Special Scottish Power Edition OCTOBER 1995 A POWERFUL COMBINATION ScottishPower and Manweb combine strength and efficiency

SCOTTISHPOWER Chairman Murray Stuart said the combi­ nation of Scottish­ Power and Manweb would create a power­ ful and broadly-based utility with a combined market of three million customers. 'The skills and expertise of the people within both businesses will form a strong and efficient force within a rapidly-changing Mike Kinski Murray Stuart UK utility sector," he added. Manweb is joining forces with a fellow electricity dis­ tributor. ScottishPower also spe­ 'WE'LL KEEP YOU cialises in the generation and transmission of electric­ INFORMED' - NEW ity, combining the functions ,~arried out in England and Wales by t ;:le generacorl;, CHIEF EXECUTIVE the National Grid Company and the Regional Electricity Chief Executive Mike Kinski meets Stores Manager Colin Smith during a tour of Manweb's Rhyl Depot. PROMISES STAFF Companies. customers throughout ScottishPower also has a to Elgin in the North. A significant proportion of Britain and it has an ex­ large retail business, with ScottishPower has a Dear Colleague, the electricity generated by This edition of 'Contact' has been specially produced to provide panding telecommunica­ over 160 shops and super­ turnover of £1. 7 billion ScottishPower is sold to the stores under the Scottish­ you with a short introduction to ScottishPower, which I hope you generating pool in England tions subsidiary which (94~95) and has more than find useful. and Wales (from which serves business customers Power, Electricity Plus and 8,000 employees. Every It contains information about the company's main business ac­ RECs and large industrial in Scotland via one of the Sound & Vision brands, year it invests more than tivities, its strategy and training and other staff initiatives. customers buy their sup­ most powerful networks in stretching across Britain £1 billion to operate its A special edition of ScottishPower's in-house newspaper, plies) via a high voltage Europe. from Ipswich in the south, business. 'Powerline', is also being published in response to employees' de­ sire to know more about Manweb. transmission link which ScottishPower is committed to open and honest communication, joins the national grid at to sharing our thoughts and plans with you and giving you ample the Scotland-England bor­ opportunity to ask questions. der, near Carlisle. NEW MAN AT THE TOP We already have had meetings and seminars with managers and The company also plans intend to keep staff informed through existing means, including let­ to build an under-sea power ters, 'Contact' and later in the year a series of roadshows. link with Northern Ireland COMMITTED TO TRAINING A small transition team, pictured on page two, has started work which would be capable of alongside managers and staff at Manweb to find the most effective supplying the Province with ways of integrating the businesses. 250 megawatts (MW) of MIKE KINSKI, 43, was a major training initiatives other of his initiatives. It will take some weeks to understand and assess the company electricity from Scotland's key figure in the trans­ designed to help employees Before joining Scottish­ and by the beginning of December we will share our findings and power stations. formation of Scottish­ further their careers. Power he spent 12 years in outline our plans to you. Power from a large, These included an MBA senior management posi­ I know that this is a worrying time and it is my intention to make Utility centrally organised or­ run in partnership with a tions with Jaguar, where sure that the transition of ownership is done carefully and is sensi­ ganisation into a prof­ Scottish university as part the major restructuring he tive to personal and business