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<p>Heather Kirk: /* Notes */</p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:CharlesBerry.jpg|left|140px|thumb|Charles Berry {{ref|1}}]]<br /> <br /> ==Background==<br /> [[Charles Berry]] was [[Scottish Power]]'s Executive Director UK, responsible for the UK energy businesses of Generation, Energy Management and Supply. He joined [[Scottish Power]] in November 1991 and was appointed to the Board in April 1999. Mr. Berry was named Human Resources Director in early 1996 and in July of the same year was appointed Chief Executive of [[Manweb]], the [[Scottish Power]] subsidiary supplying electricity to Merseyside, Cheshire and North Wales. In April 1998 Charles Berry became Managing Director of Energy Supply for [[Scottish Power]], continuing to be a member of the Boards of [[Manweb]] and [[Southern Water]]. In April 1999 he took up his Board position with responsibility for the Energy Supply and Retail businesses, Electricity Trading and Regulation. He was also a member of the Board of the Energy Saving Trust. {{ref|2}}<br /> <br /> Prior to joining [[Scottish Power]], in 1990 he was Group Development Director of '''Norwest Holst''', a subsidiary of '''Compagnie Générale des Eaux''', and prior to that held management positions within subsidiaries of '''Pilkington''' plc. <br /> <br /> Between 1974 and 1982 he held various engineering, project management and marketing positions within '''Pilkington''' before attending MIT under full sponsorship. After returning from the US in 1983, he worked in a number of '''Pilkington''' subsidiaries serving UK and international markets as Technical Director, Business Development Director and Marketing Director. <br /> <br /> [[Charles Berry]] was educated at Kelvinside Academy, Glasgow, and the University of Glasgow where he graduated in 1974 with a first class Honours Degree in Electronics and Electrical Engineering. He graduated MS at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 1983. {{ref|3}}<br /> <br /> ==Restructuring the company==<br /> In September of 2005, [[Ian Russell]] ([[Scottish Power]]'s former Chief Executive) was faced with a growing threat from the stock market as the company's shares had recently soared causing rumours of its German rival, and owner of Powergen, [[E.ON]] wanting to buy the company. After meeing with the chairman, [[Charles Miller Smith]], and the finance director, [[Simon Lowth]], it was decided that a major restructuring had to take place - one that involved getting rid of two of his top executives - [[David Nish]] and [[Charles Berry]]. Along with these sackings, the human resources director, [[Mike Pittman]], and the communications chief, [[Dominic Fry]] were dismissed as well. Mr. Russell's explanation referred back to late May when [[Scottish Power]] announced the £5.1 billion sale of its giant US business [[PacifiCorp]] to the world-famous entrepreneur Warren Buffet. [[PacifiCorp]] was responsible for two-thirds of [[Scottish Power]]'s valuation, which meant that the company would become much smaller when the deal went through. The idea of the restructuring was to slim down the group - stripping out the four directors in the process - preparing it for life as a smaller, independent, predominantly UK-based utility. However, Mr. Russell did not mention that the group's smaller size was what had attracted [[E.ON]]'s attention or that the downsizing was threatening the independence of one of Scotland's biggest companies. To this day, Mr. Russell has yet to publicly link the two events - despite the asking of questions in parliament. Neither did he bring up the £9 million in shares, pension payments and other incentives he could make from a deal. Later that same day, [[E.ON]] confirmed that it was considering its options regarding a possible takeover of [[Scottish Power]]. {{ref|4}}<br /> <br /> ==Company Payoffs==<br /> [[Charles Berry]] and [[David Nish]] both left the firm in September of 2006, pocketing a total of £2.6m and £2.2m in extra compensation and extra pension sums respectively. {{ref|5}}<br /> <br /> ==Notes==<br /> #{{note|1}} Photograph from SecuritiesTrust [http://www.securitiestrust.com/images/our_people/14.jpg Our People], Charles Berry, accessed 20 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} Company history from Archive's cached Scottish Power page [http://web.archive.org/web/20041010212429/www.scottishpower.com/pages/aboutus_ourpeople_executivedirectors_charlesberry?nav=aboutus_ourpeople_executivedirectors_charlesberry 19 January 2000], Charles Berry, accessed 20 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|3}} Company history from Thus [http://www.thus.net/mediacentre/pressreleases/2001/press-2001-0418.shtml Press Releases], Charles Berry, accessed 20 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|4}} Company restructuring from The Scotsman [http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1906742005 &quot;Battle to keep ScottishPower in Scotland&quot;] Top Stories, accessed 19 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|5}} Fat Cat payoff information from ThisIsMoney [http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=410010&amp;in_page_id=2 article] &quot;Sacked power chiefs get 'obscene' pay-off&quot;, accessed 18 June 2006.</div>

Heather Kirk https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Ian_Russell&diff=34197 2007-04-23T09:10:52Z

<p>Heather Kirk: /* Notes */</p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Ian russell.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Ian Russell{{ref|1}}]]<br /> <br /> ==Background==<br /> Until 2006, Ian was Chief Executive of [[Scottish Power]] plc having been appointed to this position in April 2001. He joined as Finance Director in April 1994 and became Deputy Chief Executive in November 1998. <br /> <br /> In 2004 and 2005, Ian chaired the Russell Commission review on youth volunteering for the Chancellor and Home Secretary. <br /> <br /> Prior to joining [[Scottish Power]], he held a number of financial positions at [[HSBC]] and [[Mars]] Ltd, among others. <br /> <br /> He is a Non-Executive Director on a number of boards, including [[Business in the Community]], and chairs a private equity management company. He is also Chair of the Fundraising Board of University of Edinburgh.{{ref|2}}<br /> <br /> Ian is also a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland, having trained with Thomson McLintock. He serves on the Council of Edinburgh International Festival and the Scottish Council of the Prince's Trust. {{ref|3}}<br /> <br /> ==Restructuring the company==<br /> In September of 2005, Mr. Russell was faced with a growing threat from the stock market as [[Scottish Power]]'s shares had recently soared causing rumours of its German rival, and owner of Powergen, [[E.ON]] wanting to buy the company. After meeting with the chairman, [[Charles Miller Smith]], and the finance director, [[Simon Lowth]], it was decided that a major restructuring had to take place - one that involved getting rid of two of his top executives - [[David Nish]] and [[Charles Berry]]. Along with these sackings, the human resources director, [[Mike Pittman]], and the communications chief, [[Dominic Fry]] were dismissed as well. Mr. Russell's explanation referred back to late May when [[Scottish Power]] announced the £5.1 billion sale of its giant US business [[PacifiCorp]] to the world-famous entrepreneur Warren Buffet. [[PacifiCorp]] was responsible for two-thirds of [[Scottish Power]]'s valuation, which meant that the company would become much smaller when the deal went through. The idea of the restructuring was to slim down the group - stripping out the four directors in the process - preparing it for life as a smaller, independent, predominantly UK-based utility. However, Mr. Russell did not mention that the group's smaller size was what had attracted [[E.ON]]'s attention or that the downsizing was threatening the independence of one of Scotland's biggest companies. To this day, Mr. Russell has yet to publicly link the two events - despite the asking of questions in parliament. Neither did he bring up the £9 million in shares, pension payments and other incentives he could make from a deal. Later that same day, [[E.ON]] confirmed that it was considering its options regarding a possible takeover of [[Scottish Power]].<br /> <br /> Since [[David Nish]] was most likely to succeed Ian's position, the group's head of infrastructure, finance director and Mr. Russell's right-hand man was most surprised with his dismissal. <br /> <br /> Few at the company could quite understand how [[Scottish Power]] had gone from Scotland's third biggest listed firm to one fearing for its independence and willing to sack half its board at the same time. <br /> <br /> The answers to this question are to be found in the company's not-so-distant past, at the time of the acquisition of [[PacifiCorp]] in 1999. Mr. Russell was not the chief executive at the time but, as finance director, he played a huge part in the move. It transformed the firm from a UK-based player to a behemoth straddling the Atlantic, and the group paid $10 billion for the privilege. <br /> <br /> But the adventure proved disastrous. Following nearly six years of calamities and unmet expectations, Mr. Russell sold out at $9.4 billion. The total loss worked out over the years at about £442 million. It left the smaller group vulnerable to a takeover from rivals at home and overseas, and facing an uncertain future. {{ref|4}}<br /> <br /> ==Company Payoff==<br /> The gas and electricity provider's former chief executive [[Ian Russell]] and three colleagues received £10.9m for pay and pension compensation. The sums have been branded 'obscene' by the [[Scottish National Party]] energy spokesman [[Richard Lochhead]], and come to light just three months after the electricity and gas provider warned customers about inflation-busting bill hikes.<br /> <br /> Mr. Russell, who left in January of 2006 after five years as chief executive, received a £2.3m compensation payment as well as benefiting from a resultant pension top-up of £2.7m. The compensation sum is more than three times his salary of £648,000, while his pension windfall nearly doubled his total entitlement to £6.8m. {{ref|5}}<br /> <br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> #{{note|1}} Photograph from Business in the Community[http://www.bitc.org.uk/who_we_are/our_board_and_governance/board_of_trustee_directors/ian_russell.htmlHome Board of Trustee Directors], Ian Russell, accessed 15 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} Member history from Business in the Community[http://www.bitc.org.uk/who_we_are/our_board_and_governance/board_of_trustee_directors/ian_russell.html Board of Trustee Directors], Ian Russell, accessed 15 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|3}} Member history from Internet Archive WayBackMachine[http://web.archive.org/web/20041010213446/www.scottishpower.com/pages/aboutus_ourpeople_executivedirectors_ianrussell?nav=aboutus_ourpeople_executivedirectors_ianrussell Scottish Power Our People page 6 March 2004], Ian Russell, accessed 15 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|4}} Company restructuring from The Scotsman [http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1906742005 &quot;Battle to keep ScottishPower in Scotland&quot;] Top Stories, accessed 19 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|5}} Payoff information from ThisIsMoney [http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=410010&amp;in_page_id=2 Sacked power chiefs get 'obscene' pay-off] News, accessed 18 June 2006.</div>

Heather Kirk https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=ScottishPower:_Subsidiaries&diff=34202 2007-04-22T16:23:41Z

<p>Heather Kirk: /* Notes */</p> <hr /> <div>[[Scottish Power]] is affiliated (or has been) with the following subsidiaries:<br /> === Manweb ===<br /> [[Scottish Power]] was the larger of the two Scottish energy companies and benefited from being both a generator and supplier of power. In 1995 it acquired the English Regional Electricity Company [[Manweb]], which supplied Merseyside and North Wales. In 1996 the company diversified into the water supply business with the purchase of [[Southern Water]] (which was sold again in 2002). When the supply of energy into British homes was opened up to competition, ScottishPower entered this market, stealing share from the previous gas supply monopoly [[British Gas]] and also building new market share in England and Wales.<br /> <br /> === Thus ===<br /> [[Scottish Power]] established the telecommunications company, [[Thus]] (originally known as ScottishTelecom). This was floated on the London Stock Exchange with [[Scottish Power]] retaining a 20% stake, until 2002 when it sold its interest.<br /> <br /> ===Pacificorp===<br /> In 2000, [[Scottish Power]] completed the acquisition of [[Pacificorp]] which supplies electricity in the western United States, where it operates as '''Pacific Power''' (in Oregon, Wyoming, Washington, and California), and as '''Utah Power''' (in Idaho and Utah). In May 2005, [[Scottish Power]] announced that it had agreed to sell [[Pacificorp]] to MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company for $5.1 billion in cash and $4.3 billion in debt and preferred stock. The successful completion of the deal was announced on 21 March 2006, after securing regulatory approvals. <br /> <br /> ===PPM Energy===<br /> In 2001, PacifiCorp Power Marketing, Inc. moved from being a subsidiary of PacifiCorp to being an affiliate to PacifiCorp. It was announced in 2002 that [[Scottish Power]]'s competitive US energy business would change its name to PPM Energy, Inc. on January 15, 2003. <br /> <br /> CEO [[Terry Hudgens]] said &quot;Our business has grown beyond 'power' into gas storage and well beyond 'power marketing'. As a result, we realized that our old name-PacifiCorp Power Marketing-is too narrow a fit for our expanded capabilities. The new logo reinforces the fact that PPM remains a member of the ScottishPower group of companies. We'll still be the same people providing the same great level of services and even more products - just with a new name.&quot;<br /> <br /> [[PPM Energy]] remained the same organization with the same contracts and the same underlying support. The PPM name and logo emphasized their ties to ScottishPower and its separate and independent status from the regulated utility, [[PacifiCorp]]. {{ref|1}}<br /> <br /> ===Rejected takeover bid from E.ON===<br /> [[Image:Eon.JPG|left|170px|thumb|E.ON logo {{ref|2}}]]<br /> <br /> In 2005, [[Scottish Power]]'s chief executive [[Ian Russell]] fired four fellow board members. His explanation refered back to late May of that year when the company announced the £5.1 billion sale of its giant US business [[PacifiCorp]] to the world-famous entrepreneur Warren Buffet. Since [[PacifiCorp]] was responsible for two-thirds of [[Scottish Power]]'s valuation, the company would become much smaller when the deal went through. The idea of the restructuring was to slim down the group - stripping out the four directors in the process - preparing it for life as a smaller, independent, predominantly UK-based utility. However, Mr. Russell did not mention that the group's smaller size was what had attracted [[E.ON]]'s attention or that the downsizing was threatening the independence of one of Scotland's biggest companies. To this day, Mr. Russell has yet to publicly link the two events - despite the asking of questions in parliament. Neither did he bring up the £9 million in shares, pension payments and other incentives he could make from a deal. {{ref|3}} <br /> As [[Scottish Power]]'s shares soared, rumours spread of its German rival, and owner of Powergen, [[E.ON]] wanting to buy the company. Now widely seen as vulnerable to a takeover, it was soon revealed that the German energy group were indeed interested in a takeover. However, On November 22, 2005 the board rejected an offer from [[E.ON]] of 570 pence a share, which would have valued the group at £10.7 billion. {{ref|4}}<br /> <br /> ===Takeover from Iberdrola===<br /> [[Image:Iberdrola.JPG|right|230px|thumb|Iberdrola logo {{ref|5}}]]<br /> <br /> On November 28, 2006, the board of directors of [[Scottish Power]] agreed to a £11.6 billion takeover bid by the Spanish energy firm [[Iberdrola]] (Spain's second-largest utility company) to create Europe's third-biggest utility and a world leader in renewable energy. {{ref|6}} The new group will have installed capacity of 36,600 megawatts (MW), of which over 6,000 MW will be renewable, and its electrical supply points will total 21.4 million. <br /> [[Iberdrola]], the hundred-year-old Spanish-based company, is among Europe’s major electrical companies and operates gas and electricity businesses in 28 countries. In addition, it is one of the world leaders in the production of windgenerated power.<br /> <br /> Incidently, the Board of Directors of [[Scottish Power]] had been advised on this merge by [[Morgan Stanley]] who controls approximately 0.1% of the company's capital. {{ref|7}}<br /> <br /> ==Notes==<br /> #{{note|1}} PPM Energy company information from PPM Energy[http://www.ppmenergy.com/rel_02.12.12.html Media room], &quot;PPM Energy is coming&quot;, accessed 17 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} Photograph from Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.ON E.ON] accessed 19 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|3}} Company restructuring from The Scotsman [http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1906742005 &quot;Battle to keep ScottishPower in Scotland&quot;] Top Stories, accessed 19 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|4}} Bid rejection from The Scotsman [http://business.scotsman.com/utilities.cfm?id=2285282005 &quot;ScottishPower rejects E.ON's £10.7bn bid&quot;] Energy &amp; Utilities, accessed 2006.<br /> #{{note|5}} Photograph from AEM [http://www.aem.es/ACTIVIDADES_2006/IBERDROLA%201.jpg Iberdrola], logo, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|6}} Takeover information from CNN.com [http://www.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/11/28/scot.power/index.html World Business], &quot;Scot Power agrees $22B Spanish bid&quot;, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|7}} Takeover information from Iberdrola [http://www.iberdrola.es/wcorp/gc/en/comunicacion/notasprensa/061128NPIberdrola-ScottishPower__en.pdf Press Release], &quot;IBERDROLA REACHES MERGER AGREEMENT WITH SCOTTISHPOWER FOR € 17.2 BILLION&quot;, accessed 16 April 2007.</div>

Heather Kirk https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Charles_Miller_Smith&diff=32904 2007-04-22T15:10:49Z

<p>Heather Kirk: /* Background */</p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:CharlesMillerSmith.jpg|left|150px|thumb|Charles Miller Smith{{ref|1}}]]<br /> ==Background==<br /> [[Charles Miller Smith]] joined the Board of [[Scottish Power]] as Deputy Chairman in August 1999 and was appointed as Chairman in April 2000.<br /> <br /> Much of his career was with [[Unilever]], where he spent more than 30 years holding a wide range of financial and general management positions in the U.K., the Netherlands and India., culminating in his appointment as Director of Finance, and of the Food Executive.{{ref|2}}<br /> <br /> Mr. Smith was appointed chief executive-designate of '''Imperial Chemical Industries''' (ICI) from 1994 to 1999 and Chairman of ICI from 1999 to 2001.<br /> <br /> He was also an International Advisor to [[Goldman Sachs International]] from 2001 to 2005.<br /> <br /> He was previously a non-executive director of [[Midland Bank]] plc. and [[HSBC Holdings]] plc as well.<br /> <br /> Now, he is a Director of '''ICICI One Source''' plc, an Indian company, and is a member of the Defence Management Board of the Ministry of Defence.<br /> <br /> He is Chairman of the Economics Committee of the '''Confederation of British Industry''' and a Companion of the '''Institute of Management'''. He is also a Senior European Advisor to [[Warburg Pincus International]], LLC. {{ref|3}}<br /> <br /> ==Restructuring the company==<br /> Mr. Smith was involved with [[Simon Lowth]] and former chief executive [[Ian Russell]] in the decision to restructure [[Scottish Power]] in September of 2005. This meeting resulted in getting rid of two top executives - [[David Nish]] and [[Charles Berry]]. Along with these sackings, the human resources director, [[Mike Pittman]], and the communications chief, [[Dominic Fry]] were dismissed as well. The explanation given referred to when [[Scottish Power]] announced the £5.1 billion sale of its giant US business [[PacifiCorp]] to the world-famous entrepreneur Warren Buffet. [[PacifiCorp]] was responsible for two-thirds of [[Scottish Power]]'s valuation, which meant that the company would become much smaller when the deal went through. The idea of the restructuring was to slim down the group - stripping out the four directors in the process - preparing it for life as a smaller, independent, predominantly UK-based utility. However, it was not mentioned that the group's smaller size was what had attracted [[E.ON]]'s attention or that the downsizing was threatening the independence of one of Scotland's biggest companies. To this day, the company has yet to publicly link the two events - despite the asking of questions in parliament. Later that same day, [[E.ON]] confirmed that it was considering its options regarding a possible takeover of [[Scottish Power]]. {{ref|4}}<br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> #{{note|1}} Photograph from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/MeettheBoard_860.asp Meet the Board], Charles Miller Smith, accessed 20 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} Board Member History from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/MeettheBoard_860.asp Meet the Board], Charles Miller Smith, accessed 20 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|3}} Company information from Warburg Pincus [http://www.warburgpincus.com/people/profiles/european_advisors/miller_smith_charles.html People], Charles Miller Smith, accessed 17 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|4}} Company restructuring from The Scotsman [http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1906742005 &quot;Battle to keep ScottishPower in Scotland&quot;] Top Stories, accessed 19 April 2007.</div>

Heather Kirk https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Ian_Russell&diff=22602 2007-04-22T14:31:52Z

<p>Heather Kirk: /* Restructuring the company */</p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Ian russell.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Ian Russell{{ref|1}}]]<br /> <br /> ==Background==<br /> Until 2006, Ian was Chief Executive of [[Scottish Power]] plc having been appointed to this position in April 2001. He joined as Finance Director in April 1994 and became Deputy Chief Executive in November 1998. <br /> <br /> In 2004 and 2005, Ian chaired the Russell Commission review on youth volunteering for the Chancellor and Home Secretary. <br /> <br /> Prior to joining [[Scottish Power]], he held a number of financial positions at [[HSBC]] and [[Mars]] Ltd, among others. <br /> <br /> He is a Non-Executive Director on a number of boards, including [[Business in the Community]], and chairs a private equity management company. He is also Chair of the Fundraising Board of University of Edinburgh.{{ref|2}}<br /> <br /> Ian is also a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland, having trained with Thomson McLintock. He serves on the Council of Edinburgh International Festival and the Scottish Council of the Prince's Trust. {{ref|3}}<br /> <br /> ==Restructuring the company==<br /> In September of 2005, Mr. Russell was faced with a growing threat from the stock market as [[Scottish Power]]'s shares had recently soared causing rumours of its German rival, and owner of Powergen, [[E.ON]] wanting to buy the company. After meeting with the chairman, [[Charles Miller Smith]], and the finance director, [[Simon Lowth]], it was decided that a major restructuring had to take place - one that involved getting rid of two of his top executives - [[David Nish]] and [[Charles Berry]]. Along with these sackings, the human resources director, [[Mike Pittman]], and the communications chief, [[Dominic Fry]] were dismissed as well. Mr. Russell's explanation referred back to late May when [[Scottish Power]] announced the £5.1 billion sale of its giant US business [[PacifiCorp]] to the world-famous entrepreneur Warren Buffet. [[PacifiCorp]] was responsible for two-thirds of [[Scottish Power]]'s valuation, which meant that the company would become much smaller when the deal went through. The idea of the restructuring was to slim down the group - stripping out the four directors in the process - preparing it for life as a smaller, independent, predominantly UK-based utility. However, Mr. Russell did not mention that the group's smaller size was what had attracted [[E.ON]]'s attention or that the downsizing was threatening the independence of one of Scotland's biggest companies. To this day, Mr. Russell has yet to publicly link the two events - despite the asking of questions in parliament. Neither did he bring up the £9 million in shares, pension payments and other incentives he could make from a deal. Later that same day, [[E.ON]] confirmed that it was considering its options regarding a possible takeover of [[Scottish Power]].<br /> <br /> Since [[David Nish]] was most likely to succeed Ian's position, the group's head of infrastructure, finance director and Mr. Russell's right-hand man was most surprised with his dismissal. <br /> <br /> Few at the company could quite understand how [[Scottish Power]] had gone from Scotland's third biggest listed firm to one fearing for its independence and willing to sack half its board at the same time. <br /> <br /> The answers to this question are to be found in the company's not-so-distant past, at the time of the acquisition of [[PacifiCorp]] in 1999. Mr. Russell was not the chief executive at the time but, as finance director, he played a huge part in the move. It transformed the firm from a UK-based player to a behemoth straddling the Atlantic, and the group paid $10 billion for the privilege. <br /> <br /> But the adventure proved disastrous. Following nearly six years of calamities and unmet expectations, Mr. Russell sold out at $9.4 billion. The total loss worked out over the years at about £442 million. It left the smaller group vulnerable to a takeover from rivals at home and overseas, and facing an uncertain future. {{ref|4}}<br /> <br /> ==Company Payoff==<br /> The gas and electricity provider's former chief executive [[Ian Russell]] and three colleagues received £10.9m for pay and pension compensation. The sums have been branded 'obscene' by the [[Scottish National Party]] energy spokesman [[Richard Lochhead]], and come to light just three months after the electricity and gas provider warned customers about inflation-busting bill hikes.<br /> <br /> Mr. Russell, who left in January of 2006 after five years as chief executive, received a £2.3m compensation payment as well as benefiting from a resultant pension top-up of £2.7m. The compensation sum is more than three times his salary of £648,000, while his pension windfall nearly doubled his total entitlement to £6.8m. {{ref|5}}<br /> <br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> #{{note|1}} Photograph from Business in the Community[http://www.bitc.org.uk/who_we_are/our_board_and_governance/board_of_trustee_directors/ian_russell.htmlHome Board of Trustee Directors], Ian Russell, accessed 15 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} Member history from Business in the Community[http://www.bitc.org.uk/who_we_are/our_board_and_governance/board_of_trustee_directors/ian_russell.htmlHome Board of Trustee Directors], Ian Russell, accessed 15 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|3}} Member history from Internet Archive WayBackMachine[http://web.archive.org/web/20041010213446/www.scottishpower.com/pages/aboutus_ourpeople_executivedirectors_ianrussell?nav=aboutus_ourpeople_executivedirectors_ianrussell Scottish Power Our People page 6 March 2004], Ian Russell, accessed 15 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|4}} Company restructuring from The Scotsman [http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1906742005 &quot;Battle to keep ScottishPower in Scotland&quot;] Top Stories, accessed 19 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|5}} Payoff information from ThisIsMoney [http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=410010&amp;in_page_id=2 Sacked power chiefs get 'obscene' pay-off] News, accessed 18 June 2006.</div>

Heather Kirk https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=PPM_Energy&diff=33958 2007-04-22T14:11:46Z

<p>Heather Kirk: </p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:PPM logo.JPG|right|250px|thumb|PPM logo{{ref|1}}]]<br /> [[PPM Energy]] enjoys the financial backing of its international corporate parent, the [[Scottish Power]] group. Based in Portland, Oregon, the competitive US energy business' strategic priorities are to: grow its renewable/thermal energy portfolio and gas storage/hub services; and to optimise returns through the integration of assets, trading and commercial activities. In addition to its gas storage business, the company manages a portfolio of contracts and jointly developed the 484-megwatt Klamath Falls Cogeneration Plant with the City of Klamath Falls, Oregon. <br /> PPM also markets the entire output of the 263-megawatt Stateline Wind Energy Center near Walla Walla, Washington. {{ref|2}}<br /> [[PPM Energy]] is already one of the largest providers of wind energy in the US and the third largest independent gas storage provider. {{ref|3}}<br /> <br /> In 2001, '''PacifiCorp Power Marketing''', Inc. moved from being a subsidiary of [[PacifiCorp]] to being an affiliate to [[PacifiCorp]]. It was announced in 2002 that [[Scottish Power]]'s competitive US energy business would change its name to [[PPM Energy]], Inc. on January 15, 2003. <br /> <br /> CEO [[Terry Hudgens]] said &quot;Our business has grown beyond 'power' into gas storage and well beyond 'power marketing'. As a result, we realized that our old name-PacifiCorp Power Marketing-is too narrow a fit for our expanded capabilities. The new logo reinforces the fact that PPM remains a member of the ScottishPower group of companies. We'll still be the same people providing the same great level of services and even more products - just with a new name.&quot;<br /> <br /> [[PPM Energy]] remained the same organization with the same contracts and the same underlying support. The PPM name and logo emphasized their ties to [[Scottish Power]] and its separate and independent status from the regulated utility, [[PacifiCorp]]. {{ref|4}}<br /> <br /> [[Terry Hudgens]] has been [[PPM Energy]]'s president &amp; CEO and Chief Executive officier since 2001.<br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> #{{note|1}} Photograph from PPM Energy[http://www.ppmenergy.com/ homepage], accessed 28 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} Company information from ZoomInfo [http://cache.zoominfo.com/cachedpage/?archive_id=0&amp;page_id=705386037&amp;page_url=%2f%2fwww.corporate-ir.net%2fireye%2fir_site.zhtml%3fticker%3dila%26script%3d418%26layout%3d0%26item_id%3d324035&amp;page_last_updated=6%2f30%2f2006+6%3a30%3a14+AM cached page], Aquila and ScottishPower's PacifiCorp Power Marketing, Inc. Sign $180 Million Agreement On Sale of Texas Gas Storage Assets, accessed 28 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|3}} Company information from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PPMEnergy.htm Our Business], PPM Energy, accessed 17 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|4}} Company name change from PPM Energy[http://www.ppmenergy.com/rel_02.12.12.html Press Release], &quot;PPM Energy is coming&quot;, accessed 16 April 2007.</div>

Heather Kirk https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Terry_Hudgens&diff=33942 2007-04-22T14:11:15Z

<p>Heather Kirk: </p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:TerryHudgens.jpg|left|150px|thumb|Terry Hudgens{{ref|1}}]]<br /> ==Background==<br /> [[Terry Hudgens]] was appointed Chief Executive Officer of [[PPM Energy]] Inc, (a [[Scottish Power]] company) in May 2001.<br /> <br /> He joined [[PacifiCorp]] as Senior Vice President of Power Supply responsible for power generation, wholesale sales, and the company's mining businesses in April 2000.<br /> <br /> Prior to that, Terry has had experience in the US energy business after a long career with [[Texaco]] Inc,. He was formerly President of [[Texaco]] Natural Gas and served as [[Texaco]]’s senior representative. In that role, he was responsible for all aspects of [[Texaco]]'s $5 billion North American natural gas and worldwide natural gas liquids business. He also served as [[Texaco]]'s senior representative in the Natural Gas Supply Association. Terry spent 25 years with [[Texaco]] Inc., working in operations and management positions, including vice president of business development for [[Texaco]] Trading and Transportation, Inc., a [[Texaco]] subsidiary. {{ref|2}}<br /> <br /> He is a member of the Board of Trustees of The Nature Conservancy in Oregon.<br /> <br /> Terry started his career with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Houston. {{ref|3}}<br /> <br /> ==PPM Energy involvement==<br /> In 2001, '''PacifiCorp Power Marketing''', Inc. moved from being a subsidiary of [[PacifiCorp]] to being an affiliate to [[PacifiCorp]]. It was announced in 2002 that [[Scottish Power]]'s competitive US energy business would change its name to [[PPM Energy]], Inc. on January 15, 2003. <br /> <br /> CEO [[Terry Hudgens]] said &quot;Our business has grown beyond 'power' into gas storage and well beyond 'power marketing'. As a result, we realized that our old name-PacifiCorp Power Marketing-is too narrow a fit for our expanded capabilities. The new logo reinforces the fact that PPM remains a member of the ScottishPower group of companies. We'll still be the same people providing the same great level of services and even more products - just with a new name.&quot;<br /> <br /> [[PPM Energy]] remained the same organization with the same contracts and the same underlying support. The PPM name and logo emphasized their ties to [[Scottish Power]] and its separate and independent status from the regulated utility, [[PacifiCorp]]. {{ref|4}}<br /> <br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> #{{note|1}} Photograph from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/Non-ExecutiveDirectors_950.htm Meet the Team], Terry Hudgens, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} Board Member History from PPM Energy [http://www.ppmenergy.com/mt.html Who We Are], Terry Hudgens, accessed 17 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|3}} Board Member History from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/Non-ExecutiveDirectors_950.htm Meet the Team], Terry Hudgens, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|4}} Company name change from PPM Energy[http://www.ppmenergy.com/rel_02.12.12.html Press Release], &quot;PPM Energy is coming&quot;, accessed 16 April 2007.</div>

Heather Kirk https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Simon_Lowth&diff=33920 2007-04-21T18:55:19Z

<p>Heather Kirk: /* Restructuring the company */</p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:SimonLowth.jpg|left|150px|thumb|Simon Lowth {{ref|1}}]]<br /> <br /> ==Background==<br /> [[Simon Lowth]] was appointed as Finance Director of [[Scottish Power]] in May 2006 and is responsible for financial performance and reporting, financing strategy, risk management and for building relationships with shareholders.<br /> <br /> Initially Simon joined in 2003 as Director of Corporate Strategy and he then took over as Executive Director, Finance and Strategy. <br /> <br /> He has a strong background in strategic consultancy and was formerly a director with '''McKinsey and Company''' and led its UK industrial practice, serving clients in the energy and utilities, manufacturing and transport sectors. <br /> <br /> He holds an MA in Engineering from Cambridge University and an MBA from London Business School.{{ref|2}}<br /> <br /> ==Restructuring the company==<br /> Mr. Lowth was involved with [[Charles Miller Smith]] and former chief executive [[Ian Russell]] in the decision to restructure [[Scottish Power]] in September of 2005. This meeting resulted in getting rid of two top executives - [[David Nish]] and [[Charles Berry]]. Along with these sackings, the human resources director, [[Mike Pittman]], and the communications chief, [[Dominic Fry]] were dismissed as well. The explanation given referred to when [[Scottish Power]] announced the £5.1 billion sale of its giant US business [[PacifiCorp]] to the world-famous entrepreneur Warren Buffet. [[PacifiCorp]] was responsible for two-thirds of [[Scottish Power]]'s valuation, which meant that the company would become much smaller when the deal went through. The idea of the restructuring was to slim down the group - stripping out the four directors in the process - preparing it for life as a smaller, independent, predominantly UK-based utility. However, it was not mentioned that the group's smaller size was what had attracted [[E.ON]]'s attention or that the downsizing was threatening the independence of one of Scotland's biggest companies. To this day, the company has yet to publicly link the two events - despite the asking of questions in parliament. Later that same day, [[E.ON]] confirmed that it was considering its options regarding a possible takeover of [[Scottish Power]]. {{ref|3}}<br /> <br /> <br /> ===Notes===<br /> #{{note|1}} Photograph from Scottish Power[http://www.scottishpower.com/Non-ExecutiveDirectors_949.htm Meet the Team], Simon Lowth, accessed 21 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} Team Member History from Scottish Power[http://www.scottishpower.com/Non-ExecutiveDirectors_949.htm Meet the Team], Simon Lowth, accessed 21 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|3}} Company restructuring from The Scotsman [http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1906742005 &quot;Battle to keep ScottishPower in Scotland&quot;] Top Stories, accessed 19 April 2007.</div>

Heather Kirk https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Euan_Baird&diff=31660 2007-04-21T18:54:49Z

<p>Heather Kirk: </p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:EuanBaird.jpg|left|150px|thumb|Euan Baird{{ref|1}}]] <br /> [[Euan Baird]] joined the Board in January 2001 as a non-executive director and brings executive level experience in the electronics and engineering industry to the [[Scottish Power]] Board. <br /> <br /> He was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of [[Schlumberger]] Limited from 1986 to 2003, and non-executive Chairman of [[Rolls-Royce]] plc until June 2004. <br /> <br /> Euan is a trustee of the '''Tocqueville Alexis Trust''' and the '''Carnegie Institution of Washington''', and a member of the Advisory Committee of '''Banque de France'''. <br /> <br /> Euan is on the board of [[Société Générale Group]] and [[Areva]], and is a Member of the French Prime Minister’s [[Comité National de la Science]] and of the UK Prime Minister’s [[Council of Science and Technology]].<br /> <br /> In 2003 he was listed at number 43 in the [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/richlist/person/0,,22722,00.html Sunday Times Rich List].<br /> <br /> His current term of office at [[Scottish Power]] will expire at the AGM in 2007. {{ref|2}}<br /> <br /> ==Affiliations==<br /> *A non-executive director of the [[New York Stock Exchange]]. <br /> *A trustee of [[Tocqueville Alexis Trust]] and <br /> *[[Carnegie Institution of Washington]], <br /> *A member of the Advisory Committee of [[Banque de France]]. <br /> *A Patron of the [[Scottish North American Business Council]]. <br /> *On the International Advisory Board of [[Scottish Development International]]<br /> *On the International Advisory Board of [[Scottish Enterprise]]<br /> <br /> ==Background==<br /> Born in Aberdeen in 1937, he joined '''Schlumberger''' in 1960 as a field engineer on assignment in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. In 1974, he moved to Paris as Personnel Manager and Vice President of Operations with '''Schlumberger Technical Services'''. Five years later he reached the company’s New York headquarters as Executive Vice President responsible for world-wide wireline operations.<br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> #{{note|1}} Photograph from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/MeettheBoard_862.asp Meet the Board], Euan Baird, accessed 20 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} Board Member History from Scottish Power[http://www.scottishpower.com/MeettheBoard_862.asp Meet the Board], Euan Baird, accessed 20 March 2007.</div>

Heather Kirk https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Euan_Baird&diff=22572 2007-04-21T18:54:06Z

<p>Heather Kirk: /* Background */</p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:EuanBaird.jpg|left|150px|thumb|Euan Baird{{ref|1}}]] <br /> [[Euan Baird]] joined the Board in January 2001 as a non-executive director and brings executive level experience in the electronics and engineering industry to the [[ScottishPower]] Board. <br /> <br /> He was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of [[Schlumberger]] Limited from 1986 to 2003, and non-executive Chairman of [[Rolls-Royce]] plc until June 2004. <br /> <br /> Euan is a trustee of the '''Tocqueville Alexis Trust''' and the '''Carnegie Institution of Washington''', and a member of the Advisory Committee of '''Banque de France'''. <br /> <br /> Euan is on the board of [[Société Générale Group]] and [[Areva]], and is a Member of the French Prime Minister’s [[Comité National de la Science]] and of the UK Prime Minister’s [[Council of Science and Technology]].<br /> <br /> In 2003 he was listed at number 43 in the [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/richlist/person/0,,22722,00.html Sunday Times Rich List].<br /> <br /> His current term of office at [[ScottishPower]] will expire at the AGM in 2007. {{ref|2}}<br /> <br /> ==Affiliations==<br /> *A non-executive director of the [[New York Stock Exchange]]. <br /> *A trustee of [[Tocqueville Alexis Trust]] and <br /> *[[Carnegie Institution of Washington]], <br /> *A member of the Advisory Committee of [[Banque de France]]. <br /> *A Patron of the [[Scottish North American Business Council]]. <br /> *On the International Advisory Board of [[Scottish Development International]]<br /> *On the International Advisory Board of [[Scottish Enterprise]]<br /> <br /> ==Background==<br /> Born in Aberdeen in 1937, he joined '''Schlumberger''' in 1960 as a field engineer on assignment in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. In 1974, he moved to Paris as Personnel Manager and Vice President of Operations with '''Schlumberger Technical Services'''. Five years later he reached the company’s New York headquarters as Executive Vice President responsible for world-wide wireline operations.<br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> #{{note|1}} Photograph from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/MeettheBoard_862.asp Meet the Board], Euan Baird, accessed 20 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} Board Member History from Scottish Power[http://www.scottishpower.com/MeettheBoard_862.asp Meet the Board], Euan Baird, accessed 20 March 2007.</div>

Heather Kirk https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Charles_Miller_Smith&diff=22582 2007-04-21T18:53:11Z

<p>Heather Kirk: /* Restructuring the company */</p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:CharlesMillerSmith.jpg|left|150px|thumb|Charles Miller Smith{{ref|1}}]]<br /> ==Background==<br /> [[Charles Miller Smith]] joined the Board of [[Scottish Power]] as Deputy Chairman in August 1999 and was appointed as Chairman in April 2000.<br /> <br /> Much of his career was with '''Unilever''', where he spent more than 30 years holding a wide range of financial and general management positions in the U.K., the Netherlands and India., culminating in his appointment as Director of Finance, and of the Food Executive.{{ref|2}}<br /> <br /> Mr. Smith was appointed chief executive-designate of '''Imperial Chemical Industries''' (ICI) from 1994 to 1999 and Chairman of ICI from 1999 to 2001.<br /> <br /> He was also an International Advisor to '''Goldman Sachs International''' from 2001 to 2005.<br /> <br /> He was previously a non-executive director of '''Midland Bank''' plc. and '''HSBC Holdings''' plc as well.<br /> <br /> Now, he is a Director of '''ICICI One Source''' plc, an Indian company, and is a member of the Defence Management Board of the Ministry of Defence.<br /> <br /> He is Chairman of the Economics Committee of the '''Confederation of British Industry''' and a Companion of the '''Institute of Management'''. He is also a Senior European Advisor to '''Warburg Pincus International''', LLC. {{ref|3}}<br /> <br /> ==Restructuring the company==<br /> Mr. Smith was involved with [[Simon Lowth]] and former chief executive [[Ian Russell]] in the decision to restructure [[Scottish Power]] in September of 2005. This meeting resulted in getting rid of two top executives - [[David Nish]] and [[Charles Berry]]. Along with these sackings, the human resources director, [[Mike Pittman]], and the communications chief, [[Dominic Fry]] were dismissed as well. The explanation given referred to when [[Scottish Power]] announced the £5.1 billion sale of its giant US business [[PacifiCorp]] to the world-famous entrepreneur Warren Buffet. [[PacifiCorp]] was responsible for two-thirds of [[Scottish Power]]'s valuation, which meant that the company would become much smaller when the deal went through. The idea of the restructuring was to slim down the group - stripping out the four directors in the process - preparing it for life as a smaller, independent, predominantly UK-based utility. However, it was not mentioned that the group's smaller size was what had attracted [[E.ON]]'s attention or that the downsizing was threatening the independence of one of Scotland's biggest companies. To this day, the company has yet to publicly link the two events - despite the asking of questions in parliament. Later that same day, [[E.ON]] confirmed that it was considering its options regarding a possible takeover of [[Scottish Power]]. {{ref|4}}<br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> #{{note|1}} Photograph from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/MeettheBoard_860.asp Meet the Board], Charles Miller Smith, accessed 20 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} Board Member History from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/MeettheBoard_860.asp Meet the Board], Charles Miller Smith, accessed 20 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|3}} Company information from Warburg Pincus [http://www.warburgpincus.com/people/profiles/european_advisors/miller_smith_charles.html People], Charles Miller Smith, accessed 17 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|4}} Company restructuring from The Scotsman [http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1906742005 &quot;Battle to keep ScottishPower in Scotland&quot;] Top Stories, accessed 19 April 2007.</div>

Heather Kirk https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=ScottishPower:_Subsidiaries&diff=22587 2007-04-21T18:52:15Z

<p>Heather Kirk: /* Takeover from Iberdrola */</p> <hr /> <div>[[Scottish Power]] is affiliated (or has been) with the following subsidiaries:<br /> === Manweb ===<br /> [[Scottish Power]] was the larger of the two Scottish energy companies and benefited from being both a generator and supplier of power. In 1995 it acquired the English Regional Electricity Company [[Manweb]], which supplied Merseyside and North Wales. In 1996 the company diversified into the water supply business with the purchase of [[Southern Water]] (which was sold again in 2002). When the supply of energy into British homes was opened up to competition, ScottishPower entered this market, stealing share from the previous gas supply monopoly [[British Gas]] and also building new market share in England and Wales.<br /> <br /> === Thus ===<br /> [[Scottish Power]] established the telecommunications company, [[Thus]] (originally known as ScottishTelecom). This was floated on the London Stock Exchange with [[Scottish Power]] retaining a 20% stake, until 2002 when it sold its interest.<br /> <br /> ===Pacificorp===<br /> In 2000, [[Scottish Power]] completed the acquisition of [[Pacificorp]] which supplies electricity in the western United States, where it operates as '''Pacific Power''' (in Oregon, Wyoming, Washington, and California), and as '''Utah Power''' (in Idaho and Utah). In May 2005, [[Scottish Power]] announced that it had agreed to sell [[Pacificorp]] to MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company for $5.1 billion in cash and $4.3 billion in debt and preferred stock. The successful completion of the deal was announced on 21 March 2006, after securing regulatory approvals. <br /> <br /> ===PPM Energy===<br /> In 2001, PacifiCorp Power Marketing, Inc. moved from being a subsidiary of PacifiCorp to being an affiliate to PacifiCorp. It was announced in 2002 that [[Scottish Power]]'s competitive US energy business would change its name to PPM Energy, Inc. on January 15, 2003. <br /> <br /> CEO [[Terry Hudgens]] said &quot;Our business has grown beyond 'power' into gas storage and well beyond 'power marketing'. As a result, we realized that our old name-PacifiCorp Power Marketing-is too narrow a fit for our expanded capabilities. The new logo reinforces the fact that PPM remains a member of the ScottishPower group of companies. We'll still be the same people providing the same great level of services and even more products - just with a new name.&quot;<br /> <br /> [[PPM Energy]] remained the same organization with the same contracts and the same underlying support. The PPM name and logo emphasized their ties to ScottishPower and its separate and independent status from the regulated utility, [[PacifiCorp]]. {{ref|1}}<br /> <br /> ===Rejected takeover bid from E.ON===<br /> [[Image:Eon.JPG|left|170px|thumb|E.ON logo {{ref|2}}]]<br /> <br /> In 2005, [[Scottish Power]]'s chief executive [[Ian Russell]] fired four fellow board members. His explanation refered back to late May of that year when the company announced the £5.1 billion sale of its giant US business [[PacifiCorp]] to the world-famous entrepreneur Warren Buffet. Since [[PacifiCorp]] was responsible for two-thirds of [[Scottish Power]]'s valuation, the company would become much smaller when the deal went through. The idea of the restructuring was to slim down the group - stripping out the four directors in the process - preparing it for life as a smaller, independent, predominantly UK-based utility. However, Mr. Russell did not mention that the group's smaller size was what had attracted [[E.ON]]'s attention or that the downsizing was threatening the independence of one of Scotland's biggest companies. To this day, Mr. Russell has yet to publicly link the two events - despite the asking of questions in parliament. Neither did he bring up the £9 million in shares, pension payments and other incentives he could make from a deal. {{ref|3}} <br /> As [[Scottish Power]]'s shares soared, rumours spread of its German rival, and owner of Powergen, [[E.ON]] wanting to buy the company. Now widely seen as vulnerable to a takeover, it was soon revealed that the German energy group were indeed interested in a takeover. However, On November 22, 2005 the board rejected an offer from [[E.ON]] of 570 pence a share, which would have valued the group at £10.7 billion. {{ref|4}}<br /> <br /> ===Takeover from Iberdrola===<br /> [[Image:Iberdrola.JPG|right|230px|thumb|Iberdrola logo {{ref|5}}]]<br /> <br /> On November 28, 2006, the board of directors of [[Scottish Power]] agreed to a £11.6 billion takeover bid by the Spanish energy firm [[Iberdrola]] (Spain's second-largest utility company) to create Europe's third-biggest utility and a world leader in renewable energy. {{ref|6}} The new group will have installed capacity of 36,600 megawatts (MW), of which over 6,000 MW will be renewable, and its electrical supply points will total 21.4 million. <br /> [[Iberdrola]], the hundred-year-old Spanish-based company, is among Europe’s major electrical companies and operates gas and electricity businesses in 28 countries. In addition, it is one of the world leaders in the production of windgenerated power.<br /> <br /> Incidently, the Board of Directors of [[Scottish Power]] had been advised on this merge by [[Morgan Stanley]] who controls approximately 0.1% of the company's capital. {{ref|7}}<br /> <br /> ==Notes==<br /> #{{note|1}} PPM Energy company information from PPM Energy[http://www.ppmenergy.com/rel_02.12.12.html Media room], &quot;PPM Energy is coming&quot;, accessed 17 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} Photograph from Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.ON E.ON] accessed 19 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|3}} Company restructuring from The Scotsman [http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1906742005 &quot;Battle to keep ScottishPower in Scotland&quot;] Top Stories, accessed 19 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|4}} Bid rejection from The Scotsman [http://business.scotsman.com/utilities.cfm?id=2285282005 &quot;ScottishPower rejects E.ON's £10.7bn bid&quot;] Energy &amp; Utilities, accessed 2006.<br /> #{{note|5}} Photograph from AEM [http://www.aem.es/ACTIVIDADES_2006/IBERDROLA%201.jpg Iberdrola], logo, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|6}} Takeover information from CNN.com [http://www.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/11/28/scot.power/index.html World Business],&quot;Scot Power agrees $22B Spanish bid&quot;, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|7}} Takeover information from Iberdrola [http://www.iberdrola.es/wcorp/gc/en/comunicacion/notasprensa/061128NPIberdrola-ScottishPower__en.pdf Press Release], &quot;IBERDROLA REACHES MERGER AGREEMENT WITH SCOTTISHPOWER FOR € 17.2 BILLION&quot;, accessed 16 April 2007.</div>

Heather Kirk https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=ScottishPower:_Subsidiaries&diff=22567 2007-04-21T18:51:55Z

<p>Heather Kirk: /* Rejected takeover bid from E.ON */</p> <hr /> <div>[[Scottish Power]] is affiliated (or has been) with the following subsidiaries:<br /> === Manweb ===<br /> [[Scottish Power]] was the larger of the two Scottish energy companies and benefited from being both a generator and supplier of power. In 1995 it acquired the English Regional Electricity Company [[Manweb]], which supplied Merseyside and North Wales. In 1996 the company diversified into the water supply business with the purchase of [[Southern Water]] (which was sold again in 2002). When the supply of energy into British homes was opened up to competition, ScottishPower entered this market, stealing share from the previous gas supply monopoly [[British Gas]] and also building new market share in England and Wales.<br /> <br /> === Thus ===<br /> [[Scottish Power]] established the telecommunications company, [[Thus]] (originally known as ScottishTelecom). This was floated on the London Stock Exchange with [[Scottish Power]] retaining a 20% stake, until 2002 when it sold its interest.<br /> <br /> ===Pacificorp===<br /> In 2000, [[Scottish Power]] completed the acquisition of [[Pacificorp]] which supplies electricity in the western United States, where it operates as '''Pacific Power''' (in Oregon, Wyoming, Washington, and California), and as '''Utah Power''' (in Idaho and Utah). In May 2005, [[Scottish Power]] announced that it had agreed to sell [[Pacificorp]] to MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company for $5.1 billion in cash and $4.3 billion in debt and preferred stock. The successful completion of the deal was announced on 21 March 2006, after securing regulatory approvals. <br /> <br /> ===PPM Energy===<br /> In 2001, PacifiCorp Power Marketing, Inc. moved from being a subsidiary of PacifiCorp to being an affiliate to PacifiCorp. It was announced in 2002 that [[Scottish Power]]'s competitive US energy business would change its name to PPM Energy, Inc. on January 15, 2003. <br /> <br /> CEO [[Terry Hudgens]] said &quot;Our business has grown beyond 'power' into gas storage and well beyond 'power marketing'. As a result, we realized that our old name-PacifiCorp Power Marketing-is too narrow a fit for our expanded capabilities. The new logo reinforces the fact that PPM remains a member of the ScottishPower group of companies. We'll still be the same people providing the same great level of services and even more products - just with a new name.&quot;<br /> <br /> [[PPM Energy]] remained the same organization with the same contracts and the same underlying support. The PPM name and logo emphasized their ties to ScottishPower and its separate and independent status from the regulated utility, [[PacifiCorp]]. {{ref|1}}<br /> <br /> ===Rejected takeover bid from E.ON===<br /> [[Image:Eon.JPG|left|170px|thumb|E.ON logo {{ref|2}}]]<br /> <br /> In 2005, [[Scottish Power]]'s chief executive [[Ian Russell]] fired four fellow board members. His explanation refered back to late May of that year when the company announced the £5.1 billion sale of its giant US business [[PacifiCorp]] to the world-famous entrepreneur Warren Buffet. Since [[PacifiCorp]] was responsible for two-thirds of [[Scottish Power]]'s valuation, the company would become much smaller when the deal went through. The idea of the restructuring was to slim down the group - stripping out the four directors in the process - preparing it for life as a smaller, independent, predominantly UK-based utility. However, Mr. Russell did not mention that the group's smaller size was what had attracted [[E.ON]]'s attention or that the downsizing was threatening the independence of one of Scotland's biggest companies. To this day, Mr. Russell has yet to publicly link the two events - despite the asking of questions in parliament. Neither did he bring up the £9 million in shares, pension payments and other incentives he could make from a deal. {{ref|3}} <br /> As [[Scottish Power]]'s shares soared, rumours spread of its German rival, and owner of Powergen, [[E.ON]] wanting to buy the company. Now widely seen as vulnerable to a takeover, it was soon revealed that the German energy group were indeed interested in a takeover. However, On November 22, 2005 the board rejected an offer from [[E.ON]] of 570 pence a share, which would have valued the group at £10.7 billion. {{ref|4}}<br /> <br /> ===Takeover from Iberdrola===<br /> [[Image:Iberdrola.JPG|right|230px|thumb|Iberdrola logo {{ref|5}}]]<br /> <br /> On November 28, 2006, the board of directors of [[Scottish Power]] agreed to a £11.6 billion takeover bid by the Spanish energy firm [[Iberdrola]] (Spain's second-largest utility company) to create Europe's third-biggest utility and a world leader in renewable energy. {{ref|6}} The new group will have installed capacity of 36,600 megawatts (MW), of which over 6,000 MW will be renewable, and its electrical supply points will total 21.4 million. <br /> [[Iberdrola]], the hundred-year-old Spanish-based company, is among Europe’s major electrical companies and operates gas and electricity businesses in 28 countries. In addition, it is one of the world leaders in the production of windgenerated power.<br /> <br /> The Board of Directors of [[Scottish Power]] had been advised on this merge by [[Morgan Stanley]] who controls approximately 0.1% of the company's capital. {{ref|7}}<br /> <br /> ==Notes==<br /> #{{note|1}} PPM Energy company information from PPM Energy[http://www.ppmenergy.com/rel_02.12.12.html Media room], &quot;PPM Energy is coming&quot;, accessed 17 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} Photograph from Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.ON E.ON] accessed 19 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|3}} Company restructuring from The Scotsman [http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1906742005 &quot;Battle to keep ScottishPower in Scotland&quot;] Top Stories, accessed 19 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|4}} Bid rejection from The Scotsman [http://business.scotsman.com/utilities.cfm?id=2285282005 &quot;ScottishPower rejects E.ON's £10.7bn bid&quot;] Energy &amp; Utilities, accessed 2006.<br /> #{{note|5}} Photograph from AEM [http://www.aem.es/ACTIVIDADES_2006/IBERDROLA%201.jpg Iberdrola], logo, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|6}} Takeover information from CNN.com [http://www.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/11/28/scot.power/index.html World Business],&quot;Scot Power agrees $22B Spanish bid&quot;, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|7}} Takeover information from Iberdrola [http://www.iberdrola.es/wcorp/gc/en/comunicacion/notasprensa/061128NPIberdrola-ScottishPower__en.pdf Press Release], &quot;IBERDROLA REACHES MERGER AGREEMENT WITH SCOTTISHPOWER FOR € 17.2 BILLION&quot;, accessed 16 April 2007.</div>

Heather Kirk https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=ScottishPower:_Subsidiaries&diff=22566 2007-04-21T18:50:00Z

