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Fire and Ice in Thailand amata.com siemens.com/energy/gasturbines
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Integrating Components for Smart Grids accenture.com siemens.com/smartgrid
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p. 50 Energy on Tap paulaner.com siemens.com/energy/hv-gil
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A Rising Tide narec.co.uk siemens.com/energy/oceanpower
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Hands-on Training siemens.com/energy/wind-service
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The Return of DC siemens.com/energy/powertransmission
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Quake-Proof Substations transpower.co.nz siemens.com/energy/hvdc
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Wind Power
Siemens Boosts UK Wind Industry Siemens has announced the construction of a new factory for the production of its next-generation offshore wind turbine rotor blades in Paull, Yorkshire, on the Humber estuary on the east coast of Great Britain, scheduled to commence production in the summer of 2016. A new logistics and service center close by in Green Port Hull is also planned to be operational by 2016. Both projects will be implemented together with Associated British Ports (ABP). While Siemens’ investment will exceed £160 million (€190 million), adding ABP’s share, the amount will total £310 million (€371 million). This boost of offshore wind turbine expertise in Great Britain will likewise entail a promising regeneration for the Hull region and stimulate the country’s job market: One thousand jobs will be created, with 550 in rotor blade production and 450 in Green Port Hull, and in addition many hundreds of jobs during the construction phase and beyond. Siemens already has a workforce of around 14,000 in Great Britain, 1,500 of which are currently employed in the British wind power business.
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“Our constructive political environment enables us to provide new jobs for the wind power industry, together with a reliable and more sustainable energy mix.” Prime Minister David Cameron
British Prime Minister David Cameron and Michael Suess, Member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG and CEO of the Energy Sector, on the announcement of Siemens’ decision to invest £160 million in wind turbine production and installation facilities in Yorkshire.
The British Prime Minister David Cameron and Michael Suess, Member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG and CEO of the Energy Sector, affirmed their common dedication to these projects in a ceremony in Hull on March 25, 2014. With more than 2,200 turbines onshore and offshore and a total capacity of more than 5,000 megawatts, the company is a leading supplier for wind turbines as well as grid connection and service for onshore and offshore sites in the UK. siemens.com/energy/hull-project
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Turbine Monitoring Solves Big Data Challenge in Real Time
The HVDC converter station in Püssi, Estonia.
Turbine testing and validation specialists deal with extremely large data streams to analyze turbine behavior – the latest Siemens large gas turbines may generate up to 12 terabytes of data in the Berlin test facility during the day – and, in addition, the engineers have to travel to remote locations to inspect them. A team of Siemens Energy test field engineers in Berlin and Corporate Technology scientists in Russia has now developed a solution to take the industrial
The valve hall of the HVDC converter station in Anttila, Finland.
monitoring of turbines to the cloud. The platform, called “Engine Live Visualization” (ELVis), joins innovative technologies from real-time Web 2.0 and cloud computing to collect, store, process and visualize large amounts of turbine-based information. As a result, more than 100 experts can now monitor tests of new turbines remotely from their home facilities, thus sharply reducing travel costs and increasing their availability.
HVDC
Connecting the Grids of Finland and Estonia Energy Efficiency The completion of the EstLink 2 project, a 170-kilometer high-voltage direct current (HVDC) link between converter stations in Anttila, Finland, and Püssi, Estonia, marks a significant step towards meeting the goals of the European Union’s Baltic Energy Market Interconnection Plan (BEMIP). It was installed for customers Fingrid, the Finnish transmission system operator, and the Estonian transmission system operator Elering. Chairman of the Elering board Taavi Veskimägi said that the new connection will
enable Nordic power producers to enter the Baltic electricity market and vice versa. “More producers, more connections and an open competitive market all make for the best electricity price,” he said. The new, more reliable joint transmission capacity between the two countries is now increased from 350 megawatts to 1,000 megawatts. An HVDC connection has 30 to 40 percent less transmission loss than a comparable three-phase AC transmission connection and is the perfect solution for long-distance power transmission.
Siemens Building in Abu Dhabi Earns LEED Platinum Award
Siemens was responsible for designing the HVDC system as a monopolar connection with insulated metallic return conductor. This turnkey project included delivering, installing and commissioning the complete HVDC converter stations, excluding the overhead line and power cable between the stations. Total value of the converter station turnkey project was €100 million, which is around one third of the total EstLink 2 interconnection budget.
Steam Power
In December 2013, Siemens and IHI Corporation commissioned a turnkey high-efficiency steam power plant owned by Trianel Kohlekraftwerk Lünen GmbH & Co. KG in Lünen, Germany. The power plant has an installed electrical capacity of 750 megawatts and an electrical efficiency of almost 46 percent, which makes it the cleanest and most efficient hard-coal-fired power plant in Europe. Thus, by using cutting-edge Siemens technology, up to a million tonnes of CO2 are saved every year.
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With 7,000 full-load operating hours predicted for 2014, the Lünen plant can provide electricity for around 1.5 million households. It also supplies the city of Lünen with district heating. At the core of the plant is a SST5-6000 high-performance steam turbine, which guarantees not only highly efficient operation in base load, but is also ideally suited for highly responsive ramping. These properties are crucial to meeting fluctuations in demand due to the increasing proportion of renewables.
