Carillion confirms 1,400 redundancies in energy services business

WOLVERHAMPTON support services giant Carillion is undergoing a redundancy process in its energy services business which will eventually see 1,400 employees leave.

The redundancies follow Carillion’s announcement late last year that it planned to shed 1,500 jobs in the wake of the Government’s cuts to feed-in tariff rates which undermined the solar power market. That figure has since been revised down by 100.

Some 1,180 redundancies have already gone through, 800 of them voluntary redundancies. The remaining 220 staff will leave Carillion Energy Services later this year.

A Carillion spokesman said: “As we have stated before, the energy services business is restructuring in line with changes in market opportunities following the Government’s decision to cut feed-in-tariffs for solar PV systems, by much more than the industry expected.”

Carillion entered the energy servicers market through the £300m acquisition of green energy specialist Eaga early last year.

At the time it said it expected the low carbon market to provide major new opportunities for its support services business.

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