- Hydrogen generation plant with electrical capacity of 8.75 megawatts opened in Wunsiedel
- Facility to generate 1,350 tons of hydrogen a year and cut CO2 emissions by about 13,500 tons
- Opening attended by Bavarian Minister-President Markus Söder and Siemens Managing Board member Matthias Rebellius
- Siemens is technology and financing partner
In Wunsiedel, Upper Franconia,
one of Germany’s largest green hydrogen generation plants has been planned
digitally and commissioned by Siemens, demonstrating the key role hydrogen can
play in Germany’s energy future.
Around
one year after the official groundbreaking ceremony, Bavaria’s Minister-President
Markus Söder, Siemens Managing Board member Matthias Rebellius and Siemens Financial
Services CEO Veronika Bienert handed over the plant to the operating company
WUN H2, represented by Managing Directors Thilo Rießner and Philipp Matthes.
- Siemens Mobility supported RATP and Ile-de-France
Mobilités in the complete automation of Line 4
- Siemens Mobility fully automated the line with its digitalized
systems and CBTC signaling technology
- The automation of Line 4 will centralize control of operations, increase availability, reliability, and
capacity
The
modernization of Line 4 of the Paris Metro has been completed with the highest
grade of automation and the automatic driverless metros have now begun revenue
service. The digitalization
and optimization of Line 4 will allow RATP to safely increase frequency by reducing intervals
between trains from 105 to 85 seconds. Chosen in
2015 by RATP to automate Line 4, Siemens Mobility supplied their digitalized
communication and CBTC signaling systems to modernize the network. After a
trial run with no passengers that began in June, the automation of Line 4 is now
a reality. More automatic driverless shuttles will be introduced into the
line's traffic over time to achieve full automation by the end of 2023.
- Siemens empowers world premiere of the Opera Namibia project Chief Hijangua in Windhoek
- Opera staged by a multinational team of artists from Namibia, Germany and South Africa
On September 9,
2022, an ensemble of artists from Namibia, Germany and South Africa presented at the National Theatre of
Namibia the premier performance of Namibia’s very first opera in the country’s capital, Windhoek. Chief Hijangua is a celebration of a bilingual and intercultural exchange on the dramatic
history that Namibia and Germany shared during colonial times and is sung in Otjiherero – one of Namibia’s
national languages – and German.
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Next milestone in the “H2goesRail” project
- Siemens CEO Roland Busch, DB CEO Richard Lutz and
State Secretary Hartmut Höppner take first test ride in the Mireo Plus H and test
the refueling process
- Innovative complete hydrogen system will be used in regular passenger service
as of 2024 and replace diesel trainset
- Hydrogen train and mobile fueling
station can be viewed at the InnoTrans2022
(Wegberg-Wildenrath,
September 9, 2022) Premiere ride in the new hydrogen train: Dr. Roland
Busch, CEO of Siemens AG, Dr. Richard Lutz, CEO of Deutsche Bahn, and Hartmut
Höppner, State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (BMDV),
are taking their first ride in the Mireo Plus H hydrogen train today and will
then demonstrate the train’s refueling procedure using the mobile hydrogen
fueling station. The event will be held at the Siemens Test and Validation
Center in Wegberg-Wildenrath, North Rhine-Westphalia. It is planned to have
hydrogen technology replace diesel-powered trainsets in regional transport in
the future and make a significant contribution to phasing out diesel fuel. Hydrogen
trains are a particularly climate-friendly drive technology since they operate
emission-free with green hydrogen and emit only water vapor.
- World
premiere of the interior of the new sleeping and couchette car
- Modern
design, greater comfort and privacy for travelers
- Total
of 33 next-generation Nightjets on the rails by 2025
ÖBB and
Siemens Mobility unveil the next generation of Nightjet sleeping and couchette
cars at the Siemens Mobility plant in Vienna. The new cars are designed to
optimally accommodate the needs of customers and score points with modern
design, greater comfort and increased privacy. By the end of 2025, a total of
33 next-generation ÖBB Nightjets will be on the rails, connecting European
cities overnight at speeds of up to 230 kilometers per hour in a
climate-friendly way. The first trains are scheduled to be in use by the end of
summer 2023 on the popular routes from Austria and Germany to Italy.
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The global
charitable organization Siemens Caring Hands will provide $250,000 to Unlimited
Tomorrow Global Initiative to secure prostheses for victims in Ukraine
- Siemens
software is used for the personalized development and 3D printing of
prostheses, enabling delivery directly to victims in the Ukraine
The war in
Ukraine has produced numerous amputation victims. In total, more than 10,000
prostheses are needed in the country. To help those affected who have lost one
or more limbs, Unlimited Tomorrow Global Initiative (UTGI) has launched a
fundraising initiative in partnership with Singularity
Group to deliver 100 of its personalized TrueLimb prostheses to Ukraine.
Siemens Caring Hands is contributing to the initiative through an initial
$250,000 donation, which will cover the costs for 25 victims.
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More than 1,300
apprentices and university students in work-study programs begin careers at
Siemens locations across Germany in 2022
- Focus on personalized
skill development
- Training program
for digital-transformation qualifications expanded again
- Siemens invests
€160 million a year in training programs
This year, as
in 2021, more than 1,300 apprentices and university students in work-study
programs will begin their work lives at Siemens locations across Germany. These
traineeships include 800 positions at Siemens AG, 190 at Siemens Mobility,
and 130 at Siemens Healthineers. In addition, 200 trainees from the company’s external
partners are also beginning training programs offered by Siemens Professional
Education. More than half of the overall number of traineeships are in work-study
programs for university students. Siemens has one of the private sector’s
largest and most innovative job training programs worldwide
and invests €160 million a year in this area.
- 65 Vectron AC and Vectron MS
locomotives called from existing framework agreement
- Delivery includes locomotives with a
top speed of 230 km/h
- Milestone
reached: 1,500 Vectrons sold
Akiem, the
leasing rolling stock specialist company for rail vehicles, has ordered 65
Vectron AC and Vectron MS locomotives from Siemens Mobility. The order was
placed as part of a framework agreement for the purchase of locomotives that
was signed in December 2021. The first locomotives from this call are to be
delivered in mid-2024. Akiem previously ordered 20 Vectron locomotives from
Siemens Mobility last December.
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New
leadership appointments effective October 1, 2022
- Jenny
Bofinger, currently head of Sustainability, will join the board of the newly
formed International Sustainability Standards Board
Siemens AG
today announced new leadership appointments in its Sustainability and Investor Relations
departments, effective October 1. Eva Riesenhuber (49), currently head of Investor
Relations, will assume the role of global head of Sustainability and Eva
Scherer (38), currently Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the Rail
Infrastructure and Software Business Units at Siemens Mobility, is appointed
head of Investor Relations.
- Delivery of 14 Vectron MS
multisystem locomotives
- MRCE fleet includes 147 Vectron
locomotives
Mitsui Rail
Capital Europe (MRCE), a full-service locomotive leasing company, has ordered
14 Vectron MS multisystem locomotives from Siemens Mobility on the basis of an
existing contract. With this order, MRCE will have a fleet of 147 Vectrons.
MRCE plans to use the locomotives in Germany, Austria, Hungary, Poland, the
Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, and the Netherlands.