- Project on Terceira handed over to Portuguese energy company EDA – Electricidade dos Açores
- Software from Siemens Xcelerator portfolio and 15 MW battery storage boost share of renewables, improve flexibility and resilience of power grid
- Expected annual CO2 savings of more than 3,600 tons
Siemens Smart Infrastructure,
in partnership with Fluence, a market leader in energy storage established in
2018 by Siemens and AES, has successfully
completed and handed over a sustainable energy project on the Azores island of
Terceira to the Portuguese
energy provider EDA – Electricidade dos Açores. The project combines software
that forecasts energy consumption and production with
a powerful battery-based energy storage system, allowing for greater and more reliable
integration of renewable energy sources such as wind or solar into the power
grid. This combination is expected to reduce CO2
emissions by more than 3,600 tons per year.
The Spectrum Power Microgrid Management System (MGMS)
software implemented for EDA is part of the
Siemens Xcelerator portfolio which supports the digital transformation of power
utilities worldwide.
- Siemens invests 30 million euros in its switchgear plant in Frankfurt-Fechenheim
- Construction of intelligent high-speed warehouse, expansion of the production area and investments in machines and production lines
- Expansion of the fluorine gas-free, gas-insulated product portfolio
- 200 new jobs and additional investment in employee training program
Siemens is
investing 30 million euros to expand its switchgear plant in Frankfurt-Fechenheim.
A smart, fully automated high-speed warehouse and a 1,200 square-meter
extension to an existing hall are being built on the 160,000 square-meter site.
For years, the plant has been experiencing steady growth in incoming orders and
is working at its capacity limit. The additional
production area will support a third assembly line for switchgear, boosting the
site and creating new jobs in the region. Sustainability is an essential
consideration: The plant is expanding its production of environmentally
friendly medium-voltage switchgear, and the two new buildings will have roofs
with photovoltaic systems. At today’s groundbreaking ceremony, Martin Betzmann,
Site Manager of the Frankfurt-Fechenheim switchgear plant, Stephanie Wüst,
member of the city council and Head of Economic Affairs of the city of
Frankfurt am Main, Stephan May, CEO of Electrification & Automation at
Siemens AG, and Steffen Rümmler, Head of the German Business at Siemens Real
Estate, symbolically opened the construction site.
- Connect Box, part of Siemens Xcelerator, connects, monitors and operates small to medium-sized buildings
- Easy integration of wireless and wired devices into existing building automation systems, building management systems (BMS) or cloud applications
- Increases building operations efficiency, reduces energy consumption and meets regulatory requirements for sustainable and healthy buildings
Siemens Smart Infrastructure has launched
Connect Box, an open and easy-to-use IoT solution designed to manage small to
medium-sized buildings. The latest addition to the Siemens Xcelerator
portfolio, Connect Box is a user-friendly approach for monitoring building performance,
with the potential to optimize energy efficiency by up to 30 percent and to substantially
improve indoor air quality in small to medium sized buildings such as schools, retail
shops, apartments or small offices. Siemens Xcelerator is an open digital business
platform that enables customers to accelerate their digital transformation
easier, faster and at scale.
- Siemens exhibition at ISH 2023 introduces IoT-based smart building solutions which marks a major shift for sustainable operations
- Addressing simple small buildings as well as complex campuses
ISH 2023, Frankfurt a. M. (Germany),
March 13 – 17, hall 10.2, booth C55
- Siemens Swinburne Energy Transition Hub aims to create the most advanced future energy grid laboratory of its kind in Australia accessible to students and industry
- 5.2 million AUD (3.4 million EUR) to be invested into Hub, set to open in late 2023
- Hub to leverage digital twin of Australia’s energy grid with Siemens software such as PSS E, PSS Sincal, Spectrum Power and Deop X
- Joint project between industry and research to accelerate path to net zero
Siemens
and Swinburne University of Technology have agreed to set up the most advanced
future Energy Transition Hub of its kind in Australia in at the University’s Hawthorn campus
in Melbourne. Featuring
some of the most advanced digital energy technology from Siemens and the
technical, R&D and teaching expertise of Swinburne, the $5.2 million Hub
aims to build a future energy grid laboratory accessible to students and
industry. When fully operational, the Hub will also offer researchers and
industry the opportunity to work on solutions for greener, more efficient
future energy systems using Siemens Xcelerator, a new open digital business
platform and marketplace.
