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In a modern society, municipalities (municipal utilities) are the foundation of an efficient, environmentally friendly infrastructure – whether they’re providing elec-tricity, natural gas, drinking water, district heating, street lighting, waste recycling, waste disposal, or public trans-portation. In enabling sustainable growth in cities, the key to success lies in continuously adapting structures to changing requirements – because the top priority is to always ensure a reliable and economical supply of those commodities.

At the same time, municipalities and distribution system operators (DSOs) are challenged by fundamental changes in their business environments.

Many power grids today are not designed to handle the constantly growing energy demand caused by increasing urbanization. Above all, the enormous fluctuations in electricity supplied by renewable energy sources are caus-ing problems, because the infeed depends on factors like the weather and is therefore variable. Power distribution companies are forced to modernize or expand their net-work infrastructure to ensure their future viability.

Existing infrastructure needs to be transformed into smart grids that can integrate decentralized power generation, balance fluctuations from renewables, and ensure power quality as well as a reliable and economical supply.

Suppliers of multiple commodities who provide e.g. water or gas besides power (so called multi-utilities) are additionally challenged to generate synergies within their automation and control solutions and to reduce costs and complexity.

Siemens is uniquely positioned to support you in in-stalling, expanding, and maintaining a high-perform-ing, reliable, and future-proof network infrastructure. Cities and urban areas around the globe rely on our comprehensive experience and technological expertise. Our end-to-end portfolio enables you to cope with both today’s and tomorrow’s challenges. As a trusted part-ner, we understand your city’s needs. By designing, implementing, and servicing solutions that will remain viable into the future, we support sustainable and pros-perous growth for your city.

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Siemens is positioned to support municipalities and DSOs across the entire project lifecycle, from consulting and planning to service and maintenance.

Our unmatched domain know-how and technological expertise – as well as our end-to-end portfolio comprising state-of-the-art products, systems, solutions, and services for distribution networks and municipal infra-structure – will support you in managing both existing require-ments and future challenges.

Municipalities and DSOs

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Consulting, analysis, and planning

Financing

Design and engineering

Products, systems, and turnkey solutions

Supply, construction, and commissioning

Diagnostics and monitoring

Modernization

Trainings

A reliable and sustainable supply for municipalities From electricity to natural gas, from drinking water to district heating, and also public transportation – Siemens supports you in any task. We combine distribution network technologies into an intelligent overall solution – all from a single source.

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Project management

Maintenance, asset manage-

ment, and after-sales services

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Street Lighting

5 Smart Grid Services

Smart Grid Applications

10 Utilities Control Centers

3 Renewables

2 Power Generation

Transportation Infrastructure

District Heating and Cooling

7 Gas Distribution

9 Waste Disposal/Recycling

Water and Wastewater

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Transportation Infrastructure Designing efficient and well-organized

public transportation and traffic management systems is a major task for urban planners. Siemens offers a comprehensive portfolio that comprises everything from trams and metros – including rail electrification and automation – to infrastructure for e-vehicles and intelligent traffic control systems to manage the ever-increasing traffic in cities.

Street Lighting An extensive street lighting system

increases traffic safety and the sense of well-being and security for members of the com-munity. Siemens provides smart and efficient street lighting systems with energy- saving outdoor lights that operate depending on data like time of day, weather, traffic, or dis-tribution grid conditions. Our solution also offers real-time monitoring of the street lighting grid, prolongs bulb lifetime, and indicates when service is needed.

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Power Distribution Planning, building, expanding, and main-

taining an intelligent distribution network’s infrastructure to cope with the changes in a modern society is a challenge for municipalities and DSOs. Intelligent substations, including products like smart switchgear, transformers, distribution, and feeder automation solutions, enable new applications to increase the distri-bution reliability reliability. IT solutions help to balance supply and demand, and can also cre-ate new business models, even for smaller munici- palities.

Power Generation Municipalities today are already consid-

ering investing in their own power genera-tion systems for a variety of reasons: changes in regulations, the desire for more energy independence, and the opportunity to enter into the lucrative power generation market. Siemens is a leading player that can deliver the entire range of generation systems, from fossil to CHP (combined heat power), waste-to-power, and renewables, including grid integration.

