Manufacturers sleepwalking into energy resilience crisis warns Siemens

The organisation claims that UK manufacturers are failing to recognise the risks posed by critical ageing electrical energy assets, warning that failure of unmaintained legacy electrical systems could interrupt operations, incur costs and even risk lives.

“Critical electrical power equipment, which has accumulated over decades, forms a significant backbone of today’s manufacturing industry,” said Toby Horne, senior lead for Siemens Energy Resilience. “Interspersed throughout the country, these engineering assets have been added to, adapted, maintained and repaired or replaced over time; all are at various stages and states of health in a sprawling complicated picture of electrical systems.”

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Horne added that whilst many businesses are not aware of whether their systems can handle even greater demands, others are simultaneously grappling with an energy transition that is adding supply diversification, on-site energy production and decarbonisation targets to their sites – posing additional risks, more points of failure and ever more pressure.