremberg, Germany, in November. That the transformer turned out to be such a heavyweight was due to the special requirements made by its purchaser, a German power plant operator. These included very low core inductivity and a particularly low short-circuit voltage - which could only be achieved by adding material mass. That brings the 932MVA generator transformer (420kV), intended for a hard-coal-fired power plant of GDF Suez power utility currently under construction in Wilhelmshaven, Germany, up to a total weight of 693t when filled with insulating oil ready for operation – as heavy as 530 compact-size cars. The giant component left the Nuremberg works on the world's biggest bridge girder trailer on 12 November 2010, and will take about two weeks to reach its destination in Wilhelmshaven on the North Sea.
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AREVA and Siemens Consortium to Supply Digital Supervision, Protection and Control Systems for Nuclear Power Plant in Slovakia A consortium comprising AREVA and Siemens Energy will supply digital supervision, protection and control (I&C) systems for units 3 & 4 of the Mochovce nuclear power plant in Slovakia.
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Denmark’s Rødsand II Offshore Wind Power Plant Begins Operations One of the world’s largest offshore wind power plants has begun operations in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Denmark. E.ON opened the Rødsand II project, with 90 Siemens offshore wind turbines with a ceremonial act. Siemens erected the 90 wind turbines, each with 2.3 MW capacity and a rotor diameter of 93m (300ft), in just 122 days, six weeks ahead of schedule. E.ON will use Rødsand II to supply over 200,000 Danish households with sustainably produced electricity.
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E.ON and Siemens Win the Bavarian Energy Award 2010 High-efficiency combined cycle power plant Irsching 4 commended. Prize money donated to vocational college in Pfaffenhofen.
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Siemens Concludes Framework Agreement with Enel Green Power for 260 Wind Turbines Agreement for 600MW of onshore wind power turbines, with an option of a second equivalent delivery.
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Siemens Delivers 80 Wind Turbines for the DanTysk Offshore Wind Power Plant Near Sylt Large-scale German project sets a milestone in the commercial use of offshore wind power.
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Siemens Energy Stays on the Road to Success in North America: Further Major Wind Power Order from Canada Siemens Energy has been awarded a follow-up order for 72 of its 2.3MW wind turbines, equipped with 101 meter rotors, for the Comber Wind Limited Partnership Project in Essex County, Ontario.
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Siemens Hands over PowerSeraya's Combined Cycle Power CoGeneration Plant in Singapore Official handover of units 30 & 40 of PowerSeraya’s combined cycle power cogeneration plant by Siemens Energy took place on 20 October 2010. The new units replace three oil-fired plants on Jurong Island in southwest Singapore. Siemens built the turnkey, 800MW plant in an open consortium consisting of Siemens AG as the consortium leader, Siemens Pte. Ltd. Singapore and Samsung C&T Korea.
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Siemens Receives Major Order From Oman for Two Turnkey Combined Cycle Power Plants Siemens Energy is to build two turnkey combined cycle power plants in Oman. The purchaser of the project-financed plants is a consortium led by the French utility GDF SUEZ.
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Siemens Receives Notice to Proceed for Two SGT6-PAC 5000F Gas Turbines in Canada Siemens Energy has been given full notice to proceed (NTP) from York Energy Centre LP for the supply of two highly efficient SGT6-PAC 5000F gas turbine-generators and supporting gas turbine auxiliaries for the York Energy Centre power plant located in the Township of King, Ontario (approximately 5km north of Toronto).
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Siemens to Build Three Photovoltaic Plants in Central Italy Siemens Energy has received an order for the turnkey construction of three photovoltaic plants in Italy. The customer is Viridis Energia, a joint venture between Echidna S.p.A. and La.G.I. S.r.l.
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Siemens Wins Maintenance Contracts for Offshore Electric Grid Connections in the North Sea Successful entry into the maintenance market for German offshore wind farm connections.
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Siemens Wins Order for Two Flex-Plant™ 10 Combined Cycle Power Islands in the US Siemens Energy has been awarded its first order for the supply of two SCC6-5000F Flex-Plant 10 combined cycle power islands. The order for the two power islands in El Segundo, California, comes from the US power company NRG Energy. The advanced design of the Flex-Plant 10 offers an environmentally compatible solution for the peaking to intermediate market through fast-start technology, and low start-up emissions and water usage.
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Siemens to Present Solutions for Sustainable Power Supply at the World Energy Congress 2010 Siemens will again take part in the World Energy Congress (WEC), held from 12 - 16 September 2010 in Montreal, Canada. This event, which takes place every three years, has become a key gathering point for the world's energy leaders to present concepts and solutions for the energy supply of the future.
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