Siemens Power Generation, Inc (SPGI) is a power generation company based in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 run by the German Siemens AG

Siemens AG

Siemens AG is a German multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Munich, Germany. It is the largest Europe-based electronics and electrical engineering company....

 Corporation.

SPGI was formed by the acquisition and merger of the non-nuclear energy divisions of Westinghouse Electric Company

Westinghouse Electric (1886)

Westinghouse Electric was an American manufacturing company. It was founded in 1886 as Westinghouse Electric Company and later renamed Westinghouse Electric Corporation by George Westinghouse. The company purchased CBS in 1995 and became CBS Corporation in 1997...

 by the Siemens power generation division in 1997; the organisation was then known as Siemens Westinghouse and underwent a change to its present name in 2005.

Siemens Power Generation has a large number of offices and plants in the United States including Orlando, Florida; Charlotte, North Carolina; Fort Payne, Alabama; Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Alpharetta, Georgia; as well as Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and overseas. Siemens Power Generation also runs the Siemens Westinghouse Competition

Siemens Westinghouse Competition

The Siemens Competition is a science competition funded by the Siemens Foundation and administered by the College Board.- Eligibility requirements :The Siemens Competition is open to high school students who are citizens or permanent residents of the US...

, an international science and technology competition.