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Siemens Energy VP Simona Rossetti on how the
company is spearheading the decarbonisation of
the energy industry through digitalisation
F
or more than 150 years,
engineers at Siemens Energy –
one of the world’s leading energy
technology companies – have
been spearheading the electrification
of the world.
The company works with its customers
and partners on energy systems for the
future, supporting the transition to a more
sustainable world. With its portfolio of
products, solutions and services, Siemens
Energy covers almost the entire energy
value chain – from power generation
and transmission to storage.
“Our mission is to support companies
and countries with what they need to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions and make energy
reliable, affordable, and more sustainable,”
describes Simona Rossetti, Senior Vice
President within Siemens Energy’s Gas
Services Business, who first joined the
company’s energy business in 2003.
In 2020 Siemens Energy was founded
as an independent company, opening a
new chapter in Siemens’ extensive history
of energy technology. Its aim today is to
energise society.
“An estimated one-sixth of the electricity
generated worldwide is based on
technologies from Siemens Energy,” Rossetti
says. “Today we are a team of 94,000 sharing
the same passion, vision, and values. Our
diversity makes us strong and helps us to
find answers together with our partners.”
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Digitalisation and decarbonisation
Describing it as our greatest challenge,
energy transition poses a number of
questions: first and foremost how to reduce
greenhouse emissions while also increasing
energy supply. “It is an uphill battle, and
there is no silver bullet,” Rossetti says.
“But finding solutions has always been
in our DNA.”
Digitalisation can contribute to
decarbonisation in several ways, firstly by
making energy production more efficient,
meaning the same amount of electricity
can be produced with less fuel and fewer
emissions.
“Secondly, digitalisation helps to
integrate renewable energy sources into the
grid by managing power flows, balancing
supply and demand, and optimising energy
storage,” Rossetti says. “For example, digital
control systems such as Omnivise T3000
can help manage the intermittency of
solar and wind power by predicting energy
output and adjusting supply accordingly.”
Integrated data management is another
solution that supports decarbonisation.
“Integrating operations and engineering
data can enable engineers to do their jobs
more efficiently,” Rossetti says. “Overall,
digitalisation can enable the optimisation
of energy and resource use, reduce fuel
consumption, and promote sustainable
practices, contributing to decarbonisation
efforts.
“SIEMENS ENERGY
BELIEVES INCLUSION
AND DIVERSITY
CREATES MORE
OPPORTUNITY
FOR SUCCESS...
EVERYONE HAS
AN EQUAL PART TO
PLAY IN ENERGISING
SOCIETY”

SIMONA ROSSETTI
TITLE: SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT
COMPANY: S
 IEMENS ENERGY
INDUSTRY: ENERGY
LOCATION: GERMANY

Simona Rossetti is a Senior Vice

President within Siemens Energy’s Gas
Services Business. She is leading the
Europe and Africa region for all service
activities in Controls and Digitalisation.
Her goal is to support all European
and African customers with tailored
sustainable solutions for servicing
and decarbonising their portfolio to
secure energy supply and achieve CO2
reduction goals. She aims to directly
contribute to business growth and
strategic direction of the organization,
drive change management, and
effectively role model, inspire and
mentor the next generation of
professionals in the energy industry.

