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Electrical engineers to the power and generation industry who are renowned for their rapid global troubleshooting are the Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce (GBCC) Business of the Year.
Excitation Engineering Services Ltd (EES) were crowned winners of the award, sponsored by Richardson, during the Chamber’s first online awards ceremony on Thursday evening.
The event - sponsored by Aston Villa, Birmingham City University, HSBC and Elonex – was beamed from Chamber House in Edgbaston and hosted by Heartfm Drivetime presented Ed James.
There was also entertainment from spoken word artist Casey Bailey and Aston Performing Arts Academy.
Excitation, whose headquarters are at the Amber Business Village in Tamworth, also won the International Business category, sponsored by the Andalucia Tourism Board.
The 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 supplier.
Delegates from all over South East Asia have 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.
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.
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.”