needs. Services itable and streamlined of a high quality develop­ helped to implement not The purchase of Manweb is an important strategic move by ment programme for only allowed the company to ScottishPower, which is committed to building strong, competitive, ScottishPower owns and business with account­ ability devolved to indi­ ScottishPower managers. remain trading, but also customer-focused businesses. operates coal-fired, gas-fired paved the way for a success­ and hydro-electric power vidual business units. Mike is a firm believer in As you know, the electricity industry is going through a period of the benefits education and ful partnership with Ford. tremendous change. It is our belief that the only companies which stations in Scotland, to­ He joined the company in training can bring to the in­ At Jaguar Mike served as will survive in the fierce competition to be introduced in 1990 will gether with Europe's largest 1992 as an Executive Personnel Director and a di­ be companies of scale which are also highly efficient, cost-effec­ wind farm at Newtown in Director and has been re­ dividual and the business. He himself spent a number rector of the Main Board. tive and provide the highest quality of customer service. Wales, three smaller wind sponsible for managing a He was also a board director We want to build Manweb into a farms in Northern Ireland portfolio of ScottishPower's of years gaining qualifica­ tions at night school and in of a Jaguar joint venture highly successful multi-utility busi- ~f< and a gas-fired power sta­ businesses as well as the company set up to establish ness and I firmly believe that we can V (, '- tion at Knapton in company's Human Resour­ the early part of his career build significantly on what has been was British Leyland's an automotive component Yorkshire. ces function. manufacturing operation. achieved over the past five years. The production and sale Senior Technical Training of power is an important Training Adviser. part of ScottishPower's busi­ His commitment is re­ Fellow ness, but it is by no means Initiatives flected in the company's the only one. Open Learning scheme, a Mike is a Fellow of the Assurance on pensions Since privatisation of the Mike was in charge of network of 21 specially­ Institute of Personnel THE 13th Annual General Meeting of the Electricity Supply Pension electricity industry the com­ ScottishPower's Electrical equipped study centres Management and a Member Scheme will be held on 8 November 1995, at 1.45pm, at the Balta pany has been successful in Contracting Division, its re­ throughout the of the Institute of Centre, 195 Piccadilly, London W1. Copies of the minutes of the 12th ScottishPower area offering AGM and the ESPS Annual Report and Accounts 1994-95 are available extending its range of busi­ tail operation, with 160 Management. from the Pensions Section on 01244 652582 (int. ext. 2582) ness activities and the area stores and 2,100 employees, the choice of around 500 He is married and he and • Manweb's Chi,ef Executive Mike Kinski has confirmed that the pension it serves . the company's specialist en­ business-related courses to his wife, Julie, have two rights of current employees, pensioners and former employees are fully The company has exper­ gineering group and its In­ BSc level. daughters. Mike's interests safeguarded. He said: "These assurances are supported by the provi­ tise in a number of utility formation Systems Division. A comprehensive and vol­ include sport and he was sion of The Electricity (Protected Person) (England and Wales) Pensions services. It supplies gas, in He was also responsible untary health programme once on the books of Regulations 1990." addition to electricity, to for introducing a number of available to all staff is an- Coventry FC.

