SIEMENS ENERGY GLOBAL GMBH & CO. KG

Their core work

Siemens Energy is a major global power technology company headquartered in Munich, specializing in gas turbines, power plant systems, and energy infrastructure. Within H2020, they focus on making conventional thermal power plants flexible enough to support renewable energy integration — through hydrogen combustion, grid flexibility services, and advanced turbomachinery. They bring heavy industrial engineering capability to consortia, particularly in demonstrating hydrogen-ready power generation and supercritical CO2 cycles at operational scale.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Early projects (2016–2018) concentrated on electrical infrastructure — offshore HVDC grids, grid regulation, and the initial steps into hydrogen via steel and fertilizer industry applications. From 2020 onward, the focus shifted decisively toward hydrogen combustion, power-to-X-to-power systems, renewable fuel production, and advanced thermal cycles like supercritical CO2. The trajectory is clear: Siemens Energy moved from grid hardware and conventional power optimization toward decarbonized, hydrogen-fueled power generation and carbon-free thermal systems.

Siemens Energy is positioning itself as the go-to industrial partner for demonstrating hydrogen-fired gas turbines and carbon-free thermal power at full scale — expect continued focus on power-to-X and green fuel integration.

How they like to work

Primarily a participant (9 of 10 projects), but their single coordinator role — HYFLEXPOWER, with €4.5M in EC funding — was their largest and most strategically important project. They operate in large consortia (215 unique partners across 25 countries), acting as the heavyweight industrial partner that brings real turbines, power plants, and demonstration infrastructure. This is a partner you bring in when you need industrial-scale validation, not paper studies.

Extensive European network spanning 215 unique partners across 25 countries, reflecting their role as a large industrial anchor in broad, multi-national consortia. Strong connections across Western and Northern Europe, consistent with energy infrastructure and offshore wind project geographies.

What sets them apart

Siemens Energy is one of the few organizations that can take a hydrogen power concept from lab-scale electrolysis all the way to a full-size gas turbine demonstration — they own the turbines, operate the plants, and have the engineering depth to retrofit existing infrastructure. Their HYFLEXPOWER project is a landmark: the world's first integrated power-to-X-to-power demonstration on an industrial gas turbine. For consortium builders, they offer something rare — a partner who can actually build and test the hardware, not just model it.

Highlights from their portfolio

• HYFLEXPOWER
  Siemens Energy's only coordinator role and largest project (€4.5M EC funding) — first-of-its-kind integrated demonstration of hydrogen combustion in an industrial gas turbine for carbon-free power.
• CO2OLHEAT
  Second-largest funding (€2.4M) — demonstrates supercritical CO2 power cycles for waste heat recovery in heavy industry (cement, glass, aluminum), signaling a new technology direction.
• EU-SysFlex
  Pan-European flexibility study across electricity markets and regulation — shows Siemens Energy's engagement beyond hardware into energy system design and policy.