Siemens Energy announced a $1 billion investment to expand manufacturing and production capacity in the United States. The plan includes creating more than 1,500 skilled jobs across manufacturing engineering and operations to support rising demand for electricity driven by data centers AI infrastructure and industrial electrification.
The investment will expand existing facilities and add one new switchgear manufacturing plant in Mississippi. Site expansions are planned in North Carolina, Alabama, New York, Texas and Florida. These projects focus on grid equipment gas turbines transformers and other critical energy infrastructure. Siemens Energy will also grow its apprenticeship programs and workforce training efforts across the energy sector.
Key initiatives include a new high voltage switchgear plant in Mississippi employing up to 300 people expanded transformer and gas turbine manufacturing in North Carolina additional turbine component production in Florida upgrades to compression equipment facilities in New York and Texas and increased generator component production in Alabama. In Florida Siemens Energy will also enhance research and development including an AI focused digital grid lab built with NVIDIA.
Siemens Energy has operated in the U.S. since the late 1800s and currently employs over 12,000 people across 25 sites. Nearly one quarter of U.S. power generation relies on its technologies.
Leave a comment