<p>Heather Kirk: </p> <hr /> <div>[[Scottish Power]] is affiliated (or has been) with the following subsidiaries:<br /> === Manweb ===<br /> [[Scottish Power]] was the larger of the two Scottish energy companies and benefited from being both a generator and supplier of power. In 1995 it acquired the English Regional Electricity Company [[Manweb]], which supplied Merseyside and North Wales. In 1996 the company diversified into the water supply business with the purchase of [[Southern Water]] (which was sold again in 2002). When the supply of energy into British homes was opened up to competition, ScottishPower entered this market, stealing share from the previous gas supply monopoly [[British Gas]] and also building new market share in England and Wales.<br /> <br /> === Thus ===<br /> [[Scottish Power]] established the telecommunications company, [[Thus]] (originally known as ScottishTelecom). This was floated on the London Stock Exchange with [[Scottish Power]] retaining a 20% stake, until 2002 when it sold its interest.<br /> <br /> ===Pacificorp===<br /> In 2000, [[Scottish Power]] completed the acquisition of [[Pacificorp]] which supplies electricity in the western United States, where it operates as '''Pacific Power''' (in Oregon, Wyoming, Washington, and California), and as '''Utah Power''' (in Idaho and Utah). In May 2005, [[Scottish Power]] announced that it had agreed to sell [[Pacificorp]] to MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company for $5.1 billion in cash and $4.3 billion in debt and preferred stock. The successful completion of the deal was announced on 21 March 2006, after securing regulatory approvals. <br /> <br /> ===PPM Energy===<br /> In 2001, PacifiCorp Power Marketing, Inc. moved from being a subsidiary of PacifiCorp to being an affiliate to PacifiCorp. It was announced in 2002 that [[Scottish Power]]'s competitive US energy business would change its name to PPM Energy, Inc. on January 15, 2003. <br /> <br /> CEO [[Terry Hudgens]] said &quot;Our business has grown beyond 'power' into gas storage and well beyond 'power marketing'. As a result, we realized that our old name-PacifiCorp Power Marketing-is too narrow a fit for our expanded capabilities. The new logo reinforces the fact that PPM remains a member of the ScottishPower group of companies. We'll still be the same people providing the same great level of services and even more products - just with a new name.&quot;<br /> <br /> [[PPM Energy]] remained the same organization with the same contracts and the same underlying support. The PPM name and logo emphasized their ties to ScottishPower and its separate and independent status from the regulated utility, [[PacifiCorp]]. {{ref|1}}<br /> <br /> ===Rejected takeover bid from E.ON===<br /> [[Image:Eon.JPG|left|170px|thumb|E.ON logo {{ref|2}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]]'s chief executive [[Ian Russell]] fired four fellow board members with an explanation referring back to late May when the company announced the £5.1 billion sale of its giant US business [[PacifiCorp]] to the world-famous entrepreneur Warren Buffet. Since [[PacifiCorp]] was responsible for two-thirds of [[Scottish Power]]'s valuation, which meant that the company would become much smaller when the deal went through. The idea of the restructuring was to slim down the group - stripping out the four directors in the process - preparing it for life as a smaller, independent, predominantly UK-based utility. However, Mr. Russell did not mention that the group's smaller size was what had attracted [[E.ON]]'s attention or that the downsizing was threatening the independence of one of Scotland's biggest companies. To this day, Mr. Russell has yet to publicly link the two events - despite the asking of questions in parliament. Neither did he bring up the £9 million in shares, pension payments and other incentives he could make from a deal. {{ref|3}} <br /> As [[Scottish Power]]'s shares soared, rumours spread of its German rival, and owner of Powergen, [[E.ON]] wanting to buy the company. Now widely seen as vulnerable to a takeover, it was soon revealed that the German energy group were indeed interested in a takeover. However, On November 22, 2005 the board rejected an offer from [[E.ON]] of 570 pence a share, which would have valued the group at £10.7 billion. {{ref|4}}<br /> <br /> ===Takeover from Iberdrola===<br /> [[Image:Iberdrola.JPG|right|230px|thumb|Iberdrola logo {{ref|5}}]]<br /> <br /> On November 28, 2006, the board of directors of [[Scottish Power]] agreed to a £11.6 billion takeover bid by the Spanish energy firm [[Iberdrola]] (Spain's second-largest utility company) to create Europe's third-biggest utility and a world leader in renewable energy. {{ref|6}} The new group will have installed capacity of 36,600 megawatts (MW), of which over 6,000 MW will be renewable, and its electrical supply points will total 21.4 million. <br /> [[Iberdrola]], the hundred-year-old Spanish-based company, is among Europe’s major electrical companies and operates gas and electricity businesses in 28 countries. In addition, it is one of the world leaders in the production of windgenerated power.<br /> <br /> The Board of Directors of [[Scottish Power]] had been advised on this merge by [[Morgan Stanley]] who controls approximately 0.1% of the company's capital. {{ref|7}}<br /> <br /> ==Notes==<br /> #{{note|1}} PPM Energy company information from PPM Energy[http://www.ppmenergy.com/rel_02.12.12.html Media room], &quot;PPM Energy is coming&quot;, accessed 17 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} Photograph from Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.ON E.ON] accessed 19 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|3}} Company restructuring from The Scotsman [http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1906742005 &quot;Battle to keep ScottishPower in Scotland&quot;] Top Stories, accessed 19 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|4}} Bid rejection from The Scotsman [http://business.scotsman.com/utilities.cfm?id=2285282005 &quot;ScottishPower rejects E.ON's £10.7bn bid&quot;] Energy &amp; Utilities, accessed 2006.<br /> #{{note|5}} Photograph from AEM [http://www.aem.es/ACTIVIDADES_2006/IBERDROLA%201.jpg Iberdrola], logo, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|6}} Takeover information from CNN.com [http://www.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/11/28/scot.power/index.html World Business],&quot;Scot Power agrees $22B Spanish bid&quot;, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|7}} Takeover information from Iberdrola [http://www.iberdrola.es/wcorp/gc/en/comunicacion/notasprensa/061128NPIberdrola-ScottishPower__en.pdf Press Release], &quot;IBERDROLA REACHES MERGER AGREEMENT WITH SCOTTISHPOWER FOR € 17.2 BILLION&quot;, accessed 16 April 2007.</div>

Heather Kirk https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=ScottishPower:_Divisions&diff=34209 2007-04-21T18:48:32Z

<p>Heather Kirk: /* Energy Wholesale */</p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Map.JPG|right|300px|thumb|Scottish Power UK distribution areas {{ref|1}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] is comprised of the following four businesses<br /> <br /> === Energy Wholesale ===<br /> Energy Wholesale contains two companies:<br /> *'''ScottishPower Energy Management Ltd,''' which is responsible for buying and selling wholesale energy and<br /> *'''ScottishPower Generation Ltd,''' which generates 6,200MW of electricity power in the United Kingdom using coal fired thermal power stations, combined cycle power stations, hydro-electric schemes, pumped storage generation and substantial wind farms. In April of 2006 [[Scottish Power]] were granted permission to build Europe's largest on-shore windfarm and is now the UK’s leading windfarm operator.<br /> <br /> === Energy Retail ===<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]]'s Energy Retail division supplies electricity and gas to over 5m homes and businesses in the UK. It is comprised of <br /> *'''Scottish Power Energy Retail Ltd,''' which holds the gas and electricity supply licenses, and <br /> *'''SP Dataserve Ltd,''' which is responsible for the metering and data management work and is the first ever meter reading company to allow customers to text in their meter readings.<br /> <br /> === Energy Networks ===<br /> The Energy Networks businesses cover around 3.3 million customers and own and operate [[Scottish Power]]'s electricity transmission and distribution network. It has three asset owning companies:<br /> *'''SP Transmission Ltd,''' which holds the transmission license for central and southern Scotland and owns the part of the [[Moyle Interconnector]] with [[Northern Ireland Electricity]], <br /> *'''SP Distribution Ltd,''' which holds the distribution licence for central and southern Scotland and <br /> *'''SP Manweb Plc,''' which holds the distribution licence for North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire. <br /> <br /> A fourth asset management business '''SP Power Systems Ltd''' maintains and repairs the distribution networks on behalf of the owners and acts as the Distribution Network Operator. The work on the transmission grid is carried out by National Grid plc.<br /> <br /> === PPM Energy Inc.===<br /> '''[[PPM Energy]] Inc''' was previously the competitive arm [[Pacificorp]] but was made a separate business in 2002. It is involved in renewable energy and gas storage amongst other things in the US. It is currently the number two wind farm developer and one of the top three independent gas storage operators in the United States. {{ref|2}}<br /> <br /> ==Notes==<br /> #{{note|1}} Photograph from ScottishPower Energy Networks[http://www.spenergynetworks.com/home/default.asp homepage], accessed 1 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} Company profile from ScottishPower [http://www.scottishpower.com/AboutUs.htm About Us], accessed 16 April 2007.</div>

Heather Kirk https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=ScottishPower&diff=32901 2007-04-21T18:47:08Z

<p>Heather Kirk: /* Other activities */</p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Scottish power.JPG|right|210px|thumb|Scottish Power logo{{ref|1}}]]<br /> [[Image:Glasgow.JPG|right|140px|thumb|Glasgow, Scotland{{ref|2}}]]<br /> :'''Address''': 1 Atlantic Quay, Glasgow, G2 8SP<br /> :'''Phone''': 0141 248 8200<br /> <br /> Based in Glasgow, Scotland, '''ScottishPower Plc''' is a vertically integrated energy company and is Britain's fifth-largest energy supplier. {{ref|3}} As part of the utilities industry, it is the distribution network operator for the central and southern Scotland and the Merseyside and North Wales regions. The company also supplies electricity and natural gas to homes and business around the United Kingdom and generates power for supply to the grid. It owns '''[[PPM Energy]]''' in the United States and is quoted on the '''London Stock Exchange''' and has a secondary listing on the '''New York Stock Exchange''', as well.<br /> <br /> :[[Scottish Power]] has a number of divisions and subsidiaries, which can be found here: <br /> *[[Scottish Power: Divisons]]<br /> *[[Scottish Power: Subsidiaries]]<br /> <br /> ==History==<br /> In 1991, [[Scottish Power]] prepared for privatisation from the previously nationalised Scottish electricity industry, having officially formed the year before. Scottish industry was organised on an integrated generation, distribution and supply basis, which survived the privatisation to become a model for the rest of the United Kingdom (previously the UK government had privatised the English and Welsh electricity industry by splitting the market into 12 regional electricity companies and two power generators). <br /> [[Scottish Power]] was formed from the larger of the two Scottish electricity boards, the '''South of Scotland Electricity Board''', whilst the other, the '''North of Scotland Hydro Board''', eventually became part of the '''Scottish and Southern Energy Group''' (the nuclear power stations in Scotland were spun off into a third company, '''Scottish Nuclear''', which was not sold off with [[Scottish Power]] and '''Scottish Hydro Electric''', but was sold later as part of '''British Energy''').<br /> <br /> ==Company Chronology==<br /> *1990 - [[Scottish Power]] was officially founded <br /> *1991 - prepared for privitisation from state-owned [[Scottish Electricity]]<br /> *1995 - aquired [[Manweb]]<br /> *1996 - expanded into the water supply bussiness and purchased [[Southern Water]]<br /> *2000 - aquired [[Pacificorp]]<br /> *2001 - PacifiCorp Power Marketing, Inc. moved from being a subsidiary of [[PacifiCorp]] to being an affiliate to [[PacifiCorp]]<br /> *2002 - sold [[Southern Water]]; sold [[Thus]] interest; made [[PPM Energy]] a separate business from [[Pacificorp]] <br /> *2005 - rejected takeover bid from [[E.ON]] on 22 November<br /> *2006 - sold [[Pacificorp]] to MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company on 21 March; aquired permission to build Europe's largest on-shore Windfarm on 27 April; agreed to takeover by [[Iberdrola]] on 28 November<br /> <br /> ==People==<br /> ===Board===<br /> <br /> *[[Charles Miller Smith]] Joined the Board as Deputy Chairman in August 1999 and was appointed as Chairman in April 2000.<br /> *[[Euan Baird]] Joined the Board in January 2001 bringing executive level experience in the electronics and engineering industry to the ScottishPower Board.<br /> *[[Donald Brydon]] Joined the Board in May 2003 and is the senior independent director.<br /> *[[Nick Rose]] Joined the Board in February 2003 and is Chairman of the Audit Committee, nominated as the Committee’s designated “financial expert”.<br /> *[[Nancy Wilgenbusch]] Joined the Board in June 2004.<br /> *[[Peter Hickson]] Joined the Board on 1st September 2006.<br /> <br /> ===Management Team===<br /> <br /> * [[Philip Bowman]] Chief Executive<br /> * [[Simon Lowth]] Finance Director<br /> * [[Terry Hudgens]] Chief Executive Officer, PPM Energy Inc<br /> * [[Susan Reilly]] Commercial Director<br /> * [[Alan Bryce]] Director, Energy Networks<br /> * [[John Campbell]] Director, Energy Wholesale<br /> * [[Willie MacDiarmid]] Director, Energy Retail<br /> * [[Sheelagh Duffield]] Company Secretary<br /> * [[Stephen Dunn]] Director, Human Resources and Communications {{ref|4}}<br /> <br /> ===Previous Members===<br /> * [[Vicky Bailey]] Former American non-Executive Director<br /> * [[Charles Berry]] Former Executive Director, UK<br /> * [[Dominic Fry]] Former Corporate Affairs Director<br /> * [[David Nish]] Former Exucutive Director of Infrastructure<br /> * [[Ian Russell]] Former Chief Executive<br /> <br /> ==Fat Cat payoffs==<br /> [[Scottish Power]]'s former chief executive [[Ian Russell]] and three colleagues received £10.9m for pay and pension compensation. The sums have been branded 'obscene' by the [[Scottish National Party]] energy spokesman [[Richard Lochhead]], and come to light just three months after they warned customers about inflation-busting bill hikes.<br /> <br /> Mr. Russell, who left in January of 2006 after five years as chief executive, received a £2.3m compensation payment as well as benefiting from a resultant pension top-up of £2.7m. The compensation sum is more than three times his salary of £648,000, while his pension windfall nearly doubled his total entitlement to £6.8m. His colleagues [[Charles Berry]] and [[David Nish]], who both left the firm in September of 2006, pocketed a total of £2.6m and £2.2m in extra compensation and extra pension sums respectively. And [[Judi Johansen]], the former head of the company's [[PacifiCorp]] arm that was sold in 2006 as well, walked off with a total of £1.1m.<br /> <br /> The figures are published in Scottish Power's 2005/06 annual report and accounts, and are on top of their normal pay and pension entitlements totalling a further £10.5m. The plc made £675m profit before tax in the financial year to March 2006. [[Scottish Power]] raised gas prices by 15% and electricity by 8% in March of 2006, only to warn that bills would rise again due to high wholesale costs. {{ref|5}}<br /> <br /> ==Direct links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> ===Scottish Executive===<br /> [[Image:SE logo.JPG|right|150px|thumb|Scottish Executive logo {{ref|6}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] has had a number of direct links with the '''Scottish Executive''' over the years. The following shows some press releases, brochures &amp; posters, and SpinWatch articles regarding the relationships between the two.<br /> ====Press Releases====<br /> <br /> *In May of 2002, [[Scottish Power]] &quot;submitted plans to the '''Scottish Executive''' for a £70 million windfarm on the site of an abandoned open cast mine at Black Law near the village of Forth in South Lanarkshire. [[Scottish Power]], in partnership with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and landowners, has developed a habitat management plan that integrates nature conservation, windfarm operation, and other land uses on the site which has been derelict since coal mining activities ceased there.” {{ref|7}}<br /> <br /> *In January of 2003, [[Scottish Power]] announced to the '''Scottish Executive''' its proposals for the third large scale Scottish windfarm; and &quot;if approved, '''Harestanes''' windfarm alone could meet a third of the '''Scottish Executive'''’s renewable energy target of 18% by 2010.” {{ref|8}}<br /> <br /> *In June of 2004, it was announced that &quot;ScottishPower in partnership with the Scottish Energy Office of the '''Scottish Executive''' today launched a nationwide campaign to make businesses aware of the introduction of the Government's Climate Change Levy (CCL). The CCL is a tax that will be the major force behind the Government's commitment to reduce the UK's production of greenhouse gases by 12.5 per cent, compared to 1990 levels, by 2010.” {{ref|9}}<br /> <br /> *More recently in January of 2007, a press release stated that &quot;Former US Vice President Al Gore’s climate change film, An Inconvenient Truth, will be shown in all of Scotland’s Secondary Schools this year thanks to an initiative from [[Scottish Power]] and the Scottish Executive. The Scottish Executive, through Learning Teaching Scotland, is developing a package of educational materials to help raise awareness of the challenges we all face from global warming. [[Stephen Dunn]], [[Scottish Power]]’s HR and Communications Director, said; “I was greatly impressed by An Inconvenient Truth. Not only does it powerfully explain what is happening to the planet, it also gives hope by simply setting out what we can still do to fight climate change. [[Scottish Power]] is already the biggest generator of onshore wind energy in the UK and is developing biomass and wave generation to reduce emissions and combat global warming – but it is essential that we also help promote understanding of this crucial challenge through initiatives such as this.”&quot; {{ref|10}} <br /> <br /> *In Febraury of 2007, &quot;ScottishPower, working closely with the '''Scottish Executive''', today announced a £10m wave power project designed to push Scotland to the forefront of global marine energy development. ScottishPower's Director of Renewables, Keith Anderson, said: &quot;This is a massive step forward. It will be a test of the actual devices that will be used commercially and, if successful, should help propel Scotland into the forefront of marine energy throughout the world.”&quot; {{ref|11}}<br /> <br /> ====Brochures &amp; Posters====<br /> [[Image:SP windfarm.JPG|right|130px|thumb|Brochure {{ref|12}}]]<br /> “ScottishPower Windfarm Biodiversity Conservation Strategy”<br /> <br /> This was a joint venture in 2006 between the '''Scottish Executive''' and '''ScottishPower Renewables'''. <br /> It also involved the '''Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Sustainable Development''', as can be proudly seen at the bottom of the brocure.<br /> [[Image:Future.JPG|left|120px|thumb|Poster {{ref|13}}]]<br /> “It’s Our Future schools’ competition”<br /> <br /> This is another example of a joint venture in 2006 between '''ScottishPower Gas and Electricity''' &amp; the '''Scottish Executive''''s ''Natural Scotland'' campaign. <br /> It involved the '''WWF''' (World Wildlife Fund), '''EcoSchools''', as well as '''Learning &amp; Teaching Scotland''', which is funded by the Scottish Executive Education Department (SEED).<br /> <br /> ====Spinwatch articles====<br /> “Since the creation of the '''Scottish Executive''', business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and Trans-National corporations, Inward: [[Scottish Power]], [[Scottish and Newcastle]], [[Stagecoach]], [[Ernst and Young]], [[PriceWaterhouseCoopers]]. Outward: [[Lloyds TSB]] Foundation, [[Scottish Power]], [[McGrigor Donald]] (law firm and lobbyist), [[Scottish and Newcastle]] and business lobby groups [[Business in the Community]] and the '''Scottish Chambers of Commerce'''.” {{ref|14}}<br /> <br /> ===Scottish Parliament===<br /> [[Image:SP logo.JPG|right|170px|thumb|Scottish Parliament logo{{ref|15}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] also has many links with the '''Scottish Parliament''' as well. The following shows Parliamentary News Releases regarding the development of the [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]], SpinWatch articles, and Scottish Parliament official reports as evidence of relationships between the two.<br /> <br /> ====Parliamentary News Releases====<br /> The Scottish Parliament Business Exchange is a scheme where supposedly, MSPs are to be given an opportunity to gain a valuable insight into the diverse Scottish business sector. The Scottish Parliament and Business Exchange ('The Exchange') aims to develop and provide opportunities for promoting mutual understanding between MSPs and business and related communities in Scotland. The Exchange is registered as an educational charity with a board made up of 50 per-cent Parliamentarians and 50 per-cent business representatives. Presiding officer and The Exchange's honorary President, Sir David Steel said &quot;Through being transparent, open, inclusive and flexible in its approach, The Exchange will be able to bring MSPs and the business community together in a non-lobbying and non-partisan way, providing benefits to the whole of Scotland.” The Board of The Exchange was set-up at the first AGM in June of 2001. The Parliament's Chief Executive, Paul Grice, was the convener, and Sir David Steel MSP was the honorary President. The Board members were Elaine Thomson MSP, Brian Adam MSP, David Davidson MSP, Keith Raffan MSP, Lynda Gauld ([[Pfizer]]), Alan Wilson ([[SCDI]]), Miller McLean ([[Royal Bank of Scotland]]), [[Dominic Fry]] ([[Scottish Power]]), Alastair Smith ([[BAA]] Scottish Airports) and Bill Spiers ([[Scottish TUC]]). {{ref|16}}<br /> :To see more about the SPBE's claims vs. realities, click [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]]. <br /> <br /> ====SpinWatch articles====<br /> While the '''SPBE''' at first glance seems potentially beneficial and rather harmless, a deeper look reveals something different: &quot;The [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]] was set up to allow MSPs to be educated about the realities of business life. To ensure that education and not lobbying took place the scheme was required to be ‘non-lobbying’. But in practice three quarters of the business representatives taking part were lobbyists.” {{ref|17}}<br /> <br /> ====Scottish Parliament official reports====<br /> The 28 February 2007 Official Report regarding Energy Debt featured many varied comments about [[Scottish Power]]'s energy practices. <br /> *Patrick Harvie from Glasgow representing the Green party said: &quot;I was pleased to see that we received briefings from a number of other organisations, including Barnardo's and Capability Scotland, which want Parliament to understand the impact that energy debt has on a range of different people in diverse family situations. Energy suppliers will always have a problem with billing systems for the most vulnerable people, but some of their practices, as Scott Barrie mentioned, hit the poorest households and families hardest. In the case of [[Scottish Power]]'s practices, they had not even calculated what it would cost [[Scottish Power]] to change the policy by writing off such debt. The role of politicians is not just to engage with suppliers on the issue but to look at public policy. Scott Barrie explained the historical situation in terms of the welfare state but, as we move further into the 21st century, the job for politicians is to prepare all citizens and households in Scotland for the period after cheap energy. It falls on all suppliers, including [[Scottish Power]], to adjust their systems to ensure that the most vulnerable people are not placed in further debt.&quot; <br /> *Christine Grahame from the South of Scotland representing the SNP party said: &quot;Energy companies are making a financial killing on the back of the less well-off. Figures that I have obtained show that some companies are charging customers who will not pay by direct debit almost £300 a year more. With regard to the overcharging of non-direct debit customers for gas and electricity combined, the worst offenders—I will name and shame them—were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]]. The worst companies for customers who required only electricity and who chose not to pay by direct debit were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]].&quot;<br /> *Jackie Baillie from Dumbarton representing the Labour party said: &quot;Come on, [[Scottish Power]]—stop back-charging customers and stop back-charging the people who are potentially the most vulnerable customers. I echo the call for [[Scottish Power]] to end immediately its practice of backdating and to acknowledge that prepayment meter tariffs are a mess.” {{ref|18}}<br /> <br /> ==Indirect links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> [[Scottish Power]] has a number of indirect links with the '''Scottish Executive''' and the '''Scottish Parliament''' as well. <br /> *The company sponsors '''community activities''' such as '''ScottishPower Learning'''. This is the company's flagship corporate community programme focused on education/employability. A more detailed look reveals: <br /> a) School-based programmes designed to support the school to work transition<br /> <br /> b) Community-based programmes designed to help unemployed young people build their skills in preparation for work (Involved with Prince’s Trust, Community Champions, Project Scotland)<br /> <br /> c) Work-based programmes designed to provide young people with work experience and vocational training<br /> <br /> *The company is involved with '''think tanks''' as well. [[Demos]], for example, is another 'third way' think tank in the UK. According to its website &quot;Demos is a greenhouse for new ideas which can improve the quality of our lives. As an independent think tank, our aim is to create an open resource of knowledge and learning that operates beyond traditional parties, identities and disciplines.&quot; {{ref|19}} [[Scottish Power]] is one of the many partners of [[Demos]].<br /> <br /> *[[Scottish Power]] is involved with '''policy planning''' agencies, such as the regulatory body '''SEPA'''. The [[Scottish Environmental Protection Agency]] is a powerful Scottish public body sponsored by the '''Scottish Executive''' Environment and Rural Affairs Department. '''SEPA''' was established by the Environment Act 1995 and is responsible for the protection of the natural environment in Scotland, including air, land, freshwater and marine environments.<br /> <br /> *The company is also a member of [[BWEA]] (formerly the '''British Wind Energy Association'''). [[BWEA]] is a renewable power industry, however &quot;Critics in the environment movement may be suspicious of a company they believe talks about green issues but invests little. [[Shell]] has been a member for some years and other big power producers, such as [[Centrica]], owner of British Gas, and [[E.ON]] of Germany have also joined.” {{ref|20}}<br /> <br /> ==Other activities==<br /> Some other activities that [[Scottish Power]] is involved in include the following:<br /> ===PR connections===<br /> * [[Dominic Fry]], who was responsible for the group’s internal and external communications, was [[Scottish Power]]'s financial PR man until his dismissal in 2005.<br /> * [[Scottish Power]] is a client of the Scottish PR firm [[BIG Partnership]]<br /> *[[GPC International]], in 2004/[[Fleishman Hillard]] in 2005<br /> <br /> ===Lobby connections===<br /> According to one CorporateWatch Report, &quot;Despite the pro-business outlook of McConnell and the '''Scottish executive''', corporate lobbyists still find it worthwhile to swarm around the '''Scottish Parliament''' in an attempt to secure meetings with MSPs, to influence Scottish public spending in their favour and to keep polluting Scotland without major penalties. The incestuous relationships between the '''Scottish Parliament''' and corporations extend beyond external lobbying, however. Take for example the corporate swamping of cross party policy discussion groups that meet within the '''Scottish Parliament'''. The '''Scottish Executive''' has seen further controversy over its cosy connections with corporations. Since its creation, business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and transnational corporations, with inward secondments from [[Scottish Power]].” {{ref|21}} <br /> <br /> * [[Scottish Power]] has been linked with [[Business Council for Sustainable Development – UK]]<br /> * as well as DC lobbying firm [[Stuntz, Davis &amp; Staffier]]<br /> <br /> ===Cultural Affiliations/Sponsorships===<br /> *[[Ballet Central]]<br /> *[[Celtic Connections]]<br /> *[[Edinburgh International Book Festival]] <br /> *[[Glasgow Science Centre]] (The ScottishPower Planetarium)<br /> *[[National Theatre for Scotland]] <br /> *[[ScottishPower Pipe Band]]<br /> <br /> ==External Links==<br /> :ScottishPower website [http://www.scottishpower.com/]<br /> :ScottishPower Gas and Electricity Customer website [http://scottishpower.co.uk/]<br /> :ScottishPower Energy Networks website [http://www.spenergynetworks.com/]<br /> <br /> ==Notes==<br /> #{{note|1}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Power Scottish Power], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow Glasgow], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|3}} Energy supply rank from CNN.com [http://www.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/11/28/scot.power/index.html World Business], &quot;Scot Power agrees $22B Spanish bid&quot;, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|4}} Board and Management bios from Scottish Power[http://www.scottishpower.com/ManagementTeam.asp Meet the Board], accessed March 2007.<br /> #{{note|5}} Fat Cat payoff information from ThisIsMoney [http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=410010&amp;in_page_id=2 article] &quot;Sacked power chiefs get 'obscene' pay-off&quot;, accessed 18 June 2006.<br /> #{{note|6}} Photograph from Eco-Schools[http://www.eco-schools.org/partners/institutional/logo_scotexec.gif Partners], Scottish Executive, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|7}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_616.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Plans to Turn Open-cast Mine into Windfarm and Bird Habitat&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|8}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_537.htm News &amp; Media], “ScottishPower Announces Proposals for Third Large-Scale Scottish Windfarm, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|9}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_634.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Spearheads Drive to Advise Business on the Climate Change Levy&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|10}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1487.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Brings Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' to Schools&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|11}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1498.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower to Build World’s Biggest Wave Project off Orkney&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|12}} Photograph from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/uploads/windfarmconsbiostrategy.pdf Brochure], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|13}} Photograph from Scottish Executive [http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/921/0040702.pdf Poster], accessed 22 March 2007. <br /> #{{note|14}} Information from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article], &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|15}} Photograph from Scottish Parliament[http://survey.scottish.parliament.uk/vli/education/youth/games/jigsaw/logoBig.gif Education], Scottish Parliament, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|16}} SPBE information from Scottish Parliament[http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/nmCentre/news/news-01/pa01-089.htm Parliamentary News Release], “New Scheme Promotes Mutual Understanding Between MSPs and Scottish Businesses&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|17}} SPBE lobby relations from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article] &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|18}} Energy Debt comments from Scottish Parliament [http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-07/sor0228-02.htm Energy Debt], &quot;Official Report 28 February 2007&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|19}} Demos information from Demos [http://www.demos.co.uk/content/aboutdemos homepage], accessed 20 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|20}} BWEA membership from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/3886/9/ article], &quot;BP joins renewable power campaign group&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|21}} Report from CorporateWatch [http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=1305 article], &quot;SCOTLAND PLC: The Scottish Executive’s corporate links&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.</div>

Heather Kirk https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=ScottishPower&diff=22563 2007-04-21T18:39:14Z

<p>Heather Kirk: /* Indirect links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament */</p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Scottish power.JPG|right|210px|thumb|Scottish Power logo{{ref|1}}]]<br /> [[Image:Glasgow.JPG|right|140px|thumb|Glasgow, Scotland{{ref|2}}]]<br /> :'''Address''': 1 Atlantic Quay, Glasgow, G2 8SP<br /> :'''Phone''': 0141 248 8200<br /> <br /> Based in Glasgow, Scotland, '''ScottishPower Plc''' is a vertically integrated energy company and is Britain's fifth-largest energy supplier. {{ref|3}} As part of the utilities industry, it is the distribution network operator for the central and southern Scotland and the Merseyside and North Wales regions. The company also supplies electricity and natural gas to homes and business around the United Kingdom and generates power for supply to the grid. It owns '''[[PPM Energy]]''' in the United States and is quoted on the '''London Stock Exchange''' and has a secondary listing on the '''New York Stock Exchange''', as well.<br /> <br /> :[[Scottish Power]] has a number of divisions and subsidiaries, which can be found here: <br /> *[[Scottish Power: Divisons]]<br /> *[[Scottish Power: Subsidiaries]]<br /> <br /> ==History==<br /> In 1991, [[Scottish Power]] prepared for privatisation from the previously nationalised Scottish electricity industry, having officially formed the year before. Scottish industry was organised on an integrated generation, distribution and supply basis, which survived the privatisation to become a model for the rest of the United Kingdom (previously the UK government had privatised the English and Welsh electricity industry by splitting the market into 12 regional electricity companies and two power generators). <br /> [[Scottish Power]] was formed from the larger of the two Scottish electricity boards, the '''South of Scotland Electricity Board''', whilst the other, the '''North of Scotland Hydro Board''', eventually became part of the '''Scottish and Southern Energy Group''' (the nuclear power stations in Scotland were spun off into a third company, '''Scottish Nuclear''', which was not sold off with [[Scottish Power]] and '''Scottish Hydro Electric''', but was sold later as part of '''British Energy''').<br /> <br /> ==Company Chronology==<br /> *1990 - [[Scottish Power]] was officially founded <br /> *1991 - prepared for privitisation from state-owned [[Scottish Electricity]]<br /> *1995 - aquired [[Manweb]]<br /> *1996 - expanded into the water supply bussiness and purchased [[Southern Water]]<br /> *2000 - aquired [[Pacificorp]]<br /> *2001 - PacifiCorp Power Marketing, Inc. moved from being a subsidiary of [[PacifiCorp]] to being an affiliate to [[PacifiCorp]]<br /> *2002 - sold [[Southern Water]]; sold [[Thus]] interest; made [[PPM Energy]] a separate business from [[Pacificorp]] <br /> *2005 - rejected takeover bid from [[E.ON]] on 22 November<br /> *2006 - sold [[Pacificorp]] to MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company on 21 March; aquired permission to build Europe's largest on-shore Windfarm on 27 April; agreed to takeover by [[Iberdrola]] on 28 November<br /> <br /> ==People==<br /> ===Board===<br /> <br /> *[[Charles Miller Smith]] Joined the Board as Deputy Chairman in August 1999 and was appointed as Chairman in April 2000.<br /> *[[Euan Baird]] Joined the Board in January 2001 bringing executive level experience in the electronics and engineering industry to the ScottishPower Board.<br /> *[[Donald Brydon]] Joined the Board in May 2003 and is the senior independent director.<br /> *[[Nick Rose]] Joined the Board in February 2003 and is Chairman of the Audit Committee, nominated as the Committee’s designated “financial expert”.<br /> *[[Nancy Wilgenbusch]] Joined the Board in June 2004.<br /> *[[Peter Hickson]] Joined the Board on 1st September 2006.<br /> <br /> ===Management Team===<br /> <br /> * [[Philip Bowman]] Chief Executive<br /> * [[Simon Lowth]] Finance Director<br /> * [[Terry Hudgens]] Chief Executive Officer, PPM Energy Inc<br /> * [[Susan Reilly]] Commercial Director<br /> * [[Alan Bryce]] Director, Energy Networks<br /> * [[John Campbell]] Director, Energy Wholesale<br /> * [[Willie MacDiarmid]] Director, Energy Retail<br /> * [[Sheelagh Duffield]] Company Secretary<br /> * [[Stephen Dunn]] Director, Human Resources and Communications {{ref|4}}<br /> <br /> ===Previous Members===<br /> * [[Vicky Bailey]] Former American non-Executive Director<br /> * [[Charles Berry]] Former Executive Director, UK<br /> * [[Dominic Fry]] Former Corporate Affairs Director<br /> * [[David Nish]] Former Exucutive Director of Infrastructure<br /> * [[Ian Russell]] Former Chief Executive<br /> <br /> ==Fat Cat payoffs==<br /> [[Scottish Power]]'s former chief executive [[Ian Russell]] and three colleagues received £10.9m for pay and pension compensation. The sums have been branded 'obscene' by the [[Scottish National Party]] energy spokesman [[Richard Lochhead]], and come to light just three months after they warned customers about inflation-busting bill hikes.<br /> <br /> Mr. Russell, who left in January of 2006 after five years as chief executive, received a £2.3m compensation payment as well as benefiting from a resultant pension top-up of £2.7m. The compensation sum is more than three times his salary of £648,000, while his pension windfall nearly doubled his total entitlement to £6.8m. His colleagues [[Charles Berry]] and [[David Nish]], who both left the firm in September of 2006, pocketed a total of £2.6m and £2.2m in extra compensation and extra pension sums respectively. And [[Judi Johansen]], the former head of the company's [[PacifiCorp]] arm that was sold in 2006 as well, walked off with a total of £1.1m.<br /> <br /> The figures are published in Scottish Power's 2005/06 annual report and accounts, and are on top of their normal pay and pension entitlements totalling a further £10.5m. The plc made £675m profit before tax in the financial year to March 2006. [[Scottish Power]] raised gas prices by 15% and electricity by 8% in March of 2006, only to warn that bills would rise again due to high wholesale costs. {{ref|5}}<br /> <br /> ==Direct links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> ===Scottish Executive===<br /> [[Image:SE logo.JPG|right|150px|thumb|Scottish Executive logo {{ref|6}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] has had a number of direct links with the '''Scottish Executive''' over the years. The following shows some press releases, brochures &amp; posters, and SpinWatch articles regarding the relationships between the two.<br /> ====Press Releases====<br /> <br /> *In May of 2002, [[Scottish Power]] &quot;submitted plans to the '''Scottish Executive''' for a £70 million windfarm on the site of an abandoned open cast mine at Black Law near the village of Forth in South Lanarkshire. [[Scottish Power]], in partnership with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and landowners, has developed a habitat management plan that integrates nature conservation, windfarm operation, and other land uses on the site which has been derelict since coal mining activities ceased there.” {{ref|7}}<br /> <br /> *In January of 2003, [[Scottish Power]] announced to the '''Scottish Executive''' its proposals for the third large scale Scottish windfarm; and &quot;if approved, '''Harestanes''' windfarm alone could meet a third of the '''Scottish Executive'''’s renewable energy target of 18% by 2010.” {{ref|8}}<br /> <br /> *In June of 2004, it was announced that &quot;ScottishPower in partnership with the Scottish Energy Office of the '''Scottish Executive''' today launched a nationwide campaign to make businesses aware of the introduction of the Government's Climate Change Levy (CCL). The CCL is a tax that will be the major force behind the Government's commitment to reduce the UK's production of greenhouse gases by 12.5 per cent, compared to 1990 levels, by 2010.” {{ref|9}}<br /> <br /> *More recently in January of 2007, a press release stated that &quot;Former US Vice President Al Gore’s climate change film, An Inconvenient Truth, will be shown in all of Scotland’s Secondary Schools this year thanks to an initiative from [[Scottish Power]] and the Scottish Executive. The Scottish Executive, through Learning Teaching Scotland, is developing a package of educational materials to help raise awareness of the challenges we all face from global warming. [[Stephen Dunn]], [[Scottish Power]]’s HR and Communications Director, said; “I was greatly impressed by An Inconvenient Truth. Not only does it powerfully explain what is happening to the planet, it also gives hope by simply setting out what we can still do to fight climate change. [[Scottish Power]] is already the biggest generator of onshore wind energy in the UK and is developing biomass and wave generation to reduce emissions and combat global warming – but it is essential that we also help promote understanding of this crucial challenge through initiatives such as this.”&quot; {{ref|10}} <br /> <br /> *In Febraury of 2007, &quot;ScottishPower, working closely with the '''Scottish Executive''', today announced a £10m wave power project designed to push Scotland to the forefront of global marine energy development. ScottishPower's Director of Renewables, Keith Anderson, said: &quot;This is a massive step forward. It will be a test of the actual devices that will be used commercially and, if successful, should help propel Scotland into the forefront of marine energy throughout the world.”&quot; {{ref|11}}<br /> <br /> ====Brochures &amp; Posters====<br /> [[Image:SP windfarm.JPG|right|130px|thumb|Brochure {{ref|12}}]]<br /> “ScottishPower Windfarm Biodiversity Conservation Strategy”<br /> <br /> This was a joint venture in 2006 between the '''Scottish Executive''' and '''ScottishPower Renewables'''. <br /> It also involved the '''Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Sustainable Development''', as can be proudly seen at the bottom of the brocure.<br /> [[Image:Future.JPG|left|120px|thumb|Poster {{ref|13}}]]<br /> “It’s Our Future schools’ competition”<br /> <br /> This is another example of a joint venture in 2006 between '''ScottishPower Gas and Electricity''' &amp; the '''Scottish Executive''''s ''Natural Scotland'' campaign. <br /> It involved the '''WWF''' (World Wildlife Fund), '''EcoSchools''', as well as '''Learning &amp; Teaching Scotland''', which is funded by the Scottish Executive Education Department (SEED).<br /> <br /> ====Spinwatch articles====<br /> “Since the creation of the '''Scottish Executive''', business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and Trans-National corporations, Inward: [[Scottish Power]], [[Scottish and Newcastle]], [[Stagecoach]], [[Ernst and Young]], [[PriceWaterhouseCoopers]]. Outward: [[Lloyds TSB]] Foundation, [[Scottish Power]], [[McGrigor Donald]] (law firm and lobbyist), [[Scottish and Newcastle]] and business lobby groups [[Business in the Community]] and the '''Scottish Chambers of Commerce'''.” {{ref|14}}<br /> <br /> ===Scottish Parliament===<br /> [[Image:SP logo.JPG|right|170px|thumb|Scottish Parliament logo{{ref|15}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] also has many links with the '''Scottish Parliament''' as well. The following shows Parliamentary News Releases regarding the development of the [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]], SpinWatch articles, and Scottish Parliament official reports as evidence of relationships between the two.<br /> <br /> ====Parliamentary News Releases====<br /> The Scottish Parliament Business Exchange is a scheme where supposedly, MSPs are to be given an opportunity to gain a valuable insight into the diverse Scottish business sector. The Scottish Parliament and Business Exchange ('The Exchange') aims to develop and provide opportunities for promoting mutual understanding between MSPs and business and related communities in Scotland. The Exchange is registered as an educational charity with a board made up of 50 per-cent Parliamentarians and 50 per-cent business representatives. Presiding officer and The Exchange's honorary President, Sir David Steel said &quot;Through being transparent, open, inclusive and flexible in its approach, The Exchange will be able to bring MSPs and the business community together in a non-lobbying and non-partisan way, providing benefits to the whole of Scotland.” The Board of The Exchange was set-up at the first AGM in June of 2001. The Parliament's Chief Executive, Paul Grice, was the convener, and Sir David Steel MSP was the honorary President. The Board members were Elaine Thomson MSP, Brian Adam MSP, David Davidson MSP, Keith Raffan MSP, Lynda Gauld ([[Pfizer]]), Alan Wilson ([[SCDI]]), Miller McLean ([[Royal Bank of Scotland]]), [[Dominic Fry]] ([[Scottish Power]]), Alastair Smith ([[BAA]] Scottish Airports) and Bill Spiers ([[Scottish TUC]]). {{ref|16}}<br /> :To see more about the SPBE's claims vs. realities, click [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]]. <br /> <br /> ====SpinWatch articles====<br /> While the '''SPBE''' at first glance seems potentially beneficial and rather harmless, a deeper look reveals something different: &quot;The [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]] was set up to allow MSPs to be educated about the realities of business life. To ensure that education and not lobbying took place the scheme was required to be ‘non-lobbying’. But in practice three quarters of the business representatives taking part were lobbyists.” {{ref|17}}<br /> <br /> ====Scottish Parliament official reports====<br /> The 28 February 2007 Official Report regarding Energy Debt featured many varied comments about [[Scottish Power]]'s energy practices. <br /> *Patrick Harvie from Glasgow representing the Green party said: &quot;I was pleased to see that we received briefings from a number of other organisations, including Barnardo's and Capability Scotland, which want Parliament to understand the impact that energy debt has on a range of different people in diverse family situations. Energy suppliers will always have a problem with billing systems for the most vulnerable people, but some of their practices, as Scott Barrie mentioned, hit the poorest households and families hardest. In the case of [[Scottish Power]]'s practices, they had not even calculated what it would cost [[Scottish Power]] to change the policy by writing off such debt. The role of politicians is not just to engage with suppliers on the issue but to look at public policy. Scott Barrie explained the historical situation in terms of the welfare state but, as we move further into the 21st century, the job for politicians is to prepare all citizens and households in Scotland for the period after cheap energy. It falls on all suppliers, including [[Scottish Power]], to adjust their systems to ensure that the most vulnerable people are not placed in further debt.&quot; <br /> *Christine Grahame from the South of Scotland representing the SNP party said: &quot;Energy companies are making a financial killing on the back of the less well-off. Figures that I have obtained show that some companies are charging customers who will not pay by direct debit almost £300 a year more. With regard to the overcharging of non-direct debit customers for gas and electricity combined, the worst offenders—I will name and shame them—were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]]. The worst companies for customers who required only electricity and who chose not to pay by direct debit were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]].&quot;<br /> *Jackie Baillie from Dumbarton representing the Labour party said: &quot;Come on, [[Scottish Power]]—stop back-charging customers and stop back-charging the people who are potentially the most vulnerable customers. I echo the call for [[Scottish Power]] to end immediately its practice of backdating and to acknowledge that prepayment meter tariffs are a mess.” {{ref|18}}<br /> <br /> ==Indirect links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> [[Scottish Power]] has a number of indirect links with the '''Scottish Executive''' and the '''Scottish Parliament''' as well. <br /> *The company sponsors '''community activities''' such as '''ScottishPower Learning'''. This is the company's flagship corporate community programme focused on education/employability. A more detailed look reveals: <br /> a) School-based programmes designed to support the school to work transition<br /> <br /> b) Community-based programmes designed to help unemployed young people build their skills in preparation for work (Involved with Prince’s Trust, Community Champions, Project Scotland)<br /> <br /> c) Work-based programmes designed to provide young people with work experience and vocational training<br /> <br /> *The company is involved with '''think tanks''' as well. [[Demos]], for example, is another 'third way' think tank in the UK. According to its website &quot;Demos is a greenhouse for new ideas which can improve the quality of our lives. As an independent think tank, our aim is to create an open resource of knowledge and learning that operates beyond traditional parties, identities and disciplines.&quot; {{ref|19}} [[Scottish Power]] is one of the many partners of [[Demos]].<br /> <br /> *[[Scottish Power]] is involved with '''policy planning''' agencies, such as the regulatory body '''SEPA'''. The [[Scottish Environmental Protection Agency]] is a powerful Scottish public body sponsored by the '''Scottish Executive''' Environment and Rural Affairs Department. '''SEPA''' was established by the Environment Act 1995 and is responsible for the protection of the natural environment in Scotland, including air, land, freshwater and marine environments.<br /> <br /> *The company is also a member of [[BWEA]] (formerly the '''British Wind Energy Association'''). [[BWEA]] is a renewable power industry, however &quot;Critics in the environment movement may be suspicious of a company they believe talks about green issues but invests little. [[Shell]] has been a member for some years and other big power producers, such as [[Centrica]], owner of British Gas, and [[E.ON]] of Germany have also joined.” {{ref|20}}<br /> <br /> ==Other activities==<br /> Some other activities that [[Scottish Power]] are involved in include the follwoing:<br /> ===PR connections===<br /> *[[BIG Partnership]]<br /> *[[GPC International]], in 2004/[[Fleishman Hillard]] in 2005<br /> <br /> ===Lobby connections===<br /> According to one CorporateWatch Report, &quot;Despite the pro-business outlook of McConnell and the '''Scottish executive''', corporate lobbyists still find it worthwhile to swarm around the '''Scottish Parliament''' in an attempt to secure meetings with MSPs, to influence Scottish public spending in their favour and to keep polluting Scotland without major penalties. The incestuous relationships between the '''Scottish Parliament''' and corporations extend beyond external lobbying, however. Take for example the corporate swamping of cross party policy discussion groups that meet within the '''Scottish Parliament'''. The '''Scottish Executive''' has seen further controversy over its cosy connections with corporations. Since its creation, business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and transnational corporations, with inward secondments from [[Scottish Power]].” {{ref|21}} <br /> <br /> *[[Business Council for Sustainable Development – UK]]<br /> *DC lobbying firm [[Stuntz, Davis &amp; Staffier]]<br /> <br /> ===Cultural Affiliations/Sponsorships===<br /> *[[Ballet Central]]<br /> *[[Celtic Connections]]<br /> *[[Edinburgh International Book Festival]] <br /> *[[Glasgow Science Centre]] (The ScottishPower Planetarium)<br /> *[[National Theatre for Scotland]] <br /> *[[ScottishPower Pipe Band]]<br /> <br /> ==External Links==<br /> :ScottishPower website [http://www.scottishpower.com/]<br /> :ScottishPower Gas and Electricity Customer website [http://scottishpower.co.uk/]<br /> :ScottishPower Energy Networks website [http://www.spenergynetworks.com/]<br /> <br /> ==Notes==<br /> #{{note|1}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Power Scottish Power], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow Glasgow], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|3}} Energy supply rank from CNN.com [http://www.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/11/28/scot.power/index.html World Business], &quot;Scot Power agrees $22B Spanish bid&quot;, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|4}} Board and Management bios from Scottish Power[http://www.scottishpower.com/ManagementTeam.asp Meet the Board], accessed March 2007.<br /> #{{note|5}} Fat Cat payoff information from ThisIsMoney [http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=410010&amp;in_page_id=2 article] &quot;Sacked power chiefs get 'obscene' pay-off&quot;, accessed 18 June 2006.<br /> #{{note|6}} Photograph from Eco-Schools[http://www.eco-schools.org/partners/institutional/logo_scotexec.gif Partners], Scottish Executive, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|7}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_616.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Plans to Turn Open-cast Mine into Windfarm and Bird Habitat&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|8}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_537.htm News &amp; Media], “ScottishPower Announces Proposals for Third Large-Scale Scottish Windfarm, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|9}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_634.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Spearheads Drive to Advise Business on the Climate Change Levy&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|10}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1487.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Brings Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' to Schools&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|11}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1498.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower to Build World’s Biggest Wave Project off Orkney&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|12}} Photograph from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/uploads/windfarmconsbiostrategy.pdf Brochure], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|13}} Photograph from Scottish Executive [http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/921/0040702.pdf Poster], accessed 22 March 2007. <br /> #{{note|14}} Information from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article], &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|15}} Photograph from Scottish Parliament[http://survey.scottish.parliament.uk/vli/education/youth/games/jigsaw/logoBig.gif Education], Scottish Parliament, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|16}} SPBE information from Scottish Parliament[http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/nmCentre/news/news-01/pa01-089.htm Parliamentary News Release], “New Scheme Promotes Mutual Understanding Between MSPs and Scottish Businesses&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|17}} SPBE lobby relations from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article] &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|18}} Energy Debt comments from Scottish Parliament [http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-07/sor0228-02.htm Energy Debt], &quot;Official Report 28 February 2007&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|19}} Demos information from Demos [http://www.demos.co.uk/content/aboutdemos homepage], accessed 20 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|20}} BWEA membership from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/3886/9/ article], &quot;BP joins renewable power campaign group&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|21}} Report from CorporateWatch [http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=1305 article], &quot;SCOTLAND PLC: The Scottish Executive’s corporate links&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.</div>

Heather Kirk https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=ScottishPower&diff=22561 2007-04-21T18:38:01Z

