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Regional Highlights 39
Hamburg
Starting in 2007, commuters
in Hamburg as well as in six
other major cities and a num-
ber of smaller towns through-
out Germany will be able
to purchase bus and rail tickets
by making a call or sending
a message from their mobile
phones. The user-friendly soft-
ware required can be installed
directly on handsets. Imple-
mented by Siemens, the proj-
ect was initiated by the Ver-
band Deutscher Verkehrsun-
ternehmen (Association of
German Transport Compa-
nies). The technology involved
has potential application at
some 400 public transit com-
panies throughout Germany.
Munich
Geothermie Unterhaching and
Siemens have signed a con-
tract to construct Germany’s
most advanced and most pow-
erful geothermal power plant
in Unterhaching, near Munich.
The plant, which employs Kali-
na technology, will supply sev-
eral thousand households with
power and heat beginning in
mid-2007. We’ll construct and
service the complete above-
ground power generation sys-
tem. Geothermal energy has
a major advantage: it provides
a continuous, virtually inex-
haustible supply of power and
heat, with no fuel costs and no
CO2emissions.
Berlin
As part of a long-term energy-
saving partnership with the
government of Berlin, Siemens
Building Technologies (SBT) is
responsible for optimal energy
efficiency, heat generation and
distribution, modernization,
automation, energy manage-
ment and the monitoring of
energy use in over 200 build-
ings. Energy costs are being
slashed by €4.5 million annual-
ly, with guaranteed budget
savings of €1.1 million. At the
same time, CO2emissions have
been cut some 25 percent. At
the end of May 2006, SBT was
honored in Berlin with the
award for Best European Ener-
gy Service Provider.