Siemens Österreich
Siemens Austria is one of the country's leading technology corporations. The business activity is concentrated on the three sectors of industry, energy and healthcare, as well as on outsourcing and IT solutions and services.
"Electromobility is an essential part of our environmental portfolio," Siemens Austria Chief Executive Brigitte Ederer pointed out. "This is the reason why Siemens does a lot of research in this area. It is primarily a matter of identifying the requirements of the electric cars and, secondly, it's all about the needed infrastructure, in other words, the power grids. With regard to intelligent power grids, particularly the so-called "Smart Grids", we have a competence center right here in Austria, which is why I am especially pleased that we can contribute our know-how to this forward-looking project. On top of that, through our cooperation we are providing for more research, more development and new jobs in Austria."
As a worldwide leading corporation in the area of energy systems and environmental technologies, Siemens focuses on innovative concepts for electric drive systems. With its products and solutions, the company covers the entire electric value-added chain - from production and sales all the way to the end-consumer.
Integrated in an energy concept of the future based on renewables, electrically powered vehicles can become mobile and flexible components. Because electric cars are not only able to store energy from the grid; if needed they can also feed energy into the grid, thus absorbing the grid fluctuations that occasionally occur with wind and solar energy.
Due to their double role as transportation means and mobile energy storage unit, the energy and communication interfaces to the energy grid have to be standardized so that a fast charging and recovery process can be coordinated and billed across the entire grid.
Siemens Austria is involved in the Austrian Mobile Power project in the following areas: charging stations (definition of requirements and design and development of charging infrastructure), system architecture - interfaces (requirements and concept development for pilot region) and Smart Grid (requirements, grid-related technical scenarios, billing model, system integration and optimization).