<p>Heather Kirk: /* Scottish Parliament */</p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Scottish power.JPG|right|210px|thumb|Scottish Power logo{{ref|1}}]]<br /> [[Image:Glasgow.JPG|right|140px|thumb|Glasgow, Scotland{{ref|2}}]]<br /> :'''Address''': 1 Atlantic Quay, Glasgow, G2 8SP<br /> :'''Phone''': 0141 248 8200<br /> <br /> Based in Glasgow, Scotland, '''ScottishPower Plc''' is a vertically integrated energy company and is Britain's fifth-largest energy supplier. {{ref|3}} As part of the utilities industry, it is the distribution network operator for the central and southern Scotland and the Merseyside and North Wales regions. The company also supplies electricity and natural gas to homes and business around the United Kingdom and generates power for supply to the grid. It owns '''[[PPM Energy]]''' in the United States and is quoted on the '''London Stock Exchange''' and has a secondary listing on the '''New York Stock Exchange''', as well.<br /> <br /> :[[Scottish Power]] has a number of divisions and subsidiaries, which can be found here: <br /> *[[Scottish Power: Divisons]]<br /> *[[Scottish Power: Subsidiaries]]<br /> <br /> ==History==<br /> In 1991, [[Scottish Power]] prepared for privatisation from the previously nationalised Scottish electricity industry, having officially formed the year before. Scottish industry was organised on an integrated generation, distribution and supply basis, which survived the privatisation to become a model for the rest of the United Kingdom (previously the UK government had privatised the English and Welsh electricity industry by splitting the market into 12 regional electricity companies and two power generators). <br /> [[Scottish Power]] was formed from the larger of the two Scottish electricity boards, the '''South of Scotland Electricity Board''', whilst the other, the '''North of Scotland Hydro Board''', eventually became part of the '''Scottish and Southern Energy Group''' (the nuclear power stations in Scotland were spun off into a third company, '''Scottish Nuclear''', which was not sold off with [[Scottish Power]] and '''Scottish Hydro Electric''', but was sold later as part of '''British Energy''').<br /> <br /> ==Company Chronology==<br /> *1990 - [[Scottish Power]] was officially founded <br /> *1991 - prepared for privitisation from state-owned [[Scottish Electricity]]<br /> *1995 - aquired [[Manweb]]<br /> *1996 - expanded into the water supply bussiness and purchased [[Southern Water]]<br /> *2000 - aquired [[Pacificorp]]<br /> *2001 - PacifiCorp Power Marketing, Inc. moved from being a subsidiary of [[PacifiCorp]] to being an affiliate to [[PacifiCorp]]<br /> *2002 - sold [[Southern Water]]; sold [[Thus]] interest; made [[PPM Energy]] a separate business from [[Pacificorp]] <br /> *2005 - rejected takeover bid from [[E.ON]] on 22 November<br /> *2006 - sold [[Pacificorp]] to MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company on 21 March; aquired permission to build Europe's largest on-shore Windfarm on 27 April; agreed to takeover by [[Iberdrola]] on 28 November<br /> <br /> ==People==<br /> ===Board===<br /> <br /> *[[Charles Miller Smith]] Joined the Board as Deputy Chairman in August 1999 and was appointed as Chairman in April 2000.<br /> *[[Euan Baird]] Joined the Board in January 2001 bringing executive level experience in the electronics and engineering industry to the ScottishPower Board.<br /> *[[Donald Brydon]] Joined the Board in May 2003 and is the senior independent director.<br /> *[[Nick Rose]] Joined the Board in February 2003 and is Chairman of the Audit Committee, nominated as the Committee’s designated “financial expert”.<br /> *[[Nancy Wilgenbusch]] Joined the Board in June 2004.<br /> *[[Peter Hickson]] Joined the Board on 1st September 2006.<br /> <br /> ===Management Team===<br /> <br /> * [[Philip Bowman]] Chief Executive<br /> * [[Simon Lowth]] Finance Director<br /> * [[Terry Hudgens]] Chief Executive Officer, PPM Energy Inc<br /> * [[Susan Reilly]] Commercial Director<br /> * [[Alan Bryce]] Director, Energy Networks<br /> * [[John Campbell]] Director, Energy Wholesale<br /> * [[Willie MacDiarmid]] Director, Energy Retail<br /> * [[Sheelagh Duffield]] Company Secretary<br /> * [[Stephen Dunn]] Director, Human Resources and Communications {{ref|4}}<br /> <br /> ===Previous Members===<br /> * [[Vicky Bailey]] Former American non-Executive Director<br /> * [[Charles Berry]] Former Executive Director, UK<br /> * [[Dominic Fry]] Former Corporate Affairs Director<br /> * [[David Nish]] Former Exucutive Director of Infrastructure<br /> * [[Ian Russell]] Former Chief Executive<br /> <br /> ==Fat Cat payoffs==<br /> [[Scottish Power]]'s former chief executive [[Ian Russell]] and three colleagues received £10.9m for pay and pension compensation. The sums have been branded 'obscene' by the [[Scottish National Party]] energy spokesman [[Richard Lochhead]], and come to light just three months after they warned customers about inflation-busting bill hikes.<br /> <br /> Mr. Russell, who left in January of 2006 after five years as chief executive, received a £2.3m compensation payment as well as benefiting from a resultant pension top-up of £2.7m. The compensation sum is more than three times his salary of £648,000, while his pension windfall nearly doubled his total entitlement to £6.8m. His colleagues [[Charles Berry]] and [[David Nish]], who both left the firm in September of 2006, pocketed a total of £2.6m and £2.2m in extra compensation and extra pension sums respectively. And [[Judi Johansen]], the former head of the company's [[PacifiCorp]] arm that was sold in 2006 as well, walked off with a total of £1.1m.<br /> <br /> The figures are published in Scottish Power's 2005/06 annual report and accounts, and are on top of their normal pay and pension entitlements totalling a further £10.5m. The plc made £675m profit before tax in the financial year to March 2006. [[Scottish Power]] raised gas prices by 15% and electricity by 8% in March of 2006, only to warn that bills would rise again due to high wholesale costs. {{ref|5}}<br /> <br /> ==Direct links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> ===Scottish Executive===<br /> [[Image:SE logo.JPG|right|150px|thumb|Scottish Executive logo {{ref|6}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] has had a number of direct links with the '''Scottish Executive''' over the years. The following shows some press releases, brochures &amp; posters, and SpinWatch articles regarding the relationships between the two.<br /> ====Press Releases====<br /> <br /> *In May of 2002, [[Scottish Power]] &quot;submitted plans to the '''Scottish Executive''' for a £70 million windfarm on the site of an abandoned open cast mine at Black Law near the village of Forth in South Lanarkshire. [[Scottish Power]], in partnership with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and landowners, has developed a habitat management plan that integrates nature conservation, windfarm operation, and other land uses on the site which has been derelict since coal mining activities ceased there.” {{ref|7}}<br /> <br /> *In January of 2003, [[Scottish Power]] announced to the '''Scottish Executive''' its proposals for the third large scale Scottish windfarm; and &quot;if approved, '''Harestanes''' windfarm alone could meet a third of the '''Scottish Executive'''’s renewable energy target of 18% by 2010.” {{ref|8}}<br /> <br /> *In June of 2004, it was announced that &quot;ScottishPower in partnership with the Scottish Energy Office of the '''Scottish Executive''' today launched a nationwide campaign to make businesses aware of the introduction of the Government's Climate Change Levy (CCL). The CCL is a tax that will be the major force behind the Government's commitment to reduce the UK's production of greenhouse gases by 12.5 per cent, compared to 1990 levels, by 2010.” {{ref|9}}<br /> <br /> *More recently in January of 2007, a press release stated that &quot;Former US Vice President Al Gore’s climate change film, An Inconvenient Truth, will be shown in all of Scotland’s Secondary Schools this year thanks to an initiative from [[Scottish Power]] and the Scottish Executive. The Scottish Executive, through Learning Teaching Scotland, is developing a package of educational materials to help raise awareness of the challenges we all face from global warming. [[Stephen Dunn]], [[Scottish Power]]’s HR and Communications Director, said; “I was greatly impressed by An Inconvenient Truth. Not only does it powerfully explain what is happening to the planet, it also gives hope by simply setting out what we can still do to fight climate change. [[Scottish Power]] is already the biggest generator of onshore wind energy in the UK and is developing biomass and wave generation to reduce emissions and combat global warming – but it is essential that we also help promote understanding of this crucial challenge through initiatives such as this.”&quot; {{ref|10}} <br /> <br /> *In Febraury of 2007, &quot;ScottishPower, working closely with the '''Scottish Executive''', today announced a £10m wave power project designed to push Scotland to the forefront of global marine energy development. ScottishPower's Director of Renewables, Keith Anderson, said: &quot;This is a massive step forward. It will be a test of the actual devices that will be used commercially and, if successful, should help propel Scotland into the forefront of marine energy throughout the world.”&quot; {{ref|11}}<br /> <br /> ====Brochures &amp; Posters====<br /> [[Image:SP windfarm.JPG|right|130px|thumb|Brochure {{ref|12}}]]<br /> “ScottishPower Windfarm Biodiversity Conservation Strategy”<br /> <br /> This was a joint venture in 2006 between the '''Scottish Executive''' and '''ScottishPower Renewables'''. <br /> It also involved the '''Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Sustainable Development''', as can be proudly seen at the bottom of the brocure.<br /> [[Image:Future.JPG|left|120px|thumb|Poster {{ref|13}}]]<br /> “It’s Our Future schools’ competition”<br /> <br /> This is another example of a joint venture in 2006 between '''ScottishPower Gas and Electricity''' &amp; the '''Scottish Executive''''s ''Natural Scotland'' campaign. <br /> It involved the '''WWF''' (World Wildlife Fund), '''EcoSchools''', as well as '''Learning &amp; Teaching Scotland''', which is funded by the Scottish Executive Education Department (SEED).<br /> <br /> ====Spinwatch articles====<br /> “Since the creation of the '''Scottish Executive''', business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and Trans-National corporations, Inward: [[Scottish Power]], [[Scottish and Newcastle]], [[Stagecoach]], [[Ernst and Young]], [[PriceWaterhouseCoopers]]. Outward: [[Lloyds TSB]] Foundation, [[Scottish Power]], [[McGrigor Donald]] (law firm and lobbyist), [[Scottish and Newcastle]] and business lobby groups [[Business in the Community]] and the '''Scottish Chambers of Commerce'''.” {{ref|14}}<br /> <br /> ===Scottish Parliament===<br /> [[Image:SP logo.JPG|right|170px|thumb|Scottish Parliament logo{{ref|15}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] also has many links with the '''Scottish Parliament''' as well. The following shows Parliamentary News Releases regarding the development of the [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]], SpinWatch articles, and Scottish Parliament official reports as evidence of relationships between the two.<br /> <br /> ====Parliamentary News Releases====<br /> The Scottish Parliament Business Exchange is a scheme where supposedly, MSPs are to be given an opportunity to gain a valuable insight into the diverse Scottish business sector. The Scottish Parliament and Business Exchange ('The Exchange') aims to develop and provide opportunities for promoting mutual understanding between MSPs and business and related communities in Scotland. The Exchange is registered as an educational charity with a board made up of 50 per-cent Parliamentarians and 50 per-cent business representatives. Presiding officer and The Exchange's honorary President, Sir David Steel said &quot;Through being transparent, open, inclusive and flexible in its approach, The Exchange will be able to bring MSPs and the business community together in a non-lobbying and non-partisan way, providing benefits to the whole of Scotland.” The Board of The Exchange was set-up at the first AGM in June of 2001. The Parliament's Chief Executive, Paul Grice, was the convener, and Sir David Steel MSP was the honorary President. The Board members were Elaine Thomson MSP, Brian Adam MSP, David Davidson MSP, Keith Raffan MSP, Lynda Gauld ([[Pfizer]]), Alan Wilson ([[SCDI]]), Miller McLean ([[Royal Bank of Scotland]]), [[Dominic Fry]] ([[Scottish Power]]), Alastair Smith ([[BAA]] Scottish Airports) and Bill Spiers ([[Scottish TUC]]). {{ref|16}}<br /> :To see more about the SPBE's claims vs. realities, click [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]]. <br /> <br /> ====SpinWatch articles====<br /> While the '''SPBE''' at first glance seems potentially beneficial and rather harmless, a deeper look reveals something different: &quot;The [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]] was set up to allow MSPs to be educated about the realities of business life. To ensure that education and not lobbying took place the scheme was required to be ‘non-lobbying’. But in practice three quarters of the business representatives taking part were lobbyists.” {{ref|17}}<br /> <br /> ====Scottish Parliament official reports====<br /> The 28 February 2007 Official Report regarding Energy Debt featured many varied comments about [[Scottish Power]]'s energy practices. <br /> *Patrick Harvie from Glasgow representing the Green party said: &quot;I was pleased to see that we received briefings from a number of other organisations, including Barnardo's and Capability Scotland, which want Parliament to understand the impact that energy debt has on a range of different people in diverse family situations. Energy suppliers will always have a problem with billing systems for the most vulnerable people, but some of their practices, as Scott Barrie mentioned, hit the poorest households and families hardest. In the case of [[Scottish Power]]'s practices, they had not even calculated what it would cost [[Scottish Power]] to change the policy by writing off such debt. The role of politicians is not just to engage with suppliers on the issue but to look at public policy. Scott Barrie explained the historical situation in terms of the welfare state but, as we move further into the 21st century, the job for politicians is to prepare all citizens and households in Scotland for the period after cheap energy. It falls on all suppliers, including [[Scottish Power]], to adjust their systems to ensure that the most vulnerable people are not placed in further debt.&quot; <br /> *Christine Grahame from the South of Scotland representing the SNP party said: &quot;Energy companies are making a financial killing on the back of the less well-off. Figures that I have obtained show that some companies are charging customers who will not pay by direct debit almost £300 a year more. With regard to the overcharging of non-direct debit customers for gas and electricity combined, the worst offenders—I will name and shame them—were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]]. The worst companies for customers who required only electricity and who chose not to pay by direct debit were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]].&quot;<br /> *Jackie Baillie from Dumbarton representing the Labour party said: &quot;Come on, [[Scottish Power]]—stop back-charging customers and stop back-charging the people who are potentially the most vulnerable customers. I echo the call for [[Scottish Power]] to end immediately its practice of backdating and to acknowledge that prepayment meter tariffs are a mess.” {{ref|18}}<br /> <br /> ==Indirect links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> [[Scottish Power]] enjoys many indirect links with the '''Scottish Executive''' and the '''Scottish Parliament''' as well. <br /> *The company sponsors '''community activities''' such as '''ScottishPower Learning'''. This is the company's flagship corporate community programme focused on education/employability. A more detailed look reveals: <br /> a) School-based programmes designed to support the school to work transition<br /> <br /> b) Community-based programmes designed to help unemployed young people build their skills in preparation for work (Involved with Prince’s Trust, Community Champions, Project Scotland)<br /> <br /> c) Work-based programmes designed to provide young people with work experience and vocational training<br /> <br /> *The company is involved with '''think tanks''' as well. [[Demos]], for example, is another 'third way' think tank in the UK. According to its website &quot;Demos is a greenhouse for new ideas which can improve the quality of our lives. As an independent think tank, our aim is to create an open resource of knowledge and learning that operates beyond traditional parties, identities and disciplines.&quot; {{ref|19}} [[Scottish Power]] is one of the many partners of [[Demos]].<br /> <br /> *[[Scottish Power]] is involved with '''policy planning''' agencies, such as the regulatory body '''SEPA'''. The [[Scottish Environmental Protection Agency]] is a powerful Scottish public body sponsored by the '''Scottish Executive''' Environment and Rural Affairs Department. '''SEPA''' was established by the Environment Act 1995 and is responsible for the protection of the natural environment in Scotland, including air, land, freshwater and marine environments.<br /> <br /> *The company is also a member of [[BWEA]] (formerly the British '''Wind Energy Association'''). [[BWEA]] is a renewable power industry, however &quot;Critics in the environment movement may be suspicious of a company they believe talks about green issues but invests little. [[Shell]] has been a member for some years and other big power producers, such as [[Centrica]], owner of British Gas, and [[E.ON]] of Germany have also joined.” {{ref|20}}<br /> <br /> ==Other activities==<br /> Some other activities that [[Scottish Power]] are involved in include the follwoing:<br /> ===PR connections===<br /> *[[BIG Partnership]]<br /> *[[GPC International]], in 2004/[[Fleishman Hillard]] in 2005<br /> <br /> ===Lobby connections===<br /> According to one CorporateWatch Report, &quot;Despite the pro-business outlook of McConnell and the '''Scottish executive''', corporate lobbyists still find it worthwhile to swarm around the '''Scottish Parliament''' in an attempt to secure meetings with MSPs, to influence Scottish public spending in their favour and to keep polluting Scotland without major penalties. The incestuous relationships between the '''Scottish Parliament''' and corporations extend beyond external lobbying, however. Take for example the corporate swamping of cross party policy discussion groups that meet within the '''Scottish Parliament'''. The '''Scottish Executive''' has seen further controversy over its cosy connections with corporations. Since its creation, business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and transnational corporations, with inward secondments from [[Scottish Power]].” {{ref|21}} <br /> <br /> *[[Business Council for Sustainable Development – UK]]<br /> *DC lobbying firm [[Stuntz, Davis &amp; Staffier]]<br /> <br /> ===Cultural Affiliations/Sponsorships===<br /> *[[Ballet Central]]<br /> *[[Celtic Connections]]<br /> *[[Edinburgh International Book Festival]] <br /> *[[Glasgow Science Centre]] (The ScottishPower Planetarium)<br /> *[[National Theatre for Scotland]] <br /> *[[ScottishPower Pipe Band]]<br /> <br /> ==External Links==<br /> :ScottishPower website [http://www.scottishpower.com/]<br /> :ScottishPower Gas and Electricity Customer website [http://scottishpower.co.uk/]<br /> :ScottishPower Energy Networks website [http://www.spenergynetworks.com/]<br /> <br /> ==Notes==<br /> #{{note|1}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Power Scottish Power], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow Glasgow], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|3}} Energy supply rank from CNN.com [http://www.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/11/28/scot.power/index.html World Business], &quot;Scot Power agrees $22B Spanish bid&quot;, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|4}} Board and Management bios from Scottish Power[http://www.scottishpower.com/ManagementTeam.asp Meet the Board], accessed March 2007.<br /> #{{note|5}} Fat Cat payoff information from ThisIsMoney [http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=410010&amp;in_page_id=2 article] &quot;Sacked power chiefs get 'obscene' pay-off&quot;, accessed 18 June 2006.<br /> #{{note|6}} Photograph from Eco-Schools[http://www.eco-schools.org/partners/institutional/logo_scotexec.gif Partners], Scottish Executive, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|7}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_616.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Plans to Turn Open-cast Mine into Windfarm and Bird Habitat&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|8}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_537.htm News &amp; Media], “ScottishPower Announces Proposals for Third Large-Scale Scottish Windfarm, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|9}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_634.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Spearheads Drive to Advise Business on the Climate Change Levy&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|10}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1487.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Brings Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' to Schools&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|11}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1498.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower to Build World’s Biggest Wave Project off Orkney&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|12}} Photograph from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/uploads/windfarmconsbiostrategy.pdf Brochure], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|13}} Photograph from Scottish Executive [http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/921/0040702.pdf Poster], accessed 22 March 2007. <br /> #{{note|14}} Information from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article], &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|15}} Photograph from Scottish Parliament[http://survey.scottish.parliament.uk/vli/education/youth/games/jigsaw/logoBig.gif Education], Scottish Parliament, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|16}} SPBE information from Scottish Parliament[http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/nmCentre/news/news-01/pa01-089.htm Parliamentary News Release], “New Scheme Promotes Mutual Understanding Between MSPs and Scottish Businesses&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|17}} SPBE lobby relations from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article] &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|18}} Energy Debt comments from Scottish Parliament [http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-07/sor0228-02.htm Energy Debt], &quot;Official Report 28 February 2007&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|19}} Demos information from Demos [http://www.demos.co.uk/content/aboutdemos homepage], accessed 20 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|20}} BWEA membership from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/3886/9/ article], &quot;BP joins renewable power campaign group&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|21}} Report from CorporateWatch [http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=1305 article], &quot;SCOTLAND PLC: The Scottish Executive’s corporate links&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.</div>

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<p>Heather Kirk: /* SpinWatch articles */</p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Scottish power.JPG|right|210px|thumb|Scottish Power logo{{ref|1}}]]<br /> [[Image:Glasgow.JPG|right|140px|thumb|Glasgow, Scotland{{ref|2}}]]<br /> :'''Address''': 1 Atlantic Quay, Glasgow, G2 8SP<br /> :'''Phone''': 0141 248 8200<br /> <br /> Based in Glasgow, Scotland, '''ScottishPower Plc''' is a vertically integrated energy company and is Britain's fifth-largest energy supplier. {{ref|3}} As part of the utilities industry, it is the distribution network operator for the central and southern Scotland and the Merseyside and North Wales regions. The company also supplies electricity and natural gas to homes and business around the United Kingdom and generates power for supply to the grid. It owns '''[[PPM Energy]]''' in the United States and is quoted on the '''London Stock Exchange''' and has a secondary listing on the '''New York Stock Exchange''', as well.<br /> <br /> :[[Scottish Power]] has a number of divisions and subsidiaries, which can be found here: <br /> *[[Scottish Power: Divisons]]<br /> *[[Scottish Power: Subsidiaries]]<br /> <br /> ==History==<br /> In 1991, [[Scottish Power]] prepared for privatisation from the previously nationalised Scottish electricity industry, having officially formed the year before. Scottish industry was organised on an integrated generation, distribution and supply basis, which survived the privatisation to become a model for the rest of the United Kingdom (previously the UK government had privatised the English and Welsh electricity industry by splitting the market into 12 regional electricity companies and two power generators). <br /> [[Scottish Power]] was formed from the larger of the two Scottish electricity boards, the '''South of Scotland Electricity Board''', whilst the other, the '''North of Scotland Hydro Board''', eventually became part of the '''Scottish and Southern Energy Group''' (the nuclear power stations in Scotland were spun off into a third company, '''Scottish Nuclear''', which was not sold off with [[Scottish Power]] and '''Scottish Hydro Electric''', but was sold later as part of '''British Energy''').<br /> <br /> ==Company Chronology==<br /> *1990 - [[Scottish Power]] was officially founded <br /> *1991 - prepared for privitisation from state-owned [[Scottish Electricity]]<br /> *1995 - aquired [[Manweb]]<br /> *1996 - expanded into the water supply bussiness and purchased [[Southern Water]]<br /> *2000 - aquired [[Pacificorp]]<br /> *2001 - PacifiCorp Power Marketing, Inc. moved from being a subsidiary of [[PacifiCorp]] to being an affiliate to [[PacifiCorp]]<br /> *2002 - sold [[Southern Water]]; sold [[Thus]] interest; made [[PPM Energy]] a separate business from [[Pacificorp]] <br /> *2005 - rejected takeover bid from [[E.ON]] on 22 November<br /> *2006 - sold [[Pacificorp]] to MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company on 21 March; aquired permission to build Europe's largest on-shore Windfarm on 27 April; agreed to takeover by [[Iberdrola]] on 28 November<br /> <br /> ==People==<br /> ===Board===<br /> <br /> *[[Charles Miller Smith]] Joined the Board as Deputy Chairman in August 1999 and was appointed as Chairman in April 2000.<br /> *[[Euan Baird]] Joined the Board in January 2001 bringing executive level experience in the electronics and engineering industry to the ScottishPower Board.<br /> *[[Donald Brydon]] Joined the Board in May 2003 and is the senior independent director.<br /> *[[Nick Rose]] Joined the Board in February 2003 and is Chairman of the Audit Committee, nominated as the Committee’s designated “financial expert”.<br /> *[[Nancy Wilgenbusch]] Joined the Board in June 2004.<br /> *[[Peter Hickson]] Joined the Board on 1st September 2006.<br /> <br /> ===Management Team===<br /> <br /> * [[Philip Bowman]] Chief Executive<br /> * [[Simon Lowth]] Finance Director<br /> * [[Terry Hudgens]] Chief Executive Officer, PPM Energy Inc<br /> * [[Susan Reilly]] Commercial Director<br /> * [[Alan Bryce]] Director, Energy Networks<br /> * [[John Campbell]] Director, Energy Wholesale<br /> * [[Willie MacDiarmid]] Director, Energy Retail<br /> * [[Sheelagh Duffield]] Company Secretary<br /> * [[Stephen Dunn]] Director, Human Resources and Communications {{ref|4}}<br /> <br /> ===Previous Members===<br /> * [[Vicky Bailey]] Former American non-Executive Director<br /> * [[Charles Berry]] Former Executive Director, UK<br /> * [[Dominic Fry]] Former Corporate Affairs Director<br /> * [[David Nish]] Former Exucutive Director of Infrastructure<br /> * [[Ian Russell]] Former Chief Executive<br /> <br /> ==Fat Cat payoffs==<br /> [[Scottish Power]]'s former chief executive [[Ian Russell]] and three colleagues received £10.9m for pay and pension compensation. The sums have been branded 'obscene' by the [[Scottish National Party]] energy spokesman [[Richard Lochhead]], and come to light just three months after they warned customers about inflation-busting bill hikes.<br /> <br /> Mr. Russell, who left in January of 2006 after five years as chief executive, received a £2.3m compensation payment as well as benefiting from a resultant pension top-up of £2.7m. The compensation sum is more than three times his salary of £648,000, while his pension windfall nearly doubled his total entitlement to £6.8m. His colleagues [[Charles Berry]] and [[David Nish]], who both left the firm in September of 2006, pocketed a total of £2.6m and £2.2m in extra compensation and extra pension sums respectively. And [[Judi Johansen]], the former head of the company's [[PacifiCorp]] arm that was sold in 2006 as well, walked off with a total of £1.1m.<br /> <br /> The figures are published in Scottish Power's 2005/06 annual report and accounts, and are on top of their normal pay and pension entitlements totalling a further £10.5m. The plc made £675m profit before tax in the financial year to March 2006. [[Scottish Power]] raised gas prices by 15% and electricity by 8% in March of 2006, only to warn that bills would rise again due to high wholesale costs. {{ref|5}}<br /> <br /> ==Direct links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> ===Scottish Executive===<br /> [[Image:SE logo.JPG|right|150px|thumb|Scottish Executive logo {{ref|6}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] has had a number of direct links with the '''Scottish Executive''' over the years. The following shows some press releases, brochures &amp; posters, and SpinWatch articles regarding the relationships between the two.<br /> ====Press Releases====<br /> <br /> *In May of 2002, [[Scottish Power]] &quot;submitted plans to the '''Scottish Executive''' for a £70 million windfarm on the site of an abandoned open cast mine at Black Law near the village of Forth in South Lanarkshire. [[Scottish Power]], in partnership with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and landowners, has developed a habitat management plan that integrates nature conservation, windfarm operation, and other land uses on the site which has been derelict since coal mining activities ceased there.” {{ref|7}}<br /> <br /> *In January of 2003, [[Scottish Power]] announced to the '''Scottish Executive''' its proposals for the third large scale Scottish windfarm; and &quot;if approved, '''Harestanes''' windfarm alone could meet a third of the '''Scottish Executive'''’s renewable energy target of 18% by 2010.” {{ref|8}}<br /> <br /> *In June of 2004, it was announced that &quot;ScottishPower in partnership with the Scottish Energy Office of the '''Scottish Executive''' today launched a nationwide campaign to make businesses aware of the introduction of the Government's Climate Change Levy (CCL). The CCL is a tax that will be the major force behind the Government's commitment to reduce the UK's production of greenhouse gases by 12.5 per cent, compared to 1990 levels, by 2010.” {{ref|9}}<br /> <br /> *More recently in January of 2007, a press release stated that &quot;Former US Vice President Al Gore’s climate change film, An Inconvenient Truth, will be shown in all of Scotland’s Secondary Schools this year thanks to an initiative from [[Scottish Power]] and the Scottish Executive. The Scottish Executive, through Learning Teaching Scotland, is developing a package of educational materials to help raise awareness of the challenges we all face from global warming. [[Stephen Dunn]], [[Scottish Power]]’s HR and Communications Director, said; “I was greatly impressed by An Inconvenient Truth. Not only does it powerfully explain what is happening to the planet, it also gives hope by simply setting out what we can still do to fight climate change. [[Scottish Power]] is already the biggest generator of onshore wind energy in the UK and is developing biomass and wave generation to reduce emissions and combat global warming – but it is essential that we also help promote understanding of this crucial challenge through initiatives such as this.”&quot; {{ref|10}} <br /> <br /> *In Febraury of 2007, &quot;ScottishPower, working closely with the '''Scottish Executive''', today announced a £10m wave power project designed to push Scotland to the forefront of global marine energy development. ScottishPower's Director of Renewables, Keith Anderson, said: &quot;This is a massive step forward. It will be a test of the actual devices that will be used commercially and, if successful, should help propel Scotland into the forefront of marine energy throughout the world.”&quot; {{ref|11}}<br /> <br /> ====Brochures &amp; Posters====<br /> [[Image:SP windfarm.JPG|right|130px|thumb|Brochure {{ref|12}}]]<br /> “ScottishPower Windfarm Biodiversity Conservation Strategy”<br /> <br /> This was a joint venture in 2006 between the '''Scottish Executive''' and '''ScottishPower Renewables'''. <br /> It also involved the '''Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Sustainable Development''', as can be proudly seen at the bottom of the brocure.<br /> [[Image:Future.JPG|left|120px|thumb|Poster {{ref|13}}]]<br /> “It’s Our Future schools’ competition”<br /> <br /> This is another example of a joint venture in 2006 between '''ScottishPower Gas and Electricity''' &amp; the '''Scottish Executive''''s ''Natural Scotland'' campaign. <br /> It involved the '''WWF''' (World Wildlife Fund), '''EcoSchools''', as well as '''Learning &amp; Teaching Scotland''', which is funded by the Scottish Executive Education Department (SEED).<br /> <br /> ====Spinwatch articles====<br /> “Since the creation of the '''Scottish Executive''', business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and Trans-National corporations, Inward: [[Scottish Power]], [[Scottish and Newcastle]], [[Stagecoach]], [[Ernst and Young]], [[PriceWaterhouseCoopers]]. Outward: [[Lloyds TSB]] Foundation, [[Scottish Power]], [[McGrigor Donald]] (law firm and lobbyist), [[Scottish and Newcastle]] and business lobby groups [[Business in the Community]] and the '''Scottish Chambers of Commerce'''.” {{ref|14}}<br /> <br /> ===Scottish Parliament===<br /> [[Image:SP logo.JPG|right|170px|thumb|Scottish Parliament logo{{ref|15}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] also has many links with the '''Scottish Parliament''' as well. The following shows Parliamentary News Releases regarding the development of the [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]], Scottish Parliament official reports, and SpinWatch articles as evidence of relationships between the two.<br /> <br /> ====Parliamentary News Releases====<br /> The Scottish Parliament Business Exchange is a scheme where supposedly, MSPs are to be given an opportunity to gain a valuable insight into the diverse Scottish business sector. The Scottish Parliament and Business Exchange ('The Exchange') aims to develop and provide opportunities for promoting mutual understanding between MSPs and business and related communities in Scotland. The Exchange is registered as an educational charity with a board made up of 50 per-cent Parliamentarians and 50 per-cent business representatives. Presiding officer and The Exchange's honorary President, Sir David Steel said &quot;Through being transparent, open, inclusive and flexible in its approach, The Exchange will be able to bring MSPs and the business community together in a non-lobbying and non-partisan way, providing benefits to the whole of Scotland.” The Board of The Exchange was set-up at the first AGM in June of 2001. The Parliament's Chief Executive, Paul Grice, was the convener, and Sir David Steel MSP was the honorary President. The Board members were Elaine Thomson MSP, Brian Adam MSP, David Davidson MSP, Keith Raffan MSP, Lynda Gauld ([[Pfizer]]), Alan Wilson ([[SCDI]]), Miller McLean ([[Royal Bank of Scotland]]), [[Dominic Fry]] ([[Scottish Power]]), Alastair Smith ([[BAA]] Scottish Airports) and Bill Spiers ([[Scottish TUC]]). {{ref|16}}<br /> :To see more about the SPBE's claims vs. realities, click [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]]. <br /> <br /> ====SpinWatch articles====<br /> While the '''SPBE''' at first glance seems potentially beneficial and rather harmless, a deeper look reveals something different: &quot;The [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]] was set up to allow MSPs to be educated about the realities of business life. To ensure that education and not lobbying took place the scheme was required to be ‘non-lobbying’. But in practice three quarters of the business representatives taking part were lobbyists.” {{ref|17}}<br /> <br /> ====Scottish Parliament official reports====<br /> The 28 February 2007 Official Report regarding Energy Debt featured many varied comments about [[Scottish Power]]'s energy practices. <br /> *Patrick Harvie from Glasgow representing the Green party said: &quot;I was pleased to see that we received briefings from a number of other organisations, including Barnardo's and Capability Scotland, which want Parliament to understand the impact that energy debt has on a range of different people in diverse family situations. Energy suppliers will always have a problem with billing systems for the most vulnerable people, but some of their practices, as Scott Barrie mentioned, hit the poorest households and families hardest. In the case of [[Scottish Power]]'s practices, they had not even calculated what it would cost [[Scottish Power]] to change the policy by writing off such debt. The role of politicians is not just to engage with suppliers on the issue but to look at public policy. Scott Barrie explained the historical situation in terms of the welfare state but, as we move further into the 21st century, the job for politicians is to prepare all citizens and households in Scotland for the period after cheap energy. It falls on all suppliers, including [[Scottish Power]], to adjust their systems to ensure that the most vulnerable people are not placed in further debt.&quot; <br /> *Christine Grahame from the South of Scotland representing the SNP party said: &quot;Energy companies are making a financial killing on the back of the less well-off. Figures that I have obtained show that some companies are charging customers who will not pay by direct debit almost £300 a year more. With regard to the overcharging of non-direct debit customers for gas and electricity combined, the worst offenders—I will name and shame them—were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]]. The worst companies for customers who required only electricity and who chose not to pay by direct debit were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]].&quot;<br /> *Jackie Baillie from Dumbarton representing the Labour party said: &quot;Come on, [[Scottish Power]]—stop back-charging customers and stop back-charging the people who are potentially the most vulnerable customers. I echo the call for [[Scottish Power]] to end immediately its practice of backdating and to acknowledge that prepayment meter tariffs are a mess.” {{ref|18}} <br /> <br /> <br /> ==Indirect links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> [[Scottish Power]] enjoys many indirect links with the '''Scottish Executive''' and the '''Scottish Parliament''' as well. <br /> *The company sponsors '''community activities''' such as '''ScottishPower Learning'''. This is the company's flagship corporate community programme focused on education/employability. A more detailed look reveals: <br /> a) School-based programmes designed to support the school to work transition<br /> <br /> b) Community-based programmes designed to help unemployed young people build their skills in preparation for work (Involved with Prince’s Trust, Community Champions, Project Scotland)<br /> <br /> c) Work-based programmes designed to provide young people with work experience and vocational training<br /> <br /> *The company is involved with '''think tanks''' as well. [[Demos]], for example, is another 'third way' think tank in the UK. According to its website &quot;Demos is a greenhouse for new ideas which can improve the quality of our lives. As an independent think tank, our aim is to create an open resource of knowledge and learning that operates beyond traditional parties, identities and disciplines.&quot; {{ref|19}} [[Scottish Power]] is one of the many partners of [[Demos]].<br /> <br /> *[[Scottish Power]] is involved with '''policy planning''' agencies, such as the regulatory body '''SEPA'''. The [[Scottish Environmental Protection Agency]] is a powerful Scottish public body sponsored by the '''Scottish Executive''' Environment and Rural Affairs Department. '''SEPA''' was established by the Environment Act 1995 and is responsible for the protection of the natural environment in Scotland, including air, land, freshwater and marine environments.<br /> <br /> *The company is also a member of [[BWEA]] (formerly the British '''Wind Energy Association'''). [[BWEA]] is a renewable power industry, however &quot;Critics in the environment movement may be suspicious of a company they believe talks about green issues but invests little. [[Shell]] has been a member for some years and other big power producers, such as [[Centrica]], owner of British Gas, and [[E.ON]] of Germany have also joined.” {{ref|20}}<br /> <br /> ==Other activities==<br /> Some other activities that [[Scottish Power]] are involved in include the follwoing:<br /> ===PR connections===<br /> *[[BIG Partnership]]<br /> *[[GPC International]], in 2004/[[Fleishman Hillard]] in 2005<br /> <br /> ===Lobby connections===<br /> According to one CorporateWatch Report, &quot;Despite the pro-business outlook of McConnell and the '''Scottish executive''', corporate lobbyists still find it worthwhile to swarm around the '''Scottish Parliament''' in an attempt to secure meetings with MSPs, to influence Scottish public spending in their favour and to keep polluting Scotland without major penalties. The incestuous relationships between the '''Scottish Parliament''' and corporations extend beyond external lobbying, however. Take for example the corporate swamping of cross party policy discussion groups that meet within the '''Scottish Parliament'''. The '''Scottish Executive''' has seen further controversy over its cosy connections with corporations. Since its creation, business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and transnational corporations, with inward secondments from [[Scottish Power]].” {{ref|21}} <br /> <br /> *[[Business Council for Sustainable Development – UK]]<br /> *DC lobbying firm [[Stuntz, Davis &amp; Staffier]]<br /> <br /> ===Cultural Affiliations/Sponsorships===<br /> *[[Ballet Central]]<br /> *[[Celtic Connections]]<br /> *[[Edinburgh International Book Festival]] <br /> *[[Glasgow Science Centre]] (The ScottishPower Planetarium)<br /> *[[National Theatre for Scotland]] <br /> *[[ScottishPower Pipe Band]]<br /> <br /> ==External Links==<br /> :ScottishPower website [http://www.scottishpower.com/]<br /> :ScottishPower Gas and Electricity Customer website [http://scottishpower.co.uk/]<br /> :ScottishPower Energy Networks website [http://www.spenergynetworks.com/]<br /> <br /> ==Notes==<br /> #{{note|1}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Power Scottish Power], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow Glasgow], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|3}} Energy supply rank from CNN.com [http://www.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/11/28/scot.power/index.html World Business], &quot;Scot Power agrees $22B Spanish bid&quot;, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|4}} Board and Management bios from Scottish Power[http://www.scottishpower.com/ManagementTeam.asp Meet the Board], accessed March 2007.<br /> #{{note|5}} Fat Cat payoff information from ThisIsMoney [http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=410010&amp;in_page_id=2 article] &quot;Sacked power chiefs get 'obscene' pay-off&quot;, accessed 18 June 2006.<br /> #{{note|6}} Photograph from Eco-Schools[http://www.eco-schools.org/partners/institutional/logo_scotexec.gif Partners], Scottish Executive, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|7}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_616.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Plans to Turn Open-cast Mine into Windfarm and Bird Habitat&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|8}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_537.htm News &amp; Media], “ScottishPower Announces Proposals for Third Large-Scale Scottish Windfarm, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|9}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_634.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Spearheads Drive to Advise Business on the Climate Change Levy&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|10}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1487.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Brings Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' to Schools&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|11}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1498.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower to Build World’s Biggest Wave Project off Orkney&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|12}} Photograph from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/uploads/windfarmconsbiostrategy.pdf Brochure], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|13}} Photograph from Scottish Executive [http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/921/0040702.pdf Poster], accessed 22 March 2007. <br /> #{{note|14}} Information from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article], &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|15}} Photograph from Scottish Parliament[http://survey.scottish.parliament.uk/vli/education/youth/games/jigsaw/logoBig.gif Education], Scottish Parliament, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|16}} SPBE information from Scottish Parliament[http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/nmCentre/news/news-01/pa01-089.htm Parliamentary News Release], “New Scheme Promotes Mutual Understanding Between MSPs and Scottish Businesses&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|17}} SPBE lobby relations from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article] &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|18}} Energy Debt comments from Scottish Parliament [http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-07/sor0228-02.htm Energy Debt], &quot;Official Report 28 February 2007&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|19}} Demos information from Demos [http://www.demos.co.uk/content/aboutdemos homepage], accessed 20 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|20}} BWEA membership from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/3886/9/ article], &quot;BP joins renewable power campaign group&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|21}} Report from CorporateWatch [http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=1305 article], &quot;SCOTLAND PLC: The Scottish Executive’s corporate links&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.</div>

Heather Kirk https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=ScottishPower&diff=22557 2007-04-21T18:36:07Z

<p>Heather Kirk: </p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Scottish power.JPG|right|210px|thumb|Scottish Power logo{{ref|1}}]]<br /> [[Image:Glasgow.JPG|right|140px|thumb|Glasgow, Scotland{{ref|2}}]]<br /> :'''Address''': 1 Atlantic Quay, Glasgow, G2 8SP<br /> :'''Phone''': 0141 248 8200<br /> <br /> Based in Glasgow, Scotland, '''ScottishPower Plc''' is a vertically integrated energy company and is Britain's fifth-largest energy supplier. {{ref|3}} As part of the utilities industry, it is the distribution network operator for the central and southern Scotland and the Merseyside and North Wales regions. The company also supplies electricity and natural gas to homes and business around the United Kingdom and generates power for supply to the grid. It owns '''[[PPM Energy]]''' in the United States and is quoted on the '''London Stock Exchange''' and has a secondary listing on the '''New York Stock Exchange''', as well.<br /> <br /> :[[Scottish Power]] has a number of divisions and subsidiaries, which can be found here: <br /> *[[Scottish Power: Divisons]]<br /> *[[Scottish Power: Subsidiaries]]<br /> <br /> ==History==<br /> In 1991, [[Scottish Power]] prepared for privatisation from the previously nationalised Scottish electricity industry, having officially formed the year before. Scottish industry was organised on an integrated generation, distribution and supply basis, which survived the privatisation to become a model for the rest of the United Kingdom (previously the UK government had privatised the English and Welsh electricity industry by splitting the market into 12 regional electricity companies and two power generators). <br /> [[Scottish Power]] was formed from the larger of the two Scottish electricity boards, the '''South of Scotland Electricity Board''', whilst the other, the '''North of Scotland Hydro Board''', eventually became part of the '''Scottish and Southern Energy Group''' (the nuclear power stations in Scotland were spun off into a third company, '''Scottish Nuclear''', which was not sold off with [[Scottish Power]] and '''Scottish Hydro Electric''', but was sold later as part of '''British Energy''').<br /> <br /> ==Company Chronology==<br /> *1990 - [[Scottish Power]] was officially founded <br /> *1991 - prepared for privitisation from state-owned [[Scottish Electricity]]<br /> *1995 - aquired [[Manweb]]<br /> *1996 - expanded into the water supply bussiness and purchased [[Southern Water]]<br /> *2000 - aquired [[Pacificorp]]<br /> *2001 - PacifiCorp Power Marketing, Inc. moved from being a subsidiary of [[PacifiCorp]] to being an affiliate to [[PacifiCorp]]<br /> *2002 - sold [[Southern Water]]; sold [[Thus]] interest; made [[PPM Energy]] a separate business from [[Pacificorp]] <br /> *2005 - rejected takeover bid from [[E.ON]] on 22 November<br /> *2006 - sold [[Pacificorp]] to MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company on 21 March; aquired permission to build Europe's largest on-shore Windfarm on 27 April; agreed to takeover by [[Iberdrola]] on 28 November<br /> <br /> ==People==<br /> ===Board===<br /> <br /> *[[Charles Miller Smith]] Joined the Board as Deputy Chairman in August 1999 and was appointed as Chairman in April 2000.<br /> *[[Euan Baird]] Joined the Board in January 2001 bringing executive level experience in the electronics and engineering industry to the ScottishPower Board.<br /> *[[Donald Brydon]] Joined the Board in May 2003 and is the senior independent director.<br /> *[[Nick Rose]] Joined the Board in February 2003 and is Chairman of the Audit Committee, nominated as the Committee’s designated “financial expert”.<br /> *[[Nancy Wilgenbusch]] Joined the Board in June 2004.<br /> *[[Peter Hickson]] Joined the Board on 1st September 2006.<br /> <br /> ===Management Team===<br /> <br /> * [[Philip Bowman]] Chief Executive<br /> * [[Simon Lowth]] Finance Director<br /> * [[Terry Hudgens]] Chief Executive Officer, PPM Energy Inc<br /> * [[Susan Reilly]] Commercial Director<br /> * [[Alan Bryce]] Director, Energy Networks<br /> * [[John Campbell]] Director, Energy Wholesale<br /> * [[Willie MacDiarmid]] Director, Energy Retail<br /> * [[Sheelagh Duffield]] Company Secretary<br /> * [[Stephen Dunn]] Director, Human Resources and Communications {{ref|4}}<br /> <br /> ===Previous Members===<br /> * [[Vicky Bailey]] Former American non-Executive Director<br /> * [[Charles Berry]] Former Executive Director, UK<br /> * [[Dominic Fry]] Former Corporate Affairs Director<br /> * [[David Nish]] Former Exucutive Director of Infrastructure<br /> * [[Ian Russell]] Former Chief Executive<br /> <br /> ==Fat Cat payoffs==<br /> [[Scottish Power]]'s former chief executive [[Ian Russell]] and three colleagues received £10.9m for pay and pension compensation. The sums have been branded 'obscene' by the [[Scottish National Party]] energy spokesman [[Richard Lochhead]], and come to light just three months after they warned customers about inflation-busting bill hikes.<br /> <br /> Mr. Russell, who left in January of 2006 after five years as chief executive, received a £2.3m compensation payment as well as benefiting from a resultant pension top-up of £2.7m. The compensation sum is more than three times his salary of £648,000, while his pension windfall nearly doubled his total entitlement to £6.8m. His colleagues [[Charles Berry]] and [[David Nish]], who both left the firm in September of 2006, pocketed a total of £2.6m and £2.2m in extra compensation and extra pension sums respectively. And [[Judi Johansen]], the former head of the company's [[PacifiCorp]] arm that was sold in 2006 as well, walked off with a total of £1.1m.<br /> <br /> The figures are published in Scottish Power's 2005/06 annual report and accounts, and are on top of their normal pay and pension entitlements totalling a further £10.5m. The plc made £675m profit before tax in the financial year to March 2006. [[Scottish Power]] raised gas prices by 15% and electricity by 8% in March of 2006, only to warn that bills would rise again due to high wholesale costs. {{ref|5}}<br /> <br /> ==Direct links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> ===Scottish Executive===<br /> [[Image:SE logo.JPG|right|150px|thumb|Scottish Executive logo {{ref|6}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] has had a number of direct links with the '''Scottish Executive''' over the years. The following shows some press releases, brochures &amp; posters, and SpinWatch articles regarding the relationships between the two.<br /> ====Press Releases====<br /> <br /> *In May of 2002, [[Scottish Power]] &quot;submitted plans to the '''Scottish Executive''' for a £70 million windfarm on the site of an abandoned open cast mine at Black Law near the village of Forth in South Lanarkshire. [[Scottish Power]], in partnership with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and landowners, has developed a habitat management plan that integrates nature conservation, windfarm operation, and other land uses on the site which has been derelict since coal mining activities ceased there.” {{ref|7}}<br /> <br /> *In January of 2003, [[Scottish Power]] announced to the '''Scottish Executive''' its proposals for the third large scale Scottish windfarm; and &quot;if approved, '''Harestanes''' windfarm alone could meet a third of the '''Scottish Executive'''’s renewable energy target of 18% by 2010.” {{ref|8}}<br /> <br /> *In June of 2004, it was announced that &quot;ScottishPower in partnership with the Scottish Energy Office of the '''Scottish Executive''' today launched a nationwide campaign to make businesses aware of the introduction of the Government's Climate Change Levy (CCL). The CCL is a tax that will be the major force behind the Government's commitment to reduce the UK's production of greenhouse gases by 12.5 per cent, compared to 1990 levels, by 2010.” {{ref|9}}<br /> <br /> *More recently in January of 2007, a press release stated that &quot;Former US Vice President Al Gore’s climate change film, An Inconvenient Truth, will be shown in all of Scotland’s Secondary Schools this year thanks to an initiative from [[Scottish Power]] and the Scottish Executive. The Scottish Executive, through Learning Teaching Scotland, is developing a package of educational materials to help raise awareness of the challenges we all face from global warming. [[Stephen Dunn]], [[Scottish Power]]’s HR and Communications Director, said; “I was greatly impressed by An Inconvenient Truth. Not only does it powerfully explain what is happening to the planet, it also gives hope by simply setting out what we can still do to fight climate change. [[Scottish Power]] is already the biggest generator of onshore wind energy in the UK and is developing biomass and wave generation to reduce emissions and combat global warming – but it is essential that we also help promote understanding of this crucial challenge through initiatives such as this.”&quot; {{ref|10}} <br /> <br /> *In Febraury of 2007, &quot;ScottishPower, working closely with the '''Scottish Executive''', today announced a £10m wave power project designed to push Scotland to the forefront of global marine energy development. ScottishPower's Director of Renewables, Keith Anderson, said: &quot;This is a massive step forward. It will be a test of the actual devices that will be used commercially and, if successful, should help propel Scotland into the forefront of marine energy throughout the world.”&quot; {{ref|11}}<br /> <br /> ====Brochures &amp; Posters====<br /> [[Image:SP windfarm.JPG|right|130px|thumb|Brochure {{ref|12}}]]<br /> “ScottishPower Windfarm Biodiversity Conservation Strategy”<br /> <br /> This was a joint venture in 2006 between the '''Scottish Executive''' and '''ScottishPower Renewables'''. <br /> It also involved the '''Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Sustainable Development''', as can be proudly seen at the bottom of the brocure.<br /> [[Image:Future.JPG|left|120px|thumb|Poster {{ref|13}}]]<br /> “It’s Our Future schools’ competition”<br /> <br /> This is another example of a joint venture in 2006 between '''ScottishPower Gas and Electricity''' &amp; the '''Scottish Executive''''s ''Natural Scotland'' campaign. <br /> It involved the '''WWF''' (World Wildlife Fund), '''EcoSchools''', as well as '''Learning &amp; Teaching Scotland''', which is funded by the Scottish Executive Education Department (SEED).<br /> <br /> ====Spinwatch articles====<br /> “Since the creation of the '''Scottish Executive''', business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and Trans-National corporations, Inward: [[Scottish Power]], [[Scottish and Newcastle]], [[Stagecoach]], [[Ernst and Young]], [[PriceWaterhouseCoopers]]. Outward: [[Lloyds TSB]] Foundation, [[Scottish Power]], [[McGrigor Donald]] (law firm and lobbyist), [[Scottish and Newcastle]] and business lobby groups [[Business in the Community]] and the '''Scottish Chambers of Commerce'''.” {{ref|14}}<br /> <br /> ===Scottish Parliament===<br /> [[Image:SP logo.JPG|right|170px|thumb|Scottish Parliament logo{{ref|15}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] also has many links with the '''Scottish Parliament''' as well. The following shows Parliamentary News Releases regarding the development of the [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]], Scottish Parliament official reports, and SpinWatch articles as evidence of relationships between the two.<br /> <br /> ====Parliamentary News Releases====<br /> The Scottish Parliament Business Exchange is a scheme where supposedly, MSPs are to be given an opportunity to gain a valuable insight into the diverse Scottish business sector. The Scottish Parliament and Business Exchange ('The Exchange') aims to develop and provide opportunities for promoting mutual understanding between MSPs and business and related communities in Scotland. The Exchange is registered as an educational charity with a board made up of 50 per-cent Parliamentarians and 50 per-cent business representatives. Presiding officer and The Exchange's honorary President, Sir David Steel said &quot;Through being transparent, open, inclusive and flexible in its approach, The Exchange will be able to bring MSPs and the business community together in a non-lobbying and non-partisan way, providing benefits to the whole of Scotland.” The Board of The Exchange was set-up at the first AGM in June of 2001. The Parliament's Chief Executive, Paul Grice, was the convener, and Sir David Steel MSP was the honorary President. The Board members were Elaine Thomson MSP, Brian Adam MSP, David Davidson MSP, Keith Raffan MSP, Lynda Gauld ([[Pfizer]]), Alan Wilson ([[SCDI]]), Miller McLean ([[Royal Bank of Scotland]]), [[Dominic Fry]] ([[Scottish Power]]), Alastair Smith ([[BAA]] Scottish Airports) and Bill Spiers ([[Scottish TUC]]). {{ref|16}}<br /> :To see more about the SPBE's claims vs. realities, click [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]]. <br /> <br /> ====SpinWatch articles====<br /> While the SPBE at first glance seems potentially beneficial and rather harmless, a deeper look reveals something different: &quot;The Scottish Parliament Business Exchange was set up to allow MSPs to be educated about the realities of business life. To ensure that education and not lobbying took place the scheme was required to be ‘non-lobbying’. But in practice three quarters of the business representatives taking part were lobbyists.” {{ref|17}}<br /> <br /> ====Scottish Parliament official reports====<br /> The 28 February 2007 Official Report regarding Energy Debt featured many varied comments about [[Scottish Power]]'s energy practices. <br /> *Patrick Harvie from Glasgow representing the Green party said: &quot;I was pleased to see that we received briefings from a number of other organisations, including Barnardo's and Capability Scotland, which want Parliament to understand the impact that energy debt has on a range of different people in diverse family situations. Energy suppliers will always have a problem with billing systems for the most vulnerable people, but some of their practices, as Scott Barrie mentioned, hit the poorest households and families hardest. In the case of [[Scottish Power]]'s practices, they had not even calculated what it would cost [[Scottish Power]] to change the policy by writing off such debt. The role of politicians is not just to engage with suppliers on the issue but to look at public policy. Scott Barrie explained the historical situation in terms of the welfare state but, as we move further into the 21st century, the job for politicians is to prepare all citizens and households in Scotland for the period after cheap energy. It falls on all suppliers, including [[Scottish Power]], to adjust their systems to ensure that the most vulnerable people are not placed in further debt.&quot; <br /> *Christine Grahame from the South of Scotland representing the SNP party said: &quot;Energy companies are making a financial killing on the back of the less well-off. Figures that I have obtained show that some companies are charging customers who will not pay by direct debit almost £300 a year more. With regard to the overcharging of non-direct debit customers for gas and electricity combined, the worst offenders—I will name and shame them—were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]]. The worst companies for customers who required only electricity and who chose not to pay by direct debit were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]].&quot;<br /> *Jackie Baillie from Dumbarton representing the Labour party said: &quot;Come on, [[Scottish Power]]—stop back-charging customers and stop back-charging the people who are potentially the most vulnerable customers. I echo the call for [[Scottish Power]] to end immediately its practice of backdating and to acknowledge that prepayment meter tariffs are a mess.” {{ref|18}} <br /> <br /> <br /> ==Indirect links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> [[Scottish Power]] enjoys many indirect links with the '''Scottish Executive''' and the '''Scottish Parliament''' as well. <br /> *The company sponsors '''community activities''' such as '''ScottishPower Learning'''. This is the company's flagship corporate community programme focused on education/employability. A more detailed look reveals: <br /> a) School-based programmes designed to support the school to work transition<br /> <br /> b) Community-based programmes designed to help unemployed young people build their skills in preparation for work (Involved with Prince’s Trust, Community Champions, Project Scotland)<br /> <br /> c) Work-based programmes designed to provide young people with work experience and vocational training<br /> <br /> *The company is involved with '''think tanks''' as well. [[Demos]], for example, is another 'third way' think tank in the UK. According to its website &quot;Demos is a greenhouse for new ideas which can improve the quality of our lives. As an independent think tank, our aim is to create an open resource of knowledge and learning that operates beyond traditional parties, identities and disciplines.&quot; {{ref|19}} [[Scottish Power]] is one of the many partners of [[Demos]].<br /> <br /> *[[Scottish Power]] is involved with '''policy planning''' agencies, such as the regulatory body '''SEPA'''. The [[Scottish Environmental Protection Agency]] is a powerful Scottish public body sponsored by the '''Scottish Executive''' Environment and Rural Affairs Department. '''SEPA''' was established by the Environment Act 1995 and is responsible for the protection of the natural environment in Scotland, including air, land, freshwater and marine environments.<br /> <br /> *The company is also a member of [[BWEA]] (formerly the British '''Wind Energy Association'''). [[BWEA]] is a renewable power industry, however &quot;Critics in the environment movement may be suspicious of a company they believe talks about green issues but invests little. [[Shell]] has been a member for some years and other big power producers, such as [[Centrica]], owner of British Gas, and [[E.ON]] of Germany have also joined.” {{ref|20}}<br /> <br /> ==Other activities==<br /> Some other activities that [[Scottish Power]] are involved in include the follwoing:<br /> ===PR connections===<br /> *[[BIG Partnership]]<br /> *[[GPC International]], in 2004/[[Fleishman Hillard]] in 2005<br /> <br /> ===Lobby connections===<br /> According to one CorporateWatch Report, &quot;Despite the pro-business outlook of McConnell and the '''Scottish executive''', corporate lobbyists still find it worthwhile to swarm around the '''Scottish Parliament''' in an attempt to secure meetings with MSPs, to influence Scottish public spending in their favour and to keep polluting Scotland without major penalties. The incestuous relationships between the '''Scottish Parliament''' and corporations extend beyond external lobbying, however. Take for example the corporate swamping of cross party policy discussion groups that meet within the '''Scottish Parliament'''. The '''Scottish Executive''' has seen further controversy over its cosy connections with corporations. Since its creation, business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and transnational corporations, with inward secondments from [[Scottish Power]].” {{ref|21}} <br /> <br /> *[[Business Council for Sustainable Development – UK]]<br /> *DC lobbying firm [[Stuntz, Davis &amp; Staffier]]<br /> <br /> ===Cultural Affiliations/Sponsorships===<br /> *[[Ballet Central]]<br /> *[[Celtic Connections]]<br /> *[[Edinburgh International Book Festival]] <br /> *[[Glasgow Science Centre]] (The ScottishPower Planetarium)<br /> *[[National Theatre for Scotland]] <br /> *[[ScottishPower Pipe Band]]<br /> <br /> ==External Links==<br /> :ScottishPower website [http://www.scottishpower.com/]<br /> :ScottishPower Gas and Electricity Customer website [http://scottishpower.co.uk/]<br /> :ScottishPower Energy Networks website [http://www.spenergynetworks.com/]<br /> <br /> ==Notes==<br /> #{{note|1}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Power Scottish Power], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow Glasgow], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|3}} Energy supply rank from CNN.com [http://www.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/11/28/scot.power/index.html World Business], &quot;Scot Power agrees $22B Spanish bid&quot;, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|4}} Board and Management bios from Scottish Power[http://www.scottishpower.com/ManagementTeam.asp Meet the Board], accessed March 2007.<br /> #{{note|5}} Fat Cat payoff information from ThisIsMoney [http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=410010&amp;in_page_id=2 article] &quot;Sacked power chiefs get 'obscene' pay-off&quot;, accessed 18 June 2006.<br /> #{{note|6}} Photograph from Eco-Schools[http://www.eco-schools.org/partners/institutional/logo_scotexec.gif Partners], Scottish Executive, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|7}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_616.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Plans to Turn Open-cast Mine into Windfarm and Bird Habitat&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|8}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_537.htm News &amp; Media], “ScottishPower Announces Proposals for Third Large-Scale Scottish Windfarm, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|9}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_634.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Spearheads Drive to Advise Business on the Climate Change Levy&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|10}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1487.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Brings Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' to Schools&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|11}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1498.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower to Build World’s Biggest Wave Project off Orkney&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|12}} Photograph from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/uploads/windfarmconsbiostrategy.pdf Brochure], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|13}} Photograph from Scottish Executive [http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/921/0040702.pdf Poster], accessed 22 March 2007. <br /> #{{note|14}} Information from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article], &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|15}} Photograph from Scottish Parliament[http://survey.scottish.parliament.uk/vli/education/youth/games/jigsaw/logoBig.gif Education], Scottish Parliament, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|16}} SPBE information from Scottish Parliament[http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/nmCentre/news/news-01/pa01-089.htm Parliamentary News Release], “New Scheme Promotes Mutual Understanding Between MSPs and Scottish Businesses&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|17}} SPBE lobby relations from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article] &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|18}} Energy Debt comments from Scottish Parliament [http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-07/sor0228-02.htm Energy Debt], &quot;Official Report 28 February 2007&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|19}} Demos information from Demos [http://www.demos.co.uk/content/aboutdemos homepage], accessed 20 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|20}} BWEA membership from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/3886/9/ article], &quot;BP joins renewable power campaign group&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|21}} Report from CorporateWatch [http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=1305 article], &quot;SCOTLAND PLC: The Scottish Executive’s corporate links&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.</div>

