Provide a leading environmental portfolio
Our Environmental Portfolio, which bundles products and solutions that contribute to environmental and climate protection, has captured an outstanding position on the technology market worldwide and is one of our strategic growth drivers. In fiscal 2011, we generated revenue of €29.9 billion with Portfolio offerings. In 2010, we set ourselves the target of achieving revenue of at least €40 billion with our green technologies by the end of fiscal 2014. And this target remains unchanged, even though the planned IPO of OSRAM will make it more difficult to achieve.
Our Environmental Portfolio is making a major contribution to climate protection. In fiscal 2011, our ecofriendly products and solutions enabled customers worldwide to slash their CO2 emissions by 317 million tons – an amount equal to the total annual CO2 emissions of Berlin, Delhi, Istanbul, Hong Kong, London, New York, Singapore and Tokyo.
The products and solutions underlying our Environmental Portfolio’s extraordinary success come from all four of our Sectors. For example, the ICx trains from our Rail Systems Division are setting new standards for long-distance rail transport. We expect these innovative trains to consume about 30% less energy per seat than vehicles in German railway operator Deutsche Bahn’s existing fleet. This advance is due to improved aerodynamics and lighter construction, which reduces the weight of a 200-meter train by some 20 tons.
Our new efficiency record for gas turbines in combined-cycle operation with steam turbines is yet another triumph for our trailblazing technology. The SGT5-8000H gas turbine we installed at our plant in the Bavarian town of Irsching achieves an efficiency of 60.75%, compared to the 58.5% efficiency of the previous turbine generation – while generating an output of 578 megawatts. To produce one kilowatt-hour of electricity, the new generation of combined-cycle power plants (CCPPs) consumes one-third less natural gas than the average installed CCPP. Also boasting unprecedented operating flexibility, these plants can be rapidly ramped up and down in response to fluctuating power feed-ins from wind and solar systems.
Our engineering achievements are also continually improving the environmental performance of healthcare products. For example, our SOMATOM Definition Flash computed tomography (CT) system requires, on average, about 45% less power for chest scans and around 85% less power for cardiac scans than the previous generation of CT scanners.
In fiscal 2011, we received our first order for wind turbines for an offshore project in China. To be installed on the coast of Jiangsu Province, 21 Siemens turbines will supply the region with 50 megawatts of clean electricity. The order, which includes a five-year service and maintenance agreement, is a milestone on our way to entering China’s burgeoning wind power market.
These successes illustrate how the products and solutions in our Environmental Portfolio are creating advantages on three fronts: for our customers, who are benefiting from lower energy costs and increased efficiency; for future generations, whose quality of life and environment we’re preserving and enhancing; and for Siemens, by enabling us to tap attractive markets and generate profitable growth.