Alaric wrote:Dod101 wrote: I think SSE should be seen, amongst other things, as a supplier of electricity and then leave it to the management to decide the mix of sources from which it is derived.
The S and E were Southern Electric or Electricity and a regional electricity supplier in the English home counties. The other S was Scottish something. Weren't they the Scottish equivalent of the CEGB as well as having hydro electric interests?
Southern Electric also diversified into the supply of gas and also domestic contracting such as rewiring or replacement of boilers. Were they intending to sell that business?
They were originally Scottish Hydro Electric and as such they supplied electricity to Scotland more or less north of the River Tay. They were also made the equivalent of National Grid for that area in that they have a big control room in Perth monitoring the electricity demand. Then they bought Southern Electric and renamed themselves Scottish and Southern Electricity, nowadays shortened to SSE.
Recently they have been moving much more into renewables such as the large offshore wind turbine farm at Dogger Bank in the North Sea and have sold the gas generation business so they are actually moving in the direction that the article mentions anyway. I think they have sold all their contracting businesses.
Dod