Heather Kirk https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=ScottishPower&diff=22556 2007-04-21T18:33:10Z

<p>Heather Kirk: /* Brochures &amp; Posters */</p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Scottish power.JPG|right|210px|thumb|Scottish Power logo{{ref|1}}]]<br /> [[Image:Glasgow.JPG|right|140px|thumb|Glasgow, Scotland{{ref|2}}]]<br /> :'''Address''': 1 Atlantic Quay, Glasgow, G2 8SP<br /> :'''Phone''': 0141 248 8200<br /> <br /> Based in Glasgow, Scotland, '''ScottishPower Plc''' is a vertically integrated energy company and is Britain's fifth-largest energy supplier. {{ref|3}} As part of the utilities industry, it is the distribution network operator for the central and southern Scotland and the Merseyside and North Wales regions. The company also supplies electricity and natural gas to homes and business around the United Kingdom and generates power for supply to the grid. It owns '''[[PPM Energy]]''' in the United States and is quoted on the '''London Stock Exchange''' and has a secondary listing on the '''New York Stock Exchange''', as well.<br /> <br /> :[[Scottish Power]] has a number of divisions and subsidiaries, which can be found here: <br /> *[[Scottish Power: Divisons]]<br /> *[[Scottish Power: Subsidiaries]]<br /> <br /> ==History==<br /> In 1991, [[Scottish Power]] prepared for privatisation from the previously nationalised Scottish electricity industry, having officially formed the year before. Scottish industry was organised on an integrated generation, distribution and supply basis, which survived the privatisation to become a model for the rest of the United Kingdom (previously the UK government had privatised the English and Welsh electricity industry by splitting the market into 12 regional electricity companies and two power generators). <br /> [[Scottish Power]] was formed from the larger of the two Scottish electricity boards, the '''South of Scotland Electricity Board''', whilst the other, the '''North of Scotland Hydro Board''', eventually became part of the '''Scottish and Southern Energy Group''' (the nuclear power stations in Scotland were spun off into a third company, '''Scottish Nuclear''', which was not sold off with [[Scottish Power]] and '''Scottish Hydro Electric''', but was sold later as part of '''British Energy''').<br /> <br /> ==Company Chronology==<br /> *1990 - [[Scottish Power]] was officially founded <br /> *1991 - prepared for privitisation from state-owned [[Scottish Electricity]]<br /> *1995 - aquired [[Manweb]]<br /> *1996 - expanded into the water supply bussiness and purchased [[Southern Water]]<br /> *2000 - aquired [[Pacificorp]]<br /> *2001 - PacifiCorp Power Marketing, Inc. moved from being a subsidiary of [[PacifiCorp]] to being an affiliate to [[PacifiCorp]]<br /> *2002 - sold [[Southern Water]]; sold [[Thus]] interest; made [[PPM Energy]] a separate business from [[Pacificorp]] <br /> *2005 - rejected takeover bid from [[E.ON]] on 22 November<br /> *2006 - sold [[Pacificorp]] to MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company on 21 March; aquired permission to build Europe's largest on-shore Windfarm on 27 April; agreed to takeover by [[Iberdrola]] on 28 November<br /> <br /> ==People==<br /> ===Board===<br /> <br /> *[[Charles Miller Smith]] Joined the Board as Deputy Chairman in August 1999 and was appointed as Chairman in April 2000.<br /> *[[Euan Baird]] Joined the Board in January 2001 bringing executive level experience in the electronics and engineering industry to the ScottishPower Board.<br /> *[[Donald Brydon]] Joined the Board in May 2003 and is the senior independent director.<br /> *[[Nick Rose]] Joined the Board in February 2003 and is Chairman of the Audit Committee, nominated as the Committee’s designated “financial expert”.<br /> *[[Nancy Wilgenbusch]] Joined the Board in June 2004.<br /> *[[Peter Hickson]] Joined the Board on 1st September 2006.<br /> <br /> ===Management Team===<br /> <br /> * [[Philip Bowman]] Chief Executive<br /> * [[Simon Lowth]] Finance Director<br /> * [[Terry Hudgens]] Chief Executive Officer, PPM Energy Inc<br /> * [[Susan Reilly]] Commercial Director<br /> * [[Alan Bryce]] Director, Energy Networks<br /> * [[John Campbell]] Director, Energy Wholesale<br /> * [[Willie MacDiarmid]] Director, Energy Retail<br /> * [[Sheelagh Duffield]] Company Secretary<br /> * [[Stephen Dunn]] Director, Human Resources and Communications {{ref|4}}<br /> <br /> ===Previous Members===<br /> * [[Vicky Bailey]] Former American non-Executive Director<br /> * [[Charles Berry]] Former Executive Director, UK<br /> * [[Dominic Fry]] Former Corporate Affairs Director<br /> * [[David Nish]] Former Exucutive Director of Infrastructure<br /> * [[Ian Russell]] Former Chief Executive<br /> <br /> ==Fat Cat payoffs==<br /> [[Scottish Power]]'s former chief executive [[Ian Russell]] and three colleagues received £10.9m for pay and pension compensation. The sums have been branded 'obscene' by the [[Scottish National Party]] energy spokesman [[Richard Lochhead]], and come to light just three months after they warned customers about inflation-busting bill hikes.<br /> <br /> Mr. Russell, who left in January of 2006 after five years as chief executive, received a £2.3m compensation payment as well as benefiting from a resultant pension top-up of £2.7m. The compensation sum is more than three times his salary of £648,000, while his pension windfall nearly doubled his total entitlement to £6.8m. His colleagues [[Charles Berry]] and [[David Nish]], who both left the firm in September of 2006, pocketed a total of £2.6m and £2.2m in extra compensation and extra pension sums respectively. And [[Judi Johansen]], the former head of the company's [[PacifiCorp]] arm that was sold in 2006 as well, walked off with a total of £1.1m.<br /> <br /> The figures are published in Scottish Power's 2005/06 annual report and accounts, and are on top of their normal pay and pension entitlements totalling a further £10.5m. The plc made £675m profit before tax in the financial year to March 2006. [[Scottish Power]] raised gas prices by 15% and electricity by 8% in March of 2006, only to warn that bills would rise again due to high wholesale costs. {{ref|5}}<br /> <br /> ==Direct links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> ===Scottish Executive===<br /> [[Image:SE logo.JPG|right|150px|thumb|Scottish Executive logo {{ref|6}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] has had a number of direct links with the '''Scottish Executive''' over the years. The following shows some press releases, brochures &amp; posters, and SpinWatch articles regarding the relationships between the two.<br /> ====Press Releases====<br /> <br /> *In May of 2002, [[Scottish Power]] &quot;submitted plans to the '''Scottish Executive''' for a £70 million windfarm on the site of an abandoned open cast mine at Black Law near the village of Forth in South Lanarkshire. [[Scottish Power]], in partnership with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and landowners, has developed a habitat management plan that integrates nature conservation, windfarm operation, and other land uses on the site which has been derelict since coal mining activities ceased there.” {{ref|7}}<br /> <br /> *In January of 2003, [[Scottish Power]] announced to the '''Scottish Executive''' its proposals for the third large scale Scottish windfarm; and &quot;if approved, '''Harestanes''' windfarm alone could meet a third of the '''Scottish Executive'''’s renewable energy target of 18% by 2010.” {{ref|8}}<br /> <br /> *In June of 2004, it was announced that &quot;ScottishPower in partnership with the Scottish Energy Office of the '''Scottish Executive''' today launched a nationwide campaign to make businesses aware of the introduction of the Government's Climate Change Levy (CCL). The CCL is a tax that will be the major force behind the Government's commitment to reduce the UK's production of greenhouse gases by 12.5 per cent, compared to 1990 levels, by 2010.” {{ref|9}}<br /> <br /> *More recently in January of 2007, a press release stated that &quot;Former US Vice President Al Gore’s climate change film, An Inconvenient Truth, will be shown in all of Scotland’s Secondary Schools this year thanks to an initiative from [[Scottish Power]] and the Scottish Executive. The Scottish Executive, through Learning Teaching Scotland, is developing a package of educational materials to help raise awareness of the challenges we all face from global warming. [[Stephen Dunn]], [[Scottish Power]]’s HR and Communications Director, said; “I was greatly impressed by An Inconvenient Truth. Not only does it powerfully explain what is happening to the planet, it also gives hope by simply setting out what we can still do to fight climate change. [[Scottish Power]] is already the biggest generator of onshore wind energy in the UK and is developing biomass and wave generation to reduce emissions and combat global warming – but it is essential that we also help promote understanding of this crucial challenge through initiatives such as this.”&quot; {{ref|10}} <br /> <br /> *In Febraury of 2007, &quot;ScottishPower, working closely with the '''Scottish Executive''', today announced a £10m wave power project designed to push Scotland to the forefront of global marine energy development. ScottishPower's Director of Renewables, Keith Anderson, said: &quot;This is a massive step forward. It will be a test of the actual devices that will be used commercially and, if successful, should help propel Scotland into the forefront of marine energy throughout the world.”&quot; {{ref|11}}<br /> <br /> ====Brochures &amp; Posters====<br /> [[Image:SP windfarm.JPG|right|130px|thumb|Brochure {{ref|12}}]]<br /> “ScottishPower Windfarm Biodiversity Conservation Strategy”<br /> <br /> This was a joint venture in 2006 between the '''Scottish Executive''' and '''ScottishPower Renewables'''. <br /> It also involved the '''Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Sustainable Development''', as can be proudly seen at the bottom of the brocure.<br /> [[Image:Future.JPG|left|120px|thumb|Poster {{ref|13}}]]<br /> “It’s Our Future schools’ competition”<br /> <br /> This is another example of a joint venture in 2006 between '''ScottishPower Gas and Electricity''' &amp; the '''Scottish Executive''''s ''Natural Scotland'' campaign. <br /> It involved the '''WWF''' (World Wildlife Fund), '''EcoSchools''', as well as '''Learning &amp; Teaching Scotland''', which is funded by the Scottish Executive Education Department (SEED).<br /> <br /> ====Spinwatch articles====<br /> “Since the creation of the '''Scottish Executive''', business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and Trans-National corporations, Inward: [[Scottish Power]], [[Scottish and Newcastle]], [[Stagecoach]], [[Ernst and Young]], [[PriceWaterhouseCoopers]]. Outward: [[Lloyds TSB]] Foundation, [[Scottish Power]], [[McGrigor Donald]] (law firm and lobbyist), [[Scottish and Newcastle]] and business lobby groups [[Business in the Community]] and the '''Scottish Chambers of Commerce'''.” {{ref|14}}<br /> <br /> ===Scottish Parliament===<br /> [[Image:SP logo.JPG|right|170px|thumb|Scottish Parliament logo{{ref|15}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] also has many links with the '''Scottish Parliament''' as well. The following shows Parliamentary News Releases regarding the development of the [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]], Scottish Parliament official reports, and SpinWatch articles as evidence of relationships between the two.<br /> <br /> ====Parliamentary News Releases====<br /> The Scottish Parliament Business Exchange is a scheme where supposedly, MSPs are to be given an opportunity to gain a valuable insight into the diverse Scottish business sector. The Scottish Parliament and Business Exchange ('The Exchange') aims to develop and provide opportunities for promoting mutual understanding between MSPs and business and related communities in Scotland. The Exchange is registered as an educational charity with a board made up of 50 per-cent Parliamentarians and 50 per-cent business representatives. Presiding officer and The Exchange's honorary President, Sir David Steel said &quot;Through being transparent, open, inclusive and flexible in its approach, The Exchange will be able to bring MSPs and the business community together in a non-lobbying and non-partisan way, providing benefits to the whole of Scotland.” The Board of The Exchange was set-up at the first AGM in June of 2001. The Parliament's Chief Executive, Paul Grice, was the convener, and Sir David Steel MSP was the honorary President. The Board members were Elaine Thomson MSP, Brian Adam MSP, David Davidson MSP, Keith Raffan MSP, Lynda Gauld ([[Pfizer]]), Alan Wilson ([[SCDI]]), Miller McLean ([[Royal Bank of Scotland]]), [[Dominic Fry]] ([[Scottish Power]]), Alastair Smith ([[BAA]] Scottish Airports) and Bill Spiers ([[Scottish TUC]]). {{ref|16}}<br /> :To see more about the SPBE's claims vs. realities, click [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]]. <br /> <br /> ====Scottish Parliament official reports====<br /> The 28 February 2007 Official Report regarding Energy Debt featured many varied comments about [[Scottish Power]]'s energy practices. <br /> *Patrick Harvie from Glasgow representing the Green party said: &quot;I was pleased to see that we received briefings from a number of other organisations, including Barnardo's and Capability Scotland, which want Parliament to understand the impact that energy debt has on a range of different people in diverse family situations. Energy suppliers will always have a problem with billing systems for the most vulnerable people, but some of their practices, as Scott Barrie mentioned, hit the poorest households and families hardest. In the case of [[Scottish Power]]'s practices, they had not even calculated what it would cost [[Scottish Power]] to change the policy by writing off such debt. The role of politicians is not just to engage with suppliers on the issue but to look at public policy. Scott Barrie explained the historical situation in terms of the welfare state but, as we move further into the 21st century, the job for politicians is to prepare all citizens and households in Scotland for the period after cheap energy. It falls on all suppliers, including [[Scottish Power]], to adjust their systems to ensure that the most vulnerable people are not placed in further debt.&quot; <br /> *Christine Grahame from the South of Scotland representing the SNP party said: &quot;Energy companies are making a financial killing on the back of the less well-off. Figures that I have obtained show that some companies are charging customers who will not pay by direct debit almost £300 a year more. With regard to the overcharging of non-direct debit customers for gas and electricity combined, the worst offenders—I will name and shame them—were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]]. The worst companies for customers who required only electricity and who chose not to pay by direct debit were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]].&quot;<br /> *Jackie Baillie from Dumbarton representing the Labour party said: &quot;Come on, [[Scottish Power]]—stop back-charging customers and stop back-charging the people who are potentially the most vulnerable customers. I echo the call for [[Scottish Power]] to end immediately its practice of backdating and to acknowledge that prepayment meter tariffs are a mess.” {{ref|17}} <br /> <br /> ====SpinWatch articles====<br /> While the SPBE at first glance seems potentially beneficial and rather harmless, a deeper look reveals something different: &quot;The Scottish Parliament Business Exchange was set up to allow MSPs to be educated about the realities of business life. To ensure that education and not lobbying took place the scheme was required to be ‘non-lobbying’. But in practice three quarters of the business representatives taking part were lobbyists.” {{ref|18}}<br /> <br /> ==Indirect links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> [[Scottish Power]] enjoys many indirect links with the '''Scottish Executive''' and the '''Scottish Parliament''' as well. <br /> *The company sponsors '''community activities''' such as '''ScottishPower Learning'''. This is the company's flagship corporate community programme focused on education/employability. A more detailed look reveals: <br /> a) School-based programmes designed to support the school to work transition<br /> <br /> b) Community-based programmes designed to help unemployed young people build their skills in preparation for work (Involved with Prince’s Trust, Community Champions, Project Scotland)<br /> <br /> c) Work-based programmes designed to provide young people with work experience and vocational training<br /> <br /> *The company is involved with '''think tanks''' as well. [[Demos]], for example, is another 'third way' think tank in the UK. According to its website &quot;Demos is a greenhouse for new ideas which can improve the quality of our lives. As an independent think tank, our aim is to create an open resource of knowledge and learning that operates beyond traditional parties, identities and disciplines.&quot; {{ref|19}} [[Scottish Power]] is one of the many partners of [[Demos]].<br /> <br /> *[[Scottish Power]] is involved with '''policy planning''' agencies, such as the regulatory body '''SEPA'''. The [[Scottish Environmental Protection Agency]] is a powerful Scottish public body sponsored by the '''Scottish Executive''' Environment and Rural Affairs Department. '''SEPA''' was established by the Environment Act 1995 and is responsible for the protection of the natural environment in Scotland, including air, land, freshwater and marine environments.<br /> <br /> *The company is also a member of [[BWEA]] (formerly the British '''Wind Energy Association'''). [[BWEA]] is a renewable power industry, however &quot;Critics in the environment movement may be suspicious of a company they believe talks about green issues but invests little. [[Shell]] has been a member for some years and other big power producers, such as [[Centrica]], owner of British Gas, and [[E.ON]] of Germany have also joined.” {{ref|20}}<br /> <br /> ==Other activities==<br /> Some other activities that [[Scottish Power]] are involved in include the follwoing:<br /> ===PR connections===<br /> *[[BIG Partnership]]<br /> *[[GPC International]], in 2004/[[Fleishman Hillard]] in 2005<br /> <br /> ===Lobby connections===<br /> According to one CorporateWatch Report, &quot;Despite the pro-business outlook of McConnell and the '''Scottish executive''', corporate lobbyists still find it worthwhile to swarm around the '''Scottish Parliament''' in an attempt to secure meetings with MSPs, to influence Scottish public spending in their favour and to keep polluting Scotland without major penalties. The incestuous relationships between the '''Scottish Parliament''' and corporations extend beyond external lobbying, however. Take for example the corporate swamping of cross party policy discussion groups that meet within the '''Scottish Parliament'''. The '''Scottish Executive''' has seen further controversy over its cosy connections with corporations. Since its creation, business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and transnational corporations, with inward secondments from [[Scottish Power]].” {{ref|21}} <br /> <br /> *[[Business Council for Sustainable Development – UK]]<br /> *DC lobbying firm [[Stuntz, Davis &amp; Staffier]]<br /> <br /> ===Cultural Affiliations/Sponsorships===<br /> *[[Ballet Central]]<br /> *[[Celtic Connections]]<br /> *[[Edinburgh International Book Festival]] <br /> *[[Glasgow Science Centre]] (The ScottishPower Planetarium)<br /> *[[National Theatre for Scotland]] <br /> *[[ScottishPower Pipe Band]]<br /> <br /> ==External Links==<br /> :ScottishPower website [http://www.scottishpower.com/]<br /> :ScottishPower Gas and Electricity Customer website [http://scottishpower.co.uk/]<br /> :ScottishPower Energy Networks website [http://www.spenergynetworks.com/]<br /> <br /> ==Notes==<br /> #{{note|1}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Power Scottish Power], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow Glasgow], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|3}} Energy supply rank from CNN.com [http://www.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/11/28/scot.power/index.html World Business], &quot;Scot Power agrees $22B Spanish bid&quot;, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|4}} Board and Management bios from Scottish Power[http://www.scottishpower.com/ManagementTeam.asp Meet the Board], accessed March 2007.<br /> #{{note|5}} Fat Cat payoff information from ThisIsMoney [http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=410010&amp;in_page_id=2 article] &quot;Sacked power chiefs get 'obscene' pay-off&quot;, accessed 18 June 2006.<br /> #{{note|6}} Photograph from Eco-Schools[http://www.eco-schools.org/partners/institutional/logo_scotexec.gif Partners], Scottish Executive, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|7}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_616.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Plans to Turn Open-cast Mine into Windfarm and Bird Habitat&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|8}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_537.htm News &amp; Media], “ScottishPower Announces Proposals for Third Large-Scale Scottish Windfarm, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|9}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_634.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Spearheads Drive to Advise Business on the Climate Change Levy&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|10}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1487.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Brings Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' to Schools&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|11}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1498.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower to Build World’s Biggest Wave Project off Orkney&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|12}} Photograph from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/uploads/windfarmconsbiostrategy.pdf Brochure], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|13}} Photograph from Scottish Executive [http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/921/0040702.pdf Poster], accessed 22 March 2007. <br /> #{{note|14}} Information from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article], &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|15}} Photograph from Scottish Parliament[http://survey.scottish.parliament.uk/vli/education/youth/games/jigsaw/logoBig.gif Education], Scottish Parliament, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|16}} SPBE information from Scottish Parliament[http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/nmCentre/news/news-01/pa01-089.htm Parliamentary News Release], “New Scheme Promotes Mutual Understanding Between MSPs and Scottish Businesses&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|17}} Energy Debt comments from Scottish Parliament [http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-07/sor0228-02.htm Energy Debt], &quot;Official Report 28 February 2007&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|18}} SPBE lobby relations from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article] &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|19}} Demos information from Demos [http://www.demos.co.uk/content/aboutdemos homepage], accessed 20 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|20}} BWEA membership from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/3886/9/ article], &quot;BP joins renewable power campaign group&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|21}} Report from CorporateWatch [http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=1305 article], &quot;SCOTLAND PLC: The Scottish Executive’s corporate links&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.</div>

Heather Kirk https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=ScottishPower&diff=22552 2007-04-21T18:30:30Z

<p>Heather Kirk: </p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Scottish power.JPG|right|210px|thumb|Scottish Power logo{{ref|1}}]]<br /> [[Image:Glasgow.JPG|right|140px|thumb|Glasgow, Scotland{{ref|2}}]]<br /> :'''Address''': 1 Atlantic Quay, Glasgow, G2 8SP<br /> :'''Phone''': 0141 248 8200<br /> <br /> Based in Glasgow, Scotland, '''ScottishPower Plc''' is a vertically integrated energy company and is Britain's fifth-largest energy supplier. {{ref|3}} As part of the utilities industry, it is the distribution network operator for the central and southern Scotland and the Merseyside and North Wales regions. The company also supplies electricity and natural gas to homes and business around the United Kingdom and generates power for supply to the grid. It owns '''[[PPM Energy]]''' in the United States and is quoted on the '''London Stock Exchange''' and has a secondary listing on the '''New York Stock Exchange''', as well.<br /> <br /> :[[Scottish Power]] has a number of divisions and subsidiaries, which can be found here: <br /> *[[Scottish Power: Divisons]]<br /> *[[Scottish Power: Subsidiaries]]<br /> <br /> ==History==<br /> In 1991, [[Scottish Power]] prepared for privatisation from the previously nationalised Scottish electricity industry, having officially formed the year before. Scottish industry was organised on an integrated generation, distribution and supply basis, which survived the privatisation to become a model for the rest of the United Kingdom (previously the UK government had privatised the English and Welsh electricity industry by splitting the market into 12 regional electricity companies and two power generators). <br /> [[Scottish Power]] was formed from the larger of the two Scottish electricity boards, the '''South of Scotland Electricity Board''', whilst the other, the '''North of Scotland Hydro Board''', eventually became part of the '''Scottish and Southern Energy Group''' (the nuclear power stations in Scotland were spun off into a third company, '''Scottish Nuclear''', which was not sold off with [[Scottish Power]] and '''Scottish Hydro Electric''', but was sold later as part of '''British Energy''').<br /> <br /> ==Company Chronology==<br /> *1990 - [[Scottish Power]] was officially founded <br /> *1991 - prepared for privitisation from state-owned [[Scottish Electricity]]<br /> *1995 - aquired [[Manweb]]<br /> *1996 - expanded into the water supply bussiness and purchased [[Southern Water]]<br /> *2000 - aquired [[Pacificorp]]<br /> *2001 - PacifiCorp Power Marketing, Inc. moved from being a subsidiary of [[PacifiCorp]] to being an affiliate to [[PacifiCorp]]<br /> *2002 - sold [[Southern Water]]; sold [[Thus]] interest; made [[PPM Energy]] a separate business from [[Pacificorp]] <br /> *2005 - rejected takeover bid from [[E.ON]] on 22 November<br /> *2006 - sold [[Pacificorp]] to MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company on 21 March; aquired permission to build Europe's largest on-shore Windfarm on 27 April; agreed to takeover by [[Iberdrola]] on 28 November<br /> <br /> ==People==<br /> ===Board===<br /> <br /> *[[Charles Miller Smith]] Joined the Board as Deputy Chairman in August 1999 and was appointed as Chairman in April 2000.<br /> *[[Euan Baird]] Joined the Board in January 2001 bringing executive level experience in the electronics and engineering industry to the ScottishPower Board.<br /> *[[Donald Brydon]] Joined the Board in May 2003 and is the senior independent director.<br /> *[[Nick Rose]] Joined the Board in February 2003 and is Chairman of the Audit Committee, nominated as the Committee’s designated “financial expert”.<br /> *[[Nancy Wilgenbusch]] Joined the Board in June 2004.<br /> *[[Peter Hickson]] Joined the Board on 1st September 2006.<br /> <br /> ===Management Team===<br /> <br /> * [[Philip Bowman]] Chief Executive<br /> * [[Simon Lowth]] Finance Director<br /> * [[Terry Hudgens]] Chief Executive Officer, PPM Energy Inc<br /> * [[Susan Reilly]] Commercial Director<br /> * [[Alan Bryce]] Director, Energy Networks<br /> * [[John Campbell]] Director, Energy Wholesale<br /> * [[Willie MacDiarmid]] Director, Energy Retail<br /> * [[Sheelagh Duffield]] Company Secretary<br /> * [[Stephen Dunn]] Director, Human Resources and Communications {{ref|4}}<br /> <br /> ===Previous Members===<br /> * [[Vicky Bailey]] Former American non-Executive Director<br /> * [[Charles Berry]] Former Executive Director, UK<br /> * [[Dominic Fry]] Former Corporate Affairs Director<br /> * [[David Nish]] Former Exucutive Director of Infrastructure<br /> * [[Ian Russell]] Former Chief Executive<br /> <br /> ==Fat Cat payoffs==<br /> [[Scottish Power]]'s former chief executive [[Ian Russell]] and three colleagues received £10.9m for pay and pension compensation. The sums have been branded 'obscene' by the [[Scottish National Party]] energy spokesman [[Richard Lochhead]], and come to light just three months after they warned customers about inflation-busting bill hikes.<br /> <br /> Mr. Russell, who left in January of 2006 after five years as chief executive, received a £2.3m compensation payment as well as benefiting from a resultant pension top-up of £2.7m. The compensation sum is more than three times his salary of £648,000, while his pension windfall nearly doubled his total entitlement to £6.8m. His colleagues [[Charles Berry]] and [[David Nish]], who both left the firm in September of 2006, pocketed a total of £2.6m and £2.2m in extra compensation and extra pension sums respectively. And [[Judi Johansen]], the former head of the company's [[PacifiCorp]] arm that was sold in 2006 as well, walked off with a total of £1.1m.<br /> <br /> The figures are published in Scottish Power's 2005/06 annual report and accounts, and are on top of their normal pay and pension entitlements totalling a further £10.5m. The plc made £675m profit before tax in the financial year to March 2006. [[Scottish Power]] raised gas prices by 15% and electricity by 8% in March of 2006, only to warn that bills would rise again due to high wholesale costs. {{ref|5}}<br /> <br /> ==Direct links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> ===Scottish Executive===<br /> [[Image:SE logo.JPG|right|150px|thumb|Scottish Executive logo {{ref|6}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] has had a number of direct links with the '''Scottish Executive''' over the years. The following shows some press releases, brochures &amp; posters, and SpinWatch articles regarding the relationships between the two.<br /> ====Press Releases====<br /> <br /> *In May of 2002, [[Scottish Power]] &quot;submitted plans to the '''Scottish Executive''' for a £70 million windfarm on the site of an abandoned open cast mine at Black Law near the village of Forth in South Lanarkshire. [[Scottish Power]], in partnership with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and landowners, has developed a habitat management plan that integrates nature conservation, windfarm operation, and other land uses on the site which has been derelict since coal mining activities ceased there.” {{ref|7}}<br /> <br /> *In January of 2003, [[Scottish Power]] announced to the '''Scottish Executive''' its proposals for the third large scale Scottish windfarm; and &quot;if approved, '''Harestanes''' windfarm alone could meet a third of the '''Scottish Executive'''’s renewable energy target of 18% by 2010.” {{ref|8}}<br /> <br /> *In June of 2004, it was announced that &quot;ScottishPower in partnership with the Scottish Energy Office of the '''Scottish Executive''' today launched a nationwide campaign to make businesses aware of the introduction of the Government's Climate Change Levy (CCL). The CCL is a tax that will be the major force behind the Government's commitment to reduce the UK's production of greenhouse gases by 12.5 per cent, compared to 1990 levels, by 2010.” {{ref|9}}<br /> <br /> *More recently in January of 2007, a press release stated that &quot;Former US Vice President Al Gore’s climate change film, An Inconvenient Truth, will be shown in all of Scotland’s Secondary Schools this year thanks to an initiative from [[Scottish Power]] and the Scottish Executive. The Scottish Executive, through Learning Teaching Scotland, is developing a package of educational materials to help raise awareness of the challenges we all face from global warming. [[Stephen Dunn]], [[Scottish Power]]’s HR and Communications Director, said; “I was greatly impressed by An Inconvenient Truth. Not only does it powerfully explain what is happening to the planet, it also gives hope by simply setting out what we can still do to fight climate change. [[Scottish Power]] is already the biggest generator of onshore wind energy in the UK and is developing biomass and wave generation to reduce emissions and combat global warming – but it is essential that we also help promote understanding of this crucial challenge through initiatives such as this.”&quot; {{ref|10}} <br /> <br /> *In Febraury of 2007, &quot;ScottishPower, working closely with the '''Scottish Executive''', today announced a £10m wave power project designed to push Scotland to the forefront of global marine energy development. ScottishPower's Director of Renewables, Keith Anderson, said: &quot;This is a massive step forward. It will be a test of the actual devices that will be used commercially and, if successful, should help propel Scotland into the forefront of marine energy throughout the world.”&quot; {{ref|11}}<br /> <br /> ====Brochures &amp; Posters====<br /> [[Image:SP windfarm.JPG|right|130px|thumb|Brochure {{ref|12}}]]<br /> “ScottishPower Windfarm Biodiversity Conservation Strategy”<br /> This was a joint venture in 2006 between the '''Scottish Executive''' and '''ScottishPower Renewables'''. It also involved the Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Sustainable Development, as can be proudly seen at the bottom of the brocure.<br /> [[Image:Future.JPG|left|120px|thumb|Poster {{ref|13}}]]<br /> “It’s Our Future schools’ competition”<br /> This is another example of a joint venture in 2006 between '''ScottishPower Gas and Electricity''' &amp; the '''Scottish Executive''''s ''Natural Scotland'' campaign. It involved the WWF (World Wildlife Fund), EcoSchools, as well as Learning &amp; Teaching Scotland, which is funded by the Scottish Executive Education Department (SEED).<br /> <br /> ====Spinwatch articles====<br /> “Since the creation of the '''Scottish Executive''', business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and Trans-National corporations, Inward: [[Scottish Power]], [[Scottish and Newcastle]], [[Stagecoach]], [[Ernst and Young]], [[PriceWaterhouseCoopers]]. Outward: [[Lloyds TSB]] Foundation, [[Scottish Power]], [[McGrigor Donald]] (law firm and lobbyist), [[Scottish and Newcastle]] and business lobby groups [[Business in the Community]] and the '''Scottish Chambers of Commerce'''.” {{ref|14}}<br /> <br /> ===Scottish Parliament===<br /> [[Image:SP logo.JPG|right|170px|thumb|Scottish Parliament logo{{ref|15}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] also has many links with the '''Scottish Parliament''' as well. The following shows Parliamentary News Releases regarding the development of the [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]], Scottish Parliament official reports, and SpinWatch articles as evidence of relationships between the two.<br /> <br /> ====Parliamentary News Releases====<br /> The Scottish Parliament Business Exchange is a scheme where supposedly, MSPs are to be given an opportunity to gain a valuable insight into the diverse Scottish business sector. The Scottish Parliament and Business Exchange ('The Exchange') aims to develop and provide opportunities for promoting mutual understanding between MSPs and business and related communities in Scotland. The Exchange is registered as an educational charity with a board made up of 50 per-cent Parliamentarians and 50 per-cent business representatives. Presiding officer and The Exchange's honorary President, Sir David Steel said &quot;Through being transparent, open, inclusive and flexible in its approach, The Exchange will be able to bring MSPs and the business community together in a non-lobbying and non-partisan way, providing benefits to the whole of Scotland.” The Board of The Exchange was set-up at the first AGM in June of 2001. The Parliament's Chief Executive, Paul Grice, was the convener, and Sir David Steel MSP was the honorary President. The Board members were Elaine Thomson MSP, Brian Adam MSP, David Davidson MSP, Keith Raffan MSP, Lynda Gauld ([[Pfizer]]), Alan Wilson ([[SCDI]]), Miller McLean ([[Royal Bank of Scotland]]), [[Dominic Fry]] ([[Scottish Power]]), Alastair Smith ([[BAA]] Scottish Airports) and Bill Spiers ([[Scottish TUC]]). {{ref|16}}<br /> :To see more about the SPBE's claims vs. realities, click [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]]. <br /> <br /> ====Scottish Parliament official reports====<br /> The 28 February 2007 Official Report regarding Energy Debt featured many varied comments about [[Scottish Power]]'s energy practices. <br /> *Patrick Harvie from Glasgow representing the Green party said: &quot;I was pleased to see that we received briefings from a number of other organisations, including Barnardo's and Capability Scotland, which want Parliament to understand the impact that energy debt has on a range of different people in diverse family situations. Energy suppliers will always have a problem with billing systems for the most vulnerable people, but some of their practices, as Scott Barrie mentioned, hit the poorest households and families hardest. In the case of [[Scottish Power]]'s practices, they had not even calculated what it would cost [[Scottish Power]] to change the policy by writing off such debt. The role of politicians is not just to engage with suppliers on the issue but to look at public policy. Scott Barrie explained the historical situation in terms of the welfare state but, as we move further into the 21st century, the job for politicians is to prepare all citizens and households in Scotland for the period after cheap energy. It falls on all suppliers, including [[Scottish Power]], to adjust their systems to ensure that the most vulnerable people are not placed in further debt.&quot; <br /> *Christine Grahame from the South of Scotland representing the SNP party said: &quot;Energy companies are making a financial killing on the back of the less well-off. Figures that I have obtained show that some companies are charging customers who will not pay by direct debit almost £300 a year more. With regard to the overcharging of non-direct debit customers for gas and electricity combined, the worst offenders—I will name and shame them—were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]]. The worst companies for customers who required only electricity and who chose not to pay by direct debit were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]].&quot;<br /> *Jackie Baillie from Dumbarton representing the Labour party said: &quot;Come on, [[Scottish Power]]—stop back-charging customers and stop back-charging the people who are potentially the most vulnerable customers. I echo the call for [[Scottish Power]] to end immediately its practice of backdating and to acknowledge that prepayment meter tariffs are a mess.” {{ref|17}} <br /> <br /> ====SpinWatch articles====<br /> While the SPBE at first glance seems potentially beneficial and rather harmless, a deeper look reveals something different: &quot;The Scottish Parliament Business Exchange was set up to allow MSPs to be educated about the realities of business life. To ensure that education and not lobbying took place the scheme was required to be ‘non-lobbying’. But in practice three quarters of the business representatives taking part were lobbyists.” {{ref|18}}<br /> <br /> ==Indirect links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> [[Scottish Power]] enjoys many indirect links with the '''Scottish Executive''' and the '''Scottish Parliament''' as well. <br /> *The company sponsors '''community activities''' such as '''ScottishPower Learning'''. This is the company's flagship corporate community programme focused on education/employability. A more detailed look reveals: <br /> a) School-based programmes designed to support the school to work transition<br /> <br /> b) Community-based programmes designed to help unemployed young people build their skills in preparation for work (Involved with Prince’s Trust, Community Champions, Project Scotland)<br /> <br /> c) Work-based programmes designed to provide young people with work experience and vocational training<br /> <br /> *The company is involved with '''think tanks''' as well. [[Demos]], for example, is another 'third way' think tank in the UK. According to its website &quot;Demos is a greenhouse for new ideas which can improve the quality of our lives. As an independent think tank, our aim is to create an open resource of knowledge and learning that operates beyond traditional parties, identities and disciplines.&quot; {{ref|19}} [[Scottish Power]] is one of the many partners of [[Demos]].<br /> <br /> *[[Scottish Power]] is involved with '''policy planning''' agencies, such as the regulatory body '''SEPA'''. The [[Scottish Environmental Protection Agency]] is a powerful Scottish public body sponsored by the '''Scottish Executive''' Environment and Rural Affairs Department. '''SEPA''' was established by the Environment Act 1995 and is responsible for the protection of the natural environment in Scotland, including air, land, freshwater and marine environments.<br /> <br /> *The company is also a member of [[BWEA]] (formerly the British '''Wind Energy Association'''). [[BWEA]] is a renewable power industry, however &quot;Critics in the environment movement may be suspicious of a company they believe talks about green issues but invests little. [[Shell]] has been a member for some years and other big power producers, such as [[Centrica]], owner of British Gas, and [[E.ON]] of Germany have also joined.” {{ref|20}}<br /> <br /> ==Other activities==<br /> Some other activities that [[Scottish Power]] are involved in include the follwoing:<br /> ===PR connections===<br /> *[[BIG Partnership]]<br /> *[[GPC International]], in 2004/[[Fleishman Hillard]] in 2005<br /> <br /> ===Lobby connections===<br /> According to one CorporateWatch Report, &quot;Despite the pro-business outlook of McConnell and the '''Scottish executive''', corporate lobbyists still find it worthwhile to swarm around the '''Scottish Parliament''' in an attempt to secure meetings with MSPs, to influence Scottish public spending in their favour and to keep polluting Scotland without major penalties. The incestuous relationships between the '''Scottish Parliament''' and corporations extend beyond external lobbying, however. Take for example the corporate swamping of cross party policy discussion groups that meet within the '''Scottish Parliament'''. The '''Scottish Executive''' has seen further controversy over its cosy connections with corporations. Since its creation, business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and transnational corporations, with inward secondments from [[Scottish Power]].” {{ref|21}} <br /> <br /> *[[Business Council for Sustainable Development – UK]]<br /> *DC lobbying firm [[Stuntz, Davis &amp; Staffier]]<br /> <br /> ===Cultural Affiliations/Sponsorships===<br /> *[[Ballet Central]]<br /> *[[Celtic Connections]]<br /> *[[Edinburgh International Book Festival]] <br /> *[[Glasgow Science Centre]] (The ScottishPower Planetarium)<br /> *[[National Theatre for Scotland]] <br /> *[[ScottishPower Pipe Band]]<br /> <br /> ==External Links==<br /> :ScottishPower website [http://www.scottishpower.com/]<br /> :ScottishPower Gas and Electricity Customer website [http://scottishpower.co.uk/]<br /> :ScottishPower Energy Networks website [http://www.spenergynetworks.com/]<br /> <br /> ==Notes==<br /> #{{note|1}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Power Scottish Power], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow Glasgow], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|3}} Energy supply rank from CNN.com [http://www.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/11/28/scot.power/index.html World Business], &quot;Scot Power agrees $22B Spanish bid&quot;, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|4}} Board and Management bios from Scottish Power[http://www.scottishpower.com/ManagementTeam.asp Meet the Board], accessed March 2007.<br /> #{{note|5}} Fat Cat payoff information from ThisIsMoney [http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=410010&amp;in_page_id=2 article] &quot;Sacked power chiefs get 'obscene' pay-off&quot;, accessed 18 June 2006.<br /> #{{note|6}} Photograph from Eco-Schools[http://www.eco-schools.org/partners/institutional/logo_scotexec.gif Partners], Scottish Executive, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|7}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_616.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Plans to Turn Open-cast Mine into Windfarm and Bird Habitat&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|8}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_537.htm News &amp; Media], “ScottishPower Announces Proposals for Third Large-Scale Scottish Windfarm, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|9}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_634.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Spearheads Drive to Advise Business on the Climate Change Levy&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|10}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1487.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Brings Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' to Schools&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|11}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1498.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower to Build World’s Biggest Wave Project off Orkney&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|12}} Photograph from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/uploads/windfarmconsbiostrategy.pdf Brochure], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|13}} Photograph from Scottish Executive [http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/921/0040702.pdf Poster], accessed 22 March 2007. <br /> #{{note|14}} Information from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article], &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|15}} Photograph from Scottish Parliament[http://survey.scottish.parliament.uk/vli/education/youth/games/jigsaw/logoBig.gif Education], Scottish Parliament, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|16}} SPBE information from Scottish Parliament[http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/nmCentre/news/news-01/pa01-089.htm Parliamentary News Release], “New Scheme Promotes Mutual Understanding Between MSPs and Scottish Businesses&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|17}} Energy Debt comments from Scottish Parliament [http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-07/sor0228-02.htm Energy Debt], &quot;Official Report 28 February 2007&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|18}} SPBE lobby relations from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article] &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|19}} Demos information from Demos [http://www.demos.co.uk/content/aboutdemos homepage], accessed 20 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|20}} BWEA membership from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/3886/9/ article], &quot;BP joins renewable power campaign group&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|21}} Report from CorporateWatch [http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=1305 article], &quot;SCOTLAND PLC: The Scottish Executive’s corporate links&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.</div>

Heather Kirk https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=ScottishPower&diff=22551 2007-04-21T18:18:26Z

<p>Heather Kirk: /* Direct links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament */</p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Scottish power.JPG|right|210px|thumb|Scottish Power logo{{ref|1}}]]<br /> [[Image:Glasgow.JPG|right|140px|thumb|Glasgow, Scotland{{ref|2}}]]<br /> :'''Address''': 1 Atlantic Quay, Glasgow, G2 8SP<br /> :'''Phone''': 0141 248 8200<br /> <br /> Based in Glasgow, Scotland, '''ScottishPower Plc''' is a vertically integrated energy company and is Britain's fifth-largest energy supplier. {{ref|3}} As part of the utilities industry, it is the distribution network operator for the central and southern Scotland and the Merseyside and North Wales regions. The company also supplies electricity and natural gas to homes and business around the United Kingdom and generates power for supply to the grid. It owns '''[[PPM Energy]]''' in the United States and is quoted on the '''London Stock Exchange''' and has a secondary listing on the '''New York Stock Exchange''', as well.<br /> <br /> :[[Scottish Power]] has a number of divisions and subsidiaries, which can be found here: <br /> *[[Scottish Power: Divisons]]<br /> *[[Scottish Power: Subsidiaries]]<br /> <br /> ==History==<br /> In 1991, [[Scottish Power]] prepared for privatisation from the previously nationalised Scottish electricity industry, having officially formed the year before. Scottish industry was organised on an integrated generation, distribution and supply basis, which survived the privatisation to become a model for the rest of the United Kingdom (previously the UK government had privatised the English and Welsh electricity industry by splitting the market into 12 regional electricity companies and two power generators). <br /> [[Scottish Power]] was formed from the larger of the two Scottish electricity boards, the '''South of Scotland Electricity Board''', whilst the other, the '''North of Scotland Hydro Board''', eventually became part of the '''Scottish and Southern Energy Group''' (the nuclear power stations in Scotland were spun off into a third company, '''Scottish Nuclear''', which was not sold off with [[Scottish Power]] and '''Scottish Hydro Electric''', but was sold later as part of '''British Energy''').<br /> <br /> ==Company Chronology==<br /> *1990 - [[Scottish Power]] was officially founded <br /> *1991 - prepared for privitisation from state-owned [[Scottish Electricity]]<br /> *1995 - aquired [[Manweb]]<br /> *1996 - expanded into the water supply bussiness and purchased [[Southern Water]]<br /> *2000 - aquired [[Pacificorp]]<br /> *2001 - PacifiCorp Power Marketing, Inc. moved from being a subsidiary of [[PacifiCorp]] to being an affiliate to [[PacifiCorp]]<br /> *2002 - sold [[Southern Water]]; sold [[Thus]] interest; made [[PPM Energy]] a separate business from [[Pacificorp]] <br /> *2005 - rejected takeover bid from [[E.ON]] on 22 November<br /> *2006 - sold [[Pacificorp]] to MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company on 21 March; aquired permission to build Europe's largest on-shore Windfarm on 27 April; agreed to takeover by [[Iberdrola]] on 28 November<br /> <br /> ==People==<br /> ===Board===<br /> <br /> *[[Charles Miller Smith]] Joined the Board as Deputy Chairman in August 1999 and was appointed as Chairman in April 2000.<br /> *[[Euan Baird]] Joined the Board in January 2001 bringing executive level experience in the electronics and engineering industry to the ScottishPower Board.<br /> *[[Donald Brydon]] Joined the Board in May 2003 and is the senior independent director.<br /> *[[Nick Rose]] Joined the Board in February 2003 and is Chairman of the Audit Committee, nominated as the Committee’s designated “financial expert”.<br /> *[[Nancy Wilgenbusch]] Joined the Board in June 2004.<br /> *[[Peter Hickson]] Joined the Board on 1st September 2006.<br /> <br /> ===Management Team===<br /> <br /> * [[Philip Bowman]] Chief Executive<br /> * [[Simon Lowth]] Finance Director<br /> * [[Terry Hudgens]] Chief Executive Officer, PPM Energy Inc<br /> * [[Susan Reilly]] Commercial Director<br /> * [[Alan Bryce]] Director, Energy Networks<br /> * [[John Campbell]] Director, Energy Wholesale<br /> * [[Willie MacDiarmid]] Director, Energy Retail<br /> * [[Sheelagh Duffield]] Company Secretary<br /> * [[Stephen Dunn]] Director, Human Resources and Communications {{ref|4}}<br /> <br /> ===Previous Members===<br /> * [[Vicky Bailey]] Former American non-Executive Director<br /> * [[Charles Berry]] Former Executive Director, UK<br /> * [[Dominic Fry]] Former Corporate Affairs Director<br /> * [[David Nish]] Former Exucutive Director of Infrastructure<br /> * [[Ian Russell]] Former Chief Executive<br /> <br /> ==Fat Cat payoffs==<br /> [[Scottish Power]]'s former chief executive [[Ian Russell]] and three colleagues received £10.9m for pay and pension compensation. The sums have been branded 'obscene' by the [[Scottish National Party]] energy spokesman [[Richard Lochhead]], and come to light just three months after they warned customers about inflation-busting bill hikes.<br /> <br /> Mr. Russell, who left in January of 2006 after five years as chief executive, received a £2.3m compensation payment as well as benefiting from a resultant pension top-up of £2.7m. The compensation sum is more than three times his salary of £648,000, while his pension windfall nearly doubled his total entitlement to £6.8m. His colleagues [[Charles Berry]] and [[David Nish]], who both left the firm in September of 2006, pocketed a total of £2.6m and £2.2m in extra compensation and extra pension sums respectively. And [[Judi Johansen]], the former head of the company's [[PacifiCorp]] arm that was sold in 2006 as well, walked off with a total of £1.1m.<br /> <br /> The figures are published in Scottish Power's 2005/06 annual report and accounts, and are on top of their normal pay and pension entitlements totalling a further £10.5m. The plc made £675m profit before tax in the financial year to March 2006. [[Scottish Power]] raised gas prices by 15% and electricity by 8% in March of 2006, only to warn that bills would rise again due to high wholesale costs. {{ref|5}}<br /> <br /> ==Direct links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> ===Scottish Executive===<br /> [[Image:SE logo.JPG|right|150px|thumb|Scottish Executive logo {{ref|6}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] has had a number of direct links with the '''Scottish Executive''' over the years. The following shows some press releases, brochures &amp; posters, and SpinWatch articles regarding the relationships between the two.<br /> ====Press Releases====<br /> <br /> *In May of 2002, [[Scottish Power]] &quot;submitted plans to the '''Scottish Executive''' for a £70 million windfarm on the site of an abandoned open cast mine at Black Law near the village of Forth in South Lanarkshire. [[Scottish Power]], in partnership with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and landowners, has developed a habitat management plan that integrates nature conservation, windfarm operation, and other land uses on the site which has been derelict since coal mining activities ceased there.” {{ref|7}}<br /> <br /> *In January of 2003, [[Scottish Power]] announced to the '''Scottish Executive''' its proposals for the third large scale Scottish windfarm; and &quot;if approved, '''Harestanes''' windfarm alone could meet a third of the '''Scottish Executive'''’s renewable energy target of 18% by 2010.” {{ref|8}}<br /> <br /> *In June of 2004, it was announced that &quot;ScottishPower in partnership with the Scottish Energy Office of the '''Scottish Executive''' today launched a nationwide campaign to make businesses aware of the introduction of the Government's Climate Change Levy (CCL). The CCL is a tax that will be the major force behind the Government's commitment to reduce the UK's production of greenhouse gases by 12.5 per cent, compared to 1990 levels, by 2010.” {{ref|9}}<br /> <br /> *More recently in January of 2007, a press release stated that &quot;Former US Vice President Al Gore’s climate change film, An Inconvenient Truth, will be shown in all of Scotland’s Secondary Schools this year thanks to an initiative from [[Scottish Power]] and the Scottish Executive. The Scottish Executive, through Learning Teaching Scotland, is developing a package of educational materials to help raise awareness of the challenges we all face from global warming. [[Stephen Dunn]], [[Scottish Power]]’s HR and Communications Director, said; “I was greatly impressed by An Inconvenient Truth. Not only does it powerfully explain what is happening to the planet, it also gives hope by simply setting out what we can still do to fight climate change. [[Scottish Power]] is already the biggest generator of onshore wind energy in the UK and is developing biomass and wave generation to reduce emissions and combat global warming – but it is essential that we also help promote understanding of this crucial challenge through initiatives such as this.”&quot; {{ref|10}} <br /> <br /> *In Febraury of 2007, &quot;ScottishPower, working closely with the '''Scottish Executive''', today announced a £10m wave power project designed to push Scotland to the forefront of global marine energy development. ScottishPower's Director of Renewables, Keith Anderson, said: &quot;This is a massive step forward. It will be a test of the actual devices that will be used commercially and, if successful, should help propel Scotland into the forefront of marine energy throughout the world.”&quot; {{ref|11}}<br /> <br /> ====Brochures &amp; Posters====<br /> [[Image:SP windfarm.JPG|right|130px|thumb|Brochure {{ref|12}}]]<br /> “ScottishPower Windfarm Biodiversity Conservation Strategy”<br /> This was a joint venture in 2006 between the '''Scottish Executive''' and '''ScottishPower Renewables'''. It also involved the Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Sustainable Development, as can be proudly seen at the bottom of the brocure.<br /> [[Image:Future.JPG|left|120px|thumb|Poster {{ref|13}}]]<br /> “It’s Our Future schools’ competition”<br /> This is another example of a joint venture in 2006 between '''ScottishPower Gas and Electricity''' &amp; the '''Scottish Executive''''s ''Natural Scotland'' campaign. It involved the WWF (World Wildlife Fund), EcoSchools, as well as Learning &amp; Teaching Scotland, which is funded by the Scottish Executive Education Department (SEED).<br /> <br /> ====CorporateWatch Reports====<br /> &quot;Despite the pro-business outlook of McConnell and the '''Scottish executive''', corporate lobbyists still find it worthwhile to swarm around the '''Scottish Parliament''' in an attempt to secure meetings with MSPs, to influence Scottish public spending in their favour and to keep polluting Scotland without major penalties. The incestuous relationships between the '''Scottish Parliament''' and corporations extend beyond external lobbying, however. Take for example the corporate swamping of cross party policy discussion groups that meet within the '''Scottish Parliament'''. The '''Scottish Executive''' has seen further controversy over its cosy connections with corporations. Since its creation, business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and transnational corporations, with inward secondments from [[Scottish Power]].” {{ref|14}} <br /> <br /> ====Spinwatch articles====<br /> “Since the creation of the '''Scottish Executive''', business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and Trans-National corporations, Inward: [[Scottish Power]], [[Scottish and Newcastle]], [[Stagecoach]], [[Ernst and Young]], [[PriceWaterhouseCoopers]]. Outward: [[Lloyds TSB]] Foundation, [[Scottish Power]], [[McGrigor Donald]] (law firm and lobbyist), [[Scottish and Newcastle]] and business lobby groups [[Business in the Community]] and the '''Scottish Chambers of Commerce'''.” {{ref|15}}<br /> <br /> ===Scottish Parliament===<br /> [[Image:SP logo.JPG|right|170px|thumb|Scottish Parliament logo{{ref|16}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] also has many links with the '''Scottish Parliament''' as well. The following shows Parliamentary News Releases regarding the development of the [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]], Scottish Parliament official reports, and SpinWatch articles as evidence of relationships between the two.<br /> <br /> ====Parliamentary News Releases====<br /> The Scottish Parliament Business Exchange is a scheme where supposedly, MSPs are to be given an opportunity to gain a valuable insight into the diverse Scottish business sector. The Scottish Parliament and Business Exchange ('The Exchange') aims to develop and provide opportunities for promoting mutual understanding between MSPs and business and related communities in Scotland. The Exchange is registered as an educational charity with a board made up of 50 per-cent Parliamentarians and 50 per-cent business representatives. Presiding officer and The Exchange's honorary President, Sir David Steel said &quot;Through being transparent, open, inclusive and flexible in its approach, The Exchange will be able to bring MSPs and the business community together in a non-lobbying and non-partisan way, providing benefits to the whole of Scotland.” The Board of The Exchange was set-up at the first AGM in June of 2001. The Parliament's Chief Executive, Paul Grice, was the convener, and Sir David Steel MSP was the honorary President. The Board members were Elaine Thomson MSP, Brian Adam MSP, David Davidson MSP, Keith Raffan MSP, Lynda Gauld ([[Pfizer]]), Alan Wilson ([[SCDI]]), Miller McLean ([[Royal Bank of Scotland]]), [[Dominic Fry]] ([[Scottish Power]]), Alastair Smith ([[BAA]] Scottish Airports) and Bill Spiers ([[Scottish TUC]]). {{ref|17}}<br /> :To see more about the SPBE's claims vs. realities, click [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]]. <br /> <br /> ====Scottish Parliament official reports====<br /> The 28 February 2007 Official Report regarding Energy Debt featured many varied comments about [[Scottish Power]]'s energy practices. <br /> *Patrick Harvie from Glasgow representing the Green party said: &quot;I was pleased to see that we received briefings from a number of other organisations, including Barnardo's and Capability Scotland, which want Parliament to understand the impact that energy debt has on a range of different people in diverse family situations. Energy suppliers will always have a problem with billing systems for the most vulnerable people, but some of their practices, as Scott Barrie mentioned, hit the poorest households and families hardest. In the case of [[Scottish Power]]'s practices, they had not even calculated what it would cost [[Scottish Power]] to change the policy by writing off such debt. The role of politicians is not just to engage with suppliers on the issue but to look at public policy. Scott Barrie explained the historical situation in terms of the welfare state but, as we move further into the 21st century, the job for politicians is to prepare all citizens and households in Scotland for the period after cheap energy. It falls on all suppliers, including [[Scottish Power]], to adjust their systems to ensure that the most vulnerable people are not placed in further debt.&quot; <br /> *Christine Grahame from the South of Scotland representing the SNP party said: &quot;Energy companies are making a financial killing on the back of the less well-off. Figures that I have obtained show that some companies are charging customers who will not pay by direct debit almost £300 a year more. With regard to the overcharging of non-direct debit customers for gas and electricity combined, the worst offenders—I will name and shame them—were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]]. The worst companies for customers who required only electricity and who chose not to pay by direct debit were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]].&quot;<br /> *Jackie Baillie from Dumbarton representing the Labour party said: &quot;Come on, [[Scottish Power]]—stop back-charging customers and stop back-charging the people who are potentially the most vulnerable customers. I echo the call for [[Scottish Power]] to end immediately its practice of backdating and to acknowledge that prepayment meter tariffs are a mess.” {{ref|18}} <br /> <br /> ====SpinWatch articles====<br /> While the SPBE at first glance seems potentially beneficial and rather harmless, a deeper look reveals something different: &quot;The Scottish Parliament Business Exchange was set up to allow MSPs to be educated about the realities of business life. To ensure that education and not lobbying took place the scheme was required to be ‘non-lobbying’. But in practice three quarters of the business representatives taking part were lobbyists.” {{ref|19}}<br /> <br /> ==Indirect links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> [[Scottish Power]] enjoys many indirect links with the '''Scottish Executive''' and the '''Scottish Parliament''' as well. <br /> *The company sponsors '''community activities''' such as '''ScottishPower Learning'''. This is the company's flagship corporate community programme focused on education/employability. A more detailed look reveals: <br /> a) School-based programmes designed to support the school to work transition<br /> <br /> b) Community-based programmes designed to help unemployed young people build their skills in preparation for work (Involved with Prince’s Trust, Community Champions, Project Scotland)<br /> <br /> c) Work-based programmes designed to provide young people with work experience and vocational training<br /> <br /> *The company is involved with '''think tanks''' as well. [[Demos]], for example, is another 'third way' think tank in the UK. According to its website &quot;Demos is a greenhouse for new ideas which can improve the quality of our lives. As an independent think tank, our aim is to create an open resource of knowledge and learning that operates beyond traditional parties, identities and disciplines.&quot; {{ref|20}} [[Scottish Power]] is one of the many partners of [[Demos]].<br /> <br /> *[[Scottish Power]] is involved with '''policy planning''' agencies, such as the regulatory body '''SEPA'''. The [[Scottish Environmental Protection Agency]] is a powerful Scottish public body sponsored by the '''Scottish Executive''' Environment and Rural Affairs Department. '''SEPA''' was established by the Environment Act 1995 and is responsible for the protection of the natural environment in Scotland, including air, land, freshwater and marine environments.<br /> <br /> *The company is also a member of [[BWEA]] (formerly the British '''Wind Energy Association'''). [[BWEA]] is a renewable power industry, however &quot;Critics in the environment movement may be suspicious of a company they believe talks about green issues but invests little. [[Shell]] has been a member for some years and other big power producers, such as [[Centrica]], owner of British Gas, and [[E.ON]] of Germany have also joined.” {{ref|21}}<br /> <br /> ==Other activities==<br /> Some other activities that [[Scottish Power]] are involved in include the follwoing:<br /> ===PR connections===<br /> *[[BIG Partnership]]<br /> *[[GPC International]], in 2004/[[Fleishman Hillard]] in 2005<br /> <br /> ===Lobby connections===<br /> *[[Business Council for Sustainable Development – UK]]<br /> *DC lobbying firm [[Stuntz, Davis &amp; Staffier]]<br /> <br /> ===Cultural Affiliations/Sponsorships===<br /> *[[Ballet Central]]<br /> *[[Celtic Connections]]<br /> *[[Edinburgh International Book Festival]] <br /> *[[Glasgow Science Centre]] (The ScottishPower Planetarium)<br /> *[[National Theatre for Scotland]] <br /> *[[ScottishPower Pipe Band]]<br /> <br /> ==External Links==<br /> :ScottishPower website [http://www.scottishpower.com/]<br /> :ScottishPower Gas and Electricity Customer website [http://scottishpower.co.uk/]<br /> :ScottishPower Energy Networks website [http://www.spenergynetworks.com/]<br /> <br /> ==Notes==<br /> #{{note|1}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Power Scottish Power], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow Glasgow], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|3}} Energy supply rank from CNN.com [http://www.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/11/28/scot.power/index.html World Business], &quot;Scot Power agrees $22B Spanish bid&quot;, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|4}} Board and Management bios from Scottish Power[http://www.scottishpower.com/ManagementTeam.asp Meet the Board], accessed March 2007.<br /> #{{note|5}} Fat Cat payoff information from ThisIsMoney [http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=410010&amp;in_page_id=2 article] &quot;Sacked power chiefs get 'obscene' pay-off&quot;, accessed 18 June 2006.<br /> #{{note|6}} Photograph from Eco-Schools[http://www.eco-schools.org/partners/institutional/logo_scotexec.gif Partners], Scottish Executive, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|7}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_616.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Plans to Turn Open-cast Mine into Windfarm and Bird Habitat&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|8}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_537.htm News &amp; Media], “ScottishPower Announces Proposals for Third Large-Scale Scottish Windfarm, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|9}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_634.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Spearheads Drive to Advise Business on the Climate Change Levy&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|10}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1487.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Brings Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' to Schools&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|11}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1498.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower to Build World’s Biggest Wave Project off Orkney&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|12}} Photograph from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/uploads/windfarmconsbiostrategy.pdf Brochure], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|13}} Photograph from Scottish Executive [http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/921/0040702.pdf Poster], accessed 22 March 2007. <br /> #{{note|14}} Report from CorporateWatch [http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=1305 article], &quot;SCOTLAND PLC: The Scottish Executive’s corporate links&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|15}} Information from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article], &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|16}} Photograph from Scottish Parliament[http://survey.scottish.parliament.uk/vli/education/youth/games/jigsaw/logoBig.gif Education], Scottish Parliament, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|17}} SPBE information from Scottish Parliament[http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/nmCentre/news/news-01/pa01-089.htm Parliamentary News Release], “New Scheme Promotes Mutual Understanding Between MSPs and Scottish Businesses&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|18}} Energy Debt comments from Scottish Parliament [http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-07/sor0228-02.htm Energy Debt], &quot;Official Report 28 February 2007&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|19}} SPBE lobby relations from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article] &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|20}} Demos information from Demos [http://www.demos.co.uk/content/aboutdemos homepage], accessed 20 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|21}} BWEA membership from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/3886/9/ article], &quot;BP joins renewable power campaign group&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.</div>

