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Siemens in London
Heathrow Express
This rail link from Siemens is the fastest way to get from
Heathrow Airport to London’s city center. Taking only
15 minutes – compared to 50 minutes by subway – the
Heathrow Express transports an average of 16,000 pas-
sengers a day.
Smart grid
London has one of the highest levels of electricity con-
sumption and CO2 emissions in the UK. It also has
the country ’s most demanding carbon reduction targets.
To help the city meet these targets, we’re collaborating
with UK Power Networks in the Low Carbon London ini-
tiative by conducting trials with local customers. These
trials, which are part of a series of tests coordinated
by the Learning Laboratory of London’s Imperial College,
will yield valuable insights that can be shared in the
course of the program with all distributed network opera-
tors and the power distribution industry as a whole. The
aim of the initiative is to develop a power distribution
concept for 2020 that will cover everything from strategic
network planning to grid operation.
Infrastructure for electric mobility
Transport for London has set an ambitious goal for its
Source London electric mobility project: to have 1,300
public charging stations in operation across the entire
city by 2013. Supplying software solutions geared to
the project’s complex requirements as well as related
services, we’re playing a key role in London’s drive to
become the capital of electric mobility.
Toll system
London uses intelligent video systems from Siemens
to ensure that toll charges are actually paid. The video
systems register license plate numbers and compare
them against the computerized list of toll payers. The
toll system has reduced traffic volume by 20% and street
congestion by 26%. Sixty thousand fewer cars now travel
London streets each day, cutting CO2 emissions by some
150,000 tons a year.
Automated video surveillance
Under an outsourcing agreement, we’re delivering a
pioneering project for the London Borough of Bexley
that provides comprehensive CCTV services to improve
community safety, increase system performance and
reduce costs. Across the UK, we’ve installed one of the
nation’s largest surveillance solutions for infrastructure
operator Network Rail: over 4,000 CCTV cameras are
enabling British Transport Police to track activity from
any station in the system.
London Array offshore wind farm
Located in the Outer Thames Estuary, the London Array
will be the largest offshore wind farm in the world. We’re
contributing 175 wind turbines with a total capacity of
630 megawatts. Capable of supplying power for about
750,000 households, or a quarter of Greater London’s
population, the wind farm will reduce annual CO2 emis-
sions by 1.9 million tons. The facility ’s capacity can be
expanded to 1,000 megawatts if required.
> A selection of current projects