Siemens Energy commits $1bn to US manufacturing expansion
Kelvin Ross
Posted on: 4 February 2026
Investment and job creation across US comes on back of “once-in-a-generation growth opportunity” says chief executive Bruch.
Siemens Energy has confirmed it is to invest $1 billion in manufacturing facilities in the US and in parallel create more than 1500 new jobs.
The move comes on the back of what chief executive Christian Bruch called a “once-in-a-generation growth opportunity due to the resurgence of US manufacturing and the growth of artificial intelligence”.
Bruch praised President Trump, saying he had “made energy security, a reliable and resilient grid, and growing US manufacturing jobs a priority. This has supercharged the energy demand which is supporting new investments across the energy sector.”
However, in a separate interview with the Financial Times he said he also wanted to see more more stability from the President.
The American investment plans were first unveiled at Siemens Energy’s Capital Market Day in Charlotte last November and involve several locations across the country.
Grid components
In Mississippi, Siemens Energy will build a new high-voltage switchgear facility to build grid components and hire up to 300 new staff.
In North Carolina it will boost its manufacturing and servicing capabilities for technologies including large power transformers, gas turbines and grid solutions while adding a further 500 new jobs.
At its base in Tampa it will increase manufacturing of gas turbine blades and vanes, while in Orlando it will upgrade research and development capabilities at its Innovation Centre, including the construction of an artificial intelligence digital grid laboratory with NVIDIA.
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At its Alabama facility in Fort Payne it will expand production of copper and insulation electrical components for generators, creating 120 new jobs, while it intends to upgrade compressor manufacturing in New York and Texas.
Siemens Energy employs more than 12,000 people across 25 facilities in the US and claims that a quarter of all US power generation is delivered by the company’s technologies.
Energy expansion
Brush said: “Siemens Energy has been making things in the United States for more than a century” and added that he looked forward “help write this next chapter of American energy expansion”.
US Secretary of Interior Doug Burgum said the Siemens Energy expansion was a “tremendous investment in a critical part of our power grid supply chain”.
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Meanwhile in Europe this week, Siemens Energy was unveiled as one of the founding companies of the Green Industrial Grids Association, which was launched to accelerate grid modernisation in Europe.
Siemens Energy’s Philipp Offenberg said that Europe “cannot electrify its economy with yesterday’s approaches to grid planning, permitting and modernisation. That’s why we helped launch GIGA… to break through the complexities that have stalled progress for far too long.”
The two news stories this week highlight the transatlantic balancing act being performed by companies like Siemens Energy: embracing the opportunities for its traditional gas-fired technologies from an American administration that decries renewables, while keeping its energy transition credentials alive in Europe where there has been an increasingly frosty reception to gas.
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