- Accelerated DER growth to challenge state-of-the-art grid management
- Open and modular approach will improve DER flexibility
- EnergyHub is a leading provider of grid-edge flexibility with nearly 1 million DERs under management
- Siemens brings extensive power grid expertise, global footprint to partnership
- Cooperation based on complementary portfolio elements, supports transition to distributed grid for net zero world
Siemens has partnered with EnergyHub to expand
its ecosystem of partners for its grid software business. EnergyHub provides a top-tier grid-edge management solution, which
combines its DERMS platform with turnkey program management
to enable utilities to scale grid-edge flexibility. EnergyHub controls all classes of DERs including thermostats, electric vehicles, energy
storage, and solar inverters. The company works with over 60 North American
utilities to manage more than 1.3 GW of flexible capacity. Siemens is a leading
provider of grid planning, operations and maintenance software and brings
extensive power systems and grid control domain expertise to the
partnership.
Siemens and Skyway agreed to
work together to determine the electrical and digital infrastructure needed to
support vertiport operations. Vertiports are hubs for vertical take-off and
landing (VTOL) vehicles such as air taxis and drones. The scope of
collaboration involves both companies researching energy demands of vertiports
and developing sustainable electrical supply, standard charging processes, and
a “system of systems” to support aircraft operations. Innovation around
vertiport infrastructure will be critical to the future scalability of electric
vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) flight operations.
- Two new aspirating smoke detectors, FDA261 and FDA262, extend the existing fire detection portfolio
- Particularly suited for critical infrastructure and very large protection areas
- Highly intuitive commissioning app and improved detection performance
- Modular design to prolong lifetime and reduce environmental footprint
Siemens has introduced two new aspirating
smoke detectors (ASD), FDA261 and FDA262, catering to particularly challenging
fire safety installations that extend over wide areas, such as large data
centers, e-commerce warehouses, or industrial manufacturing sites. A single device
can cover up to 6,700 m2, currently the largest coverage area available
on the market. Even for Class A installations with the highest sensitivity requirements,
up to 2,000 m2 of detection coverage is feasible with a single ASD+ detector.
The new ASD Connect
app ensures fast and easy digital commissioning. It
makes the commissioning process highly automated and intuitive. As a result, the
commissioning effort decreases significantly.
- Siemens plant in Zug wins this year’s Factory of the Year award in the resilience category
- Recognition of resilient production and supply chain, and sustainable use of resources
The Siemens Smart Infrastructure plant in Zug, Switzerland, has been
named
Factory of the Year 2022 in the category Excellence in Supply
Chain Resilience. The award recognizes the plant’s supply chain resilience and
preventive risk management, which were found to be outstanding measured against
other plants in Europe. Organized by international management consultancy
Kearney, the Factory of the Year industry competition is considered one of the
most prestigious in Europe.
- Siemens
to supply Advanced Distribution
Management System (ADMS) and smart metering infrastructure
- Purchaser is North Delta Electricity Distribution
Company (NDEDC), which serves
customers in Damietta, a city in the Nile delta
- Implementing state-of-the-art software will
increase efficiency, stability and reliability of the power grid while reducing electricity distribution losses
- Order volume about EUR 40
million
Siemens
has been awarded a new contract to establish a distribution management
system and advanced metering infrastructure for North Delta Electricity
Distribution Company (NDEDC). As a subsidiary of the state-owned utility Egyptian
Electricity Holding Company (EEHC), NDEDC is responsible for the distribution
network of the Daqahleya, Damietta and Kafr El-Sheikh governorates and serves
about 4.5 million electrical subscribers. Siemens will be implementing an ADMS
control center for the Damietta region. This project
is funded by the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and has a
value of about EUR 40 million and is known as Lot 3. Siemens already received an order with a similar scope for Egypt´s Alexandria
region in September 2022.