Mitie expands battery energy storage and electrical engineering with addition of former G2 energy team

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Peter Davison

Prior to its liquidation, Milton Keynes-based G2 energy supported a wide variety of engineering projects across the UK, including battery energy storage solutions

Facilities management company Mitie is expanding its high voltage electrical and civil engineering capabilities after acquiring high voltage electrical and civil engineers G2 energy.

Prior to its liquidation, Milton Keynes-based G2 energy supported a wide variety of engineering projects across the UK, including battery energy storage solutions, renewable energy generation such as wind turbines and solar PV, and electric vehicle charging hubs, which capabilities will now be delivered by Mitie.

The addition of the former G2 energy team will also provide Mitie – which has a large presence in Bristol – with the capability to provide Contestable Works at voltages up to and including 132kV as well as National Grid self-bay works up to 400kV.

In addition, the team will provide end to end project delivery, from design and installation, to project management and connection onto the grid, as well as proactive and reactive maintenance.

More than 40 members of the former G2 energy team, including its senior leadership, have joined the Mitie Projects business and will support Mitie’s existing capabilities in energy, decarbonisation and high voltage electrical engineering services, complementing the work of its Rock Power Connections and Custom Solar businesses.

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Matt Brailsford, Head of Projects Delivery and Development, Mitie, said: “As specialists in high voltage electrical, battery energy storage and civil engineering, with experience working on a broad range of projects right across the UK, the former G2 energy team is a fantastic addition to Mitie.

"With our existing capabilities in energy, decarbonisation and electrical engineering, our new colleagues will add further services to support our customers with their decarbonisation ambitions.”

Peter Davison

Peter Davison is deputy editor of The Business Magazine. He has spent his life in journalism – doing work experience in newsrooms in and around Bristol while still at school, and landing his first job on a local newspaper aged 19. By 28 he was the youngest newspaper editor in the country. An early advocate of online news, he spent the first years of the 2000s telling his bosses that the internet posed both the biggest opportunity and greatest threat to the newspaper industry and the art of journalism. He was right on both counts. Since 2006 he has enjoyed a career as a freelance journalist. He lives in rural Wiltshire with one wife, two children, and three cats.