Power Generation (PG)
PG builds fossil fuel power plants, power-generating components, wind turbines, and turbines and compressors for industrial applications, particularly in the oil and gas sector. Instrumentation and control technologies for all types of power plants, air pollution control and coal gasification systems, and extensive services round out the Group’s portfolio.
Supplying the world’s growing population with reliable, ecofriendly electricity will require a broad mix of energy sources and technologies. We offer a comprehensive range of efficient, low-emission power plant technologies for electricity and heat generation. In addition to equipping coal-fired and combined cycle power plants, we build on- and offshore wind power systems and high-temperature fuel cells. Via minority stakes in AREVA NP and Voith Siemens Hydro, we’re also active in the nuclear and hydroelectric power plant sectors.
The job spinner: In fiscal 2007, Siemens’ fast-growing Wind Power Division hired more than 1,000 new employees.
Our customers know they can count on us. We provide engineering, construction, maintenance, operation, servicing, and instrumentation and controls for power plants. Our offerings include turbines, compressors and complete solutions for industrial applications – primarily in the oil and gas sector. Our comprehensive array of services is based on leading-edge plant diagnostics and system technologies tailored to applications such as plant modernization and the monitoring and reduction of emissions from fossil fuel power plants.
Due to its low cost and long-term global availability, coal is destined to play an ever greater role in power generation. As a result, processes like coal gasification and liquefaction are steadily gaining in importance. In fiscal 2007, we received orders to supply five innovative entrained-flow gasifiers, each with a thermal capacity of 500 MWs, for converting coal into gas at the world’s largest polypropylene production facility, now under construction in China’s northern province of Ninxia.
The acquisition of the German company Kühnle, Kopp & Kausch AG in November 2006 augmented our portfolio in the area of steam turbines and compressors in the lower output range and is enabling us to tap additional growth opportunities in the compressor and service sector. We’re No. 1 worldwide in industrial steam turbines.