- New gas-fired power plant to serve as special
grid-related equipment
- Plant can provide up to 300 Megawatts in as
little as to 30 minutes
- Modern service center enables purely digital
remote operation
Siemens Energy will build a new turnkey gas-fired power plant as special grid-related equipment in Leipheim, southwestern Bavaria, in a contract with LEAG, an energy provider based in eastern Germany. The grid supporting plant will be used at the request of the transmission grid operator Amprion to ensure grid stability in an emergency and therefore ensure a reliable power supply in southern Germany. Emergency situations can occur when there’s a failure of equipment in the grid, like cables. The Leipheim gas-fired power plant will be used exclusively to protect and ensure the reliability of the transmission grid. It’s therefore not available to the free energy market, according to the German Energy Industry Act (Energiewirtschaftsgesetz). The special grid-related equipment in Leipheim will be able to supply an electrical capacity of up to 300 Megawatts in a maximum period of 30 minutes. Siemens Energy will also manage its operation and maintenance (O&M), initially for five years, in collaboration with LEAG. The plant will be operated entirely from Siemens Energy’s ISO-certified Remote O&M Support Center (ROMSC) in Erlangen, Bavaria. This means that it will be one of the first power plants worldwide to be operated purely digitally from a remote location.
- New combined cycle power plant
will have a generation capacity of 390 megawatt (MW)
- Supports the region’s vision of
clean, high-quality, and affordable energy
- SGT5-4000F will be first
F-class turbine in Sub-Saharan Africa
Siemens Energy
has signed an agreement with Spanish EPC contractor TSK to provide the
company’s highly efficient energy technology and services to Atinkou (formerly
known as Ciprel V), a new combined cycle power plant to be built in
Jacqueville, Côte d'Ivoire. Owned by ATINKOU S.A., a subsidiary of Eranove, the
power plant will have an installed capacity of 390 MW in combined cycle and
introduces the first F-class gas turbine in the Sub-Saharan Africa. The plant
is scheduled to begin operations in late 2022.
- Joint trial of a large-scale, high-temperature heat pump in district heating network
- Waste heat and renewable electricity utilized to achieve heating transition in Berlin
- Federal government-funded project links heat, cooling, and electricity
Vattenfall
Wärme Berlin AG and Siemens Energy signed an agreement today to demonstrate and
trial a new large-scale, high-temperature heat pump in Berlin. In the Qwark³
project (the German acronym represents “coupling of district heating, power,
and cooling”), they will test the use of this new technology for the first time
at Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz to generate green district heating using waste heat
and electricity from renewables, and feed it into Berlin’s district heating
network. The project is funded by the German Ministry of Economic Affairs and
Energy as part of its 7th Energy Research Program: The aim of the
pilot project is to establish robust claims regarding the technical and
economic potential of generating heat using large-scale and high-temperature
heat pumps.
- Continuation of Siemens
Energy’s strategic cooperation with Shenzhen Energy
- The next world-class
performance benchmark for F-class combined cycle project
Siemens Energy has been selected by Shenzhen
Energy Corporation (Shenzhen Energy) in China to supply two 460-megawatt (MW) F-class
gas turbine power islands for Phase Two of the Corporation’s Fengda Power Plant
Natural Gas Power Generation Expansion Project. The order marks another
milestone resulting from the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Agreement signed
by the two companies in 2019.
- Two SGT5-4000F units for
Guangdong Energy Group new CHP project
- Most advanced F-class technology
to date
- Carbon dioxide (CO2)
emissions reduction of up to 60% by utilizing natural gas as fuel source versus
coal
Siemens
Energy has reached an agreement with Guangdong Energy Group Co., Ltd.
(Guangdong Energy Group), to provide F-class gas turbine island equipment for the
Zhaoqing Dinghu Combined Heat and Power (CHP) generation project. Located in Dinghu District, Zhaoqing City, Guangdong Province, the
project is expected to be put into operation in 2023. When completed, it will
become a key part for optimizing the energy structure and layout of the
Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) and building a modern energy
supply system.
A new
digital repair chain using “Hybrid” Laser Powder Bed Fusion makes it possible
to add new features to gas turbine blades.Additive
Manufacturing and repair experts at Siemens Energy have developed a solution to
upgrade turbine blades instead of just repairing them. Specifically, it is now
possible to implement cooling structures in critical areas to prevent blade tip
failure.
- First SGT-800 gas turbine order in Japan for a new chemical power plant in Chiba Prefecture
- Supports Japan’s transitional
efforts and shift towards a low-carbon energy economy
- Paves the way for the use of gas turbines for cogeneration and other applications
As Japan looks
to gradually phase out the use of inefficient coal-fired thermal power
generation plants and make the transition towards low-carbon energy production,
EPC customer JGC Japan Corporation is leading by example with the first order
for an SGT-800 gas turbine in the country from Siemens Energy. The order was
secured with Siemens Energy for the industrial gas turbine and its related
components to be installed for a power plant that JGC will build for Sumitomo
Chemical in Chiba Works of Ichihara City in Chiba.
- Rotating grid stabilization technology will provide stability services to help the grid meet the challenges of the energy transition
- Siemens Energy will install new technology at Uniper’s Grain site and repurpose two steam turbine generators at Killingholme
- Both projects will become operational in 2021
Siemens Energy has been awarded contracts by global energy company Uniper to provide rotating grid stabilization technology at two sites in the UK. This new technology will enable Uniper to deliver grid stability services to energy system operator National Grid ESO, through generating inertia which helps balance grid frequency, without generating power.
- Food ingredient processing plant increases efficiency while reducing carbon emissions by more than 30%
- On-site electricity generation pays into distributed approach
- 1000th Siemens gas turbine delivered from production facility in Finspång, Sweden
Siemens Energy has successfully delivered two SGT-700 gas turbines for a food ingredient processing plant owned by Tate & Lyle, located in Lafayette, Indiana, USA. The two turbines will be the backbone of a new combined heat and power (CHP) operation replacing its coal-fired boilers. By generating electricity on-site and recovering heat that would typically be wasted, the new CHP operation will increase energy efficiency and substantially reduce energy costs and carbon emissions. The delivery of the SGT-700 turbines marks the 1000th delivered gas turbine from Siemens Energy’s Finspång factory.
With the commissioning of BorWin3, Siemens has handed over the fifth North Sea grid connection to its customer TenneT. After completion of successful test runs, the German/Dutch grid operator accepted the project. Siemens was responsible for the grid connection system including an onshore converter station. The grid connections HelWin1 and HelWin2, BorWin2, SylWin1, and BorWin3 – for which Siemens supplied all the technology for direct current transmission – are thus now in commercial operation and are transmitting power. Siemens was awarded the contract for BorWin3 in the spring of 2014. Being the fifth North Sea grid connection, it provides power to over a million German households. Siemens won the orders for the grid connections DolWin6 and BorWin5 in July 2017 and August 2020, respectively. They are scheduled to go into operation in 2023 and 2025. A total of about seven million households will be supplied with electricity generated from wind power via these seven links.