Heather Kirk https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=ScottishPower&diff=22550 2007-04-21T18:17:31Z

<p>Heather Kirk: /* People */</p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Scottish power.JPG|right|210px|thumb|Scottish Power logo{{ref|1}}]]<br /> [[Image:Glasgow.JPG|right|140px|thumb|Glasgow, Scotland{{ref|2}}]]<br /> :'''Address''': 1 Atlantic Quay, Glasgow, G2 8SP<br /> :'''Phone''': 0141 248 8200<br /> <br /> Based in Glasgow, Scotland, '''ScottishPower Plc''' is a vertically integrated energy company and is Britain's fifth-largest energy supplier. {{ref|3}} As part of the utilities industry, it is the distribution network operator for the central and southern Scotland and the Merseyside and North Wales regions. The company also supplies electricity and natural gas to homes and business around the United Kingdom and generates power for supply to the grid. It owns '''[[PPM Energy]]''' in the United States and is quoted on the '''London Stock Exchange''' and has a secondary listing on the '''New York Stock Exchange''', as well.<br /> <br /> :[[Scottish Power]] has a number of divisions and subsidiaries, which can be found here: <br /> *[[Scottish Power: Divisons]]<br /> *[[Scottish Power: Subsidiaries]]<br /> <br /> ==History==<br /> In 1991, [[Scottish Power]] prepared for privatisation from the previously nationalised Scottish electricity industry, having officially formed the year before. Scottish industry was organised on an integrated generation, distribution and supply basis, which survived the privatisation to become a model for the rest of the United Kingdom (previously the UK government had privatised the English and Welsh electricity industry by splitting the market into 12 regional electricity companies and two power generators). <br /> [[Scottish Power]] was formed from the larger of the two Scottish electricity boards, the '''South of Scotland Electricity Board''', whilst the other, the '''North of Scotland Hydro Board''', eventually became part of the '''Scottish and Southern Energy Group''' (the nuclear power stations in Scotland were spun off into a third company, '''Scottish Nuclear''', which was not sold off with [[Scottish Power]] and '''Scottish Hydro Electric''', but was sold later as part of '''British Energy''').<br /> <br /> ==Company Chronology==<br /> *1990 - [[Scottish Power]] was officially founded <br /> *1991 - prepared for privitisation from state-owned [[Scottish Electricity]]<br /> *1995 - aquired [[Manweb]]<br /> *1996 - expanded into the water supply bussiness and purchased [[Southern Water]]<br /> *2000 - aquired [[Pacificorp]]<br /> *2001 - PacifiCorp Power Marketing, Inc. moved from being a subsidiary of [[PacifiCorp]] to being an affiliate to [[PacifiCorp]]<br /> *2002 - sold [[Southern Water]]; sold [[Thus]] interest; made [[PPM Energy]] a separate business from [[Pacificorp]] <br /> *2005 - rejected takeover bid from [[E.ON]] on 22 November<br /> *2006 - sold [[Pacificorp]] to MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company on 21 March; aquired permission to build Europe's largest on-shore Windfarm on 27 April; agreed to takeover by [[Iberdrola]] on 28 November<br /> <br /> ==People==<br /> ===Board===<br /> <br /> *[[Charles Miller Smith]] Joined the Board as Deputy Chairman in August 1999 and was appointed as Chairman in April 2000.<br /> *[[Euan Baird]] Joined the Board in January 2001 bringing executive level experience in the electronics and engineering industry to the ScottishPower Board.<br /> *[[Donald Brydon]] Joined the Board in May 2003 and is the senior independent director.<br /> *[[Nick Rose]] Joined the Board in February 2003 and is Chairman of the Audit Committee, nominated as the Committee’s designated “financial expert”.<br /> *[[Nancy Wilgenbusch]] Joined the Board in June 2004.<br /> *[[Peter Hickson]] Joined the Board on 1st September 2006.<br /> <br /> ===Management Team===<br /> <br /> * [[Philip Bowman]] Chief Executive<br /> * [[Simon Lowth]] Finance Director<br /> * [[Terry Hudgens]] Chief Executive Officer, PPM Energy Inc<br /> * [[Susan Reilly]] Commercial Director<br /> * [[Alan Bryce]] Director, Energy Networks<br /> * [[John Campbell]] Director, Energy Wholesale<br /> * [[Willie MacDiarmid]] Director, Energy Retail<br /> * [[Sheelagh Duffield]] Company Secretary<br /> * [[Stephen Dunn]] Director, Human Resources and Communications {{ref|4}}<br /> <br /> ===Previous Members===<br /> * [[Vicky Bailey]] Former American non-Executive Director<br /> * [[Charles Berry]] Former Executive Director, UK<br /> * [[Dominic Fry]] Former Corporate Affairs Director<br /> * [[David Nish]] Former Exucutive Director of Infrastructure<br /> * [[Ian Russell]] Former Chief Executive<br /> <br /> ==Fat Cat payoffs==<br /> [[Scottish Power]]'s former chief executive [[Ian Russell]] and three colleagues received £10.9m for pay and pension compensation. The sums have been branded 'obscene' by the [[Scottish National Party]] energy spokesman [[Richard Lochhead]], and come to light just three months after they warned customers about inflation-busting bill hikes.<br /> <br /> Mr. Russell, who left in January of 2006 after five years as chief executive, received a £2.3m compensation payment as well as benefiting from a resultant pension top-up of £2.7m. The compensation sum is more than three times his salary of £648,000, while his pension windfall nearly doubled his total entitlement to £6.8m. His colleagues [[Charles Berry]] and [[David Nish]], who both left the firm in September of 2006, pocketed a total of £2.6m and £2.2m in extra compensation and extra pension sums respectively. And [[Judi Johansen]], the former head of the company's [[PacifiCorp]] arm that was sold in 2006 as well, walked off with a total of £1.1m.<br /> <br /> The figures are published in Scottish Power's 2005/06 annual report and accounts, and are on top of their normal pay and pension entitlements totalling a further £10.5m. The plc made £675m profit before tax in the financial year to March 2006. [[Scottish Power]] raised gas prices by 15% and electricity by 8% in March of 2006, only to warn that bills would rise again due to high wholesale costs. {{ref|5}}<br /> <br /> ==Direct links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> ===Scottish Executive===<br /> [[Image:SE logo.JPG|right|150px|thumb|Scottish Executive logo {{ref|6}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] has had a number of direct links with the '''Scottish Executive''' over the years. The following shows some press releases, brochures &amp; posters, CorporateWatch reports, and SpinWatch articles regarding the relationships between the two.<br /> ====Press Releases====<br /> <br /> *In May of 2002, [[Scottish Power]] &quot;submitted plans to the '''Scottish Executive''' for a £70 million windfarm on the site of an abandoned open cast mine at Black Law near the village of Forth in South Lanarkshire. [[Scottish Power]], in partnership with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and landowners, has developed a habitat management plan that integrates nature conservation, windfarm operation, and other land uses on the site which has been derelict since coal mining activities ceased there.” {{ref|7}}<br /> <br /> *In January of 2003, [[Scottish Power]] announced to the '''Scottish Executive''' its proposals for the third large scale Scottish windfarm; and &quot;if approved, '''Harestanes''' windfarm alone could meet a third of the '''Scottish Executive'''’s renewable energy target of 18% by 2010.” {{ref|8}}<br /> <br /> *In June of 2004, it was announced that &quot;ScottishPower in partnership with the Scottish Energy Office of the '''Scottish Executive''' today launched a nationwide campaign to make businesses aware of the introduction of the Government's Climate Change Levy (CCL). The CCL is a tax that will be the major force behind the Government's commitment to reduce the UK's production of greenhouse gases by 12.5 per cent, compared to 1990 levels, by 2010.” {{ref|9}}<br /> <br /> *More recently in January of 2007, a press release stated that &quot;Former US Vice President Al Gore’s climate change film, An Inconvenient Truth, will be shown in all of Scotland’s Secondary Schools this year thanks to an initiative from [[Scottish Power]] and the Scottish Executive. The Scottish Executive, through Learning Teaching Scotland, is developing a package of educational materials to help raise awareness of the challenges we all face from global warming. [[Stephen Dunn]], [[Scottish Power]]’s HR and Communications Director, said; “I was greatly impressed by An Inconvenient Truth. Not only does it powerfully explain what is happening to the planet, it also gives hope by simply setting out what we can still do to fight climate change. [[Scottish Power]] is already the biggest generator of onshore wind energy in the UK and is developing biomass and wave generation to reduce emissions and combat global warming – but it is essential that we also help promote understanding of this crucial challenge through initiatives such as this.”&quot; {{ref|10}} <br /> <br /> *In Febraury of 2007, &quot;ScottishPower, working closely with the '''Scottish Executive''', today announced a £10m wave power project designed to push Scotland to the forefront of global marine energy development. ScottishPower's Director of Renewables, Keith Anderson, said: &quot;This is a massive step forward. It will be a test of the actual devices that will be used commercially and, if successful, should help propel Scotland into the forefront of marine energy throughout the world.”&quot; {{ref|11}}<br /> <br /> ====Brochures &amp; Posters====<br /> [[Image:SP windfarm.JPG|right|130px|thumb|Brochure {{ref|12}}]]<br /> “ScottishPower Windfarm Biodiversity Conservation Strategy”<br /> This was a joint venture in 2006 between the '''Scottish Executive''' and '''ScottishPower Renewables'''. It also involved the Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Sustainable Development, as can be proudly seen at the bottom of the brocure.<br /> [[Image:Future.JPG|left|120px|thumb|Poster {{ref|13}}]]<br /> “It’s Our Future schools’ competition”<br /> This is another example of a joint venture in 2006 between '''ScottishPower Gas and Electricity''' &amp; the '''Scottish Executive''''s ''Natural Scotland'' campaign. It involved the WWF (World Wildlife Fund), EcoSchools, as well as Learning &amp; Teaching Scotland, which is funded by the Scottish Executive Education Department (SEED).<br /> <br /> ====CorporateWatch Reports====<br /> &quot;Despite the pro-business outlook of McConnell and the '''Scottish executive''', corporate lobbyists still find it worthwhile to swarm around the '''Scottish Parliament''' in an attempt to secure meetings with MSPs, to influence Scottish public spending in their favour and to keep polluting Scotland without major penalties. The incestuous relationships between the '''Scottish Parliament''' and corporations extend beyond external lobbying, however. Take for example the corporate swamping of cross party policy discussion groups that meet within the '''Scottish Parliament'''. The '''Scottish Executive''' has seen further controversy over its cosy connections with corporations. Since its creation, business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and transnational corporations, with inward secondments from [[Scottish Power]].” {{ref|14}} <br /> <br /> ====Spinwatch articles====<br /> “Since the creation of the '''Scottish Executive''', business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and Trans-National corporations, Inward: [[Scottish Power]], [[Scottish and Newcastle]], [[Stagecoach]], [[Ernst and Young]], [[PriceWaterhouseCoopers]]. Outward: [[Lloyds TSB]] Foundation, [[Scottish Power]], [[McGrigor Donald]] (law firm and lobbyist), [[Scottish and Newcastle]] and business lobby groups [[Business in the Community]] and the '''Scottish Chambers of Commerce'''.” {{ref|15}}<br /> <br /> ===Scottish Parliament===<br /> [[Image:SP logo.JPG|right|170px|thumb|Scottish Parliament logo{{ref|16}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] also has many links with the '''Scottish Parliament''' as well. The following shows Parliamentary News Releases regarding the development of the [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]], Scottish Parliament official reports, and SpinWatch articles as evidence of relationships between the two.<br /> <br /> ====Parliamentary News Releases====<br /> The Scottish Parliament Business Exchange is a scheme where supposedly, MSPs are to be given an opportunity to gain a valuable insight into the diverse Scottish business sector. The Scottish Parliament and Business Exchange ('The Exchange') aims to develop and provide opportunities for promoting mutual understanding between MSPs and business and related communities in Scotland. The Exchange is registered as an educational charity with a board made up of 50 per-cent Parliamentarians and 50 per-cent business representatives. Presiding officer and The Exchange's honorary President, Sir David Steel said &quot;Through being transparent, open, inclusive and flexible in its approach, The Exchange will be able to bring MSPs and the business community together in a non-lobbying and non-partisan way, providing benefits to the whole of Scotland.” The Board of The Exchange was set-up at the first AGM in June of 2001. The Parliament's Chief Executive, Paul Grice, was the convener, and Sir David Steel MSP was the honorary President. The Board members were Elaine Thomson MSP, Brian Adam MSP, David Davidson MSP, Keith Raffan MSP, Lynda Gauld ([[Pfizer]]), Alan Wilson ([[SCDI]]), Miller McLean ([[Royal Bank of Scotland]]), [[Dominic Fry]] ([[Scottish Power]]), Alastair Smith ([[BAA]] Scottish Airports) and Bill Spiers ([[Scottish TUC]]). {{ref|17}}<br /> :To see more about the SPBE's claims vs. realities, click [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]]. <br /> <br /> ====Scottish Parliament official reports====<br /> The 28 February 2007 Official Report regarding Energy Debt featured many varied comments about [[Scottish Power]]'s energy practices. <br /> *Patrick Harvie from Glasgow representing the Green party said: &quot;I was pleased to see that we received briefings from a number of other organisations, including Barnardo's and Capability Scotland, which want Parliament to understand the impact that energy debt has on a range of different people in diverse family situations. Energy suppliers will always have a problem with billing systems for the most vulnerable people, but some of their practices, as Scott Barrie mentioned, hit the poorest households and families hardest. In the case of [[Scottish Power]]'s practices, they had not even calculated what it would cost [[Scottish Power]] to change the policy by writing off such debt. The role of politicians is not just to engage with suppliers on the issue but to look at public policy. Scott Barrie explained the historical situation in terms of the welfare state but, as we move further into the 21st century, the job for politicians is to prepare all citizens and households in Scotland for the period after cheap energy. It falls on all suppliers, including [[Scottish Power]], to adjust their systems to ensure that the most vulnerable people are not placed in further debt.&quot; <br /> *Christine Grahame from the South of Scotland representing the SNP party said: &quot;Energy companies are making a financial killing on the back of the less well-off. Figures that I have obtained show that some companies are charging customers who will not pay by direct debit almost £300 a year more. With regard to the overcharging of non-direct debit customers for gas and electricity combined, the worst offenders—I will name and shame them—were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]]. The worst companies for customers who required only electricity and who chose not to pay by direct debit were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]].&quot;<br /> *Jackie Baillie from Dumbarton representing the Labour party said: &quot;Come on, [[Scottish Power]]—stop back-charging customers and stop back-charging the people who are potentially the most vulnerable customers. I echo the call for [[Scottish Power]] to end immediately its practice of backdating and to acknowledge that prepayment meter tariffs are a mess.” {{ref|18}} <br /> <br /> ====SpinWatch articles====<br /> While the SPBE at first glance seems potentially beneficial and rather harmless, a deeper look reveals something different: &quot;The Scottish Parliament Business Exchange was set up to allow MSPs to be educated about the realities of business life. To ensure that education and not lobbying took place the scheme was required to be ‘non-lobbying’. But in practice three quarters of the business representatives taking part were lobbyists.” {{ref|19}}<br /> <br /> ==Indirect links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> [[Scottish Power]] enjoys many indirect links with the '''Scottish Executive''' and the '''Scottish Parliament''' as well. <br /> *The company sponsors '''community activities''' such as '''ScottishPower Learning'''. This is the company's flagship corporate community programme focused on education/employability. A more detailed look reveals: <br /> a) School-based programmes designed to support the school to work transition<br /> <br /> b) Community-based programmes designed to help unemployed young people build their skills in preparation for work (Involved with Prince’s Trust, Community Champions, Project Scotland)<br /> <br /> c) Work-based programmes designed to provide young people with work experience and vocational training<br /> <br /> *The company is involved with '''think tanks''' as well. [[Demos]], for example, is another 'third way' think tank in the UK. According to its website &quot;Demos is a greenhouse for new ideas which can improve the quality of our lives. As an independent think tank, our aim is to create an open resource of knowledge and learning that operates beyond traditional parties, identities and disciplines.&quot; {{ref|20}} [[Scottish Power]] is one of the many partners of [[Demos]].<br /> <br /> *[[Scottish Power]] is involved with '''policy planning''' agencies, such as the regulatory body '''SEPA'''. The [[Scottish Environmental Protection Agency]] is a powerful Scottish public body sponsored by the '''Scottish Executive''' Environment and Rural Affairs Department. '''SEPA''' was established by the Environment Act 1995 and is responsible for the protection of the natural environment in Scotland, including air, land, freshwater and marine environments.<br /> <br /> *The company is also a member of [[BWEA]] (formerly the British '''Wind Energy Association'''). [[BWEA]] is a renewable power industry, however &quot;Critics in the environment movement may be suspicious of a company they believe talks about green issues but invests little. [[Shell]] has been a member for some years and other big power producers, such as [[Centrica]], owner of British Gas, and [[E.ON]] of Germany have also joined.” {{ref|21}}<br /> <br /> ==Other activities==<br /> Some other activities that [[Scottish Power]] are involved in include the follwoing:<br /> ===PR connections===<br /> *[[BIG Partnership]]<br /> *[[GPC International]], in 2004/[[Fleishman Hillard]] in 2005<br /> <br /> ===Lobby connections===<br /> *[[Business Council for Sustainable Development – UK]]<br /> *DC lobbying firm [[Stuntz, Davis &amp; Staffier]]<br /> <br /> ===Cultural Affiliations/Sponsorships===<br /> *[[Ballet Central]]<br /> *[[Celtic Connections]]<br /> *[[Edinburgh International Book Festival]] <br /> *[[Glasgow Science Centre]] (The ScottishPower Planetarium)<br /> *[[National Theatre for Scotland]] <br /> *[[ScottishPower Pipe Band]]<br /> <br /> ==External Links==<br /> :ScottishPower website [http://www.scottishpower.com/]<br /> :ScottishPower Gas and Electricity Customer website [http://scottishpower.co.uk/]<br /> :ScottishPower Energy Networks website [http://www.spenergynetworks.com/]<br /> <br /> ==Notes==<br /> #{{note|1}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Power Scottish Power], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow Glasgow], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|3}} Energy supply rank from CNN.com [http://www.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/11/28/scot.power/index.html World Business], &quot;Scot Power agrees $22B Spanish bid&quot;, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|4}} Board and Management bios from Scottish Power[http://www.scottishpower.com/ManagementTeam.asp Meet the Board], accessed March 2007.<br /> #{{note|5}} Fat Cat payoff information from ThisIsMoney [http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=410010&amp;in_page_id=2 article] &quot;Sacked power chiefs get 'obscene' pay-off&quot;, accessed 18 June 2006.<br /> #{{note|6}} Photograph from Eco-Schools[http://www.eco-schools.org/partners/institutional/logo_scotexec.gif Partners], Scottish Executive, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|7}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_616.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Plans to Turn Open-cast Mine into Windfarm and Bird Habitat&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|8}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_537.htm News &amp; Media], “ScottishPower Announces Proposals for Third Large-Scale Scottish Windfarm, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|9}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_634.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Spearheads Drive to Advise Business on the Climate Change Levy&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|10}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1487.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Brings Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' to Schools&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|11}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1498.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower to Build World’s Biggest Wave Project off Orkney&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|12}} Photograph from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/uploads/windfarmconsbiostrategy.pdf Brochure], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|13}} Photograph from Scottish Executive [http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/921/0040702.pdf Poster], accessed 22 March 2007. <br /> #{{note|14}} Report from CorporateWatch [http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=1305 article], &quot;SCOTLAND PLC: The Scottish Executive’s corporate links&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|15}} Information from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article], &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|16}} Photograph from Scottish Parliament[http://survey.scottish.parliament.uk/vli/education/youth/games/jigsaw/logoBig.gif Education], Scottish Parliament, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|17}} SPBE information from Scottish Parliament[http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/nmCentre/news/news-01/pa01-089.htm Parliamentary News Release], “New Scheme Promotes Mutual Understanding Between MSPs and Scottish Businesses&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|18}} Energy Debt comments from Scottish Parliament [http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-07/sor0228-02.htm Energy Debt], &quot;Official Report 28 February 2007&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|19}} SPBE lobby relations from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article] &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|20}} Demos information from Demos [http://www.demos.co.uk/content/aboutdemos homepage], accessed 20 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|21}} BWEA membership from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/3886/9/ article], &quot;BP joins renewable power campaign group&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.</div>

Heather Kirk https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=ScottishPower&diff=22549 2007-04-21T18:16:26Z

<p>Heather Kirk: /* Company Chronology */</p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Scottish power.JPG|right|210px|thumb|Scottish Power logo{{ref|1}}]]<br /> [[Image:Glasgow.JPG|right|140px|thumb|Glasgow, Scotland{{ref|2}}]]<br /> :'''Address''': 1 Atlantic Quay, Glasgow, G2 8SP<br /> :'''Phone''': 0141 248 8200<br /> <br /> Based in Glasgow, Scotland, '''ScottishPower Plc''' is a vertically integrated energy company and is Britain's fifth-largest energy supplier. {{ref|3}} As part of the utilities industry, it is the distribution network operator for the central and southern Scotland and the Merseyside and North Wales regions. The company also supplies electricity and natural gas to homes and business around the United Kingdom and generates power for supply to the grid. It owns '''[[PPM Energy]]''' in the United States and is quoted on the '''London Stock Exchange''' and has a secondary listing on the '''New York Stock Exchange''', as well.<br /> <br /> :[[Scottish Power]] has a number of divisions and subsidiaries, which can be found here: <br /> *[[Scottish Power: Divisons]]<br /> *[[Scottish Power: Subsidiaries]]<br /> <br /> ==History==<br /> In 1991, [[Scottish Power]] prepared for privatisation from the previously nationalised Scottish electricity industry, having officially formed the year before. Scottish industry was organised on an integrated generation, distribution and supply basis, which survived the privatisation to become a model for the rest of the United Kingdom (previously the UK government had privatised the English and Welsh electricity industry by splitting the market into 12 regional electricity companies and two power generators). <br /> [[Scottish Power]] was formed from the larger of the two Scottish electricity boards, the '''South of Scotland Electricity Board''', whilst the other, the '''North of Scotland Hydro Board''', eventually became part of the '''Scottish and Southern Energy Group''' (the nuclear power stations in Scotland were spun off into a third company, '''Scottish Nuclear''', which was not sold off with [[Scottish Power]] and '''Scottish Hydro Electric''', but was sold later as part of '''British Energy''').<br /> <br /> ==Company Chronology==<br /> *1990 - [[Scottish Power]] was officially founded <br /> *1991 - prepared for privitisation from state-owned [[Scottish Electricity]]<br /> *1995 - aquired [[Manweb]]<br /> *1996 - expanded into the water supply bussiness and purchased [[Southern Water]]<br /> *2000 - aquired [[Pacificorp]]<br /> *2001 - PacifiCorp Power Marketing, Inc. moved from being a subsidiary of [[PacifiCorp]] to being an affiliate to [[PacifiCorp]]<br /> *2002 - sold [[Southern Water]]; sold [[Thus]] interest; made [[PPM Energy]] a separate business from [[Pacificorp]] <br /> *2005 - rejected takeover bid from [[E.ON]] on 22 November<br /> *2006 - sold [[Pacificorp]] to MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company on 21 March; aquired permission to build Europe's largest on-shore Windfarm on 27 April; agreed to takeover by [[Iberdrola]] on 28 November<br /> <br /> ==People==<br /> ===Board===<br /> <br /> *[[Charles Miller Smith]] Joined the Board as Deputy Chairman in August 1999 and was appointed as Chairman in April 2000.<br /> *[[Euan Baird]] Joined the Board in January 2001 and brings executive level experience in the electronics and engineering industry to the ScottishPower Board.<br /> *[[Donald Brydon]] Joined the Board in May 2003 and is the senior independent director.<br /> *[[Nick Rose]] Joined the Board in February 2003 and he is Chairman of the Audit Committee, nominated as the Committee’s designated “financial expert”.<br /> *[[Nancy Wilgenbusch]] Joined the Board in June 2004.<br /> *[[Peter Hickson]] Joined the Board on 1st September 2006.<br /> <br /> ===Management Team===<br /> <br /> * [[Philip Bowman]] Chief Executive<br /> * [[Simon Lowth]] Finance Director<br /> * [[Terry Hudgens]] Chief Executive Officer, PPM Energy Inc<br /> * [[Susan Reilly]] Commercial Director<br /> * [[Alan Bryce]] Director, Energy Networks<br /> * [[John Campbell]] Director, Energy Wholesale<br /> * [[Willie MacDiarmid]] Director, Energy Retail<br /> * [[Sheelagh Duffield]] Company Secretary<br /> * [[Stephen Dunn]] Director, Human Resources and Communications {{ref|4}}<br /> <br /> ===Previous Members===<br /> * [[Vicky Bailey]] Former American non-Executive Director<br /> * [[Charles Berry]] Former Executive Director (UK)<br /> * [[Dominic Fry]] Former Corporate Affairs Director<br /> * [[David Nish]] Former Exucutive Director of Infrastructure<br /> * [[Ian Russell]] Former Chief Executive<br /> <br /> ==Fat Cat payoffs==<br /> [[Scottish Power]]'s former chief executive [[Ian Russell]] and three colleagues received £10.9m for pay and pension compensation. The sums have been branded 'obscene' by the [[Scottish National Party]] energy spokesman [[Richard Lochhead]], and come to light just three months after they warned customers about inflation-busting bill hikes.<br /> <br /> Mr. Russell, who left in January of 2006 after five years as chief executive, received a £2.3m compensation payment as well as benefiting from a resultant pension top-up of £2.7m. The compensation sum is more than three times his salary of £648,000, while his pension windfall nearly doubled his total entitlement to £6.8m. His colleagues [[Charles Berry]] and [[David Nish]], who both left the firm in September of 2006, pocketed a total of £2.6m and £2.2m in extra compensation and extra pension sums respectively. And [[Judi Johansen]], the former head of the company's [[PacifiCorp]] arm that was sold in 2006 as well, walked off with a total of £1.1m.<br /> <br /> The figures are published in Scottish Power's 2005/06 annual report and accounts, and are on top of their normal pay and pension entitlements totalling a further £10.5m. The plc made £675m profit before tax in the financial year to March 2006. [[Scottish Power]] raised gas prices by 15% and electricity by 8% in March of 2006, only to warn that bills would rise again due to high wholesale costs. {{ref|5}}<br /> <br /> ==Direct links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> ===Scottish Executive===<br /> [[Image:SE logo.JPG|right|150px|thumb|Scottish Executive logo {{ref|6}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] has had a number of direct links with the '''Scottish Executive''' over the years. The following shows some press releases, brochures &amp; posters, CorporateWatch reports, and SpinWatch articles regarding the relationships between the two.<br /> ====Press Releases====<br /> <br /> *In May of 2002, [[Scottish Power]] &quot;submitted plans to the '''Scottish Executive''' for a £70 million windfarm on the site of an abandoned open cast mine at Black Law near the village of Forth in South Lanarkshire. [[Scottish Power]], in partnership with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and landowners, has developed a habitat management plan that integrates nature conservation, windfarm operation, and other land uses on the site which has been derelict since coal mining activities ceased there.” {{ref|7}}<br /> <br /> *In January of 2003, [[Scottish Power]] announced to the '''Scottish Executive''' its proposals for the third large scale Scottish windfarm; and &quot;if approved, '''Harestanes''' windfarm alone could meet a third of the '''Scottish Executive'''’s renewable energy target of 18% by 2010.” {{ref|8}}<br /> <br /> *In June of 2004, it was announced that &quot;ScottishPower in partnership with the Scottish Energy Office of the '''Scottish Executive''' today launched a nationwide campaign to make businesses aware of the introduction of the Government's Climate Change Levy (CCL). The CCL is a tax that will be the major force behind the Government's commitment to reduce the UK's production of greenhouse gases by 12.5 per cent, compared to 1990 levels, by 2010.” {{ref|9}}<br /> <br /> *More recently in January of 2007, a press release stated that &quot;Former US Vice President Al Gore’s climate change film, An Inconvenient Truth, will be shown in all of Scotland’s Secondary Schools this year thanks to an initiative from [[Scottish Power]] and the Scottish Executive. The Scottish Executive, through Learning Teaching Scotland, is developing a package of educational materials to help raise awareness of the challenges we all face from global warming. [[Stephen Dunn]], [[Scottish Power]]’s HR and Communications Director, said; “I was greatly impressed by An Inconvenient Truth. Not only does it powerfully explain what is happening to the planet, it also gives hope by simply setting out what we can still do to fight climate change. [[Scottish Power]] is already the biggest generator of onshore wind energy in the UK and is developing biomass and wave generation to reduce emissions and combat global warming – but it is essential that we also help promote understanding of this crucial challenge through initiatives such as this.”&quot; {{ref|10}} <br /> <br /> *In Febraury of 2007, &quot;ScottishPower, working closely with the '''Scottish Executive''', today announced a £10m wave power project designed to push Scotland to the forefront of global marine energy development. ScottishPower's Director of Renewables, Keith Anderson, said: &quot;This is a massive step forward. It will be a test of the actual devices that will be used commercially and, if successful, should help propel Scotland into the forefront of marine energy throughout the world.”&quot; {{ref|11}}<br /> <br /> ====Brochures &amp; Posters====<br /> [[Image:SP windfarm.JPG|right|130px|thumb|Brochure {{ref|12}}]]<br /> “ScottishPower Windfarm Biodiversity Conservation Strategy”<br /> This was a joint venture in 2006 between the '''Scottish Executive''' and '''ScottishPower Renewables'''. It also involved the Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Sustainable Development, as can be proudly seen at the bottom of the brocure.<br /> [[Image:Future.JPG|left|120px|thumb|Poster {{ref|13}}]]<br /> “It’s Our Future schools’ competition”<br /> This is another example of a joint venture in 2006 between '''ScottishPower Gas and Electricity''' &amp; the '''Scottish Executive''''s ''Natural Scotland'' campaign. It involved the WWF (World Wildlife Fund), EcoSchools, as well as Learning &amp; Teaching Scotland, which is funded by the Scottish Executive Education Department (SEED).<br /> <br /> ====CorporateWatch Reports====<br /> &quot;Despite the pro-business outlook of McConnell and the '''Scottish executive''', corporate lobbyists still find it worthwhile to swarm around the '''Scottish Parliament''' in an attempt to secure meetings with MSPs, to influence Scottish public spending in their favour and to keep polluting Scotland without major penalties. The incestuous relationships between the '''Scottish Parliament''' and corporations extend beyond external lobbying, however. Take for example the corporate swamping of cross party policy discussion groups that meet within the '''Scottish Parliament'''. The '''Scottish Executive''' has seen further controversy over its cosy connections with corporations. Since its creation, business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and transnational corporations, with inward secondments from [[Scottish Power]].” {{ref|14}} <br /> <br /> ====Spinwatch articles====<br /> “Since the creation of the '''Scottish Executive''', business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and Trans-National corporations, Inward: [[Scottish Power]], [[Scottish and Newcastle]], [[Stagecoach]], [[Ernst and Young]], [[PriceWaterhouseCoopers]]. Outward: [[Lloyds TSB]] Foundation, [[Scottish Power]], [[McGrigor Donald]] (law firm and lobbyist), [[Scottish and Newcastle]] and business lobby groups [[Business in the Community]] and the '''Scottish Chambers of Commerce'''.” {{ref|15}}<br /> <br /> ===Scottish Parliament===<br /> [[Image:SP logo.JPG|right|170px|thumb|Scottish Parliament logo{{ref|16}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] also has many links with the '''Scottish Parliament''' as well. The following shows Parliamentary News Releases regarding the development of the [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]], Scottish Parliament official reports, and SpinWatch articles as evidence of relationships between the two.<br /> <br /> ====Parliamentary News Releases====<br /> The Scottish Parliament Business Exchange is a scheme where supposedly, MSPs are to be given an opportunity to gain a valuable insight into the diverse Scottish business sector. The Scottish Parliament and Business Exchange ('The Exchange') aims to develop and provide opportunities for promoting mutual understanding between MSPs and business and related communities in Scotland. The Exchange is registered as an educational charity with a board made up of 50 per-cent Parliamentarians and 50 per-cent business representatives. Presiding officer and The Exchange's honorary President, Sir David Steel said &quot;Through being transparent, open, inclusive and flexible in its approach, The Exchange will be able to bring MSPs and the business community together in a non-lobbying and non-partisan way, providing benefits to the whole of Scotland.” The Board of The Exchange was set-up at the first AGM in June of 2001. The Parliament's Chief Executive, Paul Grice, was the convener, and Sir David Steel MSP was the honorary President. The Board members were Elaine Thomson MSP, Brian Adam MSP, David Davidson MSP, Keith Raffan MSP, Lynda Gauld ([[Pfizer]]), Alan Wilson ([[SCDI]]), Miller McLean ([[Royal Bank of Scotland]]), [[Dominic Fry]] ([[Scottish Power]]), Alastair Smith ([[BAA]] Scottish Airports) and Bill Spiers ([[Scottish TUC]]). {{ref|17}}<br /> :To see more about the SPBE's claims vs. realities, click [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]]. <br /> <br /> ====Scottish Parliament official reports====<br /> The 28 February 2007 Official Report regarding Energy Debt featured many varied comments about [[Scottish Power]]'s energy practices. <br /> *Patrick Harvie from Glasgow representing the Green party said: &quot;I was pleased to see that we received briefings from a number of other organisations, including Barnardo's and Capability Scotland, which want Parliament to understand the impact that energy debt has on a range of different people in diverse family situations. Energy suppliers will always have a problem with billing systems for the most vulnerable people, but some of their practices, as Scott Barrie mentioned, hit the poorest households and families hardest. In the case of [[Scottish Power]]'s practices, they had not even calculated what it would cost [[Scottish Power]] to change the policy by writing off such debt. The role of politicians is not just to engage with suppliers on the issue but to look at public policy. Scott Barrie explained the historical situation in terms of the welfare state but, as we move further into the 21st century, the job for politicians is to prepare all citizens and households in Scotland for the period after cheap energy. It falls on all suppliers, including [[Scottish Power]], to adjust their systems to ensure that the most vulnerable people are not placed in further debt.&quot; <br /> *Christine Grahame from the South of Scotland representing the SNP party said: &quot;Energy companies are making a financial killing on the back of the less well-off. Figures that I have obtained show that some companies are charging customers who will not pay by direct debit almost £300 a year more. With regard to the overcharging of non-direct debit customers for gas and electricity combined, the worst offenders—I will name and shame them—were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]]. The worst companies for customers who required only electricity and who chose not to pay by direct debit were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]].&quot;<br /> *Jackie Baillie from Dumbarton representing the Labour party said: &quot;Come on, [[Scottish Power]]—stop back-charging customers and stop back-charging the people who are potentially the most vulnerable customers. I echo the call for [[Scottish Power]] to end immediately its practice of backdating and to acknowledge that prepayment meter tariffs are a mess.” {{ref|18}} <br /> <br /> ====SpinWatch articles====<br /> While the SPBE at first glance seems potentially beneficial and rather harmless, a deeper look reveals something different: &quot;The Scottish Parliament Business Exchange was set up to allow MSPs to be educated about the realities of business life. To ensure that education and not lobbying took place the scheme was required to be ‘non-lobbying’. But in practice three quarters of the business representatives taking part were lobbyists.” {{ref|19}}<br /> <br /> ==Indirect links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> [[Scottish Power]] enjoys many indirect links with the '''Scottish Executive''' and the '''Scottish Parliament''' as well. <br /> *The company sponsors '''community activities''' such as '''ScottishPower Learning'''. This is the company's flagship corporate community programme focused on education/employability. A more detailed look reveals: <br /> a) School-based programmes designed to support the school to work transition<br /> <br /> b) Community-based programmes designed to help unemployed young people build their skills in preparation for work (Involved with Prince’s Trust, Community Champions, Project Scotland)<br /> <br /> c) Work-based programmes designed to provide young people with work experience and vocational training<br /> <br /> *The company is involved with '''think tanks''' as well. [[Demos]], for example, is another 'third way' think tank in the UK. According to its website &quot;Demos is a greenhouse for new ideas which can improve the quality of our lives. As an independent think tank, our aim is to create an open resource of knowledge and learning that operates beyond traditional parties, identities and disciplines.&quot; {{ref|20}} [[Scottish Power]] is one of the many partners of [[Demos]].<br /> <br /> *[[Scottish Power]] is involved with '''policy planning''' agencies, such as the regulatory body '''SEPA'''. The [[Scottish Environmental Protection Agency]] is a powerful Scottish public body sponsored by the '''Scottish Executive''' Environment and Rural Affairs Department. '''SEPA''' was established by the Environment Act 1995 and is responsible for the protection of the natural environment in Scotland, including air, land, freshwater and marine environments.<br /> <br /> *The company is also a member of [[BWEA]] (formerly the British '''Wind Energy Association'''). [[BWEA]] is a renewable power industry, however &quot;Critics in the environment movement may be suspicious of a company they believe talks about green issues but invests little. [[Shell]] has been a member for some years and other big power producers, such as [[Centrica]], owner of British Gas, and [[E.ON]] of Germany have also joined.” {{ref|21}}<br /> <br /> ==Other activities==<br /> Some other activities that [[Scottish Power]] are involved in include the follwoing:<br /> ===PR connections===<br /> *[[BIG Partnership]]<br /> *[[GPC International]], in 2004/[[Fleishman Hillard]] in 2005<br /> <br /> ===Lobby connections===<br /> *[[Business Council for Sustainable Development – UK]]<br /> *DC lobbying firm [[Stuntz, Davis &amp; Staffier]]<br /> <br /> ===Cultural Affiliations/Sponsorships===<br /> *[[Ballet Central]]<br /> *[[Celtic Connections]]<br /> *[[Edinburgh International Book Festival]] <br /> *[[Glasgow Science Centre]] (The ScottishPower Planetarium)<br /> *[[National Theatre for Scotland]] <br /> *[[ScottishPower Pipe Band]]<br /> <br /> ==External Links==<br /> :ScottishPower website [http://www.scottishpower.com/]<br /> :ScottishPower Gas and Electricity Customer website [http://scottishpower.co.uk/]<br /> :ScottishPower Energy Networks website [http://www.spenergynetworks.com/]<br /> <br /> ==Notes==<br /> #{{note|1}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Power Scottish Power], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow Glasgow], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|3}} Energy supply rank from CNN.com [http://www.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/11/28/scot.power/index.html World Business], &quot;Scot Power agrees $22B Spanish bid&quot;, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|4}} Board and Management bios from Scottish Power[http://www.scottishpower.com/ManagementTeam.asp Meet the Board], accessed March 2007.<br /> #{{note|5}} Fat Cat payoff information from ThisIsMoney [http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=410010&amp;in_page_id=2 article] &quot;Sacked power chiefs get 'obscene' pay-off&quot;, accessed 18 June 2006.<br /> #{{note|6}} Photograph from Eco-Schools[http://www.eco-schools.org/partners/institutional/logo_scotexec.gif Partners], Scottish Executive, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|7}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_616.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Plans to Turn Open-cast Mine into Windfarm and Bird Habitat&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|8}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_537.htm News &amp; Media], “ScottishPower Announces Proposals for Third Large-Scale Scottish Windfarm, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|9}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_634.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Spearheads Drive to Advise Business on the Climate Change Levy&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|10}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1487.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Brings Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' to Schools&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|11}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1498.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower to Build World’s Biggest Wave Project off Orkney&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|12}} Photograph from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/uploads/windfarmconsbiostrategy.pdf Brochure], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|13}} Photograph from Scottish Executive [http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/921/0040702.pdf Poster], accessed 22 March 2007. <br /> #{{note|14}} Report from CorporateWatch [http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=1305 article], &quot;SCOTLAND PLC: The Scottish Executive’s corporate links&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|15}} Information from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article], &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|16}} Photograph from Scottish Parliament[http://survey.scottish.parliament.uk/vli/education/youth/games/jigsaw/logoBig.gif Education], Scottish Parliament, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|17}} SPBE information from Scottish Parliament[http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/nmCentre/news/news-01/pa01-089.htm Parliamentary News Release], “New Scheme Promotes Mutual Understanding Between MSPs and Scottish Businesses&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|18}} Energy Debt comments from Scottish Parliament [http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-07/sor0228-02.htm Energy Debt], &quot;Official Report 28 February 2007&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|19}} SPBE lobby relations from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article] &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|20}} Demos information from Demos [http://www.demos.co.uk/content/aboutdemos homepage], accessed 20 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|21}} BWEA membership from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/3886/9/ article], &quot;BP joins renewable power campaign group&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.</div>

Heather Kirk https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=ScottishPower&diff=22548 2007-04-21T18:15:00Z

