Innovative new UK utility Capital Deliver Alliance

London, United Kingdom - Amec Foster Wheeler announces today its founding membership of the Capital Deliver Alliance ('the Alliance'), launched by UK Power Networks. Alongside three other key supply chain companies the Alliance will operate together as one body to implement a major £1 billion infrastructure programme over the next 12 years.

The four UK Power Networks partners are Amec Foster Wheeler, Clancy Docwra, McNicholas and Morrison Utilities Services.

Working collaboratively with UK Power Networks, the four companies will refurbish and upgrade electricity substations, cables and power lines across London, the East and South East to achieve greater efficiency and innovative ways of working - to deliver excellence in service to UK Power Networks' customers. Representatives from all the companies will be based in one London office to enable them to operate as one entity and progress an agreed work plan.

Marc Boulter, Managing Director of Amec Foster Wheeler's Transmission & Distribution business, said: "As part of the Alliance, we will use our global expertise and experience to help deliver safe, innovative resilient solutions to support the energy transition for London, the East, South-East and for our customer."

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NOTES TO EDITORS

1)  Amec Foster Wheeler (www.amecfw.com) designs, delivers and maintains strategic and complex assets for its customers across the global energy and related sectors.

With pro-forma 2014 annualised scope revenues of £5.5 billion and over 40,000 people in more than 55 countries, the company operates across the whole of the oil and gas industry - from production through to refining, processing and distribution of derivative products - and in the mining, clean energy, power generation, pharma, environment and infrastructure markets.

Amec Foster Wheeler shares are publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange and its American Depositary Shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Both trade under the ticker AMFW.

2) UK Power Networks (www.ukpowernetworks.co.uk) distributes more than a quarter of the UK's electricity through its networks of substations, underground cables and overhead lines making sure the lights stay on across London, the South East and the East of England, regardless of who customers pay their energy bills to. A range of other companies deliver power to the rest of the country.

UK Power Networks' 5,600 employees are dedicated to delivering a safe, secure electricity supply to 8.1 million homes and businesses.

The industry regulator Ofgem sets an allowed revenue to distribution companies so that they can maintain safe and reliable electricity supplies. UK Power Networks invests more than £500 million in its electricity networks every year, offers extra help to vulnerable customers at times of need, and is undertaking trials to ensure that electricity networks support the transition to a low carbon future. It also moves cables and connects new electricity supplies.

If customers are unfortunate enough to be affected by a power cut or have another issue with the electricity supply to their property, they should contact UK Power Networks by phone, text message, Twitter, Facebook or letter. 

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