#Siemens

Siemens has acquired a non-controlling minority shareholding of 25% in Coelme Group, a European manufacturer of high-voltage disconnecting switches, the company announced in a press release.

Germany, Munich: The Supervisory Board of Siemens AG has approved the company’s new Vision 2020+ strategy and reassigned responsibilities within Siemens’ Managing Board.

Mexico: The first live remote monitoring system for Factory Acceptance Tests has been successfully tested and implemented in Siemens Transformers factory in Mexico.

Juan Ignacio Diaz has been appointed new CEO of Siemens Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean, effective 1 June 2018, Siemens announced in a press statement.

Siemens has launched a new comprehensive digital transformer portfolio at 2018 Hannover Messe in Germany. 

Germany: The most powerful high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) transformer began its journey from the transformer factory in Nuremberg, Germany, to China.

Siemens has won a high three-digit million euro order from TenneT TSO for a grid connection for offshore wind power plants in the German waters of the North Sea, the company announced in a press release.

State-owned utility Qatar General Water & Electricity Corporation (KAHRAMAA) has awarded Siemens the largest contract to date in Qatar for the expansion of the country’s power transmission network.

Siemens has been awarded a contract to supply power transformers for the UK’s East Anglia ONE wind farm, located in in North Sea waters.

Austria, Weiz: Siemens transformer plant in Weiz, Austria, is ready to ship the fiftieth large power transformer to a long-time customer in Texas.

Germany: Siemens has announced it will soon deliver its first bullet-resistant power transformer unit to a utility in the U.S.

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo: Bosnian state-owned power transmission system operator Elektroprenos BiH signed a $2.9 million (€2.5 million) deal with a consortium of local companies and the Serbian unit of German engineering group Siemens for the construction of a power 110/20(10)/10 kV transformer within the existing substation.

Germany: Siemens is supplying a VB1 high-current switchgear with vacuum switching technology and the high-current supply unit for production for the world’s most climate-friendly, energy-efficient aluminium smelting plant being built on Norway’s Karmøy peninsula.

Germany: Siemens is supplying a total of 238 traction transformers to Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR), UK’s largest railway operating company.

Midel-insulated 160 MVA-transformer for Moscow in the testbay at the transformer plant in Voronezh.

USA, North Carolina: Siemens has delivered three of its new mobile resilience transformers to Westar Energy, an energy company in Kansas.

Pakistan, Karachi: The K-Electric has successfully installed a new 40 MVA power transformer at the Aga Khan Grid Station to cater for electricity needs of the consumers residing in adjoining areas.

India, Mumbai: Siemens Ltd. has received an order worth approximately $32.5 million from Power Grid Company of Bangladesh Limited (PGCB) for a regional power exchange project.

Germany: Siemens has successfully type tested the first 132 kV 72/90 MVA power transformer for Iraq that will serve for the stabilization of the country’s national power grid.

Germany, Erlangen: Together with local partners in China, Siemens will deliver the world’s first 1,100 kV converter transformers for the world’s largest and first high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) transmission link with a transmission voltage of 1,100 kV DC, located in China.

Siemens will supply National Grid UK with a replacement HVDC transformer for the CrossChannel link between the United Kingdom and France.

India, Gujarat: Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL) has placed a $12 million order with Siemens for the procurement of seven auto transformers to be installed at Bhuj, in the state of Gurajat.

Germany, Erlangen: Siemens has received a $147 million (€130 million) order from Power Grid Company of Bangladesh (PGCB), for an HVDC (high-voltage direct-current) back-to-back link to connect the power supply networks of India and Bangladesh.

Bangladesh, Dhaka: Siemens has been awarded a $17 million order from Power Grid Company of Bangladesh (PGCB) to design, procure, supply and install a gas-insulated switchgear substation and power transformers at Keraniganj, Dhaka.