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Products and solutions – Energy Sector 51
Using state-of-the-art systems diagnostics and technologies, we ensure the operating reliability of
our customers’ components and complete power plants. With operational performance data from
our remote monitoring systems, we identify and eliminate minor problems before they become
major ones. In addition to keeping plants running, we enhance their efciency and thus cut costs
for our customers. For example, the use of prefabricated core elements in electrical generators is
reducing downtime for retrotting by as much as 50 percent. And boosting the efciency of older
units through advanced technology is also becoming more important. For instance, by increasing
the capacity of a 700-megawatt power plant by 30-40 megawatts, we substantially improve plant
protability while reducing CO2 emissions.
Our comprehensive offerings range from maintenance and repair services to the replacement of
components – including everything from gas turbines, steam turbines and generators for large-
scale and industrial power plants to compressors used in the oil and gas industry. Our global ser-
vice network, which responds quickly and efciently to all customer needs, provides a full range
of services for all the turbo machinery components used in oil and gas and fossil power generation
applications. An array of air pollution control systems and services rounds out our portfolio. For
example, by removing NOx and SOx from exhaust gases, our environmental solutions are making
power from coal-red plants more ecofriendly and economical. Overall, our portfolio is helping
slow, stop and even reverse the increase of greenhouse gas emissions.
By providing services for a global eet of gas and steam turbines with a total generating capacity
of 680 gigawatts – about 20 percent of the output of all large-scale and industrial power plants
worldwide – we’re laying a solid basis for future growth. With long-term service agreements for
power generating units at nearly 500 locations worldwide, we’re maximizing plant availability and
competitiveness. There’s also growing demand for solutions that extend the life of older facilities
by adapting them to new efciency standards. This trend is especially important for our business
since there are more than 1,000 steam turbines worldwide in plants built more than 20 years ago.
In addition, we offer customized services on all continents via a comprehensive network of
regional service centers. Innovative solutions for maximizing reliability and efciency are the
primary reasons why customers choose our services.
Energy Service
Randy H. Zwirn
CEO
www.siemens.com/energy
We offer a complete spectrum of performance enhancement and
maintenance services for gas and steam turbines, generators,
compressors and entire power plants as well as air pollution control
systems and services.