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Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce (GBCC) Business of the Year. Excitation Engineering Services Ltd (EES)
Global troubleshooters are top firm E
By John Lamb
lectrical engineers to the power and generation industry who are renowned for their rapid global troubleshooting are the
were crowned winners of the award, sponsored by Richardson, during the Chamber’s first online awards ceremony. Excitation, whose headquarters are at the Amber Business Village, also won the International Business category, sponsored by the Andalucia Tourism Board. Helen Bates, chair of the judges and chief financial officer at the GBCC, said: “Excitation are a great example of a Midlands-based company making an impact across the world. “They have expanded their activities from
consultancy to design and manufacture, using UK suppliers, and they have achieved this by investing in staff training and development, as well as sponsoring local engineering undergraduates. “Since their formation in 2011, Excitation’s
turnover has grown steadily with contracts worldwide and they are a worthy recipient of the Business of the Year award.” The Tamworth-based company was created in
2011 to meet the demands of the power generation industry and has traded internationally from the start, fulfilling contracts in six continents. It specialises as a service company providing
commissioning and maintenance support and general consultancy in their field of excitation control systems. Excitation is described as generating a magnetic field by means of an electric current. EES is respected internationally for their
specialist knowledge and have provided courses for PowerEdge Asia, an energy systems training
Members of the EES team in Tamworth (left to right): Harry Hughes, Vanessa Hockin, Richard Howlett, Sumitra Phanjarit, Richard Ierna and Deepika Mistry.
supplier. Delegates from all over South East Asia attended the courses in Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines. Support has been provided by EES to
numerous global projects. When a nuclear power plant in the United States had a catastrophic failure of their excitation system, EES mobilised an engineer within 72 hours when competitors in a neighbouring State were unable to assist. EES also assisted when one of the Island
Princess cruise ship excitation systems failed off the coast of Trieste. Last year, EES signed a maintenance support
contract worth a minimum of $700,000 with Dominion Energy, a huge power and energy company in the United States. Personnel have also been working globally on
several projects. At the beginning of the year, electrical engineers Farah Robrigado and Ryan
Kavanagh were commissioning a control system on Garden Island, Perth, Western Australia, and will return to complete the works later this year. Doug Cope is currently supporting Thai Oil
remotely with some troubleshooting and will travel to the site in October. Undergraduates Harry Hughes and Deepika Mistry have been assisting the electrical engineers by updating technical documentation for a project in Ghana. Richard Howlett and Vanessa Hockin are
working on tender documentation for more overseas opportunities in Australia, Spain, Belarus and Pakistan.
Read about all category winners on pages 6 and 7 plus Jaguar Land Rover, winners of the President’s Award.
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