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Renewables Electricity from renewables such as wind,

sun, biomass, and geothermal sources stands for sustainable power generation without CO2 emissions. Siemens not only manages the infeed of electricity into existing grids, it also offers solutions like microgrids and energy stor-age systems to ensure that sufficient electricity is always available to customers – for example, even when the wind isn’t blowing.

Smart Grid Applications Distributed power generation and the

integration of renewables create challenges for existing grid infrastructure, because the power flow changes directions and magni-tudes in a highly dynamic way. As more and more municipalities participate in decentral-ized generation, they need to start actively managing distribution. Siemens offers products and solutions for microgrids, energy storage, load management, and virtual power plant applications. With the Smart Grid Compass, we also provide consulting services that help you define and implement your smart grid strategy step by step.

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Smart Grid Services To ensure the high availability and efficient

operation of the grid infrastructure, opera-tors need to continuously measure, monitor, analyze, maintain, and modernize their grid installations. Siemens supports you in the areas of network consulting, grid monitoring and diagnostics, smart metering and meter data management, maintenance, and asset performance management throughout the grid’s entire lifecycle.

Water and Wastewater Clean drinking water is a basic need in

any community. Water production, drinking water treatment, and distribution as well as the water sewage are major tasks for any municipality. Siemens helps water utilities to run, control, and automate their facilities. We offer a modular water management system that supports the operation of water trans-port and supply systems, including identify-ing and locating leaks as well as simulating network behavior.

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Gas Distribution Domestic gas is used as an efficient, eco-

friendly energy source for residential heating and cooking, and municipalities are required to ensure a reliable and safe supply. Siemens offers solutions for powering gas facilities, managing gas distribution, reliable forecast-ing, and after-the-fact analysis. Our load man- agement system ensures the optimal use of gas purchases and takes dispatchable stor-age, loads, and own generation into account while ensuring an uninterrupted supply.

District Heating and Cooling Municipal utilities can provide heat or

hot water – for example, from CHP plants – for district heating and to industrial users for an efficient and environment-friendly supply of heat. Hot water can also be used in absorption chillers for district cooling (e.g. for hospitals or shopping malls). Siemens can provide solutions for heat generation as well as for an intelligent distribution man-agement system.

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Waste Disposal / Recycling The management of waste is a big chal-

lenge for cities and municipalities. Siemens offers power supply solutions, drives, and auto- mation equipment for waste disposal or recy-cling plants as well as waste-to-energy solutions.

Utilities Control Centers In their efforts to provide an even more

efficient and economical supply of power, gas, water, and district heating, municipal utilities are interested in creating central and standard-ized control centers, where the entire supply and distribution system can be managed and operated in the same way, reducing construc-tion and operating costs. With Spectrum Power, Siemens offers a wide range of features: advanced network control, including alarm management; demand-side management with load management, supply management, water, load and consumption forecast; network analy-sis, fault and outage management, fault loca-tion, isolation and service restoration; warn-ings of potential shortages, management of storage resources, and more.

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A reliable and sustainable supply for municipalities From electricity to natural gas, from drinking water to district heating, and also public transportation – Siemens supports you in any task. We combine distribution network technologies into an intelligent overall solution – all from a single source.

■ Transmission substations (HV/MV) Bringing power to the city – with our high and medium volt-age switchgear, power transformers, control and protection equipment, and substation automation

■ Distribution substations (1ry distribution, MV/MV)Ensuring a safe and secure supply – with our medium volt-age switchgear, distribution transformers, control and pro-tection equipment, and substation automation

■ Compact substations (2ry distribution, MV/LV) Bridging “the last mile” – with our medium voltage switch-gear, low voltage switchboards, distribution transformers, remote control, and protection equipment

■ Outdoor distribution equipment Supplying peripheral areas – with our vacuum circuit break-ers, reclosers, disconnectors, and grounding switches with remote control and protection equipment

■ Integration of renewables Zero-emission generation becomes a reality – thanks to our grid integration experience including energy storage, load flow management, and power quality solutions; also for microgrids

