Smart Grids
Smart-Grid-solutions from Siemens blaze the trail to the future of the energy business. Innovative technologies and services in the fields of IT, data communication, energy automation, and rail electrification pave the way for efficient grids, intelligent power distribution, intelligent consumption as well as electromobility and smart buildings.
The consistent integration of IT, communication, and field level makes pervasive solutions possible that create value added for all stakeholders through synergies: electricity prices can be flexibly adapted to supply and demand in due consideration of environmental aspects, and markets can better react to such price fluctuations.
Sustainable power generation is another crucial aspect: the integration of distributed generators and consumer management through microgrids and demand response, for instance, becomes possible in combination with Siemens’ integrated IT solutions. Many Siemens products and solutions already master tasks that are of great importance for Smart Grids. In the field of rail electrification, for example, modern converters connect public grids and railway networks transparently, and railway systems can be used as energy storage facilities.
Moreover, end customers become “prosumers” with Smart Grids: they can play an active role as both power consumer and power producer and can control their power consumption in a cost-optimized and environmentally responsible manner.
Siemens supports its customers in the development of intelligent transmission and distribution grids as well as in the integration of central and distributed power generation. In the field of Smart Grid technologies, Siemens customers mainly include power producers, grid operators, industrial companies, multi-utilities, cities, and rail operators. Siemens provides them with a complete range of products, solutions, and services for the protection, automation, planning, control, monitoring, and diagnostics of grid infrastructures as well as products, turnkey solutions, and services for rail electrification. Software and end-to-end solutions from enterprise IT all the way to smart metering are gaining increasing importance here.