ScottishPower

ScottishPower is an international company with four strong businesses focused on growth, safety and service.

 

Energy Retail (in the UK)

Supplies electricity and gas to over 5 million homes and businesses in the UK, with a track record of customer retention and product innovation.

 

Energy Retail manages pricing, selling, metering, billing, customer service and cash collection for gas and electricity supply to both business and domestic customers.

 

Energy Retail holds the supply licences and has its own data management and metering company - SP Dataserve Ltd., who manage the data processes underpinning billing and settlement

 

Energy Networks

With around 3.3 million customers, ScottishPower own and operate their own electricity transmission and distribution network.  Energy Networks operates primarily in a regulated environment with targets set by the UK regulator, Ofgem.

 

Day-to-day operation of their network, approaching 112,000 km, is conducted by ScottishPower Power Systems Ltd (PowerSystems), a wholly owned subsidiary of ScottishPower.

Assets and transmission and distribution licences are owned by three wholly-owned subsidiaries; SP Transmission Ltd, SP Distribution Ltd and SP Manweb Ltd. These act as an integrated business unit, with the aim of outperforming their regulatory targets and implementing an investment strategy to expand the network.

 

Energy Wholesale

Operates a flexible and diverse generation portfolio and are the UK’s leading wind farm operator.  The range and scale of our activities include:-

Generation

Generation has responsibility for operating and maintaining our generating portfolio. Generation is organised around the physical assets – coal, gas, windfarm and hydro-electric power stations plus our Daldowie facility near Glasgow which manufactures fuel pellets from sewage sludge.

 

In the short-to-medium term, Generation's impact on energy management activities is primarily through agreeing and meeting production commitments (including plant efficiency, availability, flexibility and reliability targets and maintenance outage schedules).

 

Generation works closely with the Energy Management team to establish production forecasts, which are incorporated into the Company's energy positions and opportunities for trading.

Energy Management

Energy Management is responsible for the wholesale trading of power, gas, coal and other commodities. This team schedules generating plant and works with the Energy Retail business to set gas and electricity tariffs. They also carry out financial modelling for potential investments identified by the Commercial Development team. In the longer term, they have responsibility for developing robust strategies, operational plans, budgets and forecasts in support of the company's strategy for developing its energy portfolio.

 

Energy Management forecasts energy trends over the long term and works with bodies such as Ofgem and the Department of Trade and Industry to help shape the energy policy of the future.

Commercial Development

Commercial Development is responsible for originating value enhancing opportunities for the business, including bespoke energy contracts, asset acquisitions and asset developments.

 

Over the past couple of years this has included the acquisition of 1,000MW of modern gas generation plant at Damhead Creek (800MW) and Brighton (200MW) and the disposal of the Byley gas storage development project. This transaction included a 15-year storage contract for a substantial portion of the planned capacity.

Renewables and Major Projects

Renewables and Major Projects is responsible for delivering ScottishPower’s strategy of having 10% (1,000MW) of generated electricity come from renewable sources by 2010. This will be achieved primarily through the building and acquisition of windfarms, but also by investing in biomass and other emerging technologies such as wave power.

 

The Energy Networks business also includes Core Utility Solutions Limited which was set up to take advantage of the opportunities presented by the requirement for competitive provision of connections to distribution networks.

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We are the number two wind farm developer and one of the top three independent gas storage operators in the United States.

 

ScottishPower offer a range of gas and electricity tariffs including a two green or renewable
tariffs to the domestic energy consumer.

 

ScottishPower were the first company to offer an online service to the domestic consumer and it is in areas such as this that ScottishPower has helped push the UK gas and electricity industry forward.

 

If you would like to see how ScottishPower compare with the rest of the UK's gas and electricity suppliers feel free to use the free Energylinx home energy price comparison service to see how much you can save on your bills.

 

You can compare all the latest ScottishPower gas and electricity tariffs using these calculators below:

 

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