Siemens has won the contract to supply systems to its customer Trung Nam Group in Vietnam and put the country's largest solar farm into operation. The farm is the first solar project for Siemens in South-East Asia, and has a module capacity of 258 megawatts peak (MWp). The deliverables include inverters, power- and distribution transformers, gas-insulated medium-voltage switchgear, circuit-breakers, and a monitoring and control system. All transformers are to be delivered as Sensformer with digital interface. The overall project constitutes an "Electrical Balance of Plant" (eBoP) solution, and involves a number of Siemens units, headed by Medium Voltage and Systems. The solution includes all the electrical engineering components needed to equip a photovoltaic plant. "The customer received our competent support in the bidding phase and will get a very competitive solution," says Stephan May, CEO of the Medium Voltage and Systems Business Unit. "We are proud to be able to offer the best solution that will play a vital role in supporting the energy transformation in Vietnam."
Siemens has introduced a new SGT-800 performance enhancement that is applicable to all existing SGT-800 units with 43-47.5-MW ratings. The new upgrade is designed to provide owners and operators with significant fuel savings and CO2 emissions reduction for improved sustainable energy production.
- Siemens cloud platform for remote heating, ventilation and air conditioning control further extended
- Collect billing data and reduce energy consumption remotely
- Cost-efficient solution for operation, management and energy monitoring for small and midsize buildings
The Siemens Division Building Technologies adds new functionalities to the Synco IC cloud platform for remote HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) control. From July 2018 onwards, Synco IC includes remote meter reading for energy billing, remote monitoring of energy key performance indicators (KPIs) and remote intervention to reduce energy consumption. Synco IC, introduced to the market in 2015, is a cloud-based system for the cost-efficient operation and management of HVAC plants in small and medium size buildings.
- Siemens report "Cities in the Driving Seat" encourages cities to anticipate and tackle upcoming changes to their infrastructures early
- Report urges urban areas to use connected and autonomous vehicles to refocus urban environments on citizens rather than cars
- Connecting autonomous vehicles to intelligent transport infrastructures can maximize their benefit
- Greatest benefit from autonomous vehicles will emerge from capacity to provide "first and last mile" trips and help city government provide new transport services
The advent of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAV) has the potential to cause major and disruptive changes to cities worldwide, a report launched by Siemens indicates. The report "Cities in the Driving Seat" stresses the need for cities to plan early and tackle the issue in a wider context of mobility transformations. Launched today at the World Cities Summit in Singapore the study explores the interdependencies between urban development, public transportation policies, power supply, pollution and the increasing share of CAV in city traffic. Lack of mid-term planning and delayed investments in infrastructure could create negative social, economic and environmental effects, the authors from Siemens' Global Center of Competence Cities argue.
- City Air Management captures pollution data in real time and forecasts emissions up to five days in advance
- Solution simulates effectiveness of measures for improving air quality
- Siemens and Sino-Singapore Guangzhou Knowledge City plan to jointly deploy and enhance this software solution as world's first implementation
A new software solution is helping cities remedy the growing problem of air pollution and the associated lack of compliance with emission-control thresholds. Siemens presented City Air Management (CyAM) at the World Cities Summit in Singapore. CyAM is a cloud-based software suite with a dashboard that displays real-time information on the air quality detected by sensors across a city and predicts values for the upcoming three to five days. These air-quality forecasts are prepared with the aid of algorithms that tap into an artificial neural network and draw on historical and current data on air quality as well as weather and traffic patterns. Mayors and other decision-makers can then use this data and a combination of potential solution measures to derive concrete recommendations for action and define measures that help reduce concentrations of nitrogen oxides and atmospheric particulate matter.
- Award for the Avenio M
- Tram convinces in the category "Product Design"
- Second Red Dot Award for the Avenio family
The Siemens Avenio M tram, designed for Ulm, Germany, has won the prestigious Red Dot Award. SWU Verkehr GmbH had ordered twelve articulated Avenio M trams from Siemens in May 2015. The trams are optimized for operating on the Ulm routes with their steep grades and will serve on Line 1 and the new Line 2.
- MoU signed under the witness of German chancellor and Chinese premier
- Siemens MindSphere to be deployed and operated on Alibaba Cloud's infrastructure for China Mainland market
Siemens and Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) today to partner to foster the industrial Internet of Things (IoT) in China. The two companies will leverage each other's technology and industry resources to build a unique IoT solution to support Industrie 4.0, China's manufacturing upgrade and transformation and other industrial Internet initiatives. Joe Kaeser, President and CEO of Siemens AG and Simon Hu, Senior Vice President of Alibaba Group and President of Alibaba Cloud signed the MoU in Berlin under the witness of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during his official visit to Germany.
- Siemens Arts Program promotes outstanding young talent and awards Siemens Opera Contest France prize to Sarah Shine
The young soprano Sarah Shine is the winner of the Siemens Opera Contest France at the Opéra Garnier in Paris. Sarah Shine was born in 1993 in Ireland and completed her studies with Veronica Dunne at the Irish Royal Academy of Music in 2015. Since September 2017, she has been studying at the Academy of the Opéra national de Paris.
- Memorandum of Understanding signed to target cooperation between Siemens and China's State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC)
- Siemens to become SPIC's potential partner for development of own generation of heavy-duty gas turbines
Siemens and State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC) of China entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) today to further confirm intention of technology collaboration in the field of heavy-duty gas turbines. Joe Kaeser, President and CEO of Siemens AG, and Qian Zhimin, Chairman of SPIC, signed the MoU in Berlin in the presence of German Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during his official visit to Germany.
- The Rath Group is the fortieth Vectron customer
- Order for three Vectron MS locomotives
- Delivery beginning in December 2018
The Rath Group and Siemens have signed a contract for the delivery of three Vectron multisystem (MS) locomotives. The locomotives are planned for freight service and will operate in Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Poland and Slovakia. Delivery of the locomotives will begin in December 2018. The locomotives will be built at the Siemens factory in Munich-Allach. With this order, RTB Cargo, the freight transport arm of the Rath Group, will have its own multisystem fleet for the first time.