Company Description:

About ALSTOM Grid The newest sector of ALSTOM, ALSTOM Grid has over 100 years of expertise in electrical grids. ALSTOM Grid Inc. is an active player around the globe. It designs, manufactures and supplies a complete range of products, systems and services for all stages of electricity flow, including energy automation and information, protection and control equipment, high and medium voltage switch gear, transformers and instruments. Whether for utilities or electro-intensive industries or facilitating the trading of energy, ALSTOM Grid brings power to their customers’ projects.

ALSTOM Grid ranks among the top 3 in electrical transmission sector with a sales turnover of approximately € 3.5 billion in 2009. At the heart of the development of Smart Grid, ALSTOM Grid offers products, services and integrated energy management solutions across the full energy value chain—from power generation, through transmission and distribution grids and to the large end user. ALSTOM Grid Inc. employs approximately 1,000 persons in the United States and its corporate headquarters are located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its yearly gross sales are approximately $400 million. The ALSTOM Grid group of companies have manufacturing facilities in 41 countries, a sales network in more than 100 countries, annual revenue in excess of €11.9 billion, and approximately 75,000 employees worldwide.

About ALSTOM ALSTOM is a global leader in the world of power generation, power transmission and rail infrastructure and sets the benchmark for innovative and environmentally friendly technologies. ALSTOM builds the fastest train and the highest capacity automated metro in the world, provides turnkey integrated power plant solutions and associated services for a wide variety of energy sources, including hydro, nuclear, gas, coal and wind, and it offers a wide range of solutions for power transmission, with a focus on smart grids. The Group employs 96,500 people in more than 70 countries, and had sales of over € 23 billion* in 2009/10. (*Pro forma figures).