- Siemens finalizes investment and framework agreements with BECIS
- Investment makes Siemens a major shareholder in BECIS
- Partnership enables customers to redirect capital funding to core business
- Innovative funding solutions for distributed energy solutions and services
Combining its financial expertise with intelligent energy solutions and services, Siemens has entered investment and framework agreements with Berkeley Energy Commercial Industrial Solutions (BECIS). Together, they will provide customers access to distributed energy solutions via a flexible ‘Energy as a Service’ (EaaS) model, allowing customers in the Asia Pacific market to pay for energy services without the need for any capital investment. This will address customers’ energy cost and sustainability challenges.
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- Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting to be held in virtual format
- Siemens AG to spin off 55 percent of Siemens Energy to shareholders
- One Siemens Energy share for every two Siemens shares
- Siemens Energy to start with S&P Global investment-grade rating of “BBB”
- Initial listing of new shares planned for September 28, 2020
Siemens shareholders will vote on the spin-off of Siemens AG’s energy business at an Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting today. Due to the restrictions imposed on public events by the coronavirus crisis, the shareholders’ meeting will be held in a virtual-only format – that is, without the shareholders or their proxies being present in person. To ensure complete transparency, a livestream atwww.siemens.com/agm-servicewill provide shareholders and their proxies with audio and video coverage of the entire event via the Internet. Siemens shareholders had until July 7, 2020, to submit questions electronically. The proposal to approve the Spin-off and Transfer Agreement that Siemens AG and Siemens Energy AG concluded on May 22, 2020, is the only item on the meeting agenda.
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- Spin-off approved by 99.36 percent of capital stock represented
- Capital Market Day for Siemens
Energy planned for September 1, 2020
As expected,
a large majority of Siemens shareholders at today’s Extraordinary Shareholders’
Meeting voted to approve the spin-off of the company’s energy business to Siemens
Energy AG. This step paves the way for the establishment of an independent
company rigorously focused on the energy sector. In the future, Siemens AG will
concentrate on Digital Industries, Smart Infrastructure and Siemens Mobility. In total, 61.94 percent of the capital stock of Siemens AG entitled to vote was represented at
the shareholders’ meeting, which was held as a virtual event due to the coronavirus
crisis. Approval of the Spin-off and Transfer Agreement between Siemens AG and Siemens
Energy AG was the only item on the meeting agenda. The agreement was approved by a
majority of 99.36 percent of
the capital stock represented. The highest number of participants following the
Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting online was 3,870.
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- Long-term “BBB” issuer rating,
outlook stable
- S&P praises low indebtedness and
extensive liquidity
- First listing for Siemens Energy still
planned for September 28, 2020
In its first
credit rating, Siemens Energy AG, which will soon be operating as an
independent entity, has earned a solid investment grade rating from the S&P
Global rating agency (S&P). The company received a long-term issuer rating
of “BBB” with a stable outlook. The raters particularly praised the company’s
broad base in the energy sector, its low level of debt, and its extensive
liquidity.
- Siemens will upgrade control and protection system of Moyle Interconnector
- Refurbishment increases security of supply, improves integration of renewable energy and enhances provision of ancillary services
Siemens Gas and Power (Siemens Energy) has been awarded the project to refurbish the Moyle Interconnector, a high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) link between Ballycronan More in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, and Auchencrosh, Scotland. Owned and operated by Mutual Energy, the Moyle Interconnector control and protection system is almost 20 years old and is being modernized to enhance its operation. The refurbishment of the 500-megawatt interconnector will increase the security and reliability of the power supply to consumers in the United Kingdom. The project to upgrade the technology originally installed by Siemens in 2001 is now underway and the refurbishment is scheduled to be completed in September 2022.
- Siemens Energy delivers another highly efficient combined cycle power plant to Marl
- Evonik replaces old backup gas power plant
- Siemens Financial Services arranges customized financing
Siemens Energy is building
another highly efficient combined cycle power plant for the specialty chemical
company Evonik at its largest industrial location in Marl, North
Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Consisting of one SGT-800 gas turbine, one SST-400
steam turbine, and two generators, the plant will produce power and heat with
90 megawatts of electrical capacity and 220 megawatts of thermal capacity. It
will go into operation in 2022 replacing a backup gas power plant. Along with
the power plant components, Siemens Energy is also supplying the SPPA-T3000
control system for controlling the cutting-edge plant. A long-term service
agreement between Siemens Energy and Evonik will ensure the availability of the
power plant and its components.
Siemens Gas and Power has entered into an
agreement with Total, a broad energy group, to advance new concepts for green liquified
natural gas (LNG) production. As part of the contract, Siemens Gas and Power is
conducting studies to explore a variety of possible
liquefaction and power generation plant designs, with the ultimate goal of decarbonizing
the production of LNG.
- Green hydrogen project launched in May 2020
- Decarbonizing a paper factory by modernizing an existing combined heat and power plant in France
With the HYFLEXPOWER project, a consortium made up of Engie Solutions, Siemens Gas and Power, Centrax, Arttic, German Aerospace Center (DLR) and four European universities are implementing a project funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 Framework Program for Research and Innovation (Grant Agreement 884229). The implementation of this project, the world's very first industrial-scale power-to-X-to-power1 demonstrator with an advanced hydrogen turbine, will be launched at Smurfit Kappa PRF’s site - a company specialized in manufacturing recycled paper - in Saillat-sur-Vienne, France. The purpose of this project is to prove that hydrogen can be produced and stored from renewable electricity and then added with up to 100 percent to the natural gas currently used with combined heat and power plants. For this an existing Siemens SGT-400 industrial gas turbine will be upgraded to convert stored hydrogen into electricity and thermal energy.
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- Siemens AG to spin off 55 percent of Siemens Energy to Siemens shareholders
- Plans call for further reducing Siemens’ stake significantly within 12 to 18 months after spin-off’s effective date
- Siemens AG contractually obligated to ensure Siemens Energy’s autonomy and independence
- Siemens Energy to have strong capital and liquidity base; solid investment-grade rating targeted
- Initial listing of new shares planned for September 28, 2020
Siemens AG has today published key details of the spin-off of its energy business, together with the invitation to the Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting on July 9, 2020. Issuance of the spin-off report marks another key milestone in the creation of an independent, world-leading energy pure play. Siemens shareholders are to automatically receive one share of Siemens Energy AG for every two shares of Siemens AG. Fifty-five percent of Siemens Energy will be spun off to Siemens shareholders. Depending on the strategic and operational development of the two companies, Siemens AG intends to further reduce its stake in Siemens Energy significantly within 12 to 18 months. In addition, Siemens has placed itself under a contractual obligation to refrain from exercising a controlling influence over the new company in the future. Subject to approval by the Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting, plans call for the spin-off to take place, as announced, by the end of September 2020. The initial listing is to take place on September 28th, 2020.