Siemens seeks staff for its new renewable energy facility
Manchester-based Siemens Transmission and Distribution is to recruit 340 individuals to support its efforts designing and building transmission systems to connect the UK’s power networks to new energy sources, especially offshore wind.
The majority of the positions will be based at a purpose-built facility that is currently under construction at Princess Park in Manchester. The building — called the Renewable Energy Engineering Centre — will house Siemens’ global centre of competence for high-voltage grid connections.
The centre will focus on the design and build of high-voltage, direct-current (HVDC) transmission systems for the UK and north-west Europe, in particular to meet the expanding needs of the renewables market.
Siemens said that, owing to the government’s commitment to carbon reduction targets and the consequential need to invest in offshore wind generation, there is a buoyant market for HVDC systems to transport power. In addition to the need to connect wind farms more than 80km from the shore using DC, there is also a demand for more inter-country interconnectors and for subsea links to allow power movement around the UK coast, thus avoiding the requirement to build new overhead lines.
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