■ Grid-related servicesEverything under control – with our services for network analysis and consulting as well as our asset performance management: from monitoring and diagnostics to repair, maintenance, and modernization of switchgear, transformers, substations, and cables

■ Smart grid applications Building your smart grid – with our solutions for grid consulting and diagnostics, smart metering, meter data management, IT integration, commu nications, demand response, and virtual power plants

■ Control centers Efficient network operations – with our control center in multisite configuration for power, heat, domestic-gas, or drinking water suppliers and rail operators, addressing SCADA and comprising advanced applications like fore-casting, load management, and network analysis

■ Multi-utility technologies Reliable drinking water, domestic-gas, and heat supply – with our low and medium voltage switchgear, motor control centers, drives, automation equipment, and control centers for multi-commodity optimization

■ Transportation infrastructureMoving people and goods – with our power supply and auto-mation solutions for metros, light rails, trams, and e-vehicle infrastructure as well as for tunnels, harbors, and airports

Benefit from a full range of experienceOur end-to-end portfolio for municipal utilities and distribution grids covers all aspects of power distribution and infrastructure services.

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Shaping the future with a trusted partner

Consulting Virtual Power Plant

Your challenge:

Today’s networks will have to be transformed into more intelligent grids. This raises questions such as: What is the optimal network structure? What actions should be taken with the available resources, in what time frame, and what benefits will result?

Our solution:

Siemens offers high-quality consultancy services and tools based on proven knowledge from a passionate team of experts. Our Smart Grid Compass helps you define and execute your company’s smart grid strategy step by step. We develop customized network structures and smart grid concepts with the goal of securing sup-ply under new conditions – from integrating renewable energy sources to applying innovative technologies like storage devices and electric vehicles.

Your benefit:

Because Siemens focuses on the system as a whole, both the developed network concept and system architecture will meet all your technical, economic, and environmental requirements.

Your challenge:

The paradigm shift is progressing at full speed. With renewables on the rise, many decentralized generation and storage facilities are replacing the small number of centralized ones. How can you manage to balance power at short notice, prevent grid bottlenecks, and trade at energy exchanges?

Our solution:

In a Virtual Power Plant, all decentralized facilities are networked by a central control entity. Like a real power plant, our decentralized energy management system (DEMS) uses current information on weather, energy price and demand to predict generation and consump-tion. It then generates optimized schedules that include all network participants, and with this optimized power management you have access to energy markets and price benefits from scale effects.

Your benefit:

You minimize your generation and operational costs and balance fluctuations by optimizing distributed energy sources. And you can now capitalize on new, attractive market opportunities even for small-scale distributed generation.

Intelligent Compact Substation Multi-Utility Control Center

Your challenge:

With the rapid increase in distributed energy sources, fluctuating infeed can compromise the stability of the distribution grid. Quickly balancing out effects such as bidirectional power flow, load and voltage fluctuations in the distribution grid becomes a key challenge.

Our solution:

Siemens helps you build intelligent compact substa-tions including switchgear, adaptable transformers, automation and protection devices with remote control that can monitor and manage the distribution grid on the low and medium voltage side. Thus, overload of grid components can be avoided at an early stage. Volt-age stability can be ensured e.g. by sending a target value to the decentralized energy sources.

Your benefit:

You can easily integrate decentralized energy sources into your distribution grid, avoiding the extension of your grid capacity. This ensures a stable grid with reduced outages at the same time.

Your challenge:

Communities and industries both count on the electric-ity, gas, water, and district heating supply. Growing demand, increasing environmental awareness, and changes in regulations create new challenges. You therefore need future-oriented solutions for accurate planning, increased supply efficiency, and optimized resource utilization.

Our solution:

Siemens helps you manage all commodities with a single control center system, Spectrum Power. It offers high planning reliability and increased supply quality and stability with load prediction functionality and demand-side management. With advanced applications like leakage detection and reservoir management, you can utilize your assets and contracts more efficiently.

Your benefit:

You will experience high investment security, increased planning and supply quality with a mod-ern, multifunctional and variable control center for all your commodities. At the same time, you can decrease your operational and maintenance cost.

Four examples of how to enhance distribution networks with Siemens – from a comprehensive range of services and solutions