Our full-year results

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16 May 2012
Ian Marchant, our CEO, talks about our full-year results

SSE to offer all customers an Annual Energy Review

25 Apr 2012

Over the next 12 months, we will offer all our customers a energy review designed to ensure they are on the best product for their needs. This initiative will create 200 new jobs.

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Latest dividend payment

24p a share on 23 March 2012
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Doing business responsibly

We don’t seek to maximise profitability in any one year but to maintain and develop a sustainable business that serves customers, employs people and pays dividends over the long term.

What we do

Engineer wearing a hard hat

We are the UK’s second largest generation business, with an ownership interest in over 100 thermal and renewable power stations, with a total capacity of just over 11,300MW.

Generating electricity from diverse sources

We generate electricity from gas and coal and renewable sources like wind and hydro. This gives us the greatest diversity in fuels for generating electricity among UK generators and the biggest portfolio of renewable energy.

Generation

Wind turbines next to lake.

We are the UK's second largest generation business, with a total capacity of just over 11,300MW.

Working to reduce carbon dioxide emissions

We believe the energy industry will be radically re-shaped as carbon dioxide emissions are reduced and fossil fuels become scarcer and our low carbon transition is well under way.

Generation

Hydro electric dam at Pitlochry

We are the UK's second largest generation business, with a total capacity of just over 11,300MW.

Our full-year results

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16 May 2012
Ian Marchant, our CEO, talks about our full-year results

Annual Report

Our latest annual report

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Latest dividend payment

24p a share on 23 March 2012
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News

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Energy Bill must deliver an attractive investment climate for UK renewables

15 May 2012

A broad coalition of energy companies have written to Edward Davey Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change outlining real concerns about the Government's proposed 'Contracts for Difference' CFD proposal for subsidising new low carbon investments.

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  • Ian Marchant - Chief Executive

    At SSE, our job is to provide the energy people need in a reliable and sustainable way.  We’re involved in producing, distributing and supplying (or retailing) electricity and gas and we provide other energy-related services as well.  SSE is the only company listed on the London Stock Exchange involved in such a wide range of energy businesses.

    To do this job, there is a team of around 20,000 people working throughout the UK and Ireland.  We work to the SSE SET of values: Safety, Service, Efficiency, Sustainability, Excellence and Teamwork.  These values are in keeping with our commitment to the long term, for the benefit of customers, investors and the environment.