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Siemens and DONG Energy have further expanded their cooperation in offshore wind power. In March 2009, DONG Energy and the Siemens Energy Sector entered into an agreement for the supply of up to 500 offshore wind turbines with a total capacity of up to 1,800 megawatts. The supply agreement was the world’s largest agreement of [...]
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| Tagged DONG Energy, offshore wind power, offshore wind turbines, Siemens
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Siemens Wind Power continues growth trend to become one of the world’s top three providers of wind turbines by 2012
Siemens has confirmed its objective to become one of the world’s top providers of wind turbines. Siemens entered the wind power market five years ago with its acquisition of Denmark’s Bonus Energy. Since then, wind power [...]
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| Tagged gearless and floating wind turbines, providers of wind turbines, Siemens, Siemens Wind Power, Wind Power Business, wind power market, wind turbines
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Record-breaker: Siemens to supply world’s most powerful 800-kV HVDC transformer to China
Following successful final acceptance tests Siemens Energy will deliver the world’s largest and most powerful 800-kilovolt converter transformer in mid-January 2010. The world-record transformer produced at the Siemens manufacturing plant in Nuremberg is destined for the Xiangjiaba-Shanghai link, a high-voltage direct-current transmission link (HVDC) [...]
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| Tagged 800-kV HVDC transformer, converter transformer, power plant, Siemens, Siemens Energy, Siemens manufacturing plant
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Siemens has announced at the CSP Summit in Seville the release of a new solar receiver, the UVAC 2010 (Universal Vacuum Air Collector), which further increases thermal heat production. The new UVAC 2010 is the next generation of the best-selling UVAC receiver, which is the key component for the solar fields of parabolic-trough power plants. [...]
Posted in Solar system
| Tagged CSP Summit, Siemens, solar receiver, solar thermal power plants, thermal heat production, Universal Vacuum Air Collector, UVAC 2010
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Detailed Hot Section Mapping of Siemens SGT-600Jenny Sundberg & Mats, Blomstedt, Siemens Industrial, Turbomachinery AB, SE-612 83 Finspong, Sweden
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The 25-MW Siemens gas turbine SGT-600 (previously known as GT10B) is a mature product, which recently passed five million operating hours. The first engines were introduced in the mid-eighties, and currently over 230 SGT-600 have been [...]
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| Tagged gas turbine, SGT-600, Siemens, Siemens SGT-600 gas turbine
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Siemens brings world’s first 4000 ampere vacuum circuit breaker for frequent-operation applications without forced cooling onto the market
Siemens is meeting the steel industry’s growing demand for every higher performance levels in melting down scrap metal by launching a refined medium-voltage circuit-breaker. As of September 2009, the company offers 3AH4 vacuum circuit-breakers with an operating current of [...]
Posted in Electrical Equipment
| Tagged 4000 ampere vacuum circuit breaker, frequent-operation applications, Siemens, switchgear, vacuum circuit breakers
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New Siemens research turbine commissioned at National Renewable Energy Laboratory site in the US
Siemens Energy, Inc. and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) formally commissioned a new 2.3-megawatt Siemens wind turbine at NREL’s National Wind Technology Center.
The turbine is the centerpiece of a multi-year project to study the [...]
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| Tagged energy, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Renewable energy, Siemens, Siemens research turbine, wind turbine
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Northern Italians are enjoying la dolce vita (the sweet life) even more today than they have historically, thanks to the additional electrical capacity provided by the new Livorno Ferraris power plant. Well-received by locals due to its environmentally progressive operations and low-profile appearance, the 800-MW plant is powered by combined-cycle units that burn natural gas. [...]
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| Tagged air-cooled condenser, air-cooled generators, combined-cycle units, eco-friendly electricity, environmentally progressive operations, heat-recovery steam generators, Livorno Ferraris Power Plant, power plant, SGen5-1000A, SGT5-4000F, Siemens, SST5-5000 HI-L
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Siemens Completes Testing Of Its SGT5-8000H, Increases Rated Output From 340 MW To Over 375 MW
Siemens Energy has successfully completed trial operation of the SGT5-8000H, in the Irsching 4 power plant. After 1500 operating hours, 1200 at full load, and evaluation of the measured data the machine’s original rated output of 340 MW was raised [...]
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| Tagged combined cycle operation, Fossil Power Generation, Increase Rated Output, power plants, SGT5-8000H, Siemens
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Siemens Forms JV With EMEF
Siemens Mobility has formed a joint venture with the Portuguese maintenance company EMEF, a subsidiary of Portugal’s national railway company “Comboios de Portugal” (CP), for the maintenance of Siemens locomotives in Portugal. This joint venture is to service and maintain a total of 54 locomotives, 25 LE 4700 type and 29 [...]
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| Tagged EMEF, Joint Venture, LE 4700 type, LE 5600 type, maintenance company, railway network, Siemens, Siemens locomotives, Siemens Mobility
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