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New 750-Megawatt Plant in Northwest Germany
Wind Offshore
Major Contract with Cape Wind Cape Wind and Siemens have signed a major contract for the construction of what is expected to be the United States’ first utility-scale offshore wind power plant. Upon expected financial closing later this year, Siemens will supply Cape Wind with its industry-leading 3.6-megawatt offshore wind turbines, an offshore electric service platform (ESP), and a long-term service agreement. Once completed, the new wind power plant, which is situated 20 kilometers off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA, will have a capacity of up to 468 megawatts. Installation and commissioning is expected for 2016.
Siemens inaugurated its new Middle East headquarters in Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, which will provide a workplace for 800 employees. Its design, sustainable building materials and the energysaving integrated building technologies from Siemens reduce the building’s energy consumption by almost 50 percent, compared to conventional buildings of the same size. The building, which was designed by acclaimed UK architects Sheppard Robson, has garnered 16 awards to date. One of the most important benchmarks includes the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum certification. It is the first office building in Abu Dhabi to be awarded with this prestigious rating standard. The external shading system provides 100 percent shading to 95 percent of the glazed surfaces.
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Following a performance improvement effort of the Siemens customer service team at Shell, which was backed by management support and focus changes, Siemens’ rotating equipment aftermarket performance in the northern part of the North Sea improved substantially. Maintenance costs were reduced by more than
CERAWeek 2014
At CERAWeek 2014, Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser explained the company’s response to the global energy transformation.
Siemens Showcases Solutions for the Power Matrix
In March, more than 2,000 executives from the world’s leading oil, gas and power companies as well as government officials convened in Houston, Texas, USA, for the annual IHS Energy CERAWeek to discuss the rapid pace of change in energy markets, technologies and geopolitics. In addition to meeting the US Secretary of Energy and key customers, Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser held the keynote speech on “Gas Day.” In his speech Mr. Kaeser highlighted the “tectonic shift” of the shale gas revolution, which hailed a “golden era of gas.” He also provided insights into how Siemens is responding to the global energy transformation with its workforce of 350,000 employees in more than 190 countries. Further activities at CERAWeek included Future Influencers, an exclusive global think tank of 200 young thought leaders initiated by Siemens, and dialogue sessions, which closely examined the development of unconventional energy resources along with the geopolitics of meeting energy demand and supply.
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50 percent while availability scaled from an average of some 70 percent up to 90 percent. Reliability improved from less than 80 percent to 95 percent on average. In recognition of their achievement and the improved customer relationship, the team, now embedded at Shell as the E S SO SGT Shell team, received a Siemens
Silver Champions Award. Shell also applauded the step change in performance level on the North Sea contract. “Siemens have enhanced their reputation for their gas turbines and their aftermarket support. We at Shell have reliable production,” said James May, Team Lead for Rotating Equipment, Shell UK.
Wind Onshore
Largest Order in History Placed in the USA
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Instrumentation, Controls & Electrical
US-based Zolo Technologies and Siemens have expanded their previous collaboration to a global license agreement for fossil-fueled steam generation boiler applications. In the future, both companies will integrate their combustion optimization products more closely and actively extend their market activities beyond Europe into the USA, China and further fossil markets in Asia. Zolo Technologies’ unique laser-based combustion monitoring system ZoloBOSS™ will be integrated as part of Siemens’ SPPA-P3000 Process Optimization solution for fossil-fueled steam generating power plants, thus providing previously unattainable real-time, in-furnace combustion information and furnace control. As a result, combustion efficiency will improve significantly, NOx and CO2 emissions will be reduced, and availability and thermal performance enhanced.
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Mark Albenze, CEO of Siemens Energy’s Wind Power Onshore Americas business (right), and Adam Wright, Vice President of Wind Generation and D evelopment, MidAmerican Energy.
Combined Cycle Power
Turnkey Plant for the Philippines Siemens has been awarded the contract for the engineering, procurement, and construction of the San Gabriel combined cycle power plant (CCPP) by First NatGas Power Corp., a subsidiary of the Philippine independent power producer First Gen Corporation. The heart of the 414-megawatt power plant is a Siemens
SGT6-8000H gas turbine. With an efficiency of more than 60 percent, San Gabriel will be the most efficient gas-fired power plant in Southeast Asia. After the Santa Rita and San Lorenzo CCPPs, the San Gabriel facility is now the third that Siemens will construct and operate as a turnkey power plant in the Philippines.
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Strategic Partnership with Zolo Technologies
MidAmerican Energy Company will use the 448 wind turbines to equip five wind power projects in Iowa.
Siemens will supply 448 wind turbines with a total capacity of 1.05 gigawatts to MidAmerican Energy Company and provide service and maintenance. It is the largest onshore wind power order to date and the largest single order for onshore wind power to be awarded globally. “This new order from MidAmerican Energy once again highlights that we are one of the leading suppliers in the USA,” says Dr. Markus Tacke, CEO of the Wind Power Division of Siemens Energy. MidAmerican Energy Company will equip five wind power projects in Iowa with G2 platform wind turbines, which have a nominal rating of 2.3 megawatts and a rotor diameter of 108 meters. They will provide energy for nearly 320,000 US households when they are installed in 2015. Iowa is one of the leading US states in wind energy generation, which accounted for 24 percent of total energy production in 2012. So far, Siemens has already installed 1.2 gigawatts of wind power capacity for MidAmerican Energy Company.
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