SSE & SWALEC is the UK's 2nd largest energy supplier with 9.5 million customers and 20,000 staff across the UK and Ireland. SWALEC specifically has over 1 million Welsh customers with around 2,000 staff employed across Wales. SSE will invest over £1 billion per year in the UK and has numerous ongoing and planned energy projects in Wales, including wind farms, power stations, street lighting contracts, and a smart meter trial.

1. SSE & SWALEC Overview
March 2013

2. SSE
• UK’s 2nd largest energy supplier • UK’s 2nd largest mechanical and
electrical contracting business
• 9.5 million customers
• Voted “Best for Customer Service” 8
• 20,000 staff across the UK and Ireland times in a row by uSwitch
• FTSE Top 30 company • Only energy supplier to win 5 stars in the
• Invest £1.7bn per annum, £4m per day Consumer Focus League Tables

3. SSE IN WALES
SWALEC: Over 1 million Welsh customers
Around 2,000 staff are employed by the company across Wales, with 1,169
recruited 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 a
Wind farm at Nant-y-moch near Machynlleth [1]
[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,
[2]
Saving over 550,000 tonnes CO2 [4] [3]
[6]
Smart Meter trial in St Athan [5] full rollout to commence in 2013 [5]
Sponsors the Welsh Rugby Union and Cricket Stadium [6]
Partnered with the Millennium Stadium to switch to LED lighting, achieving energy savings
of 70%.

4. 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

5. Contact: Michael Anderson | Public Affairs Wales | michael.2.anderson@sse.com

6. Contact: Michael Anderson | Public Affairs Wales | michael.2.anderson@sse.com