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        HVDC services from Siemens Energy Management increase the availability of high-voltage DC transmission

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        HVDC services

        Ensuring reliable high-voltage DC transmission for decades

        Siemens high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission has proven its high performance and reliability for many years. Nevertheless, during the long lifecycle of HVDC, various services are required to support its optimal functioning or the economic and safe operation throughout the years.

        Comprehensive services for all kinds of HVDC

        Comprehensive services from Siemens for all kinds of HVDC

        Bringing energy from remote renewable energy generators to consumers and providing compensation for regional fluctuations in the production or consumption of electricity thanks to trans-national grid connections: HVDC transmission operators have to make sure their system provides the highest availability, performance, and efficiency at all times. One pillar to fulfill this challenge is best-in-class HVDC hardware and software. But that alone isn’t enough to guarantee efficiency, security, and reliability for decades: your system also needs regular maintenance, modernization, security checks and updates.

         

        Siemens provides you with comprehensive services to increase the transparency of your HVDC system as a prerequisite for optimization and to ensure continuous availability as well as the highest possible performance. You’re looking for preventive and corrective maintenance, sophisticated spare parts management, and modernization or retrofitting of older systems? We are at your side with our specific HVDC know-how and a wide-ranging service portfolio to ensure a highly available, secure, and cost-efficient HVDC operation as well as compliance with environmental and safety regulations.

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        Highlight services for HVDC at a glance

        Siemens offers you a wide range of tailor-made services for your HVDC system. These include services such as our cyber security services for reliable and secure HVDC systems of the future.

        Cover your cyber security needs with our digital services

        Cyber security for HVDC systems

        As the digitalization of our energy system marches on, cyber security becomes more and more important for your HVDC assets. Even if they aren’t directly connected to the Internet, think of all the other possible risks such as manipulated IT devices or laptops from outside the station, e.g. from engineers or maintainers. Unauthorized changes to critical parameters and set points, control commands or device configurations can disrupt the power supply with serious, unforeseeable consequences for all participants in the energy chain. To prevent this from happening, we offer comprehensive cyber security services based on a defence in depth concept. We identify your technical vulnerabilities, recommend appropriate security measures and carry out their implementation. Our services for cyber security include: 

        1. Consulting regarding requirements, evaluating the own status quo and recommending the resulting security measures, for example
        2. Patch management (three service levels)
        3. Security audit, penetration test and incident handling

        Cyber Security Services for HVDC and FACTS you can count on

        Cyber Security Services

        Cyber threats are increasing with serious consequences for companies and communities worldwide. Critical infrastructure like power transmission systems become increasingly the focus.

         

        As IT systems are the foundation of all of today’s critical processes in most companies, this leads to significantly increased risks of being attacked by hackers or viruses and patching software weaknesses is not a onetime task but an ongoing endeavor through the system’s lifetime. Siemens has developed a comprehensive cyber security service portfolio for HVDC and FACTS to support customers.

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        Service overview

        Comprehensive services for your HVDC system

        From reactive to proactive services, from repair and spare parts to service programs – our service portfolio for all kinds of high-voltage DC systems cover everything you need to keep your system up and running as well as efficient and up to date.

        Maintenance contracts

        • Preventive/scheduled maintenance work according to OEM recommendations
        • Qualified local expert personnel
        • Increase asset reliability and lifetime expectancy

        Computerized maintenance management system

        • Software/hardware package for maintenance planning and controlling
        • Specific work orders with detailed work procedures
        • Detailed resource planning and expert selection

        Field service and repair

        • Fast response by qualified local service experts
        • Access to our global network of experts for additional support
        • Minimized outage time

        Spare parts

        • Original and tested spare parts of the highest quality for your HVDC system
        • High availability and fast delivery of critical spare parts

        Spare parts management

        • Efficient and cost-effective spare parts concepts (location, quantity) 
        • Regular quality control 
        • Optimized replacement time
        • Spare parts pooling

        Obsolescence management

        • Early and proactive information on asset obsolescence
        • Transparency for lead times
        • Planning and recommended actions to guarantee availability

        Modernization and retrofit

        • Hard- and software to prolong your HVDC assets lifetime, support and spare parts availability
        • Minimized downtime and greater availability
        • Handling new technology requirements

        Refurbishment

        • Overhaul of HVDC equipment to prolong its lifetime and increase its availability
        • High-quality work according to OEM standards
        • Dedicated functional testing according to industrial standards before re-installation

        Upgrade and update

        • Update your HVDC system with state-of-the-art solutions to improve asset efficiency and performance
        • Implementation of new features and functionality
        • Complete functional testing of new systems

        Extensions

        • Extension of your existing HVDC assets according to growing demand and needs
        • Proven adapter solutions if required
        • Bypass solutions etc. to reduce outage time during installation of extension

        Condition monitoring and diagnostics

        • Monitoring of your most critical HVDC assets
        • Analysis of dynamic asset conditions allows operation of your HVDC assets up to real-time rating (asset performance management)