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Digitalisation boosting
efficiency in power generation
Digitalisation is a potent tool to enhance
efficiency in power generation. Siemens
Energy offers a number of solutions from
their Omnivise portfolio, engineered to
refine maintenance operations within
power plants and foster predictive
maintenance strategies.
The company’s Omnivise Asset
Management (OAM) offering is a modern
software suite combining deep domain
know-how, the latest technologies and
methods, and modern software design
to support plant personnel.
An example of these capabilities can
be seen in the operations of one of Latin
America’s largest electricity suppliers,
which manages a vast fleet of diverse power
generation assets – ranging from fossil to
renewable sources. The company, in a bid
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to trim Operational Expenditures (OPEX)
across its maintenance and operations,
wanted to introduce a remote expert
centre at its headquarters.
“The OAM software forms the central
technical backbone to deliver critical
services to their entire fleet of assets,”
Rossetti says. “Our solution will enable the
customer to reduce operational costs while
increasing reliability and availability of key
assets at 23 power plants.”
With OAM, Siemens Energy also supports
broader use cases from remote operator
rounds and inspections all the way to
autonomous plants. As Rossetti describes,
to reach this milestone there are a number of
challenges for plant operators to overcome.
“The growing percentage of renewable
energy sources in the grid is steadily
increasing the pressure on gas power plants
to operate more flexibly and efficiently.
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A massive shortage of skilled control room
and maintenance personnel is also looming
on the horizon.”
Ultimately, the vision of power plants
that operate autonomously is about to
become a reality, with increasing advanced
technologies increasing the efficiency of the
plant itself but also of the plant operators.
“Developers are now taking the next step
towards autonomy by fine-tuning digital
twins, data analyses, and AI to provide
smart forecasts and instructions.
“Autonomy doesn’t start with the
autopilot. Long before that, power plants
are supported by smart analyses, smart
forecasts, smart recommendations, and
smart instructions,” Rossetti comments.
“AI-supported analysis algorithms
regularly filter out signs of irregularities from
the data supplied by cameras, microphones,
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and other sensors mounted on the plant or
installed on robots, and that request support
when needed. Off-site maintenance and
control room personnel can support several
power plants simultaneously.”
Digital control systems helping manage
new challenges in the energy industry
The energy landscape is changing and the
number of renewable energy sources is
growing steadily. With that comes pressure
on fossil-fueled power plants to operate
more flexibly and efficiently. Digital control
systems such as Omnivise T3000 from
Siemens Energy can help to manage
these new challenges.
This system with its SCADA functionality
is capable of managing a variety of different
decentralised energy resources including
wind offshore, automated, autonomously
and in a coordinated way, ensuring reliable
24/7 operation.
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“At the same time, it is flexible and OMNIVISE CAN ENABLE
scalable to support a larger number of assets
when needed,” says Rossetti. “Omnivise
THE OPTIMISATION OF
T3000 is the perfect solution not only for ENERGY AND RESOURCE
fossil power generation and renewables, USE, REDUCE FUEL
but also for large and mid-size microgrids,
such as IPPs, islands, industries, data centres CONSUMPTION, AND
and mines.” PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE
Together with German utility MVV,
Siemens Energy has built and recently PRACTICES,
put into operation a large-scale heat pump CONTRIBUTING TO
plant at the GKM power plant in the city of
Mannheim. The plant uses river water as DECARBONISATION
a heat source, helping to replace a coal-fired EFFORTS”
power plant.
This new heat pump will be a major
SIMONA ROSSETTI
contributor to MVV and the City of SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT,
Mannheim’s goals to become CO2 neutral SIEMENS ENERGY

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“AN ESTIMATED
ONE-SIXTH OF
THE ELECTRICITY
GENERATED
WORLDWIDE
IS BASED ON
TECHNOLOGIES
FROM SIEMENS
ENERGY”
SIMONA ROSSETTI
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT,
SIEMENS ENERGY

in heating production by 2030. The facility is

expected to supply district heating for 3,500
households and save some 10,000 tonnes
of carbon emissions per year.
“Our proven Omnivise T3000 control
system integrates the control of the new
heat pump and an existing thermal storage
into the existing GKM power plant,”
Rossetti explains. “The control system
uses its multi-unit functionality to manage
multiple generation units from a central
control room.”

Using data insights to unlock

new opportunities to decarbonise
A powerful tool to improve operational
efficiency and reduce emissions is
harnessing the power of data. Integrating
operations and engineering data enables
engineers to do their jobs more efficiently,
while data scientists and modelers use this
integrated data to predict the future.
One good example of this, Rossetti
describes, is Siemens Energy’s Omnivise
Energy Management solution. “Power

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producers also have the challenge to sell

their energy most profitable. Every day, they
have an increasingly complicated decision
to make: How can I plan the dispatch of my
assets to satisfy market demand, but in the
most beneficial way?”
For dispatchers with combined-cycle
power plants this question is challenging.
The introduction of renewables like solar
and wind can create wider fluctuations
in demand for dispatchable energy from
traditional power producers.
“When solar and wind are available,
they are prioritised on the grid,” Rossetti
explains. “This situation leads to shorter
market intervals for power generated by
fossil-fueled plants. These dispatchers now
must access and understand weather data
to know when neither wind nor solar will
be available, and they will need to fill the
generation gap in a cost-efficient way.”
Aimed at solving this problem, Siemens
Energy’s Omnivise Energy Management
solution combines the power of AI-driven
forecasting and predictive asset models.
“With Omnivise Energy Management our
customers are able to do rapid multi-
dimensional or multi-branch scenario
simulations and create day-ahead and
short-term future generations plans that
are economically optimised to the plant’s
circumstances,” Rossetti says.

Ensuring the safety and security of

control systems and customer data
As part of critical infrastructure, plants in
the energy market must fulfil more stringent
requirements than ever before. With the risk
of cyber-attacks, this means looking beyond
operational concerns and protecting plants
against hacker attacks – and documenting
compliance according to a wide range of
legal requirements.

