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Addressing Africa’s energy trilemma by creating pragmatic, immediate and future sustainable energy solutions for the world’s fastest-growing continent.

The urgency and the complexity of solving the energy transition is immense. The achievement of net-zero lies in partnering for innovation and finding diverse tools to tackle the challenges across all fronts. Progress on clean energy solutions provides golden opportunities for socioeconomic benefits, like creating new jobs and supporting economic growth in the years to come.

Siemens Energy has been an integral part of Nigeria for over 50 years and continues to play an active role in society as a leader in energy, engineering technology provider, employer of choice, customer, investor, vendor and corporate citizen.

As the world faces an unprecedented energy crunch, South Africa’s protracted national energy trilemma has now reached a true crisis point that requires the private sector to step in with extreme urgency to drive the critical transition to clean energy.

We have reached a major milestone in the progress of the Presidential Power Initiative (PPI) for Nigeria and have taken a big step closer to providing Nigerians with better access to stable, reliable, and affordable electricity.

Cop27, future generations and skills

The African perspective and financing and collaboration

The focus on tackling the challenges and building momentum for the energy transition

High schoolers from Gauteng have taken on the challenge to learn, innovate and lead society’s transition to a net-zero future, as participants in the global energy decarbonisation company Siemens Energy’s recent Just Energy Transition (JET) Hackathon.  

Water taps, electric lights, stoves, refrigerators are all everyday conveniences for most of us. Normally, we don’t even think about using them.

The top tier rating for Siemens Energy in South Africa is a further re-affirmation of the company’s commitment to inclusion and empowerment.

Why gender diversity is more important than ever.

Siemens Energy drives the energy transition in the Middle East.

Africa Business+ spoke to Siemens Energy’s managing director for Africa, Nadja Haakansson, about projects and priorities on the continent.

“A hotter future is certain,” declared The New York Times last year following the report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). A very telling headline of a long-feared threat now known to be inevitable.

2021 served as a strong warning to the rest of the planet that climate change is not coming anytime soon. It's already here, and it's gaining momentum, and no country is safe. The latest IPCC research warns that unless greenhouse gas emissions are drastically reduced, global warming will exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2030.

Siemens Energy Oman has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Oman Hydrogen Centre (OHC) to collaborate on identifying potential green hydrogen markets in local industries and to jointly develop technical solutions.

In a bid to address the gaps in the development of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education in Nigeria, Siemens Energy Nigeria, Siemens Stiftung - a German- based foundation, Empowering Africans Through Education Initiative and The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) partnered to promote this very STEM topic.

Wits Business School (WBS) today signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Siemens Energy (Pty Ltd) which will see the two entities collaborate on a number of training and development programmes in energy leadership.

Access to sustainable clean energy is the key to unlocking a prosperous future for millions of people across Africa. There is growing urgency to accelerate progress, not just for the future of our environment, but for the welfare of future generations.

Siemens Energy has inaugurated the first of its kind Power Academy in South Africa on the 11th of August 2021. Located in Wadeville, this innovative learning centre serves as a major milestone in the advancement of the sustainable energy industry in Africa.

Siemens Energy has signed an agreement with GIL Automation to boost the development of local content in Nigeria, in the form of training, skill developments and joint project execution, at the Siemens Energy Rotating Equipment Workshop in Port Harcourt.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on businesses’ perceptions of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues. Even before the pandemic, sustainability was rising up the corporate agenda, but this trend has accelerated dramatically during the crisis: improved ESG performance is now a core strategic objective for most organizations.

Power, transportation, and water are the building blocks of a modern civilization, and the critical infrastructures that make them available, are the keys to economic prosperity

Siemens Energy to supply reliable power to community of more than 30,000 homes in Riyadh

Siemens Energy, working with Turboden S.p.A., a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Group Company, has started development on the GASCO Dahshour gas compressor station (GCS) in Egypt, which will increase gas compression by 25%, without further fuel consumption, while reducing CO2 emissions by 120'000 tons per year.

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By Nadja Haakansson

We have entered 2021 with optimism, driven by increasing global commitment to sustainability, tackling climate change, and increasing decarbonization efforts, but we look ahead knowing there is still a lot of work to do to reach our collective goals.

New VR solution to allow remote testing, validation, and training. Usage of AR and VR technology in projects will reduce costs and time

Providing gas turbine and other key components for the 65 MW combined cycle Kékéli Efficient Power plant project

BOG compressor train will help reduce plant emissions

The project represents Mozambique’s first onshore LNG development

Dietmar Siersdorfer, CEO of Siemens Middle East, says we have the tools to beat climate change and that now we need to legislate.

Strengthening transmission grid and feeding Electricity to Expo site

Emad Ghaly, CEO of Siemens in Egypt speaks about the company’s ‘Business to Society’ approach in Egypt.

Ahmed El Saadany, Regional Learning Manager speaks about Siemens’ experience in providing the training for the 600 Egyptian engineers and technicians.

Gianluigi Di Giovanni talks about what makes power systems vulnerable to cyber attacks.

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By Nadia Saleem

How Egypt is tackling its solid waste challenges with innovative technologies.

What’s important to Saudi Arabia and its people, matters to Siemens.

The energy industry is entering a new era, triggered by the relentless rise of renewables, electric cars and smart grids.

The universe’s most abundant element has long been touted as a potential emissions-free energy savior.

SMEs are recognized as powerful drivers of economic activity.

How to build a power value chain that meets the needs of a sustainable and decarbonizing economy.

Parallel compensation

Rafiq Hussain, Senior Vice President, Siemens Transmission Products for the Middle East talks about the first digitally- connected power transformer in the Middle East– Siemens Sensformer – at TRANSCO’s Al Foah 220/33-kilovolt substation.

Mahmoud Hanafy, Senior Vice President, Siemens Transmission Solutions for the Middle East, talks about the impact of renewable energy generation, distributed power resources, and electric vehicles on power grids and what utilities need to know.

Siva Krishnan, Vice President, Siemens Oil and Gas for Middle East and North Africa talks about latest technologies in the oil and gas industry that could optimize production while minimizing the environmental impact.

To thrive in an age of disruption, oil and gas organizations need a future-ready business model for a succesful digital transformation. Here are six steps for getting it right by Denis Voloder, Head of Siemens Oil and Gas, Onshore Solutions.

Remote work power plant

Gianluigi Di Giovanni, Head of Power Generation Services Middle East and North Africa, talks about how we are prepared to deliver, even in the current crisis. Siemens has a deployment-ready solution to help power plant and other critical infrastructure operators overcome extreme disruptions: Omnivise Remote Services.

As we adjust to a post-pandemic and low-oil-price environment, the challenges that faced bulk storage and terminal operators entering the crisis are amplified. Amid the industry’s evolution, one tool that has garnered a great deal of interest is the digital twin.