<p>Heather Kirk: /* History */</p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Scottish power.JPG|right|210px|thumb|Scottish Power logo{{ref|1}}]]<br /> [[Image:Glasgow.JPG|right|140px|thumb|Glasgow, Scotland{{ref|2}}]]<br /> :'''Address''': 1 Atlantic Quay, Glasgow, G2 8SP<br /> :'''Phone''': 0141 248 8200<br /> <br /> Based in Glasgow, Scotland, '''ScottishPower Plc''' is a vertically integrated energy company and is Britain's fifth-largest energy supplier. {{ref|3}} As part of the utilities industry, it is the distribution network operator for the central and southern Scotland and the Merseyside and North Wales regions. The company also supplies electricity and natural gas to homes and business around the United Kingdom and generates power for supply to the grid. It owns '''[[PPM Energy]]''' in the United States and is quoted on the '''London Stock Exchange''' and has a secondary listing on the '''New York Stock Exchange''', as well.<br /> <br /> :[[Scottish Power]] has a number of divisions and subsidiaries, which can be found here: <br /> *[[Scottish Power: Divisons]]<br /> *[[Scottish Power: Subsidiaries]]<br /> <br /> ==History==<br /> In 1991, [[Scottish Power]] prepared for privatisation from the previously nationalised Scottish electricity industry, having officially formed the year before. Scottish industry was organised on an integrated generation, distribution and supply basis, which survived the privatisation to become a model for the rest of the United Kingdom (previously the UK government had privatised the English and Welsh electricity industry by splitting the market into 12 regional electricity companies and two power generators). <br /> [[Scottish Power]] was formed from the larger of the two Scottish electricity boards, the '''South of Scotland Electricity Board''', whilst the other, the '''North of Scotland Hydro Board''', eventually became part of the '''Scottish and Southern Energy Group''' (the nuclear power stations in Scotland were spun off into a third company, '''Scottish Nuclear''', which was not sold off with [[Scottish Power]] and '''Scottish Hydro Electric''', but was sold later as part of '''British Energy''').<br /> <br /> ==Company Chronology==<br /> *1990 - [[Scottish Power]] prepared for privitisation from state-owned [[Scottish Electricity]]<br /> *1991 - officially founded<br /> *1995 - aquired [[Manweb]]<br /> *1996 - expanded into the water supply bussiness and purchased [[Southern Water]]<br /> *2000 - aquired [[Pacificorp]]<br /> *2001 - PacifiCorp Power Marketing, Inc. moved from being a subsidiary of [[PacifiCorp]] to being an affiliate to [[PacifiCorp]]<br /> *2002 - sold [[Southern Water]]; sold [[Thus]] interest; made [[PPM Energy]] a separate business from [[Pacificorp]] <br /> *2005 - rejected takeover bid from [[E.ON]] on 22 November<br /> *2006 - sold [[Pacificorp]] to MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company on 21 March; aquired permission to build Europe's largest on-shore Windfarm on 27 April; agreed to takeover by [[Iberdrola]] on 28 November<br /> <br /> ==People==<br /> ===Board===<br /> <br /> *[[Charles Miller Smith]] Joined the Board as Deputy Chairman in August 1999 and was appointed as Chairman in April 2000.<br /> *[[Euan Baird]] Joined the Board in January 2001 and brings executive level experience in the electronics and engineering industry to the ScottishPower Board.<br /> *[[Donald Brydon]] Joined the Board in May 2003 and is the senior independent director.<br /> *[[Nick Rose]] Joined the Board in February 2003 and he is Chairman of the Audit Committee, nominated as the Committee’s designated “financial expert”.<br /> *[[Nancy Wilgenbusch]] Joined the Board in June 2004.<br /> *[[Peter Hickson]] Joined the Board on 1st September 2006.<br /> <br /> ===Management Team===<br /> <br /> * [[Philip Bowman]] Chief Executive<br /> * [[Simon Lowth]] Finance Director<br /> * [[Terry Hudgens]] Chief Executive Officer, PPM Energy Inc<br /> * [[Susan Reilly]] Commercial Director<br /> * [[Alan Bryce]] Director, Energy Networks<br /> * [[John Campbell]] Director, Energy Wholesale<br /> * [[Willie MacDiarmid]] Director, Energy Retail<br /> * [[Sheelagh Duffield]] Company Secretary<br /> * [[Stephen Dunn]] Director, Human Resources and Communications {{ref|4}}<br /> <br /> ===Previous Members===<br /> * [[Vicky Bailey]] Former American non-Executive Director<br /> * [[Charles Berry]] Former Executive Director (UK)<br /> * [[Dominic Fry]] Former Corporate Affairs Director<br /> * [[David Nish]] Former Exucutive Director of Infrastructure<br /> * [[Ian Russell]] Former Chief Executive<br /> <br /> ==Fat Cat payoffs==<br /> [[Scottish Power]]'s former chief executive [[Ian Russell]] and three colleagues received £10.9m for pay and pension compensation. The sums have been branded 'obscene' by the [[Scottish National Party]] energy spokesman [[Richard Lochhead]], and come to light just three months after they warned customers about inflation-busting bill hikes.<br /> <br /> Mr. Russell, who left in January of 2006 after five years as chief executive, received a £2.3m compensation payment as well as benefiting from a resultant pension top-up of £2.7m. The compensation sum is more than three times his salary of £648,000, while his pension windfall nearly doubled his total entitlement to £6.8m. His colleagues [[Charles Berry]] and [[David Nish]], who both left the firm in September of 2006, pocketed a total of £2.6m and £2.2m in extra compensation and extra pension sums respectively. And [[Judi Johansen]], the former head of the company's [[PacifiCorp]] arm that was sold in 2006 as well, walked off with a total of £1.1m.<br /> <br /> The figures are published in Scottish Power's 2005/06 annual report and accounts, and are on top of their normal pay and pension entitlements totalling a further £10.5m. The plc made £675m profit before tax in the financial year to March 2006. [[Scottish Power]] raised gas prices by 15% and electricity by 8% in March of 2006, only to warn that bills would rise again due to high wholesale costs. {{ref|5}}<br /> <br /> ==Direct links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> ===Scottish Executive===<br /> [[Image:SE logo.JPG|right|150px|thumb|Scottish Executive logo {{ref|6}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] has had a number of direct links with the '''Scottish Executive''' over the years. The following shows some press releases, brochures &amp; posters, CorporateWatch reports, and SpinWatch articles regarding the relationships between the two.<br /> ====Press Releases====<br /> <br /> *In May of 2002, [[Scottish Power]] &quot;submitted plans to the '''Scottish Executive''' for a £70 million windfarm on the site of an abandoned open cast mine at Black Law near the village of Forth in South Lanarkshire. [[Scottish Power]], in partnership with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and landowners, has developed a habitat management plan that integrates nature conservation, windfarm operation, and other land uses on the site which has been derelict since coal mining activities ceased there.” {{ref|7}}<br /> <br /> *In January of 2003, [[Scottish Power]] announced to the '''Scottish Executive''' its proposals for the third large scale Scottish windfarm; and &quot;if approved, '''Harestanes''' windfarm alone could meet a third of the '''Scottish Executive'''’s renewable energy target of 18% by 2010.” {{ref|8}}<br /> <br /> *In June of 2004, it was announced that &quot;ScottishPower in partnership with the Scottish Energy Office of the '''Scottish Executive''' today launched a nationwide campaign to make businesses aware of the introduction of the Government's Climate Change Levy (CCL). The CCL is a tax that will be the major force behind the Government's commitment to reduce the UK's production of greenhouse gases by 12.5 per cent, compared to 1990 levels, by 2010.” {{ref|9}}<br /> <br /> *More recently in January of 2007, a press release stated that &quot;Former US Vice President Al Gore’s climate change film, An Inconvenient Truth, will be shown in all of Scotland’s Secondary Schools this year thanks to an initiative from [[Scottish Power]] and the Scottish Executive. The Scottish Executive, through Learning Teaching Scotland, is developing a package of educational materials to help raise awareness of the challenges we all face from global warming. [[Stephen Dunn]], [[Scottish Power]]’s HR and Communications Director, said; “I was greatly impressed by An Inconvenient Truth. Not only does it powerfully explain what is happening to the planet, it also gives hope by simply setting out what we can still do to fight climate change. [[Scottish Power]] is already the biggest generator of onshore wind energy in the UK and is developing biomass and wave generation to reduce emissions and combat global warming – but it is essential that we also help promote understanding of this crucial challenge through initiatives such as this.”&quot; {{ref|10}} <br /> <br /> *In Febraury of 2007, &quot;ScottishPower, working closely with the '''Scottish Executive''', today announced a £10m wave power project designed to push Scotland to the forefront of global marine energy development. ScottishPower's Director of Renewables, Keith Anderson, said: &quot;This is a massive step forward. It will be a test of the actual devices that will be used commercially and, if successful, should help propel Scotland into the forefront of marine energy throughout the world.”&quot; {{ref|11}}<br /> <br /> ====Brochures &amp; Posters====<br /> [[Image:SP windfarm.JPG|right|130px|thumb|Brochure {{ref|12}}]]<br /> “ScottishPower Windfarm Biodiversity Conservation Strategy”<br /> This was a joint venture in 2006 between the '''Scottish Executive''' and '''ScottishPower Renewables'''. It also involved the Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Sustainable Development, as can be proudly seen at the bottom of the brocure.<br /> [[Image:Future.JPG|left|120px|thumb|Poster {{ref|13}}]]<br /> “It’s Our Future schools’ competition”<br /> This is another example of a joint venture in 2006 between '''ScottishPower Gas and Electricity''' &amp; the '''Scottish Executive''''s ''Natural Scotland'' campaign. It involved the WWF (World Wildlife Fund), EcoSchools, as well as Learning &amp; Teaching Scotland, which is funded by the Scottish Executive Education Department (SEED).<br /> <br /> ====CorporateWatch Reports====<br /> &quot;Despite the pro-business outlook of McConnell and the '''Scottish executive''', corporate lobbyists still find it worthwhile to swarm around the '''Scottish Parliament''' in an attempt to secure meetings with MSPs, to influence Scottish public spending in their favour and to keep polluting Scotland without major penalties. The incestuous relationships between the '''Scottish Parliament''' and corporations extend beyond external lobbying, however. Take for example the corporate swamping of cross party policy discussion groups that meet within the '''Scottish Parliament'''. The '''Scottish Executive''' has seen further controversy over its cosy connections with corporations. Since its creation, business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and transnational corporations, with inward secondments from [[Scottish Power]].” {{ref|14}} <br /> <br /> ====Spinwatch articles====<br /> “Since the creation of the '''Scottish Executive''', business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and Trans-National corporations, Inward: [[Scottish Power]], [[Scottish and Newcastle]], [[Stagecoach]], [[Ernst and Young]], [[PriceWaterhouseCoopers]]. Outward: [[Lloyds TSB]] Foundation, [[Scottish Power]], [[McGrigor Donald]] (law firm and lobbyist), [[Scottish and Newcastle]] and business lobby groups [[Business in the Community]] and the '''Scottish Chambers of Commerce'''.” {{ref|15}}<br /> <br /> ===Scottish Parliament===<br /> [[Image:SP logo.JPG|right|170px|thumb|Scottish Parliament logo{{ref|16}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] also has many links with the '''Scottish Parliament''' as well. The following shows Parliamentary News Releases regarding the development of the [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]], Scottish Parliament official reports, and SpinWatch articles as evidence of relationships between the two.<br /> <br /> ====Parliamentary News Releases====<br /> The Scottish Parliament Business Exchange is a scheme where supposedly, MSPs are to be given an opportunity to gain a valuable insight into the diverse Scottish business sector. The Scottish Parliament and Business Exchange ('The Exchange') aims to develop and provide opportunities for promoting mutual understanding between MSPs and business and related communities in Scotland. The Exchange is registered as an educational charity with a board made up of 50 per-cent Parliamentarians and 50 per-cent business representatives. Presiding officer and The Exchange's honorary President, Sir David Steel said &quot;Through being transparent, open, inclusive and flexible in its approach, The Exchange will be able to bring MSPs and the business community together in a non-lobbying and non-partisan way, providing benefits to the whole of Scotland.” The Board of The Exchange was set-up at the first AGM in June of 2001. The Parliament's Chief Executive, Paul Grice, was the convener, and Sir David Steel MSP was the honorary President. The Board members were Elaine Thomson MSP, Brian Adam MSP, David Davidson MSP, Keith Raffan MSP, Lynda Gauld ([[Pfizer]]), Alan Wilson ([[SCDI]]), Miller McLean ([[Royal Bank of Scotland]]), [[Dominic Fry]] ([[Scottish Power]]), Alastair Smith ([[BAA]] Scottish Airports) and Bill Spiers ([[Scottish TUC]]). {{ref|17}}<br /> :To see more about the SPBE's claims vs. realities, click [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]]. <br /> <br /> ====Scottish Parliament official reports====<br /> The 28 February 2007 Official Report regarding Energy Debt featured many varied comments about [[Scottish Power]]'s energy practices. <br /> *Patrick Harvie from Glasgow representing the Green party said: &quot;I was pleased to see that we received briefings from a number of other organisations, including Barnardo's and Capability Scotland, which want Parliament to understand the impact that energy debt has on a range of different people in diverse family situations. Energy suppliers will always have a problem with billing systems for the most vulnerable people, but some of their practices, as Scott Barrie mentioned, hit the poorest households and families hardest. In the case of [[Scottish Power]]'s practices, they had not even calculated what it would cost [[Scottish Power]] to change the policy by writing off such debt. The role of politicians is not just to engage with suppliers on the issue but to look at public policy. Scott Barrie explained the historical situation in terms of the welfare state but, as we move further into the 21st century, the job for politicians is to prepare all citizens and households in Scotland for the period after cheap energy. It falls on all suppliers, including [[Scottish Power]], to adjust their systems to ensure that the most vulnerable people are not placed in further debt.&quot; <br /> *Christine Grahame from the South of Scotland representing the SNP party said: &quot;Energy companies are making a financial killing on the back of the less well-off. Figures that I have obtained show that some companies are charging customers who will not pay by direct debit almost £300 a year more. With regard to the overcharging of non-direct debit customers for gas and electricity combined, the worst offenders—I will name and shame them—were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]]. The worst companies for customers who required only electricity and who chose not to pay by direct debit were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]].&quot;<br /> *Jackie Baillie from Dumbarton representing the Labour party said: &quot;Come on, [[Scottish Power]]—stop back-charging customers and stop back-charging the people who are potentially the most vulnerable customers. I echo the call for [[Scottish Power]] to end immediately its practice of backdating and to acknowledge that prepayment meter tariffs are a mess.” {{ref|18}} <br /> <br /> ====SpinWatch articles====<br /> While the SPBE at first glance seems potentially beneficial and rather harmless, a deeper look reveals something different: &quot;The Scottish Parliament Business Exchange was set up to allow MSPs to be educated about the realities of business life. To ensure that education and not lobbying took place the scheme was required to be ‘non-lobbying’. But in practice three quarters of the business representatives taking part were lobbyists.” {{ref|19}}<br /> <br /> ==Indirect links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> [[Scottish Power]] enjoys many indirect links with the '''Scottish Executive''' and the '''Scottish Parliament''' as well. <br /> *The company sponsors '''community activities''' such as '''ScottishPower Learning'''. This is the company's flagship corporate community programme focused on education/employability. A more detailed look reveals: <br /> a) School-based programmes designed to support the school to work transition<br /> <br /> b) Community-based programmes designed to help unemployed young people build their skills in preparation for work (Involved with Prince’s Trust, Community Champions, Project Scotland)<br /> <br /> c) Work-based programmes designed to provide young people with work experience and vocational training<br /> <br /> *The company is involved with '''think tanks''' as well. [[Demos]], for example, is another 'third way' think tank in the UK. According to its website &quot;Demos is a greenhouse for new ideas which can improve the quality of our lives. As an independent think tank, our aim is to create an open resource of knowledge and learning that operates beyond traditional parties, identities and disciplines.&quot; {{ref|20}} [[Scottish Power]] is one of the many partners of [[Demos]].<br /> <br /> *[[Scottish Power]] is involved with '''policy planning''' agencies, such as the regulatory body '''SEPA'''. The [[Scottish Environmental Protection Agency]] is a powerful Scottish public body sponsored by the '''Scottish Executive''' Environment and Rural Affairs Department. '''SEPA''' was established by the Environment Act 1995 and is responsible for the protection of the natural environment in Scotland, including air, land, freshwater and marine environments.<br /> <br /> *The company is also a member of [[BWEA]] (formerly the British '''Wind Energy Association'''). [[BWEA]] is a renewable power industry, however &quot;Critics in the environment movement may be suspicious of a company they believe talks about green issues but invests little. [[Shell]] has been a member for some years and other big power producers, such as [[Centrica]], owner of British Gas, and [[E.ON]] of Germany have also joined.” {{ref|21}}<br /> <br /> ==Other activities==<br /> Some other activities that [[Scottish Power]] are involved in include the follwoing:<br /> ===PR connections===<br /> *[[BIG Partnership]]<br /> *[[GPC International]], in 2004/[[Fleishman Hillard]] in 2005<br /> <br /> ===Lobby connections===<br /> *[[Business Council for Sustainable Development – UK]]<br /> *DC lobbying firm [[Stuntz, Davis &amp; Staffier]]<br /> <br /> ===Cultural Affiliations/Sponsorships===<br /> *[[Ballet Central]]<br /> *[[Celtic Connections]]<br /> *[[Edinburgh International Book Festival]] <br /> *[[Glasgow Science Centre]] (The ScottishPower Planetarium)<br /> *[[National Theatre for Scotland]] <br /> *[[ScottishPower Pipe Band]]<br /> <br /> ==External Links==<br /> :ScottishPower website [http://www.scottishpower.com/]<br /> :ScottishPower Gas and Electricity Customer website [http://scottishpower.co.uk/]<br /> :ScottishPower Energy Networks website [http://www.spenergynetworks.com/]<br /> <br /> ==Notes==<br /> #{{note|1}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Power Scottish Power], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow Glasgow], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|3}} Energy supply rank from CNN.com [http://www.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/11/28/scot.power/index.html World Business], &quot;Scot Power agrees $22B Spanish bid&quot;, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|4}} Board and Management bios from Scottish Power[http://www.scottishpower.com/ManagementTeam.asp Meet the Board], accessed March 2007.<br /> #{{note|5}} Fat Cat payoff information from ThisIsMoney [http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=410010&amp;in_page_id=2 article] &quot;Sacked power chiefs get 'obscene' pay-off&quot;, accessed 18 June 2006.<br /> #{{note|6}} Photograph from Eco-Schools[http://www.eco-schools.org/partners/institutional/logo_scotexec.gif Partners], Scottish Executive, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|7}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_616.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Plans to Turn Open-cast Mine into Windfarm and Bird Habitat&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|8}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_537.htm News &amp; Media], “ScottishPower Announces Proposals for Third Large-Scale Scottish Windfarm, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|9}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_634.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Spearheads Drive to Advise Business on the Climate Change Levy&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|10}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1487.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Brings Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' to Schools&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|11}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1498.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower to Build World’s Biggest Wave Project off Orkney&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|12}} Photograph from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/uploads/windfarmconsbiostrategy.pdf Brochure], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|13}} Photograph from Scottish Executive [http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/921/0040702.pdf Poster], accessed 22 March 2007. <br /> #{{note|14}} Report from CorporateWatch [http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=1305 article], &quot;SCOTLAND PLC: The Scottish Executive’s corporate links&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|15}} Information from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article], &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|16}} Photograph from Scottish Parliament[http://survey.scottish.parliament.uk/vli/education/youth/games/jigsaw/logoBig.gif Education], Scottish Parliament, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|17}} SPBE information from Scottish Parliament[http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/nmCentre/news/news-01/pa01-089.htm Parliamentary News Release], “New Scheme Promotes Mutual Understanding Between MSPs and Scottish Businesses&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|18}} Energy Debt comments from Scottish Parliament [http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-07/sor0228-02.htm Energy Debt], &quot;Official Report 28 February 2007&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|19}} SPBE lobby relations from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article] &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|20}} Demos information from Demos [http://www.demos.co.uk/content/aboutdemos homepage], accessed 20 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|21}} BWEA membership from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/3886/9/ article], &quot;BP joins renewable power campaign group&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.</div>

Heather Kirk https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=ScottishPower&diff=22547 2007-04-21T18:14:40Z

<p>Heather Kirk: /* History */</p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Scottish power.JPG|right|210px|thumb|Scottish Power logo{{ref|1}}]]<br /> [[Image:Glasgow.JPG|right|140px|thumb|Glasgow, Scotland{{ref|2}}]]<br /> :'''Address''': 1 Atlantic Quay, Glasgow, G2 8SP<br /> :'''Phone''': 0141 248 8200<br /> <br /> Based in Glasgow, Scotland, '''ScottishPower Plc''' is a vertically integrated energy company and is Britain's fifth-largest energy supplier. {{ref|3}} As part of the utilities industry, it is the distribution network operator for the central and southern Scotland and the Merseyside and North Wales regions. The company also supplies electricity and natural gas to homes and business around the United Kingdom and generates power for supply to the grid. It owns '''[[PPM Energy]]''' in the United States and is quoted on the '''London Stock Exchange''' and has a secondary listing on the '''New York Stock Exchange''', as well.<br /> <br /> :[[Scottish Power]] has a number of divisions and subsidiaries, which can be found here: <br /> *[[Scottish Power: Divisons]]<br /> *[[Scottish Power: Subsidiaries]]<br /> <br /> ==History==<br /> In 1991 [[Scottish Power]] prepared for privatisation from the previously nationalised Scottish electricity industry, having officially formed the year before. Scottish industry was organised on an integrated generation, distribution and supply basis, which survived the privatisation to become a model for the rest of the United Kingdom (previously the UK government had privatised the English and Welsh electricity industry by splitting the market into 12 regional electricity companies and two power generators). <br /> [[Scottish Power]] was formed from the larger of the two Scottish electricity boards, the '''South of Scotland Electricity Board''', whilst the other, the '''North of Scotland Hydro Board''', eventually became part of the '''Scottish and Southern Energy Group''' (the nuclear power stations in Scotland were spun off into a third company, '''Scottish Nuclear''', which was not sold off with [[Scottish Power]] and '''Scottish Hydro Electric''', but was sold later as part of '''British Energy''').<br /> <br /> ==Company Chronology==<br /> *1990 - [[Scottish Power]] prepared for privitisation from state-owned [[Scottish Electricity]]<br /> *1991 - officially founded<br /> *1995 - aquired [[Manweb]]<br /> *1996 - expanded into the water supply bussiness and purchased [[Southern Water]]<br /> *2000 - aquired [[Pacificorp]]<br /> *2001 - PacifiCorp Power Marketing, Inc. moved from being a subsidiary of [[PacifiCorp]] to being an affiliate to [[PacifiCorp]]<br /> *2002 - sold [[Southern Water]]; sold [[Thus]] interest; made [[PPM Energy]] a separate business from [[Pacificorp]] <br /> *2005 - rejected takeover bid from [[E.ON]] on 22 November<br /> *2006 - sold [[Pacificorp]] to MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company on 21 March; aquired permission to build Europe's largest on-shore Windfarm on 27 April; agreed to takeover by [[Iberdrola]] on 28 November<br /> <br /> ==People==<br /> ===Board===<br /> <br /> *[[Charles Miller Smith]] Joined the Board as Deputy Chairman in August 1999 and was appointed as Chairman in April 2000.<br /> *[[Euan Baird]] Joined the Board in January 2001 and brings executive level experience in the electronics and engineering industry to the ScottishPower Board.<br /> *[[Donald Brydon]] Joined the Board in May 2003 and is the senior independent director.<br /> *[[Nick Rose]] Joined the Board in February 2003 and he is Chairman of the Audit Committee, nominated as the Committee’s designated “financial expert”.<br /> *[[Nancy Wilgenbusch]] Joined the Board in June 2004.<br /> *[[Peter Hickson]] Joined the Board on 1st September 2006.<br /> <br /> ===Management Team===<br /> <br /> * [[Philip Bowman]] Chief Executive<br /> * [[Simon Lowth]] Finance Director<br /> * [[Terry Hudgens]] Chief Executive Officer, PPM Energy Inc<br /> * [[Susan Reilly]] Commercial Director<br /> * [[Alan Bryce]] Director, Energy Networks<br /> * [[John Campbell]] Director, Energy Wholesale<br /> * [[Willie MacDiarmid]] Director, Energy Retail<br /> * [[Sheelagh Duffield]] Company Secretary<br /> * [[Stephen Dunn]] Director, Human Resources and Communications {{ref|4}}<br /> <br /> ===Previous Members===<br /> * [[Vicky Bailey]] Former American non-Executive Director<br /> * [[Charles Berry]] Former Executive Director (UK)<br /> * [[Dominic Fry]] Former Corporate Affairs Director<br /> * [[David Nish]] Former Exucutive Director of Infrastructure<br /> * [[Ian Russell]] Former Chief Executive<br /> <br /> ==Fat Cat payoffs==<br /> [[Scottish Power]]'s former chief executive [[Ian Russell]] and three colleagues received £10.9m for pay and pension compensation. The sums have been branded 'obscene' by the [[Scottish National Party]] energy spokesman [[Richard Lochhead]], and come to light just three months after they warned customers about inflation-busting bill hikes.<br /> <br /> Mr. Russell, who left in January of 2006 after five years as chief executive, received a £2.3m compensation payment as well as benefiting from a resultant pension top-up of £2.7m. The compensation sum is more than three times his salary of £648,000, while his pension windfall nearly doubled his total entitlement to £6.8m. His colleagues [[Charles Berry]] and [[David Nish]], who both left the firm in September of 2006, pocketed a total of £2.6m and £2.2m in extra compensation and extra pension sums respectively. And [[Judi Johansen]], the former head of the company's [[PacifiCorp]] arm that was sold in 2006 as well, walked off with a total of £1.1m.<br /> <br /> The figures are published in Scottish Power's 2005/06 annual report and accounts, and are on top of their normal pay and pension entitlements totalling a further £10.5m. The plc made £675m profit before tax in the financial year to March 2006. [[Scottish Power]] raised gas prices by 15% and electricity by 8% in March of 2006, only to warn that bills would rise again due to high wholesale costs. {{ref|5}}<br /> <br /> ==Direct links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> ===Scottish Executive===<br /> [[Image:SE logo.JPG|right|150px|thumb|Scottish Executive logo {{ref|6}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] has had a number of direct links with the '''Scottish Executive''' over the years. The following shows some press releases, brochures &amp; posters, CorporateWatch reports, and SpinWatch articles regarding the relationships between the two.<br /> ====Press Releases====<br /> <br /> *In May of 2002, [[Scottish Power]] &quot;submitted plans to the '''Scottish Executive''' for a £70 million windfarm on the site of an abandoned open cast mine at Black Law near the village of Forth in South Lanarkshire. [[Scottish Power]], in partnership with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and landowners, has developed a habitat management plan that integrates nature conservation, windfarm operation, and other land uses on the site which has been derelict since coal mining activities ceased there.” {{ref|7}}<br /> <br /> *In January of 2003, [[Scottish Power]] announced to the '''Scottish Executive''' its proposals for the third large scale Scottish windfarm; and &quot;if approved, '''Harestanes''' windfarm alone could meet a third of the '''Scottish Executive'''’s renewable energy target of 18% by 2010.” {{ref|8}}<br /> <br /> *In June of 2004, it was announced that &quot;ScottishPower in partnership with the Scottish Energy Office of the '''Scottish Executive''' today launched a nationwide campaign to make businesses aware of the introduction of the Government's Climate Change Levy (CCL). The CCL is a tax that will be the major force behind the Government's commitment to reduce the UK's production of greenhouse gases by 12.5 per cent, compared to 1990 levels, by 2010.” {{ref|9}}<br /> <br /> *More recently in January of 2007, a press release stated that &quot;Former US Vice President Al Gore’s climate change film, An Inconvenient Truth, will be shown in all of Scotland’s Secondary Schools this year thanks to an initiative from [[Scottish Power]] and the Scottish Executive. The Scottish Executive, through Learning Teaching Scotland, is developing a package of educational materials to help raise awareness of the challenges we all face from global warming. [[Stephen Dunn]], [[Scottish Power]]’s HR and Communications Director, said; “I was greatly impressed by An Inconvenient Truth. Not only does it powerfully explain what is happening to the planet, it also gives hope by simply setting out what we can still do to fight climate change. [[Scottish Power]] is already the biggest generator of onshore wind energy in the UK and is developing biomass and wave generation to reduce emissions and combat global warming – but it is essential that we also help promote understanding of this crucial challenge through initiatives such as this.”&quot; {{ref|10}} <br /> <br /> *In Febraury of 2007, &quot;ScottishPower, working closely with the '''Scottish Executive''', today announced a £10m wave power project designed to push Scotland to the forefront of global marine energy development. ScottishPower's Director of Renewables, Keith Anderson, said: &quot;This is a massive step forward. It will be a test of the actual devices that will be used commercially and, if successful, should help propel Scotland into the forefront of marine energy throughout the world.”&quot; {{ref|11}}<br /> <br /> ====Brochures &amp; Posters====<br /> [[Image:SP windfarm.JPG|right|130px|thumb|Brochure {{ref|12}}]]<br /> “ScottishPower Windfarm Biodiversity Conservation Strategy”<br /> This was a joint venture in 2006 between the '''Scottish Executive''' and '''ScottishPower Renewables'''. It also involved the Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Sustainable Development, as can be proudly seen at the bottom of the brocure.<br /> [[Image:Future.JPG|left|120px|thumb|Poster {{ref|13}}]]<br /> “It’s Our Future schools’ competition”<br /> This is another example of a joint venture in 2006 between '''ScottishPower Gas and Electricity''' &amp; the '''Scottish Executive''''s ''Natural Scotland'' campaign. It involved the WWF (World Wildlife Fund), EcoSchools, as well as Learning &amp; Teaching Scotland, which is funded by the Scottish Executive Education Department (SEED).<br /> <br /> ====CorporateWatch Reports====<br /> &quot;Despite the pro-business outlook of McConnell and the '''Scottish executive''', corporate lobbyists still find it worthwhile to swarm around the '''Scottish Parliament''' in an attempt to secure meetings with MSPs, to influence Scottish public spending in their favour and to keep polluting Scotland without major penalties. The incestuous relationships between the '''Scottish Parliament''' and corporations extend beyond external lobbying, however. Take for example the corporate swamping of cross party policy discussion groups that meet within the '''Scottish Parliament'''. The '''Scottish Executive''' has seen further controversy over its cosy connections with corporations. Since its creation, business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and transnational corporations, with inward secondments from [[Scottish Power]].” {{ref|14}} <br /> <br /> ====Spinwatch articles====<br /> “Since the creation of the '''Scottish Executive''', business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and Trans-National corporations, Inward: [[Scottish Power]], [[Scottish and Newcastle]], [[Stagecoach]], [[Ernst and Young]], [[PriceWaterhouseCoopers]]. Outward: [[Lloyds TSB]] Foundation, [[Scottish Power]], [[McGrigor Donald]] (law firm and lobbyist), [[Scottish and Newcastle]] and business lobby groups [[Business in the Community]] and the '''Scottish Chambers of Commerce'''.” {{ref|15}}<br /> <br /> ===Scottish Parliament===<br /> [[Image:SP logo.JPG|right|170px|thumb|Scottish Parliament logo{{ref|16}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] also has many links with the '''Scottish Parliament''' as well. The following shows Parliamentary News Releases regarding the development of the [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]], Scottish Parliament official reports, and SpinWatch articles as evidence of relationships between the two.<br /> <br /> ====Parliamentary News Releases====<br /> The Scottish Parliament Business Exchange is a scheme where supposedly, MSPs are to be given an opportunity to gain a valuable insight into the diverse Scottish business sector. The Scottish Parliament and Business Exchange ('The Exchange') aims to develop and provide opportunities for promoting mutual understanding between MSPs and business and related communities in Scotland. The Exchange is registered as an educational charity with a board made up of 50 per-cent Parliamentarians and 50 per-cent business representatives. Presiding officer and The Exchange's honorary President, Sir David Steel said &quot;Through being transparent, open, inclusive and flexible in its approach, The Exchange will be able to bring MSPs and the business community together in a non-lobbying and non-partisan way, providing benefits to the whole of Scotland.” The Board of The Exchange was set-up at the first AGM in June of 2001. The Parliament's Chief Executive, Paul Grice, was the convener, and Sir David Steel MSP was the honorary President. The Board members were Elaine Thomson MSP, Brian Adam MSP, David Davidson MSP, Keith Raffan MSP, Lynda Gauld ([[Pfizer]]), Alan Wilson ([[SCDI]]), Miller McLean ([[Royal Bank of Scotland]]), [[Dominic Fry]] ([[Scottish Power]]), Alastair Smith ([[BAA]] Scottish Airports) and Bill Spiers ([[Scottish TUC]]). {{ref|17}}<br /> :To see more about the SPBE's claims vs. realities, click [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]]. <br /> <br /> ====Scottish Parliament official reports====<br /> The 28 February 2007 Official Report regarding Energy Debt featured many varied comments about [[Scottish Power]]'s energy practices. <br /> *Patrick Harvie from Glasgow representing the Green party said: &quot;I was pleased to see that we received briefings from a number of other organisations, including Barnardo's and Capability Scotland, which want Parliament to understand the impact that energy debt has on a range of different people in diverse family situations. Energy suppliers will always have a problem with billing systems for the most vulnerable people, but some of their practices, as Scott Barrie mentioned, hit the poorest households and families hardest. In the case of [[Scottish Power]]'s practices, they had not even calculated what it would cost [[Scottish Power]] to change the policy by writing off such debt. The role of politicians is not just to engage with suppliers on the issue but to look at public policy. Scott Barrie explained the historical situation in terms of the welfare state but, as we move further into the 21st century, the job for politicians is to prepare all citizens and households in Scotland for the period after cheap energy. It falls on all suppliers, including [[Scottish Power]], to adjust their systems to ensure that the most vulnerable people are not placed in further debt.&quot; <br /> *Christine Grahame from the South of Scotland representing the SNP party said: &quot;Energy companies are making a financial killing on the back of the less well-off. Figures that I have obtained show that some companies are charging customers who will not pay by direct debit almost £300 a year more. With regard to the overcharging of non-direct debit customers for gas and electricity combined, the worst offenders—I will name and shame them—were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]]. The worst companies for customers who required only electricity and who chose not to pay by direct debit were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]].&quot;<br /> *Jackie Baillie from Dumbarton representing the Labour party said: &quot;Come on, [[Scottish Power]]—stop back-charging customers and stop back-charging the people who are potentially the most vulnerable customers. I echo the call for [[Scottish Power]] to end immediately its practice of backdating and to acknowledge that prepayment meter tariffs are a mess.” {{ref|18}} <br /> <br /> ====SpinWatch articles====<br /> While the SPBE at first glance seems potentially beneficial and rather harmless, a deeper look reveals something different: &quot;The Scottish Parliament Business Exchange was set up to allow MSPs to be educated about the realities of business life. To ensure that education and not lobbying took place the scheme was required to be ‘non-lobbying’. But in practice three quarters of the business representatives taking part were lobbyists.” {{ref|19}}<br /> <br /> ==Indirect links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> [[Scottish Power]] enjoys many indirect links with the '''Scottish Executive''' and the '''Scottish Parliament''' as well. <br /> *The company sponsors '''community activities''' such as '''ScottishPower Learning'''. This is the company's flagship corporate community programme focused on education/employability. A more detailed look reveals: <br /> a) School-based programmes designed to support the school to work transition<br /> <br /> b) Community-based programmes designed to help unemployed young people build their skills in preparation for work (Involved with Prince’s Trust, Community Champions, Project Scotland)<br /> <br /> c) Work-based programmes designed to provide young people with work experience and vocational training<br /> <br /> *The company is involved with '''think tanks''' as well. [[Demos]], for example, is another 'third way' think tank in the UK. According to its website &quot;Demos is a greenhouse for new ideas which can improve the quality of our lives. As an independent think tank, our aim is to create an open resource of knowledge and learning that operates beyond traditional parties, identities and disciplines.&quot; {{ref|20}} [[Scottish Power]] is one of the many partners of [[Demos]].<br /> <br /> *[[Scottish Power]] is involved with '''policy planning''' agencies, such as the regulatory body '''SEPA'''. The [[Scottish Environmental Protection Agency]] is a powerful Scottish public body sponsored by the '''Scottish Executive''' Environment and Rural Affairs Department. '''SEPA''' was established by the Environment Act 1995 and is responsible for the protection of the natural environment in Scotland, including air, land, freshwater and marine environments.<br /> <br /> *The company is also a member of [[BWEA]] (formerly the British '''Wind Energy Association'''). [[BWEA]] is a renewable power industry, however &quot;Critics in the environment movement may be suspicious of a company they believe talks about green issues but invests little. [[Shell]] has been a member for some years and other big power producers, such as [[Centrica]], owner of British Gas, and [[E.ON]] of Germany have also joined.” {{ref|21}}<br /> <br /> ==Other activities==<br /> Some other activities that [[Scottish Power]] are involved in include the follwoing:<br /> ===PR connections===<br /> *[[BIG Partnership]]<br /> *[[GPC International]], in 2004/[[Fleishman Hillard]] in 2005<br /> <br /> ===Lobby connections===<br /> *[[Business Council for Sustainable Development – UK]]<br /> *DC lobbying firm [[Stuntz, Davis &amp; Staffier]]<br /> <br /> ===Cultural Affiliations/Sponsorships===<br /> *[[Ballet Central]]<br /> *[[Celtic Connections]]<br /> *[[Edinburgh International Book Festival]] <br /> *[[Glasgow Science Centre]] (The ScottishPower Planetarium)<br /> *[[National Theatre for Scotland]] <br /> *[[ScottishPower Pipe Band]]<br /> <br /> ==External Links==<br /> :ScottishPower website [http://www.scottishpower.com/]<br /> :ScottishPower Gas and Electricity Customer website [http://scottishpower.co.uk/]<br /> :ScottishPower Energy Networks website [http://www.spenergynetworks.com/]<br /> <br /> ==Notes==<br /> #{{note|1}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Power Scottish Power], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow Glasgow], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|3}} Energy supply rank from CNN.com [http://www.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/11/28/scot.power/index.html World Business], &quot;Scot Power agrees $22B Spanish bid&quot;, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|4}} Board and Management bios from Scottish Power[http://www.scottishpower.com/ManagementTeam.asp Meet the Board], accessed March 2007.<br /> #{{note|5}} Fat Cat payoff information from ThisIsMoney [http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=410010&amp;in_page_id=2 article] &quot;Sacked power chiefs get 'obscene' pay-off&quot;, accessed 18 June 2006.<br /> #{{note|6}} Photograph from Eco-Schools[http://www.eco-schools.org/partners/institutional/logo_scotexec.gif Partners], Scottish Executive, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|7}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_616.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Plans to Turn Open-cast Mine into Windfarm and Bird Habitat&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|8}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_537.htm News &amp; Media], “ScottishPower Announces Proposals for Third Large-Scale Scottish Windfarm, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|9}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_634.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Spearheads Drive to Advise Business on the Climate Change Levy&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|10}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1487.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Brings Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' to Schools&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|11}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1498.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower to Build World’s Biggest Wave Project off Orkney&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|12}} Photograph from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/uploads/windfarmconsbiostrategy.pdf Brochure], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|13}} Photograph from Scottish Executive [http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/921/0040702.pdf Poster], accessed 22 March 2007. <br /> #{{note|14}} Report from CorporateWatch [http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=1305 article], &quot;SCOTLAND PLC: The Scottish Executive’s corporate links&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|15}} Information from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article], &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|16}} Photograph from Scottish Parliament[http://survey.scottish.parliament.uk/vli/education/youth/games/jigsaw/logoBig.gif Education], Scottish Parliament, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|17}} SPBE information from Scottish Parliament[http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/nmCentre/news/news-01/pa01-089.htm Parliamentary News Release], “New Scheme Promotes Mutual Understanding Between MSPs and Scottish Businesses&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|18}} Energy Debt comments from Scottish Parliament [http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-07/sor0228-02.htm Energy Debt], &quot;Official Report 28 February 2007&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|19}} SPBE lobby relations from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article] &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|20}} Demos information from Demos [http://www.demos.co.uk/content/aboutdemos homepage], accessed 20 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|21}} BWEA membership from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/3886/9/ article], &quot;BP joins renewable power campaign group&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.</div>

Heather Kirk https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=ScottishPower&diff=22546 2007-04-21T18:09:26Z

<p>Heather Kirk: </p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Scottish power.JPG|right|210px|thumb|Scottish Power logo{{ref|1}}]]<br /> [[Image:Glasgow.JPG|right|140px|thumb|Glasgow, Scotland{{ref|2}}]]<br /> :'''Address''': 1 Atlantic Quay, Glasgow, G2 8SP<br /> :'''Phone''': 0141 248 8200<br /> <br /> Based in Glasgow, Scotland, '''ScottishPower Plc''' is a vertically integrated energy company and is Britain's fifth-largest energy supplier. {{ref|3}} As part of the utilities industry, it is the distribution network operator for the central and southern Scotland and the Merseyside and North Wales regions. The company also supplies electricity and natural gas to homes and business around the United Kingdom and generates power for supply to the grid. It owns '''[[PPM Energy]]''' in the United States and is quoted on the '''London Stock Exchange''' and has a secondary listing on the '''New York Stock Exchange''', as well.<br /> <br /> :[[Scottish Power]] has a number of divisions and subsidiaries, which can be found here: <br /> *[[Scottish Power: Divisons]]<br /> *[[Scottish Power: Subsidiaries]]<br /> <br /> ==History==<br /> [[Scottish Power]] was formed in 1990, in preparation for the privatisation of the previously nationalised Scottish electricity industry the following year. Previously the UK government had privatised the English and Welsh electricity industry by splitting the market into 12 regional electricity companies (RECs) and two power generators. However in Scotland, the industry was already organised on an integrated generation, distribution and supply basis, and this integration survived the privatisation to become a model for the rest of the United Kingdom. [[Scottish Power]] was largely formed from of the larger of the two Scottish electricity boards, the '''South of Scotland Electricity Board''', whilst the other, the '''North of Scotland Hydro Board''', eventually became part of the '''Scottish and Southern Energy Group''' (the nuclear power stations in Scotland were spun off into a third company, '''Scottish Nuclear''', which was not sold off with [[Scottish Power]] and '''Scottish Hydro Electric''', but was sold later as part of '''British Energy''').<br /> <br /> ==Company Chronology==<br /> *1990 - [[Scottish Power]] prepared for privitisation from state-owned [[Scottish Electricity]]<br /> *1991 - officially founded<br /> *1995 - aquired [[Manweb]]<br /> *1996 - expanded into the water supply bussiness and purchased [[Southern Water]]<br /> *2000 - aquired [[Pacificorp]]<br /> *2001 - PacifiCorp Power Marketing, Inc. moved from being a subsidiary of [[PacifiCorp]] to being an affiliate to [[PacifiCorp]]<br /> *2002 - sold [[Southern Water]]; sold [[Thus]] interest; made [[PPM Energy]] a separate business from [[Pacificorp]] <br /> *2005 - rejected takeover bid from [[E.ON]] on 22 November<br /> *2006 - sold [[Pacificorp]] to MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company on 21 March; aquired permission to build Europe's largest on-shore Windfarm on 27 April; agreed to takeover by [[Iberdrola]] on 28 November<br /> <br /> ==People==<br /> ===Board===<br /> <br /> *[[Charles Miller Smith]] Joined the Board as Deputy Chairman in August 1999 and was appointed as Chairman in April 2000.<br /> *[[Euan Baird]] Joined the Board in January 2001 and brings executive level experience in the electronics and engineering industry to the ScottishPower Board.<br /> *[[Donald Brydon]] Joined the Board in May 2003 and is the senior independent director.<br /> *[[Nick Rose]] Joined the Board in February 2003 and he is Chairman of the Audit Committee, nominated as the Committee’s designated “financial expert”.<br /> *[[Nancy Wilgenbusch]] Joined the Board in June 2004.<br /> *[[Peter Hickson]] Joined the Board on 1st September 2006.<br /> <br /> ===Management Team===<br /> <br /> * [[Philip Bowman]] Chief Executive<br /> * [[Simon Lowth]] Finance Director<br /> * [[Terry Hudgens]] Chief Executive Officer, PPM Energy Inc<br /> * [[Susan Reilly]] Commercial Director<br /> * [[Alan Bryce]] Director, Energy Networks<br /> * [[John Campbell]] Director, Energy Wholesale<br /> * [[Willie MacDiarmid]] Director, Energy Retail<br /> * [[Sheelagh Duffield]] Company Secretary<br /> * [[Stephen Dunn]] Director, Human Resources and Communications {{ref|4}}<br /> <br /> ===Previous Members===<br /> * [[Vicky Bailey]] Former American non-Executive Director<br /> * [[Charles Berry]] Former Executive Director (UK)<br /> * [[Dominic Fry]] Former Corporate Affairs Director<br /> * [[David Nish]] Former Exucutive Director of Infrastructure<br /> * [[Ian Russell]] Former Chief Executive<br /> <br /> ==Fat Cat payoffs==<br /> [[Scottish Power]]'s former chief executive [[Ian Russell]] and three colleagues received £10.9m for pay and pension compensation. The sums have been branded 'obscene' by the [[Scottish National Party]] energy spokesman [[Richard Lochhead]], and come to light just three months after they warned customers about inflation-busting bill hikes.<br /> <br /> Mr. Russell, who left in January of 2006 after five years as chief executive, received a £2.3m compensation payment as well as benefiting from a resultant pension top-up of £2.7m. The compensation sum is more than three times his salary of £648,000, while his pension windfall nearly doubled his total entitlement to £6.8m. His colleagues [[Charles Berry]] and [[David Nish]], who both left the firm in September of 2006, pocketed a total of £2.6m and £2.2m in extra compensation and extra pension sums respectively. And [[Judi Johansen]], the former head of the company's [[PacifiCorp]] arm that was sold in 2006 as well, walked off with a total of £1.1m.<br /> <br /> The figures are published in Scottish Power's 2005/06 annual report and accounts, and are on top of their normal pay and pension entitlements totalling a further £10.5m. The plc made £675m profit before tax in the financial year to March 2006. [[Scottish Power]] raised gas prices by 15% and electricity by 8% in March of 2006, only to warn that bills would rise again due to high wholesale costs. {{ref|5}}<br /> <br /> ==Direct links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> ===Scottish Executive===<br /> [[Image:SE logo.JPG|right|150px|thumb|Scottish Executive logo {{ref|6}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] has had a number of direct links with the '''Scottish Executive''' over the years. The following shows some press releases, brochures &amp; posters, CorporateWatch reports, and SpinWatch articles regarding the relationships between the two.<br /> ====Press Releases====<br /> <br /> *In May of 2002, [[Scottish Power]] &quot;submitted plans to the '''Scottish Executive''' for a £70 million windfarm on the site of an abandoned open cast mine at Black Law near the village of Forth in South Lanarkshire. [[Scottish Power]], in partnership with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and landowners, has developed a habitat management plan that integrates nature conservation, windfarm operation, and other land uses on the site which has been derelict since coal mining activities ceased there.” {{ref|7}}<br /> <br /> *In January of 2003, [[Scottish Power]] announced to the '''Scottish Executive''' its proposals for the third large scale Scottish windfarm; and &quot;if approved, '''Harestanes''' windfarm alone could meet a third of the '''Scottish Executive'''’s renewable energy target of 18% by 2010.” {{ref|8}}<br /> <br /> *In June of 2004, it was announced that &quot;ScottishPower in partnership with the Scottish Energy Office of the '''Scottish Executive''' today launched a nationwide campaign to make businesses aware of the introduction of the Government's Climate Change Levy (CCL). The CCL is a tax that will be the major force behind the Government's commitment to reduce the UK's production of greenhouse gases by 12.5 per cent, compared to 1990 levels, by 2010.” {{ref|9}}<br /> <br /> *More recently in January of 2007, a press release stated that &quot;Former US Vice President Al Gore’s climate change film, An Inconvenient Truth, will be shown in all of Scotland’s Secondary Schools this year thanks to an initiative from [[Scottish Power]] and the Scottish Executive. The Scottish Executive, through Learning Teaching Scotland, is developing a package of educational materials to help raise awareness of the challenges we all face from global warming. [[Stephen Dunn]], [[Scottish Power]]’s HR and Communications Director, said; “I was greatly impressed by An Inconvenient Truth. Not only does it powerfully explain what is happening to the planet, it also gives hope by simply setting out what we can still do to fight climate change. [[Scottish Power]] is already the biggest generator of onshore wind energy in the UK and is developing biomass and wave generation to reduce emissions and combat global warming – but it is essential that we also help promote understanding of this crucial challenge through initiatives such as this.”&quot; {{ref|10}} <br /> <br /> *In Febraury of 2007, &quot;ScottishPower, working closely with the '''Scottish Executive''', today announced a £10m wave power project designed to push Scotland to the forefront of global marine energy development. ScottishPower's Director of Renewables, Keith Anderson, said: &quot;This is a massive step forward. It will be a test of the actual devices that will be used commercially and, if successful, should help propel Scotland into the forefront of marine energy throughout the world.”&quot; {{ref|11}}<br /> <br /> ====Brochures &amp; Posters====<br /> [[Image:SP windfarm.JPG|right|130px|thumb|Brochure {{ref|12}}]]<br /> “ScottishPower Windfarm Biodiversity Conservation Strategy”<br /> This was a joint venture in 2006 between the '''Scottish Executive''' and '''ScottishPower Renewables'''. It also involved the Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Sustainable Development, as can be proudly seen at the bottom of the brocure.<br /> [[Image:Future.JPG|left|120px|thumb|Poster {{ref|13}}]]<br /> “It’s Our Future schools’ competition”<br /> This is another example of a joint venture in 2006 between '''ScottishPower Gas and Electricity''' &amp; the '''Scottish Executive''''s ''Natural Scotland'' campaign. It involved the WWF (World Wildlife Fund), EcoSchools, as well as Learning &amp; Teaching Scotland, which is funded by the Scottish Executive Education Department (SEED).<br /> <br /> ====CorporateWatch Reports====<br /> &quot;Despite the pro-business outlook of McConnell and the '''Scottish executive''', corporate lobbyists still find it worthwhile to swarm around the '''Scottish Parliament''' in an attempt to secure meetings with MSPs, to influence Scottish public spending in their favour and to keep polluting Scotland without major penalties. The incestuous relationships between the '''Scottish Parliament''' and corporations extend beyond external lobbying, however. Take for example the corporate swamping of cross party policy discussion groups that meet within the '''Scottish Parliament'''. The '''Scottish Executive''' has seen further controversy over its cosy connections with corporations. Since its creation, business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and transnational corporations, with inward secondments from [[Scottish Power]].” {{ref|14}} <br /> <br /> ====Spinwatch articles====<br /> “Since the creation of the '''Scottish Executive''', business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and Trans-National corporations, Inward: [[Scottish Power]], [[Scottish and Newcastle]], [[Stagecoach]], [[Ernst and Young]], [[PriceWaterhouseCoopers]]. Outward: [[Lloyds TSB]] Foundation, [[Scottish Power]], [[McGrigor Donald]] (law firm and lobbyist), [[Scottish and Newcastle]] and business lobby groups [[Business in the Community]] and the '''Scottish Chambers of Commerce'''.” {{ref|15}}<br /> <br /> ===Scottish Parliament===<br /> [[Image:SP logo.JPG|right|170px|thumb|Scottish Parliament logo{{ref|16}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] also has many links with the '''Scottish Parliament''' as well. The following shows Parliamentary News Releases regarding the development of the [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]], Scottish Parliament official reports, and SpinWatch articles as evidence of relationships between the two.<br /> <br /> ====Parliamentary News Releases====<br /> The Scottish Parliament Business Exchange is a scheme where supposedly, MSPs are to be given an opportunity to gain a valuable insight into the diverse Scottish business sector. The Scottish Parliament and Business Exchange ('The Exchange') aims to develop and provide opportunities for promoting mutual understanding between MSPs and business and related communities in Scotland. The Exchange is registered as an educational charity with a board made up of 50 per-cent Parliamentarians and 50 per-cent business representatives. Presiding officer and The Exchange's honorary President, Sir David Steel said &quot;Through being transparent, open, inclusive and flexible in its approach, The Exchange will be able to bring MSPs and the business community together in a non-lobbying and non-partisan way, providing benefits to the whole of Scotland.” The Board of The Exchange was set-up at the first AGM in June of 2001. The Parliament's Chief Executive, Paul Grice, was the convener, and Sir David Steel MSP was the honorary President. The Board members were Elaine Thomson MSP, Brian Adam MSP, David Davidson MSP, Keith Raffan MSP, Lynda Gauld ([[Pfizer]]), Alan Wilson ([[SCDI]]), Miller McLean ([[Royal Bank of Scotland]]), [[Dominic Fry]] ([[Scottish Power]]), Alastair Smith ([[BAA]] Scottish Airports) and Bill Spiers ([[Scottish TUC]]). {{ref|17}}<br /> :To see more about the SPBE's claims vs. realities, click [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]]. <br /> <br /> ====Scottish Parliament official reports====<br /> The 28 February 2007 Official Report regarding Energy Debt featured many varied comments about [[Scottish Power]]'s energy practices. <br /> *Patrick Harvie from Glasgow representing the Green party said: &quot;I was pleased to see that we received briefings from a number of other organisations, including Barnardo's and Capability Scotland, which want Parliament to understand the impact that energy debt has on a range of different people in diverse family situations. Energy suppliers will always have a problem with billing systems for the most vulnerable people, but some of their practices, as Scott Barrie mentioned, hit the poorest households and families hardest. In the case of [[Scottish Power]]'s practices, they had not even calculated what it would cost [[Scottish Power]] to change the policy by writing off such debt. The role of politicians is not just to engage with suppliers on the issue but to look at public policy. Scott Barrie explained the historical situation in terms of the welfare state but, as we move further into the 21st century, the job for politicians is to prepare all citizens and households in Scotland for the period after cheap energy. It falls on all suppliers, including [[Scottish Power]], to adjust their systems to ensure that the most vulnerable people are not placed in further debt.&quot; <br /> *Christine Grahame from the South of Scotland representing the SNP party said: &quot;Energy companies are making a financial killing on the back of the less well-off. Figures that I have obtained show that some companies are charging customers who will not pay by direct debit almost £300 a year more. With regard to the overcharging of non-direct debit customers for gas and electricity combined, the worst offenders—I will name and shame them—were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]]. The worst companies for customers who required only electricity and who chose not to pay by direct debit were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]].&quot;<br /> *Jackie Baillie from Dumbarton representing the Labour party said: &quot;Come on, [[Scottish Power]]—stop back-charging customers and stop back-charging the people who are potentially the most vulnerable customers. I echo the call for [[Scottish Power]] to end immediately its practice of backdating and to acknowledge that prepayment meter tariffs are a mess.” {{ref|18}} <br /> <br /> ====SpinWatch articles====<br /> While the SPBE at first glance seems potentially beneficial and rather harmless, a deeper look reveals something different: &quot;The Scottish Parliament Business Exchange was set up to allow MSPs to be educated about the realities of business life. To ensure that education and not lobbying took place the scheme was required to be ‘non-lobbying’. But in practice three quarters of the business representatives taking part were lobbyists.” {{ref|19}}<br /> <br /> ==Indirect links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> [[Scottish Power]] enjoys many indirect links with the '''Scottish Executive''' and the '''Scottish Parliament''' as well. <br /> *The company sponsors '''community activities''' such as '''ScottishPower Learning'''. This is the company's flagship corporate community programme focused on education/employability. A more detailed look reveals: <br /> a) School-based programmes designed to support the school to work transition<br /> <br /> b) Community-based programmes designed to help unemployed young people build their skills in preparation for work (Involved with Prince’s Trust, Community Champions, Project Scotland)<br /> <br /> c) Work-based programmes designed to provide young people with work experience and vocational training<br /> <br /> *The company is involved with '''think tanks''' as well. [[Demos]], for example, is another 'third way' think tank in the UK. According to its website &quot;Demos is a greenhouse for new ideas which can improve the quality of our lives. As an independent think tank, our aim is to create an open resource of knowledge and learning that operates beyond traditional parties, identities and disciplines.&quot; {{ref|20}} [[Scottish Power]] is one of the many partners of [[Demos]].<br /> <br /> *[[Scottish Power]] is involved with '''policy planning''' agencies, such as the regulatory body '''SEPA'''. The [[Scottish Environmental Protection Agency]] is a powerful Scottish public body sponsored by the '''Scottish Executive''' Environment and Rural Affairs Department. '''SEPA''' was established by the Environment Act 1995 and is responsible for the protection of the natural environment in Scotland, including air, land, freshwater and marine environments.<br /> <br /> *The company is also a member of [[BWEA]] (formerly the British '''Wind Energy Association'''). [[BWEA]] is a renewable power industry, however &quot;Critics in the environment movement may be suspicious of a company they believe talks about green issues but invests little. [[Shell]] has been a member for some years and other big power producers, such as [[Centrica]], owner of British Gas, and [[E.ON]] of Germany have also joined.” {{ref|21}}<br /> <br /> ==Other activities==<br /> Some other activities that [[Scottish Power]] are involved in include the follwoing:<br /> ===PR connections===<br /> *[[BIG Partnership]]<br /> *[[GPC International]], in 2004/[[Fleishman Hillard]] in 2005<br /> <br /> ===Lobby connections===<br /> *[[Business Council for Sustainable Development – UK]]<br /> *DC lobbying firm [[Stuntz, Davis &amp; Staffier]]<br /> <br /> ===Cultural Affiliations/Sponsorships===<br /> *[[Ballet Central]]<br /> *[[Celtic Connections]]<br /> *[[Edinburgh International Book Festival]] <br /> *[[Glasgow Science Centre]] (The ScottishPower Planetarium)<br /> *[[National Theatre for Scotland]] <br /> *[[ScottishPower Pipe Band]]<br /> <br /> ==External Links==<br /> :ScottishPower website [http://www.scottishpower.com/]<br /> :ScottishPower Gas and Electricity Customer website [http://scottishpower.co.uk/]<br /> :ScottishPower Energy Networks website [http://www.spenergynetworks.com/]<br /> <br /> ==Notes==<br /> #{{note|1}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Power Scottish Power], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow Glasgow], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|3}} Energy supply rank from CNN.com [http://www.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/11/28/scot.power/index.html World Business], &quot;Scot Power agrees $22B Spanish bid&quot;, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|4}} Board and Management bios from Scottish Power[http://www.scottishpower.com/ManagementTeam.asp Meet the Board], accessed March 2007.<br /> #{{note|5}} Fat Cat payoff information from ThisIsMoney [http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=410010&amp;in_page_id=2 article] &quot;Sacked power chiefs get 'obscene' pay-off&quot;, accessed 18 June 2006.<br /> #{{note|6}} Photograph from Eco-Schools[http://www.eco-schools.org/partners/institutional/logo_scotexec.gif Partners], Scottish Executive, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|7}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_616.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Plans to Turn Open-cast Mine into Windfarm and Bird Habitat&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|8}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_537.htm News &amp; Media], “ScottishPower Announces Proposals for Third Large-Scale Scottish Windfarm, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|9}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_634.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Spearheads Drive to Advise Business on the Climate Change Levy&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|10}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1487.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Brings Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' to Schools&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|11}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1498.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower to Build World’s Biggest Wave Project off Orkney&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|12}} Photograph from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/uploads/windfarmconsbiostrategy.pdf Brochure], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|13}} Photograph from Scottish Executive [http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/921/0040702.pdf Poster], accessed 22 March 2007. <br /> #{{note|14}} Report from CorporateWatch [http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=1305 article], &quot;SCOTLAND PLC: The Scottish Executive’s corporate links&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|15}} Information from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article], &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|16}} Photograph from Scottish Parliament[http://survey.scottish.parliament.uk/vli/education/youth/games/jigsaw/logoBig.gif Education], Scottish Parliament, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|17}} SPBE information from Scottish Parliament[http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/nmCentre/news/news-01/pa01-089.htm Parliamentary News Release], “New Scheme Promotes Mutual Understanding Between MSPs and Scottish Businesses&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|18}} Energy Debt comments from Scottish Parliament [http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-07/sor0228-02.htm Energy Debt], &quot;Official Report 28 February 2007&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|19}} SPBE lobby relations from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article] &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|20}} Demos information from Demos [http://www.demos.co.uk/content/aboutdemos homepage], accessed 20 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|21}} BWEA membership from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/3886/9/ article], &quot;BP joins renewable power campaign group&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.</div>

