Siemens plant in Weiz delivers
4,000th power transformer
In a ceremony held on the evening of April 24, 2015, the
Siemens transformer plant in Weiz, Austria, celebrated the
delivery of its 4,000th power transformer. The 150-ton
colossus, of which the installed copper wire alone accounts
for 34 tons of the total weight, was developed and manufactured for Commonwealth Edison, a longtime U.S. customer. Transformers such as this one are helping to ensure
a reliable power supply around the world. The Weiz facility
has been directly associated for more than 110 years with
products used for efficient, sustainable power generation,
transmission, and distribution. Transformers built at the
plant, which is considered a major driver of the regional
economy and local employment, are deployed worldwide.
About 80 percent of the transformers made in Weiz are
exported.
Dr. Stefan Pieper, managing director of the transformer
plant in Weiz, welcomed about 1,000 guests, including
many employees, customer representatives, and the acting mayor of Weiz, to the facility’s high-voltage laboratory.
In the meantime, the 4,000th transformer had been
transported by rail to the port in Linz, on the Danube
river, from where it will continue its journey to the U.S.
The Siemens transformer plant in Weiz
Weiz is the world’s largest facility within Siemens for
developing and building transformers. In addition to Weiz,
the Guangzhou, China; Junidiaí, Brazil; Mumbai, India;
Zagreb, Croatia; and Nuremberg, Germany, sites are part
of the factory network for Large Power Transformers (LPT).
Within the network, Weiz is a center of competence for AC
transformers, phase-shifting transformers, and reactors.
The plant’s key products include power and distribution
transformers as well as monitoring systems, all engineered with the highest development expertise and
manufactured to the latest quality standards. Every year,
about 4,000 distribution transformers and 140 large-scale
transformers are built on the plant’s premises covering
about 54,000 square meters.
The 4,000th power transformer from the Siemens manufacturing
plant in Weiz is a 330/138/33-kV autotransformer with a capacity of
336 MVA, and will be delivered to Commonwealth Edison, a longtime
customer in the U.S. The transport weight is about 150 tons, of which
the installed copper wire alone accounts for 34 tons. The dimensions
are approx. 7.40 m long, 3.60 m wide, and 4.60 m high.
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Stefan Klaassen, head of the LPT Segment, was very
pleased in light of the delivery of the celebratory transformer from Weiz:
»The delivery of the 4,000th transformer from Weiz attests
to the extensive experience that the entire LPT network
can draw upon in the manufacture of large transformers,
and underscores Siemens´ position as a leading company
in the Large Power Transformers segment.«
The customer: Commonwealth Edison
Commonwealth Edison, known in the U.S. as »ComEd,«
is the largest utility company in the State of Illinois. It
supplies electricity to about 3.7 million customers in
Chicago and northern Illinois. Like Siemens, ComEd can
look back on a history spanning more than 100 years.
The company is a subsidiary of the Exelon Corporation,
one of the largest gas and electricity suppliers in the U.S.
Since 1992, the Siemens plant in Weiz has delivered
30 transformers with a total capacity of 14,500 MVA
to ComEd.
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Energy Management Division
Transformers
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Contact
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