Southern Electric

Southern Electric is part of the Scottish and Southern Energy Group. Southern Electric is based in Maidenhead, Southern Electric supplies gas and electricity across Great Britain.

Southern Electric has been established for over 50 years. Southern Electric were one of the original electricity boards, known at the time as Southern Electric Board until a name change in 1990 to Southern Electric plc.

In 1998 Southern Electric merged with Scottish Hydro-Electric to become Scottish and Southern Energy.

Today Scottish and Southern Energy are one of the largest energy suppliers in the UK with four separate brands, Southern Electric, SWALEC, Scottish Hydro-Electric and most recently Atlantic Electric and Gas.

Scottish and Southern Energy has recently, in December 2008, reached the nine million customer mark. This comprises 5.53 million electricity customers and 3.47 million gas customers.

With its main base in Perth Scottish and Southern Energy has offices based around the UK and provides a local presence to its acquired customer base.

Scottish and Southern Energy is a vertically integrated utility company in that they own not just the supply side of the business but in Scotland also the distribution side of the business and throughout the UK a number of strategically placed generation plants.

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Other businesses within the Scottish and Southern Energy group include:

Generation

Scottish and Southern Energy Generation

Airtricity

Together these companies make Scottish and Southern Energy the UK’s second largest generation business, with an ownership interest in over 100 thermal and renewable power stations, with a total capacity of 10,600MW.Scottish and Southern Energy are the UK’s leading generator of renewable energy, owning and operating almost half of the UK’s total renewable generation capacity, including the UK’s largest wind farm

Electricity Networks

Scottish and Southern Energy Power Distribution own one electricity transmission network and two electricity distribution networks, comprising 106,000 substations and 128,000 km of overhead lines and underground cables across one third of the UK

Gas Networks

Scotia Gas Networks (SGN) is the holding company of Scotland Gas Networks and Southern Gas Networks. It is owned by a consortium made up of Scottish and Southern Energy (50%), Borealis Infrastructure Management Inc (25%) and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board (25%).SGN operates two of the largest of eight regional gas distribution networks in Britain. Its primary focus is on delivering gas to its 5.6 million customers safely, reliably and efficiently

Telecoms

Scottish and Southern Energy Neos became the UK's first and only National Ethernet Service Provider in 2001 and was acquired by Scottish and Southern Energy in 2003. With an extensive portfolio of Layer 2 connectivity, Neos' philosophy is to deliver solutions that are driven by our customers'commercial needs rather than our technical infrastructure. With a flexible approach to network configuration, Neos is able to react efficiently to customers' requests, providing prompt responses to quotations, delivery schedules and quick, live provision of services. Neos customers' can also take advantage of Liquid Bandwidth(tm) services with 48-hour upgrade guarantee

National Networks

Scottish and Southern Energy National Networks is the leading provider of electricity, gas, water and telecommunications networks for your business

Contracting

Southern Electric Contracting (SEC), is one of the country's leading mechanical and electrical contractors. The company is built on a foundation of quality, safety and good planning. It operates from 55 regional offices and employing 3,500 experienced engineers and electricians nationwide.

Energy Services

SSE Energy Services team has been established to provide a comprehensive range of products and ‘beyond the meter’ services to public sector, industrial and commercial organisations and the domestic consumer market throughout the UK and in Ireland.The broad offering embraces renewable, sustainable and energy efficient products and is supported by innovative financial packages and our well-established contracting, trading and retail operations

Retail

Scottish Hydro Electric online shop sells both white and brown goods across the UK.

Gas Storage

Scottish and Southern Energy Gas Storage own and operate the UK's largest onshore gas storage facility at Hornsea in East Yorkshire. Nine man-made salt cavities have been leached into a salt layer 1.8 kilometres below the surface creating 325 million cubic metres of gas storage space.Gas can be withdrawn at a rate of 18 million cubic metres per day, equivalent to the requirements of around four million homes.

SSE Pipelines

SSE Pipelines is a licensed public gas transporter, which is fully equipped to install, own and operate the gas infrastructure on new housing and commercial developments throughout the UK.

Energy Supply Southern Electric

Scottish Hydro Electric

SWALEC

Atlantic Electric and Gas

With Energylinx you can compare the prices of all Scottish and Southern Energy tariffs:

If you want to carry out a gas and electricity price comparison please click here.

If you only have electricity please click here.

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