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.