Heather Kirk https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=ScottishPower:_Subsidiaries&diff=22565 2007-04-21T15:41:23Z

<p>Heather Kirk: /* Takeover from Iberdrola */</p> <hr /> <div>=== Manweb ===<br /> [[Scottish Power]] was the larger of the two Scottish energy companies and benefited from being both a generator and supplier of power. In 1995 it acquired the English Regional Electricity Company [[Manweb]], which supplied Merseyside and North Wales. In 1996 the company diversified into the water supply business with the purchase of [[Southern Water]] (which was sold again in 2002). When the supply of energy into British homes was opened up to competition, ScottishPower entered this market, stealing share from the previous gas supply monopoly [[British Gas]] and also building new market share in England and Wales.<br /> <br /> === Thus ===<br /> [[Scottish Power]] established the telecommunications company, [[Thus]] (originally known as ScottishTelecom). This was floated on the London Stock Exchange with [[Scottish Power]] retaining a 20% stake, until 2002 when it sold its interest.<br /> <br /> ===Pacificorp===<br /> In 2000, [[Scottish Power]] completed the acquisition of [[Pacificorp]] which supplies electricity in the western United States, where it operates as '''Pacific Power''' (in Oregon, Wyoming, Washington, and California), and as '''Utah Power''' (in Idaho and Utah). In May 2005, [[Scottish Power]] announced that it had agreed to sell [[Pacificorp]] to MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company for $5.1 billion in cash and $4.3 billion in debt and preferred stock. The successful completion of the deal was announced on 21 March 2006, after securing regulatory approvals. <br /> <br /> ===PPM Energy===<br /> In 2001, PacifiCorp Power Marketing, Inc. moved from being a subsidiary of PacifiCorp to being an affiliate to PacifiCorp. It was announced in 2002 that [[Scottish Power]]'s competitive US energy business would change its name to PPM Energy, Inc. on January 15, 2003. <br /> <br /> CEO [[Terry Hudgens]] said &quot;Our business has grown beyond 'power' into gas storage and well beyond 'power marketing'. As a result, we realized that our old name-PacifiCorp Power Marketing-is too narrow a fit for our expanded capabilities. The new logo reinforces the fact that PPM remains a member of the ScottishPower group of companies. We'll still be the same people providing the same great level of services and even more products - just with a new name.&quot;<br /> <br /> [[PPM Energy]] remained the same organization with the same contracts and the same underlying support. The PPM name and logo emphasized their ties to ScottishPower and its separate and independent status from the regulated utility, [[PacifiCorp]]. {{ref|1}}<br /> <br /> ===Rejected takeover bid from E.ON===<br /> [[Image:Eon.JPG|left|170px|thumb|E.ON logo {{ref|2}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]]'s chief executive [[Ian Russell]] fired four fellow board members with an explanation referring back to late May when the company announced the £5.1 billion sale of its giant US business [[PacifiCorp]] to the world-famous entrepreneur Warren Buffet. Since [[PacifiCorp]] was responsible for two-thirds of [[Scottish Power]]'s valuation, which meant that the company would become much smaller when the deal went through. The idea of the restructuring was to slim down the group - stripping out the four directors in the process - preparing it for life as a smaller, independent, predominantly UK-based utility. However, Mr. Russell did not mention that the group's smaller size was what had attracted [[E.ON]]'s attention or that the downsizing was threatening the independence of one of Scotland's biggest companies. To this day, Mr. Russell has yet to publicly link the two events - despite the asking of questions in parliament. Neither did he bring up the £9 million in shares, pension payments and other incentives he could make from a deal. {{ref|3}} <br /> As [[Scottish Power]]'s shares soared, rumours spread of its German rival, and owner of Powergen, [[E.ON]] wanting to buy the company. Now widely seen as vulnerable to a takeover, it was soon revealed that the German energy group were indeed interested in a takeover. However, On November 22, 2005 the board rejected an offer from [[E.ON]] of 570 pence a share, which would have valued the group at £10.7 billion. {{ref|4}}<br /> <br /> ===Takeover from Iberdrola===<br /> [[Image:Iberdrola.JPG|right|230px|thumb|Iberdrola logo {{ref|5}}]]<br /> <br /> On November 28, 2006, the board of directors of [[Scottish Power]] agreed to a £11.6 billion takeover bid by the Spanish energy firm [[Iberdrola]] (Spain's second-largest utility company) to create Europe's third-biggest utility and a world leader in renewable energy. {{ref|6}} The new group will have installed capacity of 36,600 megawatts (MW), of which over 6,000 MW will be renewable, and its electrical supply points will total 21.4 million. <br /> [[Iberdrola]], the hundred-year-old Spanish-based company, is among Europe’s major electrical companies and operates gas and electricity businesses in 28 countries. In addition, it is one of the world leaders in the production of windgenerated power.<br /> <br /> The Board of Directors of [[Scottish Power]] had been advised on this merge by [[Morgan Stanley]] who controls approximately 0.1% of the company's capital. {{ref|7}}<br /> <br /> ==Notes==<br /> #{{note|1}} PPM Energy company information from PPM Energy[http://www.ppmenergy.com/rel_02.12.12.html Media room], &quot;PPM Energy is coming&quot;, accessed 17 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} Photograph from Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.ON E.ON] accessed 19 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|3}} Company restructuring from The Scotsman [http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1906742005 &quot;Battle to keep ScottishPower in Scotland&quot;] Top Stories, accessed 19 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|4}} Bid rejection from The Scotsman [http://business.scotsman.com/utilities.cfm?id=2285282005 &quot;ScottishPower rejects E.ON's £10.7bn bid&quot;] Energy &amp; Utilities, accessed 2006.<br /> #{{note|5}} Photograph from AEM [http://www.aem.es/ACTIVIDADES_2006/IBERDROLA%201.jpg Iberdrola], logo, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|6}} Takeover information from CNN.com [http://www.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/11/28/scot.power/index.html World Business],&quot;Scot Power agrees $22B Spanish bid&quot;, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|7}} Takeover information from Iberdrola [http://www.iberdrola.es/wcorp/gc/en/comunicacion/notasprensa/061128NPIberdrola-ScottishPower__en.pdf Press Release], &quot;IBERDROLA REACHES MERGER AGREEMENT WITH SCOTTISHPOWER FOR € 17.2 BILLION&quot;, accessed 16 April 2007.</div>

Heather Kirk https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Simon_Lowth&diff=22573 2007-04-20T17:43:50Z

<p>Heather Kirk: </p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:SimonLowth.jpg|left|150px|thumb|Simon Lowth {{ref|1}}]]<br /> <br /> ==Background==<br /> [[Simon Lowth]] was appointed as Finance Director of [[Scottish Power]] in May 2006 and is responsible for financial performance and reporting, financing strategy, risk management and for building relationships with shareholders.<br /> <br /> Initially Simon joined in 2003 as Director of Corporate Strategy and he then took over as Executive Director, Finance and Strategy. <br /> <br /> He has a strong background in strategic consultancy and was formerly a director with '''McKinsey and Company''' and led its UK industrial practice, serving clients in the energy and utilities, manufacturing and transport sectors. <br /> <br /> He holds an MA in Engineering from Cambridge University and an MBA from London Business School.{{ref|2}}<br /> <br /> ==Restructuring the company==<br /> Mr. Lowth was involved with [[Charles Miller Smith]] and former chief executive [[Ian Russell]] in the decision to restructure [[Scottish Power]] in September of 2005. This meeting resulted in getting rid of two top executives - [[David Nish]] and [[Charles Berry]]. Along with these sackings, the human resources director, [[Mike Pittman]], and the communications chief, [[Dominic Fry]] were dismissed as well. The explanation referred to when [[Scottish Power]] announced the £5.1 billion sale of its giant US business [[PacifiCorp]] to the world-famous entrepreneur Warren Buffet. [[PacifiCorp]] was responsible for two-thirds of [[Scottish Power]]'s valuation, which meant that the company would become much smaller when the deal went through. The idea of the restructuring was to slim down the group - stripping out the four directors in the process - preparing it for life as a smaller, independent, predominantly UK-based utility. However, it was not mentioned that the group's smaller size was what had attracted [[E.ON]]'s attention or that the downsizing was threatening the independence of one of Scotland's biggest companies. To this day, the company has yet to publicly link the two events - despite the asking of questions in parliament. Later that same day, [[E.ON]] confirmed that it was considering its options regarding a possible takeover of [[Scottish Power]]. {{ref|3}}<br /> <br /> <br /> ===Notes===<br /> #{{note|1}} Photograph from Scottish Power[http://www.scottishpower.com/Non-ExecutiveDirectors_949.htm Meet the Team], Simon Lowth, accessed 21 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} Team Member History from Scottish Power[http://www.scottishpower.com/Non-ExecutiveDirectors_949.htm Meet the Team], Simon Lowth, accessed 21 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|3}} Company restructuring from The Scotsman [http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1906742005 &quot;Battle to keep ScottishPower in Scotland&quot;] Top Stories, accessed 19 April 2007.</div>

Heather Kirk https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=ScottishPower&diff=22545 2007-04-20T17:29:26Z

<p>Heather Kirk: /* References */</p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Scottish power.JPG|right|210px|thumb|Scottish Power logo{{ref|1}}]]<br /> [[Image:Glasgow.JPG|right|140px|thumb|Glasgow, Scotland{{ref|2}}]]<br /> :'''Address''': 1 Atlantic Quay, Glasgow, G2 8SP<br /> :'''Phone''': 0141 248 8200<br /> <br /> Based in Glasgow, Scotland, '''ScottishPower Plc''' is a vertically integrated energy company and is Britain's fifth-largest energy supplier. {{ref|3}} As part of the utilities industry, it is the distribution network operator for the central and southern Scotland and the Merseyside and North Wales regions. The company also supplies electricity and natural gas to homes and business around the United Kingdom and generates power for supply to the grid. It owns '''[[PPM Energy]]''' in the United States and is also quoted on the '''London Stock Exchange''' as part of the FTSE 100 Index, and has a secondary listing on the '''New York Stock Exchange'''.<br /> <br /> :[[Scottish Power]] has a number of divisions and subsidiaries, which can be found here: <br /> *[[Scottish Power: Divisons]]<br /> *[[Scottish Power: Subsidiaries]]<br /> <br /> ==History==<br /> [[Scottish Power]] was formed in 1990, in preparation for the privatisation of the previously nationalised Scottish electricity industry the following year. Previously the UK government had privatised the English and Welsh electricity industry by splitting the market into 12 regional electricity companies (RECs) and two power generators. However in Scotland, the industry was already organised on an integrated generation, distribution and supply basis, and this integration survived the privatisation to become a model for the rest of the United Kingdom. [[Scottish Power]] was largely formed from of the larger of the two Scottish electricity boards, the '''South of Scotland Electricity Board''', whilst the other, the '''North of Scotland Hydro Board''', eventually became part of the '''Scottish and Southern Energy Group''' (the nuclear power stations in Scotland were spun off into a third company, '''Scottish Nuclear''', which was not sold off with [[Scottish Power]] and '''Scottish Hydro Electric''', but was sold later as part of '''British Energy''').<br /> <br /> ==Company Chronology==<br /> *1990 - [[Scottish Power]] prepared for privitisation from state-owned [[Scottish Electricity]]<br /> *1991 - officially founded<br /> *1995 - aquired [[Manweb]]<br /> *1996 - expanded into the water supply bussiness and purchased [[Southern Water]]<br /> *2000 - aquired [[Pacificorp]]<br /> *2001 - PacifiCorp Power Marketing, Inc. moved from being a subsidiary of [[PacifiCorp]] to being an affiliate to [[PacifiCorp]]<br /> *2002 - sold [[Southern Water]]; sold [[Thus]] interest; made [[PPM Energy]] a separate business from [[Pacificorp]] <br /> *2005 - rejected takeover bid from [[E.ON]] on 22 November<br /> *2006 - sold [[Pacificorp]] to MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company on 21 March; aquired permission to build Europe's largest on-shore Windfarm on 27 April; agreed to takeover by [[Iberdrola]] on 28 November<br /> <br /> ==People==<br /> ===Board===<br /> <br /> *[[Charles Miller Smith]] Joined the Board as Deputy Chairman in August 1999 and was appointed as Chairman in April 2000.<br /> *[[Euan Baird]] Joined the Board in January 2001 and brings executive level experience in the electronics and engineering industry to the ScottishPower Board.<br /> *[[Donald Brydon]] Joined the Board in May 2003 and is the senior independent director.<br /> *[[Nick Rose]] Joined the Board in February 2003 and he is Chairman of the Audit Committee, nominated as the Committee’s designated “financial expert”.<br /> *[[Nancy Wilgenbusch]] Joined the Board in June 2004.<br /> *[[Peter Hickson]] Joined the Board on 1st September 2006.<br /> <br /> ===Management Team===<br /> <br /> * [[Philip Bowman]] Chief Executive<br /> * [[Simon Lowth]] Finance Director<br /> * [[Terry Hudgens]] Chief Executive Officer, PPM Energy Inc<br /> * [[Susan Reilly]] Commercial Director<br /> * [[Alan Bryce]] Director, Energy Networks<br /> * [[John Campbell]] Director, Energy Wholesale<br /> * [[Willie MacDiarmid]] Director, Energy Retail<br /> * [[Sheelagh Duffield]] Company Secretary<br /> * [[Stephen Dunn]] Director, Human Resources and Communications {{ref|4}}<br /> <br /> ===Previous Members===<br /> * [[Vicky Bailey]] Former American non-Executive Director<br /> * [[Charles Berry]] Former Executive Director (UK)<br /> * [[Dominic Fry]] Former Corporate Affairs Director<br /> * [[David Nish]] Former Exucutive Director of Infrastructure<br /> * [[Ian Russell]] Former Chief Executive<br /> <br /> ==Fat Cat payoffs==<br /> [[Scottish Power]]'s former chief executive [[Ian Russell]] and three colleagues received £10.9m for pay and pension compensation. The sums have been branded 'obscene' by the [[Scottish National Party]] energy spokesman [[Richard Lochhead]], and come to light just three months after they warned customers about inflation-busting bill hikes.<br /> <br /> Mr. Russell, who left in January of 2006 after five years as chief executive, received a £2.3m compensation payment as well as benefiting from a resultant pension top-up of £2.7m. The compensation sum is more than three times his salary of £648,000, while his pension windfall nearly doubled his total entitlement to £6.8m. His colleagues [[Charles Berry]] and [[David Nish]], who both left the firm in September of 2006, pocketed a total of £2.6m and £2.2m in extra compensation and extra pension sums respectively. And [[Judi Johansen]], the former head of the company's [[PacifiCorp]] arm that was sold in 2006 as well, walked off with a total of £1.1m.<br /> <br /> The figures are published in Scottish Power's 2005/06 annual report and accounts, and are on top of their normal pay and pension entitlements totalling a further £10.5m. The plc made £675m profit before tax in the financial year to March 2006. [[Scottish Power]] raised gas prices by 15% and electricity by 8% in March of 2006, only to warn that bills would rise again due to high wholesale costs. {{ref|5}}<br /> <br /> ==Direct links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> ===Scottish Executive===<br /> [[Image:SE logo.JPG|right|150px|thumb|Scottish Executive logo {{ref|6}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] has had a number of direct links with the '''Scottish Executive''' over the years. The following shows some press releases, brochures &amp; posters, CorporateWatch reports, and SpinWatch articles regarding the relationships between the two.<br /> ====Press Releases====<br /> <br /> *In May of 2002, [[Scottish Power]] &quot;submitted plans to the '''Scottish Executive''' for a £70 million windfarm on the site of an abandoned open cast mine at Black Law near the village of Forth in South Lanarkshire. [[Scottish Power]], in partnership with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and landowners, has developed a habitat management plan that integrates nature conservation, windfarm operation, and other land uses on the site which has been derelict since coal mining activities ceased there.” {{ref|7}}<br /> <br /> *In January of 2003, [[Scottish Power]] announced to the '''Scottish Executive''' its proposals for the third large scale Scottish windfarm; and &quot;if approved, '''Harestanes''' windfarm alone could meet a third of the '''Scottish Executive'''’s renewable energy target of 18% by 2010.” {{ref|8}}<br /> <br /> *In June of 2004, it was announced that &quot;ScottishPower in partnership with the Scottish Energy Office of the '''Scottish Executive''' today launched a nationwide campaign to make businesses aware of the introduction of the Government's Climate Change Levy (CCL). The CCL is a tax that will be the major force behind the Government's commitment to reduce the UK's production of greenhouse gases by 12.5 per cent, compared to 1990 levels, by 2010.” {{ref|9}}<br /> <br /> *More recently in January of 2007, a press release stated that &quot;Former US Vice President Al Gore’s climate change film, An Inconvenient Truth, will be shown in all of Scotland’s Secondary Schools this year thanks to an initiative from [[Scottish Power]] and the Scottish Executive. The Scottish Executive, through Learning Teaching Scotland, is developing a package of educational materials to help raise awareness of the challenges we all face from global warming. [[Stephen Dunn]], [[Scottish Power]]’s HR and Communications Director, said; “I was greatly impressed by An Inconvenient Truth. Not only does it powerfully explain what is happening to the planet, it also gives hope by simply setting out what we can still do to fight climate change. [[Scottish Power]] is already the biggest generator of onshore wind energy in the UK and is developing biomass and wave generation to reduce emissions and combat global warming – but it is essential that we also help promote understanding of this crucial challenge through initiatives such as this.”&quot; {{ref|10}} <br /> <br /> *In Febraury of 2007, &quot;ScottishPower, working closely with the '''Scottish Executive''', today announced a £10m wave power project designed to push Scotland to the forefront of global marine energy development. ScottishPower's Director of Renewables, Keith Anderson, said: &quot;This is a massive step forward. It will be a test of the actual devices that will be used commercially and, if successful, should help propel Scotland into the forefront of marine energy throughout the world.”&quot; {{ref|11}}<br /> <br /> ====Brochures &amp; Posters====<br /> [[Image:SP windfarm.JPG|right|130px|thumb|Brochure {{ref|12}}]]<br /> “ScottishPower Windfarm Biodiversity Conservation Strategy”<br /> This was a joint venture in 2006 between the '''Scottish Executive''' and '''ScottishPower Renewables'''. It also involved the Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Sustainable Development, as can be proudly seen at the bottom of the brocure.<br /> [[Image:Future.JPG|left|120px|thumb|Poster {{ref|13}}]]<br /> “It’s Our Future schools’ competition”<br /> This is another example of a joint venture in 2006 between '''ScottishPower Gas and Electricity''' &amp; the '''Scottish Executive''''s ''Natural Scotland'' campaign. It involved the WWF (World Wildlife Fund), EcoSchools, as well as Learning &amp; Teaching Scotland, which is funded by the Scottish Executive Education Department (SEED).<br /> <br /> ====CorporateWatch Reports====<br /> &quot;Despite the pro-business outlook of McConnell and the '''Scottish executive''', corporate lobbyists still find it worthwhile to swarm around the '''Scottish Parliament''' in an attempt to secure meetings with MSPs, to influence Scottish public spending in their favour and to keep polluting Scotland without major penalties. The incestuous relationships between the '''Scottish Parliament''' and corporations extend beyond external lobbying, however. Take for example the corporate swamping of cross party policy discussion groups that meet within the '''Scottish Parliament'''. The '''Scottish Executive''' has seen further controversy over its cosy connections with corporations. Since its creation, business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and transnational corporations, with inward secondments from [[Scottish Power]].” {{ref|14}} <br /> <br /> ====Spinwatch articles====<br /> “Since the creation of the '''Scottish Executive''', business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and Trans-National corporations, Inward: [[Scottish Power]], [[Scottish and Newcastle]], [[Stagecoach]], [[Ernst and Young]], [[PriceWaterhouseCoopers]]. Outward: [[Lloyds TSB]] Foundation, [[Scottish Power]], [[McGrigor Donald]] (law firm and lobbyist), [[Scottish and Newcastle]] and business lobby groups [[Business in the Community]] and the '''Scottish Chambers of Commerce'''.” {{ref|15}}<br /> <br /> ===Scottish Parliament===<br /> [[Image:SP logo.JPG|right|170px|thumb|Scottish Parliament logo{{ref|16}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] also has many links with the '''Scottish Parliament''' as well. The following shows Parliamentary News Releases regarding the development of the [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]], Scottish Parliament official reports, and SpinWatch articles as evidence of relationships between the two.<br /> <br /> ====Parliamentary News Releases====<br /> The Scottish Parliament Business Exchange is a scheme where supposedly, MSPs are to be given an opportunity to gain a valuable insight into the diverse Scottish business sector. The Scottish Parliament and Business Exchange ('The Exchange') aims to develop and provide opportunities for promoting mutual understanding between MSPs and business and related communities in Scotland. The Exchange is registered as an educational charity with a board made up of 50 per-cent Parliamentarians and 50 per-cent business representatives. Presiding officer and The Exchange's honorary President, Sir David Steel said &quot;Through being transparent, open, inclusive and flexible in its approach, The Exchange will be able to bring MSPs and the business community together in a non-lobbying and non-partisan way, providing benefits to the whole of Scotland.” The Board of The Exchange was set-up at the first AGM in June of 2001. The Parliament's Chief Executive, Paul Grice, was the convener, and Sir David Steel MSP was the honorary President. The Board members were Elaine Thomson MSP, Brian Adam MSP, David Davidson MSP, Keith Raffan MSP, Lynda Gauld ([[Pfizer]]), Alan Wilson ([[SCDI]]), Miller McLean ([[Royal Bank of Scotland]]), [[Dominic Fry]] ([[Scottish Power]]), Alastair Smith ([[BAA]] Scottish Airports) and Bill Spiers ([[Scottish TUC]]). {{ref|17}}<br /> :To see more about the SPBE's claims vs. realities, click [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]]. <br /> <br /> ====Scottish Parliament official reports====<br /> The 28 February 2007 Official Report regarding Energy Debt featured many varied comments about [[Scottish Power]]'s energy practices. <br /> *Patrick Harvie from Glasgow representing the Green party said: &quot;I was pleased to see that we received briefings from a number of other organisations, including Barnardo's and Capability Scotland, which want Parliament to understand the impact that energy debt has on a range of different people in diverse family situations. Energy suppliers will always have a problem with billing systems for the most vulnerable people, but some of their practices, as Scott Barrie mentioned, hit the poorest households and families hardest. In the case of [[Scottish Power]]'s practices, they had not even calculated what it would cost [[Scottish Power]] to change the policy by writing off such debt. The role of politicians is not just to engage with suppliers on the issue but to look at public policy. Scott Barrie explained the historical situation in terms of the welfare state but, as we move further into the 21st century, the job for politicians is to prepare all citizens and households in Scotland for the period after cheap energy. It falls on all suppliers, including [[Scottish Power]], to adjust their systems to ensure that the most vulnerable people are not placed in further debt.&quot; <br /> *Christine Grahame from the South of Scotland representing the SNP party said: &quot;Energy companies are making a financial killing on the back of the less well-off. Figures that I have obtained show that some companies are charging customers who will not pay by direct debit almost £300 a year more. With regard to the overcharging of non-direct debit customers for gas and electricity combined, the worst offenders—I will name and shame them—were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]]. The worst companies for customers who required only electricity and who chose not to pay by direct debit were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]].&quot;<br /> *Jackie Baillie from Dumbarton representing the Labour party said: &quot;Come on, [[Scottish Power]]—stop back-charging customers and stop back-charging the people who are potentially the most vulnerable customers. I echo the call for [[Scottish Power]] to end immediately its practice of backdating and to acknowledge that prepayment meter tariffs are a mess.” {{ref|18}} <br /> <br /> ====SpinWatch articles====<br /> While the SPBE at first glance seems potentially beneficial and rather harmless, a deeper look reveals something different: &quot;The Scottish Parliament Business Exchange was set up to allow MSPs to be educated about the realities of business life. To ensure that education and not lobbying took place the scheme was required to be ‘non-lobbying’. But in practice three quarters of the business representatives taking part were lobbyists.” {{ref|19}}<br /> <br /> ==Indirect links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> [[Scottish Power]] enjoys many indirect links with the '''Scottish Executive''' and the '''Scottish Parliament''' as well. <br /> *The company sponsors '''community activities''' such as '''ScottishPower Learning'''. This is the company's flagship corporate community programme focused on education/employability. A more detailed look reveals: <br /> a) School-based programmes designed to support the school to work transition<br /> <br /> b) Community-based programmes designed to help unemployed young people build their skills in preparation for work (Involved with Prince’s Trust, Community Champions, Project Scotland)<br /> <br /> c) Work-based programmes designed to provide young people with work experience and vocational training<br /> <br /> *The company is involved with '''think tanks''' as well. [[Demos]], for example, is another 'third way' think tank in the UK. According to its website &quot;Demos is a greenhouse for new ideas which can improve the quality of our lives. As an independent think tank, our aim is to create an open resource of knowledge and learning that operates beyond traditional parties, identities and disciplines.&quot; {{ref|20}} [[Scottish Power]] is one of the many partners of [[Demos]].<br /> <br /> *[[Scottish Power]] is involved with '''policy planning''' agencies, such as the regulatory body '''SEPA'''. The [[Scottish Environmental Protection Agency]] is a powerful Scottish public body sponsored by the '''Scottish Executive''' Environment and Rural Affairs Department. '''SEPA''' was established by the Environment Act 1995 and is responsible for the protection of the natural environment in Scotland, including air, land, freshwater and marine environments.<br /> <br /> *The company is also a member of [[BWEA]] (formerly the British '''Wind Energy Association'''). [[BWEA]] is a renewable power industry, however &quot;Critics in the environment movement may be suspicious of a company they believe talks about green issues but invests little. [[Shell]] has been a member for some years and other big power producers, such as [[Centrica]], owner of British Gas, and [[E.ON]] of Germany have also joined.” {{ref|21}}<br /> <br /> ==Other activities==<br /> Some other activities that [[Scottish Power]] are involved in include the follwoing:<br /> ===PR connections===<br /> *[[BIG Partnership]]<br /> *[[GPC International]], in 2004/[[Fleishman Hillard]] in 2005<br /> <br /> ===Lobby connections===<br /> *[[Business Council for Sustainable Development – UK]]<br /> *DC lobbying firm [[Stuntz, Davis &amp; Staffier]]<br /> <br /> ===Cultural Affiliations/Sponsorships===<br /> *[[Ballet Central]]<br /> *[[Celtic Connections]]<br /> *[[Edinburgh International Book Festival]] <br /> *[[Glasgow Science Centre]] (The ScottishPower Planetarium)<br /> *[[National Theatre for Scotland]] <br /> *[[ScottishPower Pipe Band]]<br /> <br /> ==External Links==<br /> :ScottishPower website [http://www.scottishpower.com/]<br /> :ScottishPower Gas and Electricity Customer website [http://scottishpower.co.uk/]<br /> :ScottishPower Energy Networks website [http://www.spenergynetworks.com/]<br /> <br /> ==Notes==<br /> #{{note|1}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Power Scottish Power], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow Glasgow], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|3}} Energy supply rank from CNN.com [http://www.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/11/28/scot.power/index.html World Business], &quot;Scot Power agrees $22B Spanish bid&quot;, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|4}} Board and Management bios from Scottish Power[http://www.scottishpower.com/ManagementTeam.asp Meet the Board], accessed March 2007.<br /> #{{note|5}} Fat Cat payoff information from ThisIsMoney [http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=410010&amp;in_page_id=2 article] &quot;Sacked power chiefs get 'obscene' pay-off&quot;, accessed 18 June 2006.<br /> #{{note|6}} Photograph from Eco-Schools[http://www.eco-schools.org/partners/institutional/logo_scotexec.gif Partners], Scottish Executive, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|7}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_616.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Plans to Turn Open-cast Mine into Windfarm and Bird Habitat&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|8}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_537.htm News &amp; Media], “ScottishPower Announces Proposals for Third Large-Scale Scottish Windfarm, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|9}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_634.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Spearheads Drive to Advise Business on the Climate Change Levy&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|10}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1487.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Brings Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' to Schools&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|11}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1498.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower to Build World’s Biggest Wave Project off Orkney&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|12}} Photograph from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/uploads/windfarmconsbiostrategy.pdf Brochure], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|13}} Photograph from Scottish Executive [http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/921/0040702.pdf Poster], accessed 22 March 2007. <br /> #{{note|14}} Report from CorporateWatch [http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=1305 article], &quot;SCOTLAND PLC: The Scottish Executive’s corporate links&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|15}} Information from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article], &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|16}} Photograph from Scottish Parliament[http://survey.scottish.parliament.uk/vli/education/youth/games/jigsaw/logoBig.gif Education], Scottish Parliament, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|17}} SPBE information from Scottish Parliament[http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/nmCentre/news/news-01/pa01-089.htm Parliamentary News Release], “New Scheme Promotes Mutual Understanding Between MSPs and Scottish Businesses&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|18}} Energy Debt comments from Scottish Parliament [http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-07/sor0228-02.htm Energy Debt], &quot;Official Report 28 February 2007&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|19}} SPBE lobby relations from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article] &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|20}} Demos information from Demos [http://www.demos.co.uk/content/aboutdemos homepage], accessed 20 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|21}} BWEA membership from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/3886/9/ article], &quot;BP joins renewable power campaign group&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.</div>

Heather Kirk https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=ScottishPower&diff=22467 2007-04-20T17:27:55Z

<p>Heather Kirk: /* Press Releases */</p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Scottish power.JPG|right|210px|thumb|Scottish Power logo{{ref|1}}]]<br /> [[Image:Glasgow.JPG|right|140px|thumb|Glasgow, Scotland{{ref|2}}]]<br /> :'''Address''': 1 Atlantic Quay, Glasgow, G2 8SP<br /> :'''Phone''': 0141 248 8200<br /> <br /> Based in Glasgow, Scotland, '''ScottishPower Plc''' is a vertically integrated energy company and is Britain's fifth-largest energy supplier. {{ref|3}} As part of the utilities industry, it is the distribution network operator for the central and southern Scotland and the Merseyside and North Wales regions. The company also supplies electricity and natural gas to homes and business around the United Kingdom and generates power for supply to the grid. It owns '''[[PPM Energy]]''' in the United States and is also quoted on the '''London Stock Exchange''' as part of the FTSE 100 Index, and has a secondary listing on the '''New York Stock Exchange'''.<br /> <br /> :[[Scottish Power]] has a number of divisions and subsidiaries, which can be found here: <br /> *[[Scottish Power: Divisons]]<br /> *[[Scottish Power: Subsidiaries]]<br /> <br /> ==History==<br /> [[Scottish Power]] was formed in 1990, in preparation for the privatisation of the previously nationalised Scottish electricity industry the following year. Previously the UK government had privatised the English and Welsh electricity industry by splitting the market into 12 regional electricity companies (RECs) and two power generators. However in Scotland, the industry was already organised on an integrated generation, distribution and supply basis, and this integration survived the privatisation to become a model for the rest of the United Kingdom. [[Scottish Power]] was largely formed from of the larger of the two Scottish electricity boards, the '''South of Scotland Electricity Board''', whilst the other, the '''North of Scotland Hydro Board''', eventually became part of the '''Scottish and Southern Energy Group''' (the nuclear power stations in Scotland were spun off into a third company, '''Scottish Nuclear''', which was not sold off with [[Scottish Power]] and '''Scottish Hydro Electric''', but was sold later as part of '''British Energy''').<br /> <br /> ==Company Chronology==<br /> *1990 - [[Scottish Power]] prepared for privitisation from state-owned [[Scottish Electricity]]<br /> *1991 - officially founded<br /> *1995 - aquired [[Manweb]]<br /> *1996 - expanded into the water supply bussiness and purchased [[Southern Water]]<br /> *2000 - aquired [[Pacificorp]]<br /> *2001 - PacifiCorp Power Marketing, Inc. moved from being a subsidiary of [[PacifiCorp]] to being an affiliate to [[PacifiCorp]]<br /> *2002 - sold [[Southern Water]]; sold [[Thus]] interest; made [[PPM Energy]] a separate business from [[Pacificorp]] <br /> *2005 - rejected takeover bid from [[E.ON]] on 22 November<br /> *2006 - sold [[Pacificorp]] to MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company on 21 March; aquired permission to build Europe's largest on-shore Windfarm on 27 April; agreed to takeover by [[Iberdrola]] on 28 November<br /> <br /> ==People==<br /> ===Board===<br /> <br /> *[[Charles Miller Smith]] Joined the Board as Deputy Chairman in August 1999 and was appointed as Chairman in April 2000.<br /> *[[Euan Baird]] Joined the Board in January 2001 and brings executive level experience in the electronics and engineering industry to the ScottishPower Board.<br /> *[[Donald Brydon]] Joined the Board in May 2003 and is the senior independent director.<br /> *[[Nick Rose]] Joined the Board in February 2003 and he is Chairman of the Audit Committee, nominated as the Committee’s designated “financial expert”.<br /> *[[Nancy Wilgenbusch]] Joined the Board in June 2004.<br /> *[[Peter Hickson]] Joined the Board on 1st September 2006.<br /> <br /> ===Management Team===<br /> <br /> * [[Philip Bowman]] Chief Executive<br /> * [[Simon Lowth]] Finance Director<br /> * [[Terry Hudgens]] Chief Executive Officer, PPM Energy Inc<br /> * [[Susan Reilly]] Commercial Director<br /> * [[Alan Bryce]] Director, Energy Networks<br /> * [[John Campbell]] Director, Energy Wholesale<br /> * [[Willie MacDiarmid]] Director, Energy Retail<br /> * [[Sheelagh Duffield]] Company Secretary<br /> * [[Stephen Dunn]] Director, Human Resources and Communications {{ref|4}}<br /> <br /> ===Previous Members===<br /> * [[Vicky Bailey]] Former American non-Executive Director<br /> * [[Charles Berry]] Former Executive Director (UK)<br /> * [[Dominic Fry]] Former Corporate Affairs Director<br /> * [[David Nish]] Former Exucutive Director of Infrastructure<br /> * [[Ian Russell]] Former Chief Executive<br /> <br /> ==Fat Cat payoffs==<br /> [[Scottish Power]]'s former chief executive [[Ian Russell]] and three colleagues received £10.9m for pay and pension compensation. The sums have been branded 'obscene' by the [[Scottish National Party]] energy spokesman [[Richard Lochhead]], and come to light just three months after they warned customers about inflation-busting bill hikes.<br /> <br /> Mr. Russell, who left in January of 2006 after five years as chief executive, received a £2.3m compensation payment as well as benefiting from a resultant pension top-up of £2.7m. The compensation sum is more than three times his salary of £648,000, while his pension windfall nearly doubled his total entitlement to £6.8m. His colleagues [[Charles Berry]] and [[David Nish]], who both left the firm in September of 2006, pocketed a total of £2.6m and £2.2m in extra compensation and extra pension sums respectively. And [[Judi Johansen]], the former head of the company's [[PacifiCorp]] arm that was sold in 2006 as well, walked off with a total of £1.1m.<br /> <br /> The figures are published in Scottish Power's 2005/06 annual report and accounts, and are on top of their normal pay and pension entitlements totalling a further £10.5m. The plc made £675m profit before tax in the financial year to March 2006. [[Scottish Power]] raised gas prices by 15% and electricity by 8% in March of 2006, only to warn that bills would rise again due to high wholesale costs. {{ref|5}}<br /> <br /> ==Direct links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> ===Scottish Executive===<br /> [[Image:SE logo.JPG|right|150px|thumb|Scottish Executive logo {{ref|6}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] has had a number of direct links with the '''Scottish Executive''' over the years. The following shows some press releases, brochures &amp; posters, CorporateWatch reports, and SpinWatch articles regarding the relationships between the two.<br /> ====Press Releases====<br /> <br /> *In May of 2002, [[Scottish Power]] &quot;submitted plans to the '''Scottish Executive''' for a £70 million windfarm on the site of an abandoned open cast mine at Black Law near the village of Forth in South Lanarkshire. [[Scottish Power]], in partnership with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and landowners, has developed a habitat management plan that integrates nature conservation, windfarm operation, and other land uses on the site which has been derelict since coal mining activities ceased there.” {{ref|7}}<br /> <br /> *In January of 2003, [[Scottish Power]] announced to the '''Scottish Executive''' its proposals for the third large scale Scottish windfarm; and &quot;if approved, '''Harestanes''' windfarm alone could meet a third of the '''Scottish Executive'''’s renewable energy target of 18% by 2010.” {{ref|8}}<br /> <br /> *In June of 2004, it was announced that &quot;ScottishPower in partnership with the Scottish Energy Office of the '''Scottish Executive''' today launched a nationwide campaign to make businesses aware of the introduction of the Government's Climate Change Levy (CCL). The CCL is a tax that will be the major force behind the Government's commitment to reduce the UK's production of greenhouse gases by 12.5 per cent, compared to 1990 levels, by 2010.” {{ref|9}}<br /> <br /> *More recently in January of 2007, a press release stated that &quot;Former US Vice President Al Gore’s climate change film, An Inconvenient Truth, will be shown in all of Scotland’s Secondary Schools this year thanks to an initiative from [[Scottish Power]] and the Scottish Executive. The Scottish Executive, through Learning Teaching Scotland, is developing a package of educational materials to help raise awareness of the challenges we all face from global warming. [[Stephen Dunn]], [[Scottish Power]]’s HR and Communications Director, said; “I was greatly impressed by An Inconvenient Truth. Not only does it powerfully explain what is happening to the planet, it also gives hope by simply setting out what we can still do to fight climate change. [[Scottish Power]] is already the biggest generator of onshore wind energy in the UK and is developing biomass and wave generation to reduce emissions and combat global warming – but it is essential that we also help promote understanding of this crucial challenge through initiatives such as this.”&quot; {{ref|10}} <br /> <br /> *In Febraury of 2007, &quot;ScottishPower, working closely with the '''Scottish Executive''', today announced a £10m wave power project designed to push Scotland to the forefront of global marine energy development. ScottishPower's Director of Renewables, Keith Anderson, said: &quot;This is a massive step forward. It will be a test of the actual devices that will be used commercially and, if successful, should help propel Scotland into the forefront of marine energy throughout the world.”&quot; {{ref|11}}<br /> <br /> ====Brochures &amp; Posters====<br /> [[Image:SP windfarm.JPG|right|130px|thumb|Brochure {{ref|12}}]]<br /> “ScottishPower Windfarm Biodiversity Conservation Strategy”<br /> This was a joint venture in 2006 between the '''Scottish Executive''' and '''ScottishPower Renewables'''. It also involved the Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Sustainable Development, as can be proudly seen at the bottom of the brocure.<br /> [[Image:Future.JPG|left|120px|thumb|Poster {{ref|13}}]]<br /> “It’s Our Future schools’ competition”<br /> This is another example of a joint venture in 2006 between '''ScottishPower Gas and Electricity''' &amp; the '''Scottish Executive''''s ''Natural Scotland'' campaign. It involved the WWF (World Wildlife Fund), EcoSchools, as well as Learning &amp; Teaching Scotland, which is funded by the Scottish Executive Education Department (SEED).<br /> <br /> ====CorporateWatch Reports====<br /> &quot;Despite the pro-business outlook of McConnell and the '''Scottish executive''', corporate lobbyists still find it worthwhile to swarm around the '''Scottish Parliament''' in an attempt to secure meetings with MSPs, to influence Scottish public spending in their favour and to keep polluting Scotland without major penalties. The incestuous relationships between the '''Scottish Parliament''' and corporations extend beyond external lobbying, however. Take for example the corporate swamping of cross party policy discussion groups that meet within the '''Scottish Parliament'''. The '''Scottish Executive''' has seen further controversy over its cosy connections with corporations. Since its creation, business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and transnational corporations, with inward secondments from [[Scottish Power]].” {{ref|14}} <br /> <br /> ====Spinwatch articles====<br /> “Since the creation of the '''Scottish Executive''', business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and Trans-National corporations, Inward: [[Scottish Power]], [[Scottish and Newcastle]], [[Stagecoach]], [[Ernst and Young]], [[PriceWaterhouseCoopers]]. Outward: [[Lloyds TSB]] Foundation, [[Scottish Power]], [[McGrigor Donald]] (law firm and lobbyist), [[Scottish and Newcastle]] and business lobby groups [[Business in the Community]] and the '''Scottish Chambers of Commerce'''.” {{ref|15}}<br /> <br /> ===Scottish Parliament===<br /> [[Image:SP logo.JPG|right|170px|thumb|Scottish Parliament logo{{ref|16}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] also has many links with the '''Scottish Parliament''' as well. The following shows Parliamentary News Releases regarding the development of the [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]], Scottish Parliament official reports, and SpinWatch articles as evidence of relationships between the two.<br /> <br /> ====Parliamentary News Releases====<br /> The Scottish Parliament Business Exchange is a scheme where supposedly, MSPs are to be given an opportunity to gain a valuable insight into the diverse Scottish business sector. The Scottish Parliament and Business Exchange ('The Exchange') aims to develop and provide opportunities for promoting mutual understanding between MSPs and business and related communities in Scotland. The Exchange is registered as an educational charity with a board made up of 50 per-cent Parliamentarians and 50 per-cent business representatives. Presiding officer and The Exchange's honorary President, Sir David Steel said &quot;Through being transparent, open, inclusive and flexible in its approach, The Exchange will be able to bring MSPs and the business community together in a non-lobbying and non-partisan way, providing benefits to the whole of Scotland.” The Board of The Exchange was set-up at the first AGM in June of 2001. The Parliament's Chief Executive, Paul Grice, was the convener, and Sir David Steel MSP was the honorary President. The Board members were Elaine Thomson MSP, Brian Adam MSP, David Davidson MSP, Keith Raffan MSP, Lynda Gauld ([[Pfizer]]), Alan Wilson ([[SCDI]]), Miller McLean ([[Royal Bank of Scotland]]), [[Dominic Fry]] ([[Scottish Power]]), Alastair Smith ([[BAA]] Scottish Airports) and Bill Spiers ([[Scottish TUC]]). {{ref|17}}<br /> :To see more about the SPBE's claims vs. realities, click [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]]. <br /> <br /> ====Scottish Parliament official reports====<br /> The 28 February 2007 Official Report regarding Energy Debt featured many varied comments about [[Scottish Power]]'s energy practices. <br /> *Patrick Harvie from Glasgow representing the Green party said: &quot;I was pleased to see that we received briefings from a number of other organisations, including Barnardo's and Capability Scotland, which want Parliament to understand the impact that energy debt has on a range of different people in diverse family situations. Energy suppliers will always have a problem with billing systems for the most vulnerable people, but some of their practices, as Scott Barrie mentioned, hit the poorest households and families hardest. In the case of [[Scottish Power]]'s practices, they had not even calculated what it would cost [[Scottish Power]] to change the policy by writing off such debt. The role of politicians is not just to engage with suppliers on the issue but to look at public policy. Scott Barrie explained the historical situation in terms of the welfare state but, as we move further into the 21st century, the job for politicians is to prepare all citizens and households in Scotland for the period after cheap energy. It falls on all suppliers, including [[Scottish Power]], to adjust their systems to ensure that the most vulnerable people are not placed in further debt.&quot; <br /> *Christine Grahame from the South of Scotland representing the SNP party said: &quot;Energy companies are making a financial killing on the back of the less well-off. Figures that I have obtained show that some companies are charging customers who will not pay by direct debit almost £300 a year more. With regard to the overcharging of non-direct debit customers for gas and electricity combined, the worst offenders—I will name and shame them—were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]]. The worst companies for customers who required only electricity and who chose not to pay by direct debit were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]].&quot;<br /> *Jackie Baillie from Dumbarton representing the Labour party said: &quot;Come on, [[Scottish Power]]—stop back-charging customers and stop back-charging the people who are potentially the most vulnerable customers. I echo the call for [[Scottish Power]] to end immediately its practice of backdating and to acknowledge that prepayment meter tariffs are a mess.” {{ref|18}} <br /> <br /> ====SpinWatch articles====<br /> While the SPBE at first glance seems potentially beneficial and rather harmless, a deeper look reveals something different: &quot;The Scottish Parliament Business Exchange was set up to allow MSPs to be educated about the realities of business life. To ensure that education and not lobbying took place the scheme was required to be ‘non-lobbying’. But in practice three quarters of the business representatives taking part were lobbyists.” {{ref|19}}<br /> <br /> ==Indirect links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> [[Scottish Power]] enjoys many indirect links with the '''Scottish Executive''' and the '''Scottish Parliament''' as well. <br /> *The company sponsors '''community activities''' such as '''ScottishPower Learning'''. This is the company's flagship corporate community programme focused on education/employability. A more detailed look reveals: <br /> a) School-based programmes designed to support the school to work transition<br /> <br /> b) Community-based programmes designed to help unemployed young people build their skills in preparation for work (Involved with Prince’s Trust, Community Champions, Project Scotland)<br /> <br /> c) Work-based programmes designed to provide young people with work experience and vocational training<br /> <br /> *The company is involved with '''think tanks''' as well. [[Demos]], for example, is another 'third way' think tank in the UK. According to its website &quot;Demos is a greenhouse for new ideas which can improve the quality of our lives. As an independent think tank, our aim is to create an open resource of knowledge and learning that operates beyond traditional parties, identities and disciplines.&quot; {{ref|20}} [[Scottish Power]] is one of the many partners of [[Demos]].<br /> <br /> *[[Scottish Power]] is involved with '''policy planning''' agencies, such as the regulatory body '''SEPA'''. The [[Scottish Environmental Protection Agency]] is a powerful Scottish public body sponsored by the '''Scottish Executive''' Environment and Rural Affairs Department. '''SEPA''' was established by the Environment Act 1995 and is responsible for the protection of the natural environment in Scotland, including air, land, freshwater and marine environments.<br /> <br /> *The company is also a member of [[BWEA]] (formerly the British '''Wind Energy Association'''). [[BWEA]] is a renewable power industry, however &quot;Critics in the environment movement may be suspicious of a company they believe talks about green issues but invests little. [[Shell]] has been a member for some years and other big power producers, such as [[Centrica]], owner of British Gas, and [[E.ON]] of Germany have also joined.” {{ref|21}}<br /> <br /> ==Other activities==<br /> Some other activities that [[Scottish Power]] are involved in include the follwoing:<br /> ===PR connections===<br /> *[[BIG Partnership]]<br /> *[[GPC International]], in 2004/[[Fleishman Hillard]] in 2005<br /> <br /> ===Lobby connections===<br /> *[[Business Council for Sustainable Development – UK]]<br /> *DC lobbying firm [[Stuntz, Davis &amp; Staffier]]<br /> <br /> ===Cultural Affiliations/Sponsorships===<br /> *[[Ballet Central]]<br /> *[[Celtic Connections]]<br /> *[[Edinburgh International Book Festival]] <br /> *[[Glasgow Science Centre]] (The ScottishPower Planetarium)<br /> *[[National Theatre for Scotland]] <br /> *[[ScottishPower Pipe Band]]<br /> <br /> ==External Links==<br /> :ScottishPower website [http://www.scottishpower.com/]<br /> :ScottishPower Gas and Electricity Customer website [http://scottishpower.co.uk/]<br /> :ScottishPower Energy Networks website [http://www.spenergynetworks.com/]<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> #{{note|1}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Power Scottish Power], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow Glasgow], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|3}} Energy supply rank from CNN.com [http://www.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/11/28/scot.power/index.html World Business], &quot;Scot Power agrees $22B Spanish bid&quot;, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|4}} Board and Management bios from Scottish Power[http://www.scottishpower.com/ManagementTeam.asp Meet the Board], accessed March 2007.<br /> #{{note|5}} Fat Cat payoff information from ThisIsMoney [http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=410010&amp;in_page_id=2 article] &quot;Sacked power chiefs get 'obscene' pay-off&quot;, accessed 18 June 2006.<br /> #{{note|6}} Photograph from Eco-Schools[http://www.eco-schools.org/partners/institutional/logo_scotexec.gif Partners], Scottish Executive, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|7}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_616.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Plans to Turn Open-cast Mine into Windfarm and Bird Habitat&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|8}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_537.htm News &amp; Media], “ScottishPower Announces Proposals for Third Large-Scale Scottish Windfarm, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|9}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_634.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Spearheads Drive to Advise Business on the Climate Change Levy&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|10}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1487.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Brings Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' to Schools&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|11}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1498.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower to Build World’s Biggest Wave Project off Orkney&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|12}} Photograph from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/uploads/windfarmconsbiostrategy.pdf Brochure], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|13}} Photograph from Scottish Executive [http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/921/0040702.pdf Poster], accessed 22 March 2007. <br /> #{{note|14}} Report from CorporateWatch [http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=1305 article], &quot;SCOTLAND PLC: The Scottish Executive’s corporate links&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|15}} Information from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article], &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|16}} Photograph from Scottish Parliament[http://survey.scottish.parliament.uk/vli/education/youth/games/jigsaw/logoBig.gif Education], Scottish Parliament, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|17}} SPBE information from Scottish Parliament[http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/nmCentre/news/news-01/pa01-089.htm Parliamentary News Release], “New Scheme Promotes Mutual Understanding Between MSPs and Scottish Businesses&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|18}} Energy Debt comments from Scottish Parliament [http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-07/sor0228-02.htm Energy Debt], &quot;Official Report 28 February 2007&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|19}} SPBE lobby relations from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article] &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|20}} Demos information from Demos [http://www.demos.co.uk/content/aboutdemos homepage], accessed 20 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|21}} BWEA membership from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/3886/9/ article], &quot;BP joins renewable power campaign group&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.</div>

