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Siemens Transmission and Distribution Ltd, based in Manchester, has announced that it will create up to 340 new jobs in its Projects business, focused on the design and build of transmission systems to connect countries’ power networks to new energy sources, especially offshore wind. The majority of these roles will be based at the brand new purpose built facility, currently under construction at Princess Park, Manchester. The new state-of-the-art building, which will be called The Renewable Energy Engineering Centre will house Siemens Global Centre of Competence for High Voltage Grid Connections (HVDC). The Centre will focus on design and build of HVDC transmission systems for the UK and North West Europe, in particular to meet the expanding needs of the Renewables market. This latest investment represents the ongoing commitment by Siemens to the UK and to North West England. The HVDC engineering centre will be the first of its kind outside Germany.

Siemens has announced the creation of a newly integrated Energy Service division for the UK, which brings together the businesses responsible for servicing conventional power plants and wind farms. The new division, Siemens Energy Service UK and Ireland, based in Newcastle, will offer significant benefits to customers, by creating an integrated business to meet all their long term service and maintenance needs.

The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields’ Principal Sponsor, Siemens, today welcomed the news of Joshua Bell’s appointment as Music Director of the Academy. Siemens announced a three year sponsorship for the internationally renowned chamber orchestra in early September 2010 with the aim of enabling the Academy of St Martin in the Fields to continue its long tradition of touring throughout the UK and worldwide every year.

Source London, launched officially today by the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, will provide a network of publicly accessible charge points across London. Any vehicle that is licensed with the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency as a pure electric or a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, including motorbikes, cars, vans, trucks and scooters will be able to use Source London. Customers can use one membership card to open charge points across the whole city and charge their vehicle for an annual flat rate of GBP100 including electricity. The aim is to have 1,300 charging points by 2013. Source London is expected to attract thousands of electric vehicle drivers over the next three years.

The Mayor of London and Siemens are to create a unique centre in Newham, East London, where city experts and high-tech engineers will work side by side

Siemens has today announced delivery of the first SWT3.0-101 Direct Drive technology wind turbines to the UK. The six wind turbines will be delivered to Community Windpower Ltd, a UK based community windfarm developer. Installation is planned to commence in December 2011 with commissioning complete in early 2012. The wind turbines will be supported with a 15 year service agreement from Siemens.

The British-German Association (BGA) has presented its Medal of Honour to Andreas J. Goss, Chief Executive of Siemens Plc.

Together with the operating company BritNed Development Ltd., Siemens Energy has placed the BritNed HVDC transmission link between Britain and the Netherlands into operation. BritNed is a joint venture of National Grid, the international electricity and gas company and one of the largest investor-owned utilities in the world, and TenneT, the Dutch grid operator based in Arnhem. The 260-km-long subsea cable connection with a transmission capacity of 1000 megawatts (MW) links the 400-kV grids in southern England and in the south of the Netherlands. The HVDC transmission system’s converter station in the UK is located on the Isle of Grain in Kent in south eastern England, while the Dutch station is situated in Maasvlakte near Rotterdam. Besides ensuring greater stability in the European integrated network, BritNed will also serve as an energy trading hub and thus bring more competition into the grid.

New centre set to further grow the company’s rail service business

A significant long term service agreement has been awarded to Siemens Energy Service Fossil by Barking Power Ltd, one of largest independently owned generating plants in the UK.

The UK is at a turning point in energy management. Until recently, it was only industrial and commercial organisations, driven by economics and legislation, which had to address the issue of energy consumption.

Siemens has announced that it has won a new transformer replacement contract with ScottishPower Energy Networks at its Govan substation in Scotland. Siemens has worked with ScottishPower Energy Networks for over fifteen years. This latest contract is focused on asset modernisation to improve efficiency through the replacement and overhaul of existing transformers and the fitting out of the substation as part of a two-year improvement programme. The whole programme is targeted for final completion by 2013.