        Remote services

        • Our dedicated Customer Support Center automatically identifies critical situations
        • Experts conduct remote analysis and give recommendations
        • Reliable and secure data connection

        Cyber security

        • Security concepts and patch management
        • Compliance with NERC CIP and BDEW white paper standards

        Qualification and training

        • Customized trainings and continuous qualification of your service personnel in terms of HVDC
        • Classroom, test field and on-site trainings
        • Experienced engineers as trainers

        Technical support/hotline

        • Immediate 2nd and 3rd level technical senior expert support via telephone (24/7h or 8/5 h)
        • Utilization of internal engineering department
        • Coordination with key sub-suppliers

        Technical support via remote access

        • Online failure analysis via Common Remote Service Platform (cRSP)
        • Grants access to experts regardless of their location
        • Secured remote access to your HVDC systems

        On-site condition assessment (“Health Check”)

        • On-site HVDC asset evaluation and testing 
        • Detailed condition report and early warning indication 
        • Recommendation plan for availability improvement and lifetime extension

        Asset management and advisory services

        • Vendor-independent consulting and forecasting of HVDC asset health and risk
        • Software and consulting services enabling you to optimize asset management (OPEX, CAPEX)

        Operations

        • Carefree, complete HVDC system operations by qualified Siemens employees
        • Utilization of operational best practices gained through many of our systems around the globe
        • High performance and availability through on-site experts

        Warranty and availability guarantee extensions

        • Extended asset warranty
        • Individually-fixed availability ratings
        • Customized agreement on bonus/malus system
        • Reduced risk for return on investment

        Service programs

        • Operation and maintenance services and tailor-made “care-free packages” 
        • Guaranteed performance by defined KPI’s
        • Operation, maintenance, and management services, special service projects, customer as well as support services
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        HVDC services on all continents

        We successfully deliver fast, competent and reliable product support for high-voltage DC transmission to all corners of the earth.
        INELFE
        France/Spain
        HVDC link

        Preventive maintenance for the most powerful HVDC system worldwide

        • Siemens constructed the power converter stations for the two HVDC links – each 1000 MW – INELFE between Baixas west of Perpignan in France and Santa Llogaia in Spain.

        • During the annual maintenenace outage, Siemens is responsible for the overall management, expert supervision, and maintenance planning & engineering expertise as well as for maintenance technical support and coordination.

        • In only three days per link all maintenance work associated with its corresponding converter stations was successfully completed as planned.

        AEP
        Texas, USA
        HVDC system

        First Siemens HVDC modernization project in the United States

        • In 2015, American Electric Power (AEP) comissioned Siemens to upgrade the 20-year-old Welsh HVDC back-to-back system at its 600-megawatt Welsh HVDC station in Titus County.

        • The modernization included installing new control and protection technologies, replacing the cooling, heating and ventilation, and incorporating new harmonic filters and shunt reactors.

        • Siemens installed the original HVDC classic station in 1994.

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        Mutual Energy
        NIR/Scotland
        HVDC/LTTs

        Long-term maintenance contract for the Moyle Interconnector Project

        • Since handing over the Moyle Interconnector to Mutual Energy in 2001, Siemens has also been responsible for the maintenance of the link.

        • The maintenance package includes not only routine and preventive maintenance, but also fault finding and repair. In the event of an incident, 24/7 response is ensured and the time for fault recovery is minimized.

        • As a result, a high degree of plant safety, reliability and availability is achieved.

        High-voltage substations
        Kuwait
        Utility

        Preventive maintenance of multiple substations

        • Since 2002, Siemens has been awarded with preventive maintenance of more than 80 high-voltage substations in Kuwait.

        • Siemens delivers original manufacturer expertise, products, and consultancy, e.g. for maintining power and station transformers, gas insulated switchgear as well as GIS and air insulated switchgear.

        • The integrated solution from one source is based on OEM expertise for installed assets ensures the availability of the transmission and distribution system.

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        Las Vegas, USA

        POWER-GEN International 2017

        Partnering for a sustainable energy future. Join us at POWER-GEN International 2017 Exhibition and Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada! Meet us at Booth 6415 for expert presentations that will put you on the path to forward-thinking power generation.
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        Nuremberg

        SPS IPC Drives 2017

        Digitalization is changing our world, our energy systems, and even services. At the SPS IPC Drives in Nuremberg, Germany, from November 28 to 30, 2017 we'll gladly show you in Hall 11 what our services – especially the digital ones – can do for you.
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        RAI Amsterdam

        European Utility Week 2017

        Siemens is proud to be a Diamond Sponsor for this year’s EUW in RAI Amsterdam, Netherlands. Join Siemens experts at Booth 1F5 in Hall 1 to learn more about our service offering for power transmission and distribution.
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        Overhaul of 15 converter transformers in Mozambique

        Siemens is modernizing 15 converter transformers at the Cahora Bassa dam in Mozambique for the operator Hidroeléctrica de Cahora Bassa (HCB).

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