- Line B of the
Rennes metro enters revenue service
- Siemens Mobility
has equipped the entire line with the Cityval, a turnkey driverless automatic
metro system
- The Cityval of
Rennes Line B is a world premiere
With the commissioning of the new state-of-the-art
automated metro Line B in Rennes, Siemens Mobility has once again demonstrated
its leading expertise in delivering fully automated turnkey metro systems. Crossing
the Rennes metropolitan area along a South-West axis, Line B has 15 stations
spread over 13 km. 20 years after the first metro line in Rennes opened with
VAL technology (Line A), Rennes Métropole and SEMTCAR renewed their trust in
Siemens Mobility to equip the second metro line in the city with the new
generation of the automated metro system, Cityval.
Almost 10 billion
people will live on our planet by 2050, most of them in urban areas. About 40
percent of all energy used globally is consumed in buildings, and another one
third by industries. But resources are finite.
Resilient, adaptive, and efficient infrastructure, enabled by digitalization,
is key to sustainability. Taking action to tackle climate change and other
global sustainability issues is an urgency. With buildings and electrification
increasingly growing together and becoming more and more digitalized, they can
support the sustainable infrastructure transition and create more livable
environments.
At the Light +
Building 2022 trade fair, Siemens will showcase its vision of digitalization as
the key pillar of the infrastructure transition. Our motto at the show is
“Smart infrastructure is sustainable infrastructure”, outlining our innovations
that will make this possible.
Visit us at Light + Building 2022 in Frankfurt am
Main, October 2 - 6, in hall 11.0, B56.
The world’s largest trade fair for transport technology – InnoTrans – will be held in Berlin from September 20 to 23. Siemens Mobility will showcase its products in hub 27, booth 230 and in the outdoor exhibition area.
Rail is seen as the game-changer in combating climate change – and digitalization will play a major role in managing the growing demand for mobility. Digital technologies, services and innovations allow for better availability, more punctuality and better utilization of trains, which benefits the operator and the customer.
Under the
motto “Destination digital” at InnoTrans, Siemens Mobility presents four
crucial levers for supporting its customers in providing sustainable,
comfortable, and cost-effective rail traffic: lifecycle cost optimized rail
infrastructure and rolling stock, 100% system availability, maximized network
capacity and optimized customer experience and processes.
- Building X, the new smart building suite for net-zero buildings, will be a key highlight at Light + Building 2022
- New portfolio of digital services for fire safety and the latest version of Desigo CC, Siemens’ integrated building management system, will be shown for the first time
- Focus on reliable and energy-efficient electrical installation and power distribution, addressing grid complexity and integration of renewables
At this year’s Light + Building trade fair
in Frankfurt, Germany, Siemens will showcase its vision of digitalization as a
key pillar of the infrastructure transition required to tackle climate change
and global sustainability challenges. The company’s motto at the show is “Smart infrastructure is sustainable
infrastructure”, and Siemens will be demonstrating products, solutions and
services to make the transition of buildings and grids possible.
Siemens Mobility and Cattron presented the
next development phase of the government-funded research project Autonomous
Tram in Depot today at InnoTrans 2022: remote train operation (RTO). The world
premiere marks the next critical milestone for RTO in the project and was
successfully presented today to the project organizer TÜV Rheinland at the
depot of the public transportation company ViP Verkehrsbetrieb Potsdam GmbH.
- Companies to work together to speed up energy transition
- Partnership to focus on green hydrogen projects at Shell and its customers
- Holland Hydrogen 1 project in Rotterdam key milestone in partnership to advance green hydrogen
Siemens Smart Infrastructure and Shell Global Solutions International BV have
signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on developing
low-carbon and highly efficient energy solutions that support the energy
transition. The agreement will focus on projects that produce green hydrogen
for industrial applications at Shell and its customers, as well as enhancing
collaboration in the areas of biofuels and circular chemistry. Under the MoU,
Siemens and Shell will create solutions that increase energy efficiency and
generate sustainable power, consisting of, but not limited to, digitalization,
efficient networks, and the production, distribution, and application of green
hydrogen. The partnership, inked with Siemens’ Electrification and Automation
business unit, has the potential to strengthen synergies for both parties. While
Siemens intends to work with Shell to accelerate the latter’s transition towards
net-zero operations, Shell seeks to supply Siemens and its affiliates with low
carbon products that reduce emissions across the supply chain, in Siemens’
operations, and in the use phase of Siemens products, consisting of but not
limited to supply of biofuels.
- Siemens
Mobility to
retrofit 176 ViRM double deck rail vehicles with the latest ETCS onboard
technology
- Siemens Mobility will provide seven years of
maintenance services for ETCS system
Siemens Mobility has been
awarded a contract by NS Group N.V, the Dutch Railways, to retrofit 176 ViRM trains
with the latest European Train Control System (ETCS) Level 2 technology. With
the ETCS Level 2 upgrade, the fleet will be able to operate with a greater
degree of efficiency for the remainder of its lifetime, while also meeting the
latest European standards for rail safety interoperability. Siemens Mobility
will provide the ETCS onboard unit
equipment and installation support, as well as seven years of maintenance
services for the system. The retrofitted vehicles will be delivered in the
period 2023–2027.
- Cooperative project to train more than 600 young women from five countries in Africa in ICT, coding, leadership and communications skills, in the context of the African Girls Can Code Initiative
- Siemens to make €780,000 available in the form of hardware, IT training materials and technical assistance to enhance young girls’ access to jobs and employment opportunities
- UN Women Liaison Office to African Union (AU) and United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) to coordinate activities under the umbrella of „African Girls Can Code Initiative“
Siemens AG and
UN Women Germany committed to jointly support the implementation of the African
Girls Can Code Initiative (AGCCI), an Africa continental program which aims to
provide comprehensive training in information and communication technology (ICT)
as well as coding and leadership skills to girls and young women in Africa. In
this connection, the partners emphasized the vital role education plays in addressing
gender inequalities and accelerating the empowerment of women and girls. The
project’s target group comprises young women aged 17 to 25 from Kenya, Rwanda,
Senegal, South Africa and Uganda. Within two years, as many as 625 young women will
benefit from the partnership; all offerings are free of charge for the
participants. By 2023, Siemens will initially provide €500,000 for this cause and
will support two-week, full-time coding camps in the five countries with digital
literacy, programming as well as personal development skills. Specifically, the
coding camps will cover topics such as robotics, the Internet of Things,
animation, 3D printing, gender equality and women’s empowerment, leadership,
and communications.
Global
warming, energy dependency and rising costs are among the most urgent problems
of our time. Hydrogen can play a key role in Germany’s energy future. The
community of Wunsiedel in Upper Franconia is showing how that is possible. In
Wunsiedel, one of Germany’s largest green hydrogen generation plants has now
been commissioned with the help of Siemens technology.
- 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.