Longannet Power Station. Penrhyddlan and Llidiartywaun wind farm. GENERATING POWER FOR businesses SCOTLAND AND BEYOND

~ for 1998 ELECTRICITY generated at product from colliery wash­ UK. It has four 100 MW the company's power stations eries. units, set in a massive under­ ned this year to position Scottish Power is consumed largely in Much of Scotland's elec­ ground cave carved from ricity marketplace, which will be fully Scotland, but an increasing tricity needs are met by nu­ solid marble, and works like amount is being sold south clear power generated at a large battery, using cheap 1 integrated at the company's business of the border through the Scottish Nuclear Ltd's sta­ night time electricity to ff have the latest technology at their fin­ Anglo Scottish transmission tions at Hunterston in pump water from its lower calls each year on energy supply, Cus- link. I Ayrshire and Torness in East reservoir, Loch Awe, uphill to The capacity of the link, I Lothian. another reservoir high on shop' for electricity and gas services, currently 1600 megawatts Ben Cruachan. lout the company supply area. The ser­ (MW), is set to rise again, to Nuclear agreement Generation Wholesale f areas of business if required. 2200 MW from 1997. Division has not confined its ver and its gas supply subsidiary, The generation business, operations to Scotland. ScottishPower buys almost ectricity and gas to customers all over which operates the com­ During the last few years it 75 per cent of the output of on price and service packages. pany's power stations, is has established Europe's these stations, under a 'must r has been successful in retaining cus­ preparing now for the in­ largest (31 MW) wind farm take' agreement set up at rea and winning others outside it. creased potential for sales by at Penrhyddlan and ningham and London to support the ex­ continuing to focus on reduc­ privatisation. Llidiartywaun in Wales, in llectricity to 1.7 million customers both ing costs, working in part­ This agreement will con­ conjunction with the Tomen nership with its staff and tinue, following formation of Corporation of Japan, to­ ,out Britain - with around half of them in with its key supplier, the British Energy Coinpany, gether with three smaller ,all stadium in Liverpool. Scottish Coal, to ensure that into the next century, but wind farms at Rigged Hill, service functions, and again there have ScottishPower is able to pro­ with a gradually reducing Corkey and Elliots in duce electricity at competi­ commitment. Northern Ireland. ; in gaining the Govemment's Charter tive prices. The nation's electricity It also owns and operates a e, reducing disconnections to a handful Substantial investment needs are also served by 40 MW power station at 99.9 per cent success rate in meeting has also been made within ScottishPower's hydro elec­ Knapton in Yorkshire, which the power stations to enable tric plant, which has a quick is fuelled by the UK's largest 3r reading and income collection during them to cope with the in­ start facility allowing it to on-shore gas field. Knapton, I remote metering and bill pre-payment creasing demand for their help meet demand peaks. the company's newest power ELECTRICAL Contracting has increased its work­ generation. The largest is Cruachan, station, was commissioned in force from 230 to around 600 since it was formed In addition, state-of-the­ one of only two pumped stor­ 1994 and officially opened in nearly four years ago. art environmental technol­ age power stations in the May this year. It specialises in the design, installation, repair and mainte­ ogy, including special burn­ nance of electrical plant ranging from power station trans­ ers, is being installed formers to air conditioning systems. enabling the company to The Division's customers include major electronics and keep within emission con­ pharmaceuticals companies, universities, hospitals and local straints while increasing coal authorities. They recently completed a contract at the Atomic burning at its two key power Energy Authority's Dounreay installation, to strip out electri­ stations, Longannet - the cal plant as part of the decommissioning process. second largest in Europe - One of their most unusual contracts to date involved carry­ and Cockenzie, both near ing out maintenance work at all the lighthouses dotted round Edinburgh. the Scottish coastline. Longannet, with its four Since 1992 the division has trained - or is in the process of 600 MW generating sets, is training - 100 apprentices and it is now offering semi-skilled ScottishPower's flagship adults the chance to work towards a City & Guilds qualifica­ power station - the QE2 tion in Electrical Installation. could fit into the turbine hall. Work for external clients today accounts for around 60 per Cockenzie is half its size, cent of the Division's turnover - a 12-fold increase from when with four 300 MW genera­ the business was founded. tors. Other fossil fuel power What was once a non profit-making arms of distribution, stations in Scotland include concentrating entirely on domestic heater installations, has Methil, which has a capacity grown to become one of the top 20 UK electrical contractors, of 60 MW and for 30 years with an order book for some 600 live contracts worth £40 has been generating electric­ million. ity from coal slurry - a by- Telecoms business takes off SCOTTISHPOWER's telecommunications business, ScollishTelecom, is founded on 60 years' experience of designing and operating one of the UK's most advanced private telecommunications networks. So far £40m has been invested in constructing an advanced fibre optiC network for commercial traffic. Transmission towers are used in some areas to carry the fibre optic cable. ScottishTelecom's customers include clearing banks, a distillery group, Scottish Mutual, Abbey National Life and the BBC. Its network at the moment covers Scotland's Central Belt, and there are partnerships in place with other service providers extending connections throughout the UK and beyond. ScottishTelecom recently won a contract to link Scottish universities and colleges along an information superhighway. The Juse . company has also undertaken the delivery of a" BBC signals north of the border. Cruachan Power Station.

