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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.
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Patent
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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Award
Siemens Publications App
Champions Award for Siemens’ Shell Customer Service Team
Digital Newsstand
for Living Energy
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.
Designed for iPad or Android tablet, the Siemens Publications App
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the digital editions of Living
Energy and the company’s other
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to features, background reports,
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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.
Photos: Siemens
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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