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 | michael.2.anderson@sse.com