About us
Our core purpose is to provide the energy people need in a reliable and sustainable way; and our strategy is to deliver sustained real growth in the dividend payable to shareholders through the efficient operation of, and investment in, a balanced range of regulated and non-regulated energy and utility businesses.
Generation
SSE owns just over 11,300MW of electricity generation capacity, including its share of joint ventures and associates. This makes it the second largest electricity generator across the UK and Ireland. The capacity comprises 4,590MW of gas- and oil-fired capacity, 4,370MW of coal-fired capacity (with biomass ‘co-firing’ capability), and 2,370MW of renewable capacity.
Energy Supply
SSE supplies electricity and gas to around 9.45 million customers within Great Britain and Ireland's competitive electricity and gas supply markets, with growth continuing in the current financial year. It is the second largest supplier of energy in the UK.
Electricity Networks
SSE is responsible for around 128,000km of overhead lines and underground cables, distributing electricity to 3.5 million homes, offices and businesses in the north of Scotland and central, southern England. SSE also owns and maintains the 132kV and 275kV electricity transmission network in the north of Scotland.
Gas Networks
SSE holds 50% of the equity of Scotia Gas Networks plc, which owns and operates the Scotland and the Southern gas distribution networks. The networks comprise some 74,000km of gas mains, delivering gas to around 5.7 million industrial, commercial and domestic customers.
Telecoms Networks
SSE Telecoms and Neos Networks operate an 10,300km UK-wide telecoms network, providing services to other telecoms providers, companies and public sector organisations.
Contracting
SSE’s Contracting business has three main areas of activity: industrial, commercial and domestic mechanical and electrical contracting; electrical and instrumentation engineering; and public and highway lighting. It is one of the largest mechanical and electrical contracting businesses in the UK.
Connections
SSE's Utility Solutions business provides a one-stop solution for multi-utility infrastructure requirements by building, operating and maintaining 'out-of-area' embedded electricity networks, and gas, water, and commercial energy services.
Energy and Home Services
SSE's energy and home services team offers a range of maintenance and protection services for customers' gas and electrical systems, electricity and gas appliances, telecoms services and community-focused renewable energy schemes.
Gas Storage
SSE owns and operates the UK’s largest onshore gas storage facility at Hornsea in East Yorkshire. Nine salt caverns have been leached into a salt layer 1.8km below the surface, creating 325 million cubic metres (mcm) of gas storage capacity.
