Abstract. We define spatial CPD-semigroups and construct their Powers sum. We construct the Powers sum for general spatial CP-semigroups. In both cases, we show that the product system of that Powers sum is the product of the spatial product systems of its factors. We show that on the domain of intersection, pointwise bounded CPD-semigroups on the one side and Schur CP-semigroups on the other, the constructions coincide. This summarizes all known results about Powers sums and generalizes them considerably.1. Introduction. At the 2002 AMS-Workshop on 'Advances in Quantum Dynamics' in Mount Holyoke, Powers described a sum operation for spatial E 0 -semigroups on B(H), the algebra of bounded operators on a Hilbert space H. The result is a Markov semigroup and Powers asked for the product system of that Markov semigroup in the sense of Bhat [Bha96], and if that product system coincides or not with the tensor product of the Arveson systems of the E 0 -semigroups. (By Arveson system we shall refer to product systems of Hilbert spaces as introduced by Arveson [Arv89], while product system refers to the more general situation of Hilbert modules.)Still during the workshop (see Skeide [Ske03a]) we could show that the Arveson system of the Powers sum is our product of spatial product systems introduced in [Ske06] (preprint 2001) immediately for Hilbert modules. In the case of Hilbert spaces, the product is a subsystem of the tensor product. (For modules there is no tensor product of product systems.) Liebscher [Lie03] showed that the product may but need not be all of the tensor product. The question if the subsystem of the tensor product is nevertheless isomorphic to the full tensor product or not, remained open until Powers [Pow04]: It need not.