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Fast Facts:

1. Siemens is building a high-tech 850MW gas-fired power station, Severn Power, which is providing high quality local employment and will continue to bring value to the local economy for the next 20-30 years. We must hire the best contractors and permanent staff for the job and we must act fairly and with due regard to all the applicable UK and European employment and trade laws.

2. Severn Power is being built adjacent to Uskmouth Power, a 360MW coal-fired power station that has been operating since the 1960s.  Uskmouth Power is owned by Scottish and Southern Energy, and is entirely separate from Severn Power.

3. 83% of employees that are currently safety inducted to work on or regularly visit the Uskmouth site are British or Irish. We have inducted in total more than 1,700 people who can work or who regularly visit site.

4. Currently we employ 500 people at the Severn Power site.  More than 50% of the workers engaged in engineering roles are British/Irish.

5. Siemens is managing the design, engineering, construction, commissioning, testing and management of the new 850MW combined cycle gas turbine plant at Severn Power. The station due to start commercial operation in 2010 following a 30 month construction period and four months of commissioning.Please click here to read the press release.

6. Siemens is a global company that employs more than 18,000 people in the UK