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SSE & SWALEC OverviewMarch 2013
SSE
• UK’s 2nd largest energy supplier
• 9.5 million customers
• 20,000 staff across the UK and Ireland
• FTSE Top 30 company
• Invest £1.7bn per annum, £4m per day
• UK’s 2nd largest mechanical and electrical contracting business
• Voted “Best for Customer Service” 8 times in a row by uSwitch
• Only energy supplier to win 5 stars in the Consumer Focus League Tables
SSE IN WALESSWALEC: Over 1 million Welsh customers
Around 2,000 staff are employed by the company across Wales, with 1,169recruited since 2007, including 362 in 2011/12 alone
SWALEC is ranked 5th in the annual list of Wales’ Top 300 companies
SSE will soon submit its planning application for aWind farm at Nant-y-moch near Machynlleth [1]
SWALEC Smart Energy Centre in Treforest [2] a training and operational base for a number of SSE businesses
Uskmouth Power Station [3] near Newport
Planning permission to build a CCGT gas power station at Abernedd [4]
Major street lighting contracts with Welsh LAs accounting for 38,000 street lights
Invested over £45m on CERT & CESP in Wales, across all 22 LAs, Saving over 550,000 tonnes CO2
Smart Meter trial in St Athan [5] full rollout to commence in 2013
Sponsors the Welsh Rugby Union and Cricket Stadium [6]
Partnered with the Millennium Stadium to switch to LED lighting, achieving energy savings of 70%.
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SWALEC SMART ENERGY CENTRE
• Flagship flexible training and operations centre in Wales
• £2m support from Welsh Assembly Government
• £1.6m of training funding from the Assembly Government.
• Base for Home Services, Metering, SSE Contracting, street lighting, and Smart Services.
• First bilingual SSE site
• One of the greenest buildings in Wales demonstrating a solar steel wall in partnership with Tata
Contact: Michael Anderson | Public Affairs Wales | [email protected]