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CARING FOR THE ENVIRONMENT Our commitment to being a 'good neighbour' AS responsible mem­ water. It has been demon­ Although ScottishPower bers of the community, strated previously in a small produces relatively small industrial companies power station in the US, but amounts of S02 compared have a duty to keep the not in one the size of with other generators in the environmental impact Longannet. UK, due to the use oflow-sul­ If the technology is proven phur coal and a diverse gen­ of their operations to a during the one-year trial pe­ eration mix which includes minimum. riod, ScottishPower will be nuclear, coal, gas and hydro, WATCHING Accidental pollution or fail­ able to claim a world first. the company is preparing ing to keep up with tighten­ The company has already now for the possible need to OVER THE ing standards is not only bad taken steps to reduce emis­ install Flue Gas Desulph­ for the environment, it can sions of NOx with the instal­ urisation equipment in the be bad for the business as lation of special 10w-NOx future. LANDSCAPE well. burners on each of the four A pilot project, using sea­ ScottishPower takes its units at Longannet, and has water to remove S02 from A WHOLE range of interested obligations to the environ­ announced a £10m pro­ flue gases at Longannet, is parties are consulted whenever ment very seriously. For ex­ gramme to carry out similar showing promising results. a new line is being planned or ample, Longannet Power work at Cockenzie, its other At Methil Power Station, modified. Station is pioneering technol­ coal-fired station. work is under way on a £1.25 Before a route is planned, de­ ogy with its European part­ Such investments will million project to install a tailed environmental impact ners to reduce emissions of allow ScottishPower to in­ new bag filtration system studies are carried out before nitrous oxides (NOx) - a crease generation output which acts like a giant vac­ route planning begins to assess cause of acid rain - by intro­ and, at the same time, to uum cleaner to remove dust the likely impact on people and ducing gas overfiring to the keep within emission con­ from flue gases before it property, flora and fauna, her­ combustion process. straints. Tests have also reaches the station chimney. itage, leisure, recreation and The £21 million project in­ been carried out on equip­ commercial activity. volves using natural gas to ment to reduce emissions of Possible routes are drawn up convert NOx produced from sulphur dioxide (S02) from New focus on ash sales using sophisticated computer vi­ burning coal into harmless the company's power sta­ sualisation techniques, which elemental nitrogen and tions. WITH the amount of the lagoons areas, coupled rine environment. show how the line will look coal burned at the com­ with Government proposals Improvements to ash facil­ against the contours of the land­ pany's power stations for a landfill tax, makes in­ ities at Longannet and scape. creasing sales of ash the pre­ Cockenzie Power Stations After consent is granted and set to rise to between work begins, practical environ­ five and six million ferred option. should help to double sales of ScottishPower, in common ash over the next few years. mental measures are taken to tonnes over the next with other generators The ash is used in cement, protect the land. few years, the disposal throughout Europe, has been block-making, grout and as Components are often flown in of ash is an environ­ selling ash from its power an in-fill material in the con­ by helicopter to minimise possi­ mental issue which is stations for many years, struction of roads and the ble damage to the ground caused receiving- renewed TIlBj!lly for UEe by the con­ fouIlJations of buildings. by trucks and afterwards the land focus. - struction products industry. Another by-product from is reinstated to its original condi­ As electricity production What makes Scottish­ ash, cenospheres, small silica tion. increases in line with up­ Power unique though, is that spheres, are used to make Today's environmentally graded and new transmission it produces its own blended tough, waterproof coatings friendly construction techniques links to other parts of the cement. Selling under the for boat hulls. makes it appear as if the line had UK, the level of ash to be dis­ brand name Trojan, the ScottishPower's Ash Sales been dropped in from the ai r. posed of could top one million ScottishPower cement is be­ business continues to work Attention is also being paid to tonnes a year. coming increasingly popular. alongside the University of electricity substations in sensi­ Until now, the bulk of A 10,000 tonne load was Dundee's Concrete Tech­ tive areas such as commercia l ScottishPower's ash has been recently delivered to AMEC nology Unit to evaluate the centres or areas of historic sig­ pumped to lagoons and used Marine for a refurbishment use of ash in different prod­ nificance. to reclaim land from the sea, project at Jersey harbour. ucts, hoping to discover new, Careful use of material, bright which is then landscaped and The company carrying out environmentally-friendly paint and even computer-con­ handed over to local commu­ the work needed cement ways of using what has trolled colour lighting effects can Testing ash for quality. nities. which was capable of with­ proved to be a very useful by­ be used to create a more sympa­ But pressure of space in standing a chloride-rich ma- product. thetic feel.

A HAVEN FOR WILDLIFE YOU might not see a Phoenix rising from the ashes at power station la­ goons - but it's just possible to catch site of some rare breed feeding at the specially-created ponds. Ash from ScottishPower's coal-fired stations has been used to re­ claim nearly 300 acres of land from the sea near Edinburgh , providing the local community with a football pitch, an open recreational space, a boating pond and a wildlife reserve, which is home to more than 130 species of birds at different times of the year. To date , 130 acres of land have been handed over and another 44 acres will be gifted this year. Scottish Power and East Lothian District Council jointly fund a full­ time ranger to manage the lagoons and organise educational field trips for schoolchildren:students and other groups. A few miles away work is progressing to provide a park and nature walk around the central feature of ancient lime workings, which has been preserved from destruction by ash from Longannet Power Station. Wildlife Ranger Dave Allen at work in East Lothian and, above left, Preston Island, being preserved by ScoltishPower ash.

