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• Siemens starts Rhine-Ruhr Express test program
• Digitized train technology
• Service planned beginning in late 2018

Siemens presented the first prototype of the Rhine-Ruhr Express (RRX) today. The testing of the multiple-unit electric train will now begin at the Siemens Test and Validation Center (PCW) in Wegberg-Wildenrath. All seven pre-series trains will be commissioned at the PCW and complete extensive tests in the coming months before undertaking their first test runs in the public railway network. The RRX is scheduled to enter service in the greater Rhine-Ruhr region at the end of 2018.

• Powered by MindSphere – Siemens' cloud-based open IoT operating system, the Hub will drive digitalization in the country
• Team of up to 300 digitalization experts by 2022
• Development of new digital applications for companies in Southeast Asia, three cooperation agreements signed today

To address the substantial opportunities in urbanization and industrialization that are rapidly arising in Asia, Siemens will be setting up a Digitalization Hub in Singapore. At this Hub, Siemens will develop innovations for the Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrie 4.0 in collaboration with its customers in Southeast Asia. Supported by the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), the Hub will also complements the county's efforts to become a Smart Nation, because Siemens will be using its IoT operating system MindSphere - to drive digitalization in Singapore.

• Fluence combines the extensive technology expertise, unique energy storage market experience, and global reach of Siemens and AES to offer proven and cost-competitive energy storage systems for a rapidly transforming sector.
• Fluence will deliver the Advancion and Siestorage energy storage platforms and will continue to develop new storage solutions and services, reaching customers in over 160 countries.
• The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of calendar year 2017 following regulatory approvals.

Siemens AG ("Siemens") and The AES Corporation (NYSE: AES, "AES") announced today their agreement to form a new global energy storage technology and services company under the name Fluence. The joint venture will bring together AES' ten years of industry-defining experience deploying energy storage in seven countries with over a century of Siemens' energy technology leadership and its global sales presence in more than 160 countries. Combining the proven AES Advancion and Siemens Siestorage energy storage platforms with expanded services, Fluence will offer customers a wider variety of options to meet the challenges of a rapidly transforming energy landscape. The company will empower customers around the world to better navigate the fragmented but rapidly growing energy storage sector and meet their pressing needs for scalable, flexible, and cost-competitive energy storage solutions.

• Siemens cooperates with Chinese government in digital manufacturing, innovation and technology applications
• Memorandum of Understanding signed in presence of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chinese President Xi Jinping
• Strategic partnership with Chinese enterprises in industrial Internet of Things (IoT) and intelligent manufacturing

Siemens has entered into agreements with the Chinese government and Chinese enterprises to continue joint activities for exploring the potential of digitalization and for supporting measures to upgrade and transform China's industrial sector. The documents were signed today in Berlin in the presence of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

• Control system enhances on-board safety and cost-effectiveness
• Ninth Aida ship to be equipped with Siemens technology

Aida Perla, the twelfth cruise liner of the Aida fleet, was christened on June 30, 2017 in the Spanish resort of Palma de Mallorca. Siemens equipped the new flagship with automation technology designed to control and monitor key on-board functions. Aida Perla is capable of accommodating a total of 3,300 passengers in around 1,600 cabins. The new passenger vessel is already the ninth Aida ship to be equipped with Siemens technology.

Siemens has received an order from the distribution grid operator Netze BW GmbH to modernize and expand its 110-kV transformer substation in Nördlingen. Siemens will install its new 3AV1 outdoor circuit breaker with vacuum-interruption technology and a combined voltage and current converter, including clean-air insulation, in a 110-kV high-voltage grid for the first time. The switchgear thus requires no SF6 insulating gas. The order also includes retrofitting and expanding the existing air-insulated switchgear, including protection and control systems and work on cables and overhead lines. The new equipment is expected to be commissioned by the middle of 2018.

• Fourth order for power plant equipment in four years from Kuwait
• Long-term service agreement for more than eight years

Siemens has won an order to supply the key power generation equipment for the Sabiya Extension 3 combined cycle power plant in Kuwait. The contract was awarded by the plant owner, the Ministry of Electricity and Water (MEW), to Alghanim International for execution of engineering, procurement and construction (EPC). The power train will provide an electrical capacity of about 900 megawatts (MW). A long-term service agreement with Alghanim International is also included to help ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of the main components. The customer, Kuwaiti EPC and O&M contractor Alghanim International, is responsible for constructing the entire plant, establishing the grid connection, and operating and maintaining it. The country will be able to cover its steadily growing energy demand with the Sabiya Extension 3 plant. The plant will start simple cycle operation in winter of 2019. Commissioning of the combined cycle operation is scheduled for the end of 2020.