Siemens 2014 Annual Report Download - page 32

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Energy application Imaging and in-vitro diagnostics
Power generation
Power transmission, power distribution and smart grid
Everything under
control – Thanks to
reliable power grids
Brazil’s social and economic structure has been transformed in the past
few years, strengthening the country’s domestic market and increasing the
supply of and demand for goods and services. To prevent power blackouts,
which can take a heavy toll on a nation’s infrastructure and hamper its
economic development, Brazil’s booming market requires a robust power
grid. By implementing a centrally managed smart grid solution, Siemens
and its partners are helping make the country’s power grid more reliable,
flexible and efficient. The solution, which is enabling Brazil to close the
gap to the leaders in infrastructure technology, has placed the nation in the
vanguard of a development that is set to spread to many other countries
around the world in the years ahead.
 million km²
Two-thirds of Brazil is
covered by the power grid.