A little help for our friends

SCOTTISHPOWER contributes to the cultural life of Scotland through a wide-ranging sponsor­ Photo feature ship programme, covering education, the arts, sport and also a number of charities. on Scottish Power Over the last few years, organisa­ tions and events as diversified as Childline Scotland and the in the community Edinburgh International Festival have benefited. Sponsorships range from the Scottish development programme for youngsters. National Orchestra, Scottish Ballet and Community initiatives have included the Royal Scottish National Orchestra to replacing a school library destroyed by the company's own ScottishPower Pipe fire and helping young people refurbish Band and the Edinburgh F estival an old locomotive donated to the commu­ Theatre. nity by Longannet Power Station. The company has supported the Mark And around £600,000 in interest gener­ Morris dance group, enabling them ated from people who prepaid to avoid bring dance to the community as part of VAT was spread among organisations de­ the Edinburgh Festival. voted to tackling fuel poverty or helping This summer the Princes Trust made elderly and disabled people. good use of a donation from ScottishPower to set up a summer school for disadvantaged secondary school chil­ dren. Power of Enterprise NINE-year-old Leanne Forshawe of Childline Scotland was provided with Edinburgh beams with delight at her spe­ £20,000-worth of free heating and lighting cial interactive computer, donated thanks to at their new Glasgow Headquarters, ScottishPower. while £4,500 went to Children in Need. Leanne, who attends a special school for The company also helped to raise £13,000 spastics run by 'capability', can control the for Disability Scotland. computer through the small panels at the Another £20,000 went to Glasgow side of her head. It is one of a number of Works to help fund a training-for-jobs learning aids the company has provided to project in one of Glasgow's most impover­ local schools - including one which lost its ished areas. library because of arson. The project is currently training previ­ On the left the former station locomotive, ously unemployed people in lay commu­ painted in the ScottishPower livery, is a tes­ nity health worker posts, creating jobs tament to the power of enterprise. It was re­ and helping to improve the area's poor furbished by young formerly unemployed health record. people with help from power station staff. Sports sponsorships included continued The locomotive has since been donated to assistance for the Scottish Bowling a railway preservation society for use on Association's Annual Championships and their private line at Aviemore. a three-year sponsorship of a gymnastics Years after it hauled its last load of coal, the Power of Enterprise is now pulling in visit ors from a ll over the wor ld to t he Scottish Highlands. Jolly good sports!

THE company and its staff joined forces in one of Scottish Power's most success­ ful charity initiatives, which raised £178,000 towards the cost of Scotland's first children's hospices. Scottish Power's charities committee made a donation of £100,000 to kick off the appeal which aimed to raise over a million pounds. The company then matched money raised by staff, pound for pound, and the joint effort resulted in a boost to the Appeal total of another £78,000. Staff from throughout the company rose to the challenge, with numerous fund-raising events including para­ chute jumps. In their spare time staff are also active in supporting other good causes. Sandy Mcintosh, Cockenzie Power Station, is a guide for blind golfers, while Scottish Power colleague and rugby inter­ nationalist Craig Chalmers is involved in the company's sponsorship of 'New Age' rugby. Friendly Kilt converts in China COMPANY sponsorship is helping to maintain high standards in one of rivalry Scotland's best-loved musical traditions. Since 1989 the company has spon­ MANWEB will be at home to sored a pipe band, comprising some of the best pipers and drummers in soccer rivals ScotlishPower Scotland, who travel all over the world as ambassadors for Scottish Power. on 4 November, for a chal­ The band and individuals within it have won some of the top accolades in lenge match both teams hope the business with the drum corps having held the World Championship title. will become an annual fix­ This year the Scottish Power Pipe Band, resplendent in the new ture. There are also talks Scottish Power tartan, were heard by their biggest-ever audience. They trav­ about extending the competi­ elled to the first international Band Festival in China, as guests of the tion to include others in the Chinese government and, in addition to playing on the Great Wall, per­ supply industry, such as Norweb, who last year staged formed to television audience of some 500 million people. Another claim a a friendly against the to fame was playing on Paul McCartney's hit 'Mull of Kintyre'. Scottish Power side.

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