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Mitsubishi Electric Subsidiary Joins Smart City Development Projectat Former Berlin Tegel Airport
Will collaborate on piloting application of technologies to improve the energy efficiency, comfort andoperational efficiency of buildings

Model image of Berlin TXL, © Tegel Projekt GmbH / Macina

TOKYO, May 20, 2024 – Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) announced today that the German
branch of its wholly owned subsidiary Mitsubishi Electric Europe B.V. has signed a development partnershipagreement with the State of Berlin, represented by Tegel Projekt GmbH, to join its smart-city redevelopment
project Berlin TXL.
Berlin TXL was launched in 2021 to create a smart city on the vast five-square-kilometer site of the former
Berlin Tegel Airport, which closed in 2020. The project is tackling challenges facing 21st-century cities, suchas the efficient use of energy, eco-friendly mobility, clean water, recycling, sustainable construction andapplication of new materials, networked control of systems and more.
As the first initiative under this partnership, Mitsubishi Electric Europe and Tegel Projekt intend to jointly
collaborate on piloting application of technologies to improve the energy efficiency, comfort and operational
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efficiency of buildings at Berlin TXL. The initiative will make extensive use of research and development carriedout at Mitsubishi Electric’s SUSTIE® net-zero energy building test facility in Kamakura, Japan since 2020.
Tegel Projekt CEO Frank Wolters and Berlin Governing Mayor Kai Wegner, during their visit to Mitsubishi
Electric’s Information Technology R&D Center in Kamakura, Japan on May 17, also toured the SUSTIE
facility to observe potential pilot applications, including building-simulation and smart-building/smart-city
platform technologies.

From left: Frank Wolters, CEO of Tegel Projekt; Masahito Matsushita, Senior General Manager, Information Technology
R&D Center, Mitsubishi Electric; Kai Wegner, Governing Mayor of Berlin; Masahiro Oya, Executive Officer,Vice President, Global Strategic Planning & Marketing, Mitsubishi Electric. Photographed at SUSTIE® on May 17.

Berlin Governing Mayor Kai Wegner said, “Berlin TXL in Tegel is Berlin’s center for cutting-edge urban
technology and an emblem of our city’ s development into a leading location for innovation in Europe. We canonly successfully fulfill this promise if we are ready to learn together as we work with outstanding partners.
Mitsubishi Electric is a pioneer in innovative building technology. Their SUSTIE® testing facility is a rolemodel that impressively demonstrates the potential in this area, especially in terms of energy efficiency. Berlin
will use the opportunities this cooperation offers to benefit the development of our city.”
Tegel Projekt CEO Frank Wolters said, “The transformation of the former Tegel airport into a modern urban
district for science and industry alongside living quarters and recreational space ranks among the largest andmost ambitious urban development projects in Europe. We want to realize a new level of smart, urban
infrastructure at Berlin TXL. It is therefore an honor to welcome in Mitsubishi Electric a globally leading
technology company as a development partner. My team, the partners of this exhilarating project and myself
are looking forward to the cooperation.”
Mitsubishi Electric Europe German Branch President Andreas Wagner said, “It is our ambition to transform
into a Circular Digital-Engineering company that provides societal value by analyzing data. This ambition
seamlessly pairs with Berlin TXL’s vision. We strongly believe that this symbiotic cooperation creates an ideal
ecosystem for jointly testing new innovative and holistic solutions in urban technologies spanningelectrification, automatization, and digitalization.”
2/3About Tegel Projekt GmbHThe former Berlin-Tegel Airport is making room for Berlin. On its five-square-kilometer grounds, Berlin TXL– Urban Tech Republic, a research and industrial park for urban technologies, and Schumacher Quartier, a newresidential district, will be developed; as well as a two-square-kilometer landscape zone. The State of Berlin
has commissioned Tegel Projekt with the development and management. The company employs about 100people; their tasks include planning for the construction of buildings and for the technical, transport and energy
infrastructure, construction and site management, as well as marketing and communicating the project to thepublic.
SUSTIE is a registered trademark of Mitsubishi Electric Corporation.
###About Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
With more than 100 years of experience in providing reliable, high-quality products, Mitsubishi Electric
Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) is a recognized world leader in the manufacture, marketing and sales of electricaland electronic equipment used in information processing and communications, space development and satellite
communications, consumer electronics, industrial technology, energy, transportation and building equipment.
Mitsubishi Electric enriches society with technology in the spirit of its “Changes for the Better.” The company
recorded a revenue of 5,257.9 billion yen (U.S.$ 34.8 billion*) in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024. For
more information, please visit www.MitsubishiElectric.com*U.S. dollar amounts are translated from yen at the rate of ¥151=U.S.$1, the approximate rate on the Tokyo
Foreign Exchange Market on March 31, 2024

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