What are Siemens’s achievements and ambitions in the Chinese market for Smart Grids and fossil power generation?
Energy highways such as high-voltage direct current transmission link (HVDC) systems are a key element of smart grids. Siemens is one of the world’s leading suppliers in this area. Very soon we are going to put into operation an HVDC link in China with a transmission capacity of 5000 megawatts (MW), covering a distance of more than 1400 kilometers. We commission the world’s largest and highest-capacity 800-kilovolt HVDC transformer in China. It is intended for the next even larger HVDC system in China, which at 6400 MW will transport power equivalent to that supplied by twelve average-size coal-fired power plants over a distance of 2000 kilometers. Siemens also secured a large contract to supply a gas-insulated high voltage line with a total tube length of 12.5 kilometers, the longest of this kind in the world, for Xiluodu Hydropower Plant. As a backbone power source for “West-to-East Power Transmission” project, the plant will help reduce China’s CO2-emissions of about 150 million ton
