20th November 2024: Keltbray Infrastructure Services (KISL) is delighted to announce its recognition at the ScottishPower ‘Supplier of the Year Awards’ 2024.
Awarded ‘Supplier of the Year’ for 2024, KISL received the prestigious award for “consistency and reliability as a supplier who has worked with ScottishPower (SP) since 2019, and for excellent environmental considerations and approach to delivery in support of SP Energy Networks.
SP held the prestigious supplier awards ceremony at Glasgow Science Centre on November 14, 2024, to recognise UK companies that are crucial to its accelerated investment in critical energy infrastructure and the green energy transition.
Almost 300 people from companies across the UK and members of the SP team attended its supplier awards.
The Supplier Awards recognise companies’ innovative contributions across various categories, including health and safety, customer service, diversity and inclusion, sustainability, digitalisation, energy transition, entrepreneurship, and successful service delivery in the energy industry.
Iain Thomson, Head of Distribution at KISL commented, elaborating on the nature of the relationship between ScottishPower and KISL “It’s a privilege and great honour to receive a such prestigious award. Our relationship with SP (ScottishPower) started some 12 years ago when we were awarded a place on the SPD (ScottishPower Distribution) Distribution Overhead Line (OHL) framework contract in 2012 allowing us to establish a modest foothold in the Scottish Borders and over the years building on this to establish ourselves as a supplier for SPT (ScottishPower Transmission) Transmission OHL.
Having recently secured a place on the 10-year Transmission framework on both substations & OHL, coupled with our existing frameworks for Distribution OHL, substation frameworks and the Low Carbon Technology (Looped Services) programme it gives us great confidence to invest locally in the supply chain and equally importantly in our own directly employed local labour.
We have invested c.£2m in training in the last 3 years with the development of our Wood pole and Transmission training centre in Bathgate and will now further invest in Substation and Live Low Voltage environments with a commitment to double our traineeship for blue- and white-collar workers. Our relationship with ScottishPower is a key reason why we chose Bathgate as our training school due to the high level of confidence we have in our continuing relationship.
We all have a duty and responsibility to deliver Net Zero and this recognition only encourages our commitment on this journey to further invest in Technology and continued sustainability measures to drive towards this goal.”
Read more about the ScottishPower ‘Supplier of the Year Awards’ here.
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About ScottishPower
ScottishPower is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world’s largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy.
ScottishPower is the first integrated energy company in the UK to generate 100% green electricity. Our focus is on wind energy, smart grids and driving the change to a cleaner, electric future and we’re investing over £8m every working day to make this happen.
We’re committed to speeding up the transition to cleaner electric transport, improving air quality and over time, driving down bills – to deliver a better future, quicker for everyone.
About Keltbray Infrastructure Services Limited (KISL)
KISL is a leading specialist infrastructure services provider, applying its proactive relationship management approach with customer teams, supply chain partners and regulatory bodies. This promotes early dialogue and proactive design evaluation, facilitating effective communication and identifying key project risks with defined delivery requirements.
Our direct-delivery philosophy in design, project management, engineering, construction and maintenance services, and plant supply allows us to control all aspects of a project, minimising delivery risk and providing greater certainty for our clients.
Our detailed understanding of working in complex, highly regulated infrastructure environments, and the effectiveness of our innovative engineering solutions enables the most complex and technically challenging projects to be delivered to the required specification standards. Our clients benefit from our expert knowledge, best practices, and forward thinking, partnership approach to design and programme opportunities, driving excellence and efficiency in delivery.
Our unique strength is our people, their willingness to identify and overcome problems on a daily basis and their collaborative attitude to deliver projects to the highest possible standard.