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 As Rossetti describes, thanks to
built-in security and Siemens Energy’s
“OUR MISSION IS TO
comprehensive cybersecurity portfolio, SUPPORT COMPANIES
Omnivise T3000 is ideally suited to help
operators protect their infrastructure.
AND COUNTRIES
“We provide long-term support so WITH WHAT THEY
you can rely on a system that is always
up to date,” she comments. “We support
NEED TO REDUCE
current hardware on a long-term basis and GREENHOUSE GAS
provide tried-and-tested security patches
for software at any time during operation. EMISSIONS AND MAKE
For our customers, this means long-term ENERGY RELIABLE,
security with no downtime.”
One of Rossetti’s most significant career AFFORDABLE, AND
achievements, she describes, has been MORE SUSTAINABLE”
the spearheading of Siemens Energy’s
Cyber Security Operation Center (cSOC)
SIMONA ROSSETTI
in Germany to help organisations defend SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT,
against and resolve cyberattacks 24/7. SIEMENS ENERGY

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“The energy sector has become a
primary target for cyber-attacks,” she says.
“Collaborating with my dedicated team,
I saw the need to develop cybersecurity
services that could be seamlessly integrated
into our customers’ contracts and help
them when confronting the growing cyber
threats they are exposed to. To meet this
need, I took the initiative to establish a
Cyber Security Operation Center (cSOC)
for our European customers from the
ground up.
“This undertaking allowed us to promptly
respond to an emerging trend and fulfill
a critical customer requirement with our
cyber protection, detection, and monitoring
solutions. I am proud of our ability to
identify a new industry trend and swiftly
create effective solutions to address it.”
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The energy transition relies on seamlessly
connecting physical assets with digital
technologies to foster innovation, reduce
emissions, and improve efficiency, but this
future depends on strong cybersecurity
across the whole supply chain. Siemens
Energy’s Managed Detection and Response
(MDR) solution provides scalable protection
against disruptive cyberattacks in the energy
sector using innovative AI. “It defends critical
infrastructure against cyberattacks, helping
protect communities around the world
from supply chain disruptions,” comments
Rossetti.
Siemens Energy partners with Amazon
Web Services (AWS) to quickly collect and
analyse large volumes of data to monitor
for cyber threats, giving energy sector
chief information security officers (CISOs)
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“OUR PROVEN CONTROL SYSTEM SUPPORTS
YOU WITH INNOVATIONS YOU NEED TO
BUILD A BRIDGE TO THE ENERGY SYSTEM OF
TOMORROW. FOR CONVENTIONAL POWER
PLANTS AS WELL AS DECENTRALISED POWER
GENERATION WITH RENEWABLE ENERGY
SOURCES, FOR ANY PLANTS AND ANY SIZE
– PERFECTLY TAILORED TO OUR DIGITAL
SOLUTION PORTFOLIO. CONTROL THE ENERGY
SYSTEM OF TOMORROW WITH OMNIVISE T3000”
SIMONA ROSSETTI
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT,
SIEMENS ENERGY
the power to detect and uncover attacks
before they execute. “These secure cloud
capabilities that can integrate digital
applications and leverage sensitive data –
such as real-time monitoring and detection
– add an important and cost-effective
tool to the defensive arsenal for CISOs
and industrial security analysts.”
A wide range of collaborative partnerships
Siemens Energy is collaborating with
numerous companies around the world,
from the marine sector to hydrogen
production, from eFuels to heavy industries.
“We are working on open innovation with
customers, industrial partners, universities,
and research centres like the Karlsruher
Institut für Technologie (KIT) in Germany,
the Georgia Institute of Technology in the US
and the University of Cambridge in the UK.”
As Siemens Energy invests in growth and
optionality, it has engaged in partnerships
with a number of ventures: including joining
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the AWS Partner Network as a Technology
Partner to provide customers with industrial
cybersecurity, analytics and data storage
solutions and partnering with Air Liquide
on building a sustainable hydrogen economy
in Europe.
“At Siemens Energy, our innovation
strategy is not just about technology and
products. It is about empowering people
and partners, both within the company
and outside of it, to accelerate progress
on the journey to net-zero,” Rossetti says.
“We strive to create a culture and
framework where individuals and teams can
take ownership of innovation and bring new
concepts to market with the goal of better
serving our customers and becoming the
world’s premiere energy.
“Partnerships represent a key step in
helping the power industry drive toward
a more sustainable, profitable future and
in offering our customers a more efficient
solution for their business.”
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The importance of inclusion

and diversity in energising society
Every day, people are treated less favorably
or face discrimination because of their
ethnicity, gender, religion or ideology,
disability, age, or sexual identity. As
Rossetti explains, this has to change.
“Siemens Energy believes inclusion
and diversity creates more opportunity for
success. It doesn’t matter the gender, age,
ethnic background, sexual orientation, or
disability − everyone has an equal part to
play in energising society. Here, more than
94,000 employees worldwide join forces
with welcoming colleagues who encourage
equality and belonging, to passionately and
energetically pursue a shared goal: to shape
the energy systems of the future.”
With the energy industry playing
a crucial role in addressing climate change
and reducing carbon emissions, there has
never been a more important time to make
positive change.
“The world needs people who do
not look the other way when they see or
hear racism and discrimination. We can all
doa great deal in our everyday lives and at
work to make our society more supportive,
open, and tolerant.
“At Siemens Energy, we believe that
creating a society worth living in involves
demonstrating solidarity and creating
an environment in the here and now
that not only leaves room for diverse
identities and lifestyles but also sees them
as an enrichment to our lives,” Rossetti
concludes. “If we all work together toward
this goal, nothing less than great things
can come of it – for us, for the future,
for all of us.”

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