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• Five-year contract extension for technical support and spares agreed until December 2026.
• Agreement covers support in areas such as safety, reliability, maintenance, spares supply, modifications, and overhauls.

With bad debt risk spiralling for energy providers, and growing economic uncertainty for customers, both groups are seeking a new way to settle their energy bills. To address this challenge, Siemens has taken its pioneering Managed Credit solution, which has already made a big impact within the energy retail industry over the last few years, and combined it with payment technology from global IT and business consulting services firm CGI, and Open Banking innovator Ordo.

Westminster City Council and Siemens have installed more than 1,000 on-street Electric Vehicle Charging Points in the City of Westminster, making Westminster the first local authority in the UK to reach this milestone.

• HSEQ Director Louise Ward awarded Lifetime Achievement Award
• Richard Abbess wins inaugural Unsung Hero award
• Siemens Mobility’s Poole factory highly commended in ‘Best Health and Safety for Manufacturing’ category

Siemens trains 40 employees to graduate from global companies and SMEs since 2017

SP Energy Networks is trialling new environmentally friendly ‘clean-air’ technology at one of its electricity substations as the company continues to lead the way towards a greener way of operations.

• Call for cities in Scotland to commit to Clean Air Zones to protect the public
• Daily traffic across Glasgow and Edinburgh higher than pre-pandemic

This Earth Day, the National Literacy Trust and Siemens have joined forces to raise awareness of the environment and engage children on the topic of climate change. The partnership involves the gifting of over 3,000 books to primary schools across the country, an online author event with Martin Dorey and the launch of an exciting challenge, supported by Walker Books, to help children develop literacy skills to research, plan and advocate for the future.

• Commercial fleets are responsible for a disproportionate amount of CO2 emissions on the roads
• Learnings from the electrification of buses are paving the way for cleaner commercial fleets
• The road to decarbonising transport needs to gather pace if the UK is to achieve its goal of zero-emissions by 2050

First UK hydro power station to implement environmentally friendly vacuum switchgear

Siemens has installed four maintenance and F-Gas free generator circuit breakers at Drax Group’s subterranean pumped hydro storage power station in the Scottish Highlands

• Memorandum of Understanding signed to develop centre of excellence for rail research and innovation
• £50 million innovation hub forms part of extensive new rail village in Goole, East Yorkshire
• Education and upskilling opportunities will create jobs, attract talent and increase investment

The free, fun interactive is mapped to the National Curriculum to inspire young inventors and innovators