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<p>Heather Kirk: /* References */</p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Scottish power.JPG|right|210px|thumb|Scottish Power logo{{ref|1}}]]<br /> [[Image:Glasgow.JPG|right|140px|thumb|Glasgow, Scotland{{ref|2}}]]<br /> :'''Address''': 1 Atlantic Quay, Glasgow, G2 8SP<br /> :'''Phone''': 0141 248 8200<br /> <br /> Based in Glasgow, Scotland, '''ScottishPower Plc''' is a vertically integrated energy company and is Britain's fifth-largest energy supplier. {{ref|3}} As part of the utilities industry, it is the distribution network operator for the central and southern Scotland and the Merseyside and North Wales regions. The company also supplies electricity and natural gas to homes and business around the United Kingdom and generates power for supply to the grid. It owns '''[[PPM Energy]]''' in the United States and is also quoted on the '''London Stock Exchange''' as part of the FTSE 100 Index, and has a secondary listing on the '''New York Stock Exchange'''.<br /> <br /> :[[Scottish Power]] has a number of divisions and subsidiaries, which can be found here: <br /> *[[Scottish Power: Divisons]]<br /> *[[Scottish Power: Subsidiaries]]<br /> <br /> ==History==<br /> [[Scottish Power]] was formed in 1990, in preparation for the privatisation of the previously nationalised Scottish electricity industry the following year. Previously the UK government had privatised the English and Welsh electricity industry by splitting the market into 12 regional electricity companies (RECs) and two power generators. However in Scotland, the industry was already organised on an integrated generation, distribution and supply basis, and this integration survived the privatisation to become a model for the rest of the United Kingdom. [[Scottish Power]] was largely formed from of the larger of the two Scottish electricity boards, the '''South of Scotland Electricity Board''', whilst the other, the '''North of Scotland Hydro Board''', eventually became part of the '''Scottish and Southern Energy Group''' (the nuclear power stations in Scotland were spun off into a third company, '''Scottish Nuclear''', which was not sold off with [[Scottish Power]] and '''Scottish Hydro Electric''', but was sold later as part of '''British Energy''').<br /> <br /> ==Company Chronology==<br /> *1990 - [[Scottish Power]] prepared for privitisation from state-owned [[Scottish Electricity]]<br /> *1991 - officially founded<br /> *1995 - aquired [[Manweb]]<br /> *1996 - expanded into the water supply bussiness and purchased [[Southern Water]]<br /> *2000 - aquired [[Pacificorp]]<br /> *2001 - PacifiCorp Power Marketing, Inc. moved from being a subsidiary of [[PacifiCorp]] to being an affiliate to [[PacifiCorp]]<br /> *2002 - sold [[Southern Water]]; sold [[Thus]] interest; made [[PPM Energy]] a separate business from [[Pacificorp]] <br /> *2005 - rejected takeover bid from [[E.ON]] on 22 November<br /> *2006 - sold [[Pacificorp]] to MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company on 21 March; aquired permission to build Europe's largest on-shore Windfarm on 27 April; agreed to takeover by [[Iberdrola]] on 28 November<br /> <br /> ==People==<br /> ===Board===<br /> <br /> *[[Charles Miller Smith]] Joined the Board as Deputy Chairman in August 1999 and was appointed as Chairman in April 2000.<br /> *[[Euan Baird]] Joined the Board in January 2001 and brings executive level experience in the electronics and engineering industry to the ScottishPower Board.<br /> *[[Donald Brydon]] Joined the Board in May 2003 and is the senior independent director.<br /> *[[Nick Rose]] Joined the Board in February 2003 and he is Chairman of the Audit Committee, nominated as the Committee’s designated “financial expert”.<br /> *[[Nancy Wilgenbusch]] Joined the Board in June 2004.<br /> *[[Peter Hickson]] Joined the Board on 1st September 2006.<br /> <br /> ===Management Team===<br /> <br /> * [[Philip Bowman]] Chief Executive<br /> * [[Simon Lowth]] Finance Director<br /> * [[Terry Hudgens]] Chief Executive Officer, PPM Energy Inc<br /> * [[Susan Reilly]] Commercial Director<br /> * [[Alan Bryce]] Director, Energy Networks<br /> * [[John Campbell]] Director, Energy Wholesale<br /> * [[Willie MacDiarmid]] Director, Energy Retail<br /> * [[Sheelagh Duffield]] Company Secretary<br /> * [[Stephen Dunn]] Director, Human Resources and Communications {{ref|4}}<br /> <br /> ===Previous Members===<br /> * [[Vicky Bailey]] Former American non-Executive Director<br /> * [[Charles Berry]] Former Executive Director (UK)<br /> * [[Dominic Fry]] Former Corporate Affairs Director<br /> * [[David Nish]] Former Exucutive Director of Infrastructure<br /> * [[Ian Russell]] Former Chief Executive<br /> <br /> ==Fat Cat payoffs==<br /> [[Scottish Power]]'s former chief executive [[Ian Russell]] and three colleagues received £10.9m for pay and pension compensation. The sums have been branded 'obscene' by the [[Scottish National Party]] energy spokesman [[Richard Lochhead]], and come to light just three months after they warned customers about inflation-busting bill hikes.<br /> <br /> Mr. Russell, who left in January of 2006 after five years as chief executive, received a £2.3m compensation payment as well as benefiting from a resultant pension top-up of £2.7m. The compensation sum is more than three times his salary of £648,000, while his pension windfall nearly doubled his total entitlement to £6.8m. His colleagues [[Charles Berry]] and [[David Nish]], who both left the firm in September of 2006, pocketed a total of £2.6m and £2.2m in extra compensation and extra pension sums respectively. And [[Judi Johansen]], the former head of the company's [[PacifiCorp]] arm that was sold in 2006 as well, walked off with a total of £1.1m.<br /> <br /> The figures are published in Scottish Power's 2005/06 annual report and accounts, and are on top of their normal pay and pension entitlements totalling a further £10.5m. The plc made £675m profit before tax in the financial year to March 2006. [[Scottish Power]] raised gas prices by 15% and electricity by 8% in March of 2006, only to warn that bills would rise again due to high wholesale costs. {{ref|5}}<br /> <br /> ==Direct links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> ===Scottish Executive===<br /> [[Image:SE logo.JPG|right|150px|thumb|Scottish Executive logo {{ref|6}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] has had a number of direct links with the '''Scottish Executive''' over the years. The following shows some press releases, brochures &amp; posters, CorporateWatch reports, and SpinWatch articles regarding the relationships between the two.<br /> ====Press Releases====<br /> <br /> *In May of 2002, [[Scottish Power]] &quot;submitted plans to the '''Scottish Executive''' for a £70 million windfarm on the site of an abandoned open cast mine at Black Law near the village of Forth in South Lanarkshire. [[Scottish Power]], in partnership with the '''Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and landowners''', has developed a habitat management plan that integrates nature conservation, windfarm operation, and other land uses on the site which has been derelict since coal mining activities ceased there.” {{ref|7}}<br /> <br /> *In January of 2003, [[Scottish Power]] announced to the '''Scottish Executive''' its proposals for the third large scale Scottish windfarm; and &quot;if approved, '''Harestanes''' windfarm alone could meet a third of the '''Scottish Executive'''’s renewable energy target of 18% by 2010.” {{ref|8}}<br /> <br /> *In June of 2004, it was announced that &quot;ScottishPower in partnership with the Scottish Energy Office of the '''Scottish Executive''' today launched a nationwide campaign to make businesses aware of the introduction of the Government's Climate Change Levy (CCL). The CCL is a tax that will be the major force behind the Government's commitment to reduce the UK's production of greenhouse gases by 12.5 per cent, compared to 1990 levels, by 2010.” {{ref|9}}<br /> <br /> *More recently in January of 2007, a press release stated that &quot;Former US Vice President Al Gore’s climate change film, An Inconvenient Truth, will be shown in all of Scotland’s Secondary Schools this year thanks to an initiative from [[Scottish Power]] and the Scottish Executive. The Scottish Executive, through Learning Teaching Scotland, is developing a package of educational materials to help raise awareness of the challenges we all face from global warming. [[Stephen Dunn]], [[Scottish Power]]’s HR and Communications Director, said; “I was greatly impressed by An Inconvenient Truth. Not only does it powerfully explain what is happening to the planet, it also gives hope by simply setting out what we can still do to fight climate change. [[Scottish Power]] is already the biggest generator of onshore wind energy in the UK and is developing biomass and wave generation to reduce emissions and combat global warming – but it is essential that we also help promote understanding of this crucial challenge through initiatives such as this.”&quot; {{ref|10}} <br /> <br /> *In Febraury of 2007, &quot;ScottishPower, working closely with the '''Scottish Executive''', today announced a £10m wave power project designed to push Scotland to the forefront of global marine energy development. ScottishPower's Director of Renewables, Keith Anderson, said: &quot;This is a massive step forward. It will be a test of the actual devices that will be used commercially and, if successful, should help propel Scotland into the forefront of marine energy throughout the world.”&quot; {{ref|11}}<br /> <br /> ====Brochures &amp; Posters====<br /> [[Image:SP windfarm.JPG|right|130px|thumb|Brochure {{ref|12}}]]<br /> “ScottishPower Windfarm Biodiversity Conservation Strategy”<br /> This was a joint venture in 2006 between the '''Scottish Executive''' and '''ScottishPower Renewables'''. It also involved the Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Sustainable Development, as can be proudly seen at the bottom of the brocure.<br /> [[Image:Future.JPG|left|120px|thumb|Poster {{ref|13}}]]<br /> “It’s Our Future schools’ competition”<br /> This is another example of a joint venture in 2006 between '''ScottishPower Gas and Electricity''' &amp; the '''Scottish Executive''''s ''Natural Scotland'' campaign. It involved the WWF (World Wildlife Fund), EcoSchools, as well as Learning &amp; Teaching Scotland, which is funded by the Scottish Executive Education Department (SEED).<br /> <br /> ====CorporateWatch Reports====<br /> &quot;Despite the pro-business outlook of McConnell and the '''Scottish executive''', corporate lobbyists still find it worthwhile to swarm around the '''Scottish Parliament''' in an attempt to secure meetings with MSPs, to influence Scottish public spending in their favour and to keep polluting Scotland without major penalties. The incestuous relationships between the '''Scottish Parliament''' and corporations extend beyond external lobbying, however. Take for example the corporate swamping of cross party policy discussion groups that meet within the '''Scottish Parliament'''. The '''Scottish Executive''' has seen further controversy over its cosy connections with corporations. Since its creation, business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and transnational corporations, with inward secondments from [[Scottish Power]].” {{ref|14}} <br /> <br /> ====Spinwatch articles====<br /> “Since the creation of the '''Scottish Executive''', business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and Trans-National corporations, Inward: [[Scottish Power]], [[Scottish and Newcastle]], [[Stagecoach]], [[Ernst and Young]], [[PriceWaterhouseCoopers]]. Outward: [[Lloyds TSB]] Foundation, [[Scottish Power]], [[McGrigor Donald]] (law firm and lobbyist), [[Scottish and Newcastle]] and business lobby groups [[Business in the Community]] and the '''Scottish Chambers of Commerce'''.” {{ref|15}}<br /> <br /> ===Scottish Parliament===<br /> [[Image:SP logo.JPG|right|170px|thumb|Scottish Parliament logo{{ref|16}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] also has many links with the '''Scottish Parliament''' as well. The following shows Parliamentary News Releases regarding the development of the [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]], Scottish Parliament official reports, and SpinWatch articles as evidence of relationships between the two.<br /> <br /> ====Parliamentary News Releases====<br /> The Scottish Parliament Business Exchange is a scheme where supposedly, MSPs are to be given an opportunity to gain a valuable insight into the diverse Scottish business sector. The Scottish Parliament and Business Exchange ('The Exchange') aims to develop and provide opportunities for promoting mutual understanding between MSPs and business and related communities in Scotland. The Exchange is registered as an educational charity with a board made up of 50 per-cent Parliamentarians and 50 per-cent business representatives. Presiding officer and The Exchange's honorary President, Sir David Steel said &quot;Through being transparent, open, inclusive and flexible in its approach, The Exchange will be able to bring MSPs and the business community together in a non-lobbying and non-partisan way, providing benefits to the whole of Scotland.” The Board of The Exchange was set-up at the first AGM in June of 2001. The Parliament's Chief Executive, Paul Grice, was the convener, and Sir David Steel MSP was the honorary President. The Board members were Elaine Thomson MSP, Brian Adam MSP, David Davidson MSP, Keith Raffan MSP, Lynda Gauld ([[Pfizer]]), Alan Wilson ([[SCDI]]), Miller McLean ([[Royal Bank of Scotland]]), [[Dominic Fry]] ([[Scottish Power]]), Alastair Smith ([[BAA]] Scottish Airports) and Bill Spiers ([[Scottish TUC]]). {{ref|17}}<br /> :To see more about the SPBE's claims vs. realities, click [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]]. <br /> <br /> ====Scottish Parliament official reports====<br /> The 28 February 2007 Official Report regarding Energy Debt featured many varied comments about [[Scottish Power]]'s energy practices. <br /> *Patrick Harvie from Glasgow representing the Green party said: &quot;I was pleased to see that we received briefings from a number of other organisations, including Barnardo's and Capability Scotland, which want Parliament to understand the impact that energy debt has on a range of different people in diverse family situations. Energy suppliers will always have a problem with billing systems for the most vulnerable people, but some of their practices, as Scott Barrie mentioned, hit the poorest households and families hardest. In the case of [[Scottish Power]]'s practices, they had not even calculated what it would cost [[Scottish Power]] to change the policy by writing off such debt. The role of politicians is not just to engage with suppliers on the issue but to look at public policy. Scott Barrie explained the historical situation in terms of the welfare state but, as we move further into the 21st century, the job for politicians is to prepare all citizens and households in Scotland for the period after cheap energy. It falls on all suppliers, including [[Scottish Power]], to adjust their systems to ensure that the most vulnerable people are not placed in further debt.&quot; <br /> *Christine Grahame from the South of Scotland representing the SNP party said: &quot;Energy companies are making a financial killing on the back of the less well-off. Figures that I have obtained show that some companies are charging customers who will not pay by direct debit almost £300 a year more. With regard to the overcharging of non-direct debit customers for gas and electricity combined, the worst offenders—I will name and shame them—were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]]. The worst companies for customers who required only electricity and who chose not to pay by direct debit were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]].&quot;<br /> *Jackie Baillie from Dumbarton representing the Labour party said: &quot;Come on, [[Scottish Power]]—stop back-charging customers and stop back-charging the people who are potentially the most vulnerable customers. I echo the call for [[Scottish Power]] to end immediately its practice of backdating and to acknowledge that prepayment meter tariffs are a mess.” {{ref|18}} <br /> <br /> ====SpinWatch articles====<br /> While the SPBE at first glance seems potentially beneficial and rather harmless, a deeper look reveals something different: &quot;The Scottish Parliament Business Exchange was set up to allow MSPs to be educated about the realities of business life. To ensure that education and not lobbying took place the scheme was required to be ‘non-lobbying’. But in practice three quarters of the business representatives taking part were lobbyists.” {{ref|19}}<br /> <br /> ==Indirect links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> [[Scottish Power]] enjoys many indirect links with the '''Scottish Executive''' and the '''Scottish Parliament''' as well. <br /> *The company sponsors '''community activities''' such as '''ScottishPower Learning'''. This is the company's flagship corporate community programme focused on education/employability. A more detailed look reveals: <br /> a) School-based programmes designed to support the school to work transition<br /> <br /> b) Community-based programmes designed to help unemployed young people build their skills in preparation for work (Involved with Prince’s Trust, Community Champions, Project Scotland)<br /> <br /> c) Work-based programmes designed to provide young people with work experience and vocational training<br /> <br /> *The company is involved with '''think tanks''' as well. [[Demos]], for example, is another 'third way' think tank in the UK. According to its website &quot;Demos is a greenhouse for new ideas which can improve the quality of our lives. As an independent think tank, our aim is to create an open resource of knowledge and learning that operates beyond traditional parties, identities and disciplines.&quot; {{ref|20}} [[Scottish Power]] is one of the many partners of [[Demos]].<br /> <br /> *[[Scottish Power]] is involved with '''policy planning''' agencies, such as the regulatory body '''SEPA'''. The [[Scottish Environmental Protection Agency]] is a powerful Scottish public body sponsored by the '''Scottish Executive''' Environment and Rural Affairs Department. '''SEPA''' was established by the Environment Act 1995 and is responsible for the protection of the natural environment in Scotland, including air, land, freshwater and marine environments.<br /> <br /> *The company is also a member of [[BWEA]] (formerly the British '''Wind Energy Association'''). [[BWEA]] is a renewable power industry, however &quot;Critics in the environment movement may be suspicious of a company they believe talks about green issues but invests little. [[Shell]] has been a member for some years and other big power producers, such as [[Centrica]], owner of British Gas, and [[E.ON]] of Germany have also joined.” {{ref|21}}<br /> <br /> ==Other activities==<br /> Some other activities that [[Scottish Power]] are involved in include the follwoing:<br /> ===PR connections===<br /> *[[BIG Partnership]]<br /> *[[GPC International]], in 2004/[[Fleishman Hillard]] in 2005<br /> <br /> ===Lobby connections===<br /> *[[Business Council for Sustainable Development – UK]]<br /> *DC lobbying firm [[Stuntz, Davis &amp; Staffier]]<br /> <br /> ===Cultural Affiliations/Sponsorships===<br /> *[[Ballet Central]]<br /> *[[Celtic Connections]]<br /> *[[Edinburgh International Book Festival]] <br /> *[[Glasgow Science Centre]] (The ScottishPower Planetarium)<br /> *[[National Theatre for Scotland]] <br /> *[[ScottishPower Pipe Band]]<br /> <br /> ==External Links==<br /> :ScottishPower website [http://www.scottishpower.com/]<br /> :ScottishPower Gas and Electricity Customer website [http://scottishpower.co.uk/]<br /> :ScottishPower Energy Networks website [http://www.spenergynetworks.com/]<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> #{{note|1}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Power Scottish Power], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow Glasgow], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|3}} Energy supply rank from CNN.com [http://www.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/11/28/scot.power/index.html World Business], &quot;Scot Power agrees $22B Spanish bid&quot;, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|4}} Board and Management bios from Scottish Power[http://www.scottishpower.com/ManagementTeam.asp Meet the Board], accessed March 2007.<br /> #{{note|5}} Fat Cat payoff information from ThisIsMoney [http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=410010&amp;in_page_id=2 article] &quot;Sacked power chiefs get 'obscene' pay-off&quot;, accessed 18 June 2006.<br /> #{{note|6}} Photograph from Eco-Schools[http://www.eco-schools.org/partners/institutional/logo_scotexec.gif Partners], Scottish Executive, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|7}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_616.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Plans to Turn Open-cast Mine into Windfarm and Bird Habitat&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|8}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_537.htm News &amp; Media], “ScottishPower Announces Proposals for Third Large-Scale Scottish Windfarm, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|9}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_634.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Spearheads Drive to Advise Business on the Climate Change Levy&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|10}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1487.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Brings Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' to Schools&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|11}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1498.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower to Build World’s Biggest Wave Project off Orkney&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|12}} Photograph from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/uploads/windfarmconsbiostrategy.pdf Brochure], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|13}} Photograph from Scottish Executive [http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/921/0040702.pdf Poster], accessed 22 March 2007. <br /> #{{note|14}} Report from CorporateWatch [http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=1305 article], &quot;SCOTLAND PLC: The Scottish Executive’s corporate links&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|15}} Information from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article], &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|16}} Photograph from Scottish Parliament[http://survey.scottish.parliament.uk/vli/education/youth/games/jigsaw/logoBig.gif Education], Scottish Parliament, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|17}} SPBE information from Scottish Parliament[http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/nmCentre/news/news-01/pa01-089.htm Parliamentary News Release], “New Scheme Promotes Mutual Understanding Between MSPs and Scottish Businesses&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|18}} Energy Debt comments from Scottish Parliament [http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-07/sor0228-02.htm Energy Debt], &quot;Official Report 28 February 2007&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|19}} SPBE lobby relations from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article] &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|20}} Demos information from Demos [http://www.demos.co.uk/content/aboutdemos homepage], accessed 20 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|21}} BWEA membership from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/3886/9/ article], &quot;BP joins renewable power campaign group&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.</div>

Heather Kirk https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=ScottishPower_Pipe_Band&diff=33194 2007-04-20T17:24:27Z

<p>Heather Kirk: </p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Sppipeband.jpg|right|170px|thumb|ScottishPower Pipe Band {{ref|1}}]]<br /> <br /> With international acclaim, world-wide honours and global experience, the [[ScottishPower Pipe Band]] is a perfect ambassador for [[Scottish Power]]. The band holds premier status and is a consistent prize winner in all recent major pipe band championships.<br /> <br /> Led by Pipe Major Chris Armstrong and Leading Drummer Barry Wilson, the band consists of some of the world's top award-winning pipers and drummers. <br /> <br /> The [[ScottishPower Pipe Band]] holds numerous European and British titles. They have been Scottish Champions twice and are double winners of the prestigious Cowal Championships. In addition, they have secured second place in the World Championships on two occasions.<br /> <br /> In August 2006, the [[ScottishPower Pipe Band]] won 7th place in the '''World Pipe Band Championships'''. Their results across the competition season mean that the band finished 6th overall in the '''Champion of Champions League'''. {{ref|2}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:Spjackmcconnell.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Jack McConnell and pipers {{ref|3}}]]<br /> <br /> ===External Links===<br /> The ScottishPower Pipe Band website [http://www.scottishpowerpipeband.com/]<br /> <br /> ===Notes===<br /> #{{note|1}} Photograph from ScottishPower Pipe Band [http://www.scottishpowerpipeband.com/gallery/gallery.htm Gallery], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} Pipe Band information from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/Othersponsorships.htm Community Programmes], Art Sponsorships, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|3}} Photograph from ScottishPower Pipe Band [http://www.scottishpowerpipeband.com/gallery/gallery.htm Gallery], accessed 22 March 2007.</div>

Heather Kirk https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=ScottishPower_Pipe_Band&diff=22457 2007-04-20T17:23:40Z

<p>Heather Kirk: </p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Sppipeband.jpg|right|170px|thumb|ScottishPower Pipe Band {{ref|1}}]]<br /> <br /> With international acclaim, world-wide honours and global experience, the ScottishPower Pipe Band is a perfect ambassador for [[Scottish Power]]. The band holds premier status and is a consistent prize winner in all recent major pipe band championships.<br /> <br /> Led by Pipe Major Chris Armstrong and Leading Drummer Barry Wilson, the band consists of some of the world's top award-winning pipers and drummers. <br /> <br /> The ScottishPower Pipe Band holds numerous European and British titles. They have been Scottish Champions twice and are double winners of the prestigious Cowal Championships. In addition, they have secured second place in the World Championships on two occasions.<br /> <br /> In August 2006, the ScottishPower Pipe Band won 7th place in the World Pipe Band Championships. Their results across the competition season mean that the band finished 6th overall in the Champion of Champions League. {{ref|2}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:Spjackmcconnell.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Jack McConnell and pipers {{ref|3}}]]<br /> <br /> ===External Links===<br /> The ScottishPower Pipe Band website [http://www.scottishpowerpipeband.com/]<br /> <br /> ===Notes===<br /> #{{note|1}} Photograph from ScottishPower Pipe Band [http://www.scottishpowerpipeband.com/gallery/gallery.htm Gallery], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} Pipe Band information from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/Othersponsorships.htm Community Programmes], Art Sponsorships, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|3}} Photograph from ScottishPower Pipe Band [http://www.scottishpowerpipeband.com/gallery/gallery.htm Gallery], accessed 22 March 2007.</div>

Heather Kirk https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=ScottishPower_Pipe_Band&diff=22455 2007-04-20T17:23:30Z

<p>Heather Kirk: </p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Sppipeband.jpg|right|170px|thumb|ScottishPower Pipe Band {{ref|1}}]]<br /> '''ScottishPower Pipe Band''' <br /> <br /> With international acclaim, world-wide honours and global experience, the ScottishPower Pipe Band is a perfect ambassador for [[Scottish Power]]. The band holds premier status and is a consistent prize winner in all recent major pipe band championships.<br /> <br /> Led by Pipe Major Chris Armstrong and Leading Drummer Barry Wilson, the band consists of some of the world's top award-winning pipers and drummers. <br /> <br /> The ScottishPower Pipe Band holds numerous European and British titles. They have been Scottish Champions twice and are double winners of the prestigious Cowal Championships. In addition, they have secured second place in the World Championships on two occasions.<br /> <br /> In August 2006, the ScottishPower Pipe Band won 7th place in the World Pipe Band Championships. Their results across the competition season mean that the band finished 6th overall in the Champion of Champions League. {{ref|2}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:Spjackmcconnell.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Jack McConnell and pipers {{ref|3}}]]<br /> <br /> ===External Links===<br /> The ScottishPower Pipe Band website [http://www.scottishpowerpipeband.com/]<br /> <br /> ===Notes===<br /> #{{note|1}} Photograph from ScottishPower Pipe Band [http://www.scottishpowerpipeband.com/gallery/gallery.htm Gallery], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} Pipe Band information from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/Othersponsorships.htm Community Programmes], Art Sponsorships, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|3}} Photograph from ScottishPower Pipe Band [http://www.scottishpowerpipeband.com/gallery/gallery.htm Gallery], accessed 22 March 2007.</div>

Heather Kirk https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Stuntz,_Davis_%26_Staffier&diff=33888 2007-04-20T17:17:32Z

<p>Heather Kirk: </p> <hr /> <div>The law firm of [[Stuntz, Davis &amp; Staffier]], P.C. counsels transactions and regulatory matters involving the oil, natural gas, and electric industries, in addition to legislative and public policy issues affecting a variety of industries. Since its founding in 1995, the firm has been involved in a variety of complex regulatory, litigation and legislative matters for a number of Fortune 500 companies. {{ref|1}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:Linda Stuntz.jpg|right|85px|thumb|Linda Gillespie Stuntz {{ref|2}}]]<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Linda Gillespie Stuntz''' founded the DC lobbying firm [[Stuntz, Davis &amp; Staffier]] and was a deputy energy secretary for GHW Bush. Stuntz served on the board of [[American Electric Power]] from 1993-2004, and continues to serve on the board of Paris-based oil company [[Schlumberger LTD]].<br /> Stuntz is a registered lobbyist, and her firm took in $3.7 million in 2001-04 from corporations and associations to lobby on energy policy: The '''Alliance for Competitive Electricity''' paid Stuntz $900,000 from 2001-04 to lobby for '''PUHCA''' repeal and other pro-deregulation policies, and oppose environmental goals such as a Renewable Portfolio Standard. The Alliance is a financed by DTE, FirstEnergy, Dominion, National Grid, Duke, PNM Resources, Energy East, PSE&amp;G, Entergy, Xcel and Exelon. In addition, Colorado-based Great Northern Power Development, a builder of coal-fired power plants, has just retained Stuntz as a lobbyist.<br /> *[[Scottish Power]] paid Stuntz $340,000 in 2001-04 to lobby against New Source Review public health standards.<br /> *[[Energy East]] paid Stuntz $180,000 in 2001-02 to repeal PURPA.<br /> *[[Southern California Edison]] paid Stuntz $340,000 in 2001-04 to lobby on energy issues.<br /> *The [[National Electrical Manufactures]] Assn paid Stuntz $165,000 in 2001-04 to lobby on transmission issues.<br /> *[[Shell Oil]] paid Stuntz $60,000 in 2002 to extend the Deepwater Ports Act to LNG facilities.<br /> *[[BC Hydro]] paid Stuntz $140,000 in 2001-02 to lobby on deregulation and energy trading.<br /> *[[General Electric]] paid Stuntz $20,000 in 2001-02 to lobby for increased subsidies for fossil fuels.<br /> *[[BP]] paid Stuntz $35,000 in 2001-02 to lobby on the Alaskan natural gas pipeline.<br /> *[[National Grid]] paid Stuntz $85,000 from 2002-04 to lobby on &quot;electricity policy legislation&quot;.<br /> *[[RJ Reynolds]] paid Stuntz $30,000 over 18 months, and Bridgestone/Firestone paid Stuntz $20,000 in 2000 to lobby against safety requirements. {{ref|3}}<br /> <br /> ==Notes==<br /> #{{note|1}} Company profile from Stuntz, Davis &amp; Staffier, P.C. [http://www.sdsatty.com/index.html The Firm], accessed 15 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} Picture from AEP [http://www.aep.com/investors/annrep/02annrep/proxy/g31996g12f48.jpg Investors], Linda Gillespie Stuntz, accessed 15 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|3}} Biography information from Citizen [http://www.citizen.org/documents/NatlCommEP12-04.pdf Members of the National Commission on Energy Policy], Linda Gillespie Stuntz, accessed 15 April 2007.</div>

Heather Kirk https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Stuntz,_Davis_%26_Staffier&diff=22449 2007-04-20T17:16:33Z

<p>Heather Kirk: </p> <hr /> <div>The law firm of [[Stuntz, Davis &amp; Staffier]], P.C. counsels transactions and regulatory matters involving the oil, natural gas, and electric industries, in addition to legislative and public policy issues affecting a variety of industries. Since its founding in 1995, the firm has been involved in a variety of complex regulatory, litigation and legislative matters for a number of Fortune 500 companies. {{ref|1}}<br /> <br /> [[Image:Linda Stuntz.jpg|right|85px|thumb|Linda Gillespie Stuntz {{ref|2}}]]<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Linda Gillespie Stuntz''' founded the DC lobbying firm [[Stuntz, Davis &amp; Staffier]] and was a deputy energy secretary for GHW Bush. Stuntz served on the board of [[American Electric Power]] from 1993-2004, and continues to serve on the board of Paris-based oil company [[Schlumberger LTD]].<br /> Stuntz is a registered lobbyist, and her firm took in $3.7 million in 2001-04 from corporations and associations to lobby on energy policy: The Alliance for Competitive Electricity paid Stuntz $900,000 from 2001-04 to lobby for PUHCA repeal and other pro-deregulation policies, and oppose environmental goals such as a Renewable Portfolio Standard. The Alliance is a financed by DTE, FirstEnergy, Dominion, National Grid, Duke, PNM Resources, Energy East, PSE&amp;G, Entergy, Xcel and Exelon. In addition, Colorado-based Great Northern Power Development, a builder of coal-fired power plants, has just retained Stuntz as a lobbyist.<br /> *[[Scottish Power]] paid Stuntz $340,000 in 2001-04 to lobby against New Source Review public health standards.<br /> *[[Energy East]] paid Stuntz $180,000 in 2001-02 to repeal PURPA.<br /> *[[Southern California Edison]] paid Stuntz $340,000 in 2001-04 to lobby on energy issues.<br /> *The [[National Electrical Manufactures]] Assn paid Stuntz $165,000 in 2001-04 to lobby on transmission issues.<br /> *[[Shell Oil]] paid Stuntz $60,000 in 2002 to extend the Deepwater Ports Act to LNG facilities.<br /> *[[BC Hydro]] paid Stuntz $140,000 in 2001-02 to lobby on deregulation and energy trading.<br /> *[[General Electric]] paid Stuntz $20,000 in 2001-02 to lobby for increased subsidies for fossil fuels.<br /> *[[BP]] paid Stuntz $35,000 in 2001-02 to lobby on the Alaskan natural gas pipeline.<br /> *[[National Grid]] paid Stuntz $85,000 from 2002-04 to lobby on &quot;electricity policy legislation&quot;.<br /> *[[RJ Reynolds]] paid Stuntz $30,000 over 18 months, and Bridgestone/Firestone paid Stuntz $20,000 in 2000 to lobby against safety requirements. {{ref|3}}<br /> <br /> ==Notes==<br /> #{{note|1}} Company profile from Stuntz, Davis &amp; Staffier, P.C. [http://www.sdsatty.com/index.html The Firm], accessed 15 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} Picture from AEP [http://www.aep.com/investors/annrep/02annrep/proxy/g31996g12f48.jpg Investors], Linda Gillespie Stuntz, accessed 15 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|3}} Biography information from Citizen [http://www.citizen.org/documents/NatlCommEP12-04.pdf Members of the National Commission on Energy Policy], Linda Gillespie Stuntz, accessed 15 April 2007.</div>

Heather Kirk https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=ScottishPower&diff=22461 2007-04-20T17:15:32Z

<p>Heather Kirk: /* Indirect links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament */</p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Scottish power.JPG|right|210px|thumb|Scottish Power logo{{ref|1}}]]<br /> [[Image:Glasgow.JPG|right|140px|thumb|Glasgow, Scotland{{ref|2}}]]<br /> :'''Address''': 1 Atlantic Quay, Glasgow, G2 8SP<br /> :'''Phone''': 0141 248 8200<br /> <br /> Based in Glasgow, Scotland, '''ScottishPower Plc''' is a vertically integrated energy company and is Britain's fifth-largest energy supplier. {{ref|3}} As part of the utilities industry, it is the distribution network operator for the central and southern Scotland and the Merseyside and North Wales regions. The company also supplies electricity and natural gas to homes and business around the United Kingdom and generates power for supply to the grid. It owns '''[[PPM Energy]]''' in the United States and is also quoted on the '''London Stock Exchange''' as part of the FTSE 100 Index, and has a secondary listing on the '''New York Stock Exchange'''.<br /> <br /> :[[Scottish Power]] has a number of divisions and subsidiaries, which can be found here: <br /> *[[Scottish Power: Divisons]]<br /> *[[Scottish Power: Subsidiaries]]<br /> <br /> ==History==<br /> [[Scottish Power]] was formed in 1990, in preparation for the privatisation of the previously nationalised Scottish electricity industry the following year. Previously the UK government had privatised the English and Welsh electricity industry by splitting the market into 12 regional electricity companies (RECs) and two power generators. However in Scotland, the industry was already organised on an integrated generation, distribution and supply basis, and this integration survived the privatisation to become a model for the rest of the United Kingdom. [[Scottish Power]] was largely formed from of the larger of the two Scottish electricity boards, the '''South of Scotland Electricity Board''', whilst the other, the '''North of Scotland Hydro Board''', eventually became part of the '''Scottish and Southern Energy Group''' (the nuclear power stations in Scotland were spun off into a third company, '''Scottish Nuclear''', which was not sold off with [[Scottish Power]] and '''Scottish Hydro Electric''', but was sold later as part of '''British Energy''').<br /> <br /> ==Company Chronology==<br /> *1990 - [[Scottish Power]] prepared for privitisation from state-owned [[Scottish Electricity]]<br /> *1991 - officially founded<br /> *1995 - aquired [[Manweb]]<br /> *1996 - expanded into the water supply bussiness and purchased [[Southern Water]]<br /> *2000 - aquired [[Pacificorp]]<br /> *2001 - PacifiCorp Power Marketing, Inc. moved from being a subsidiary of [[PacifiCorp]] to being an affiliate to [[PacifiCorp]]<br /> *2002 - sold [[Southern Water]]; sold [[Thus]] interest; made [[PPM Energy]] a separate business from [[Pacificorp]] <br /> *2005 - rejected takeover bid from [[E.ON]] on 22 November<br /> *2006 - sold [[Pacificorp]] to MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company on 21 March; aquired permission to build Europe's largest on-shore Windfarm on 27 April; agreed to takeover by [[Iberdrola]] on 28 November<br /> <br /> ==People==<br /> ===Board===<br /> <br /> *[[Charles Miller Smith]] Joined the Board as Deputy Chairman in August 1999 and was appointed as Chairman in April 2000.<br /> *[[Euan Baird]] Joined the Board in January 2001 and brings executive level experience in the electronics and engineering industry to the ScottishPower Board.<br /> *[[Donald Brydon]] Joined the Board in May 2003 and is the senior independent director.<br /> *[[Nick Rose]] Joined the Board in February 2003 and he is Chairman of the Audit Committee, nominated as the Committee’s designated “financial expert”.<br /> *[[Nancy Wilgenbusch]] Joined the Board in June 2004.<br /> *[[Peter Hickson]] Joined the Board on 1st September 2006.<br /> <br /> ===Management Team===<br /> <br /> * [[Philip Bowman]] Chief Executive<br /> * [[Simon Lowth]] Finance Director<br /> * [[Terry Hudgens]] Chief Executive Officer, PPM Energy Inc<br /> * [[Susan Reilly]] Commercial Director<br /> * [[Alan Bryce]] Director, Energy Networks<br /> * [[John Campbell]] Director, Energy Wholesale<br /> * [[Willie MacDiarmid]] Director, Energy Retail<br /> * [[Sheelagh Duffield]] Company Secretary<br /> * [[Stephen Dunn]] Director, Human Resources and Communications {{ref|4}}<br /> <br /> ===Previous Members===<br /> * [[Vicky Bailey]] Former American non-Executive Director<br /> * [[Charles Berry]] Former Executive Director (UK)<br /> * [[Dominic Fry]] Former Corporate Affairs Director<br /> * [[David Nish]] Former Exucutive Director of Infrastructure<br /> * [[Ian Russell]] Former Chief Executive<br /> <br /> ==Fat Cat payoffs==<br /> [[Scottish Power]]'s former chief executive [[Ian Russell]] and three colleagues received £10.9m for pay and pension compensation. The sums have been branded 'obscene' by the [[Scottish National Party]] energy spokesman [[Richard Lochhead]], and come to light just three months after they warned customers about inflation-busting bill hikes.<br /> <br /> Mr. Russell, who left in January of 2006 after five years as chief executive, received a £2.3m compensation payment as well as benefiting from a resultant pension top-up of £2.7m. The compensation sum is more than three times his salary of £648,000, while his pension windfall nearly doubled his total entitlement to £6.8m. His colleagues [[Charles Berry]] and [[David Nish]], who both left the firm in September of 2006, pocketed a total of £2.6m and £2.2m in extra compensation and extra pension sums respectively. And [[Judi Johansen]], the former head of the company's [[PacifiCorp]] arm that was sold in 2006 as well, walked off with a total of £1.1m.<br /> <br /> The figures are published in Scottish Power's 2005/06 annual report and accounts, and are on top of their normal pay and pension entitlements totalling a further £10.5m. The plc made £675m profit before tax in the financial year to March 2006. [[Scottish Power]] raised gas prices by 15% and electricity by 8% in March of 2006, only to warn that bills would rise again due to high wholesale costs. {{ref|5}}<br /> <br /> ==Direct links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> ===Scottish Executive===<br /> [[Image:SE logo.JPG|right|150px|thumb|Scottish Executive logo {{ref|6}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] has had a number of direct links with the '''Scottish Executive''' over the years. The following shows some press releases, brochures &amp; posters, CorporateWatch reports, and SpinWatch articles regarding the relationships between the two.<br /> ====Press Releases====<br /> <br /> *In May of 2002, [[Scottish Power]] &quot;submitted plans to the '''Scottish Executive''' for a £70 million windfarm on the site of an abandoned open cast mine at Black Law near the village of Forth in South Lanarkshire. [[Scottish Power]], in partnership with the '''Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and landowners''', has developed a habitat management plan that integrates nature conservation, windfarm operation, and other land uses on the site which has been derelict since coal mining activities ceased there.” {{ref|7}}<br /> <br /> *In January of 2003, [[Scottish Power]] announced to the '''Scottish Executive''' its proposals for the third large scale Scottish windfarm; and &quot;if approved, '''Harestanes''' windfarm alone could meet a third of the '''Scottish Executive'''’s renewable energy target of 18% by 2010.” {{ref|8}}<br /> <br /> *In June of 2004, it was announced that &quot;ScottishPower in partnership with the Scottish Energy Office of the '''Scottish Executive''' today launched a nationwide campaign to make businesses aware of the introduction of the Government's Climate Change Levy (CCL). The CCL is a tax that will be the major force behind the Government's commitment to reduce the UK's production of greenhouse gases by 12.5 per cent, compared to 1990 levels, by 2010.” {{ref|9}}<br /> <br /> *More recently in January of 2007, a press release stated that &quot;Former US Vice President Al Gore’s climate change film, An Inconvenient Truth, will be shown in all of Scotland’s Secondary Schools this year thanks to an initiative from [[Scottish Power]] and the Scottish Executive. The Scottish Executive, through Learning Teaching Scotland, is developing a package of educational materials to help raise awareness of the challenges we all face from global warming. [[Stephen Dunn]], [[Scottish Power]]’s HR and Communications Director, said; “I was greatly impressed by An Inconvenient Truth. Not only does it powerfully explain what is happening to the planet, it also gives hope by simply setting out what we can still do to fight climate change. [[Scottish Power]] is already the biggest generator of onshore wind energy in the UK and is developing biomass and wave generation to reduce emissions and combat global warming – but it is essential that we also help promote understanding of this crucial challenge through initiatives such as this.”&quot; {{ref|10}} <br /> <br /> *In Febraury of 2007, &quot;ScottishPower, working closely with the '''Scottish Executive''', today announced a £10m wave power project designed to push Scotland to the forefront of global marine energy development. ScottishPower's Director of Renewables, Keith Anderson, said: &quot;This is a massive step forward. It will be a test of the actual devices that will be used commercially and, if successful, should help propel Scotland into the forefront of marine energy throughout the world.”&quot; {{ref|11}}<br /> <br /> ====Brochures &amp; Posters====<br /> [[Image:SP windfarm.JPG|right|130px|thumb|Brochure {{ref|12}}]]<br /> “ScottishPower Windfarm Biodiversity Conservation Strategy”<br /> This was a joint venture in 2006 between the '''Scottish Executive''' and '''ScottishPower Renewables'''. It also involved the Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Sustainable Development, as can be proudly seen at the bottom of the brocure.<br /> [[Image:Future.JPG|left|120px|thumb|Poster {{ref|13}}]]<br /> “It’s Our Future schools’ competition”<br /> This is another example of a joint venture in 2006 between '''ScottishPower Gas and Electricity''' &amp; the '''Scottish Executive''''s ''Natural Scotland'' campaign. It involved the WWF (World Wildlife Fund), EcoSchools, as well as Learning &amp; Teaching Scotland, which is funded by the Scottish Executive Education Department (SEED).<br /> <br /> ====CorporateWatch Reports====<br /> &quot;Despite the pro-business outlook of McConnell and the '''Scottish executive''', corporate lobbyists still find it worthwhile to swarm around the '''Scottish Parliament''' in an attempt to secure meetings with MSPs, to influence Scottish public spending in their favour and to keep polluting Scotland without major penalties. The incestuous relationships between the '''Scottish Parliament''' and corporations extend beyond external lobbying, however. Take for example the corporate swamping of cross party policy discussion groups that meet within the '''Scottish Parliament'''. The '''Scottish Executive''' has seen further controversy over its cosy connections with corporations. Since its creation, business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and transnational corporations, with inward secondments from [[Scottish Power]].” {{ref|14}} <br /> <br /> ====Spinwatch articles====<br /> “Since the creation of the '''Scottish Executive''', business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and Trans-National corporations, Inward: [[Scottish Power]], [[Scottish and Newcastle]], [[Stagecoach]], [[Ernst and Young]], [[PriceWaterhouseCoopers]]. Outward: [[Lloyds TSB]] Foundation, [[Scottish Power]], [[McGrigor Donald]] (law firm and lobbyist), [[Scottish and Newcastle]] and business lobby groups [[Business in the Community]] and the '''Scottish Chambers of Commerce'''.” {{ref|15}}<br /> <br /> ===Scottish Parliament===<br /> [[Image:SP logo.JPG|right|170px|thumb|Scottish Parliament logo{{ref|16}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] also has many links with the '''Scottish Parliament''' as well. The following shows Parliamentary News Releases regarding the development of the [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]], Scottish Parliament official reports, and SpinWatch articles as evidence of relationships between the two.<br /> <br /> ====Parliamentary News Releases====<br /> The Scottish Parliament Business Exchange is a scheme where supposedly, MSPs are to be given an opportunity to gain a valuable insight into the diverse Scottish business sector. The Scottish Parliament and Business Exchange ('The Exchange') aims to develop and provide opportunities for promoting mutual understanding between MSPs and business and related communities in Scotland. The Exchange is registered as an educational charity with a board made up of 50 per-cent Parliamentarians and 50 per-cent business representatives. Presiding officer and The Exchange's honorary President, Sir David Steel said &quot;Through being transparent, open, inclusive and flexible in its approach, The Exchange will be able to bring MSPs and the business community together in a non-lobbying and non-partisan way, providing benefits to the whole of Scotland.” The Board of The Exchange was set-up at the first AGM in June of 2001. The Parliament's Chief Executive, Paul Grice, was the convener, and Sir David Steel MSP was the honorary President. The Board members were Elaine Thomson MSP, Brian Adam MSP, David Davidson MSP, Keith Raffan MSP, Lynda Gauld ([[Pfizer]]), Alan Wilson ([[SCDI]]), Miller McLean ([[Royal Bank of Scotland]]), [[Dominic Fry]] ([[Scottish Power]]), Alastair Smith ([[BAA]] Scottish Airports) and Bill Spiers ([[Scottish TUC]]). {{ref|17}}<br /> :To see more about the SPBE's claims vs. realities, click [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]]. <br /> <br /> ====Scottish Parliament official reports====<br /> The 28 February 2007 Official Report regarding Energy Debt featured many varied comments about [[Scottish Power]]'s energy practices. <br /> *Patrick Harvie from Glasgow representing the Green party said: &quot;I was pleased to see that we received briefings from a number of other organisations, including Barnardo's and Capability Scotland, which want Parliament to understand the impact that energy debt has on a range of different people in diverse family situations. Energy suppliers will always have a problem with billing systems for the most vulnerable people, but some of their practices, as Scott Barrie mentioned, hit the poorest households and families hardest. In the case of [[Scottish Power]]'s practices, they had not even calculated what it would cost [[Scottish Power]] to change the policy by writing off such debt. The role of politicians is not just to engage with suppliers on the issue but to look at public policy. Scott Barrie explained the historical situation in terms of the welfare state but, as we move further into the 21st century, the job for politicians is to prepare all citizens and households in Scotland for the period after cheap energy. It falls on all suppliers, including [[Scottish Power]], to adjust their systems to ensure that the most vulnerable people are not placed in further debt.&quot; <br /> *Christine Grahame from the South of Scotland representing the SNP party said: &quot;Energy companies are making a financial killing on the back of the less well-off. Figures that I have obtained show that some companies are charging customers who will not pay by direct debit almost £300 a year more. With regard to the overcharging of non-direct debit customers for gas and electricity combined, the worst offenders—I will name and shame them—were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]]. The worst companies for customers who required only electricity and who chose not to pay by direct debit were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]].&quot;<br /> *Jackie Baillie from Dumbarton representing the Labour party said: &quot;Come on, [[Scottish Power]]—stop back-charging customers and stop back-charging the people who are potentially the most vulnerable customers. I echo the call for [[Scottish Power]] to end immediately its practice of backdating and to acknowledge that prepayment meter tariffs are a mess.” {{ref|18}} <br /> <br /> ====SpinWatch articles====<br /> While the SPBE at first glance seems potentially beneficial and rather harmless, a deeper look reveals something different: &quot;The Scottish Parliament Business Exchange was set up to allow MSPs to be educated about the realities of business life. To ensure that education and not lobbying took place the scheme was required to be ‘non-lobbying’. But in practice three quarters of the business representatives taking part were lobbyists.” {{ref|19}}<br /> <br /> ==Indirect links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> [[Scottish Power]] enjoys many indirect links with the '''Scottish Executive''' and the '''Scottish Parliament''' as well. <br /> *The company sponsors '''community activities''' such as '''ScottishPower Learning'''. This is the company's flagship corporate community programme focused on education/employability. A more detailed look reveals: <br /> a) School-based programmes designed to support the school to work transition<br /> <br /> b) Community-based programmes designed to help unemployed young people build their skills in preparation for work (Involved with Prince’s Trust, Community Champions, Project Scotland)<br /> <br /> c) Work-based programmes designed to provide young people with work experience and vocational training<br /> <br /> *The company is involved with '''think tanks''' as well. [[Demos]], for example, is another 'third way' think tank in the UK. According to its website &quot;Demos is a greenhouse for new ideas which can improve the quality of our lives. As an independent think tank, our aim is to create an open resource of knowledge and learning that operates beyond traditional parties, identities and disciplines.&quot; {{ref|20}} [[Scottish Power]] is one of the many partners of [[Demos]].<br /> <br /> *[[Scottish Power]] is involved with '''policy planning''' agencies, such as the regulatory body '''SEPA'''. The [[Scottish Environmental Protection Agency]] is a powerful Scottish public body sponsored by the '''Scottish Executive''' Environment and Rural Affairs Department. '''SEPA''' was established by the Environment Act 1995 and is responsible for the protection of the natural environment in Scotland, including air, land, freshwater and marine environments.<br /> <br /> *The company is also a member of [[BWEA]] (formerly the British '''Wind Energy Association'''). [[BWEA]] is a renewable power industry, however &quot;Critics in the environment movement may be suspicious of a company they believe talks about green issues but invests little. [[Shell]] has been a member for some years and other big power producers, such as [[Centrica]], owner of British Gas, and [[E.ON]] of Germany have also joined.” {{ref|21}}<br /> <br /> ==Other activities==<br /> Some other activities that [[Scottish Power]] are involved in include the follwoing:<br /> ===PR connections===<br /> *[[BIG Partnership]]<br /> *[[GPC International]], in 2004/[[Fleishman Hillard]] in 2005<br /> <br /> ===Lobby connections===<br /> *[[Business Council for Sustainable Development – UK]]<br /> *DC lobbying firm [[Stuntz, Davis &amp; Staffier]]<br /> <br /> ===Cultural Affiliations/Sponsorships===<br /> *[[Ballet Central]]<br /> *[[Celtic Connections]]<br /> *[[Edinburgh International Book Festival]] <br /> *[[Glasgow Science Centre]] (The ScottishPower Planetarium)<br /> *[[National Theatre for Scotland]] <br /> *[[ScottishPower Pipe Band]]<br /> <br /> ==External Links==<br /> :ScottishPower website [http://www.scottishpower.com/]<br /> :ScottishPower Gas and Electricity Customer website [http://scottishpower.co.uk/]<br /> :ScottishPower Energy Networks website [http://www.spenergynetworks.com/]<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> #{{note|1}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Power Scottish Power], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow Glasgow], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|3}} Energy supply rank from CNN.com [http://www.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/11/28/scot.power/index.html World Business], &quot;Scot Power agrees $22B Spanish bid&quot;, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|4}} Board and Management bios from Scottish Power[http://www.scottishpower.com/ManagementTeam.asp Meet the Board], accessed March 2007.<br /> #{{note|5}} Fat Cat payoff information from ThisIsMoney [http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=410010&amp;in_page_id=2 article] &quot;Sacked power chiefs get 'obscene' pay-off&quot;, accessed 18 June 2006.<br /> #{{note|6}} Photograph from Eco-Schools[http://www.eco-schools.org/partners/institutional/logo_scotexec.gif Partners], Scottish Executive, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|7}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_616.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Plans to Turn Open-cast Mine into Windfarm and Bird Habitat&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|8}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_537.htm News &amp; Media], “ScottishPower Announces Proposals for Third Large-Scale Scottish Windfarm, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|9}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_634.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Spearheads Drive to Advise Business on the Climate Change Levy&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|10}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1487.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Brings Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' to Schools&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|11}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1498.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower to Build World’s Biggest Wave Project off Orkney&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|12}} Photograph from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/uploads/windfarmconsbiostrategy.pdf Brochure], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|13}} Photograph from Scottish Executive [http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/921/0040702.pdf Poster], accessed 22 March 2007. <br /> #{{note|14}} Report from CorporateWatch [http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=1305 article], &quot;SCOTLAND PLC: The Scottish Executive’s corporate links&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|15}} Information from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article], &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|16}} Photograph from Scottish Parliament[http://survey.scottish.parliament.uk/vli/education/youth/games/jigsaw/logoBig.gif Education], Scottish Parliament, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|17}} SPBE information from Scottish Parliament[http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/nmCentre/news/news-01/pa01-089.htm Parliamentary News Release], “New Scheme Promotes Mutual Understanding Between MSPs and Scottish Businesses&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|18}} Energy Debt comments from Scottish Parliament [http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-07/sor0228-02.htm Energy Debt], &quot;Official Report 28 February 2007&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|19}} SPBE lobby relations from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article] &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|20}} Demos information from Demos [http://www.demos.co.uk/content/aboutdemos homepage], accessed 20 April 2007.</div>

Heather Kirk https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Business_Council_for_Sustainable_Development-UK&diff=29445 2007-04-20T17:14:16Z

<p>Heather Kirk: /* Notes */</p> <hr /> <div>UK affiliate of the [[World Business Council for Sustainable Development]] [http://www.wbcsd.ch]. It claims to promote sustanable development, but is in fact the key peak business association lobbying against sustainability.<br /> [[Image:BCSD-UK.jpg|centre|600px|thumb|Business Council for Sustainable Development – UK logo{{ref|1}}]]<br /> <br /> ==History==<br /> &quot;The second pillar of business power is said to be the political activities of business including its sponsorship of party conferences, donations to parties, lobbying, PR, the creation and use of front groups, seemingly independent institutes and apparently enlightened business networks. One such that has emerged in Scotland in recent months if the creation of the Scottish steering group of the [[Business Council for Sustainable Development- UK]] ('''BCSD-UK'''). In fact the '''WBCSD''' is at the forefront of corporate attempts to undermine environmental action, lobbying worldwide against regulation and in favour of voluntary ‘solutions’. In Scotland the environmentally conscious members of the '''BCSD''' include road building consultancy '''Scott Wilson''', the biggest users of natural (Water) resources [[Scottish Power]]. The '''WBCSD''' is a peak business lobby group dedicated to resisting environmental progress. In Scotland it is at the heart of the policy process. Maybe this is quite routine these days, but when was the last time you heard of a business lobby group set up to influence government policy being funded by the very government being targeted. For some pulling the strings the election of the parliament posed a problem since it had the potential to represent some elements of popular interests, thus there was lots of discussion about how the parliament could be 'educated' (read lobbied) about business. In particular it was argued that most MSPs had no experience of business and that their main experience was in the public sector. To rectify this, the [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]] was set up…&quot; {{ref|2}}<br /> <br /> ==People==<br /> The Management Structure of [[BCSD-UK]] is as follows; <br /> *Chairman [[Jeff Tetlow]]- Managing Director- [[ConocoPhillips]]<br /> *CEO [[David Middleton]] secretariat - [[Environmental Business Communications]](EBC)<br /> *Deputy CEO [[Peter Laybourn]] <br /> *Secretary [[Rory Tait]] [[Eversheds]] <br /> ===Management Committee ===<br /> *[[Peter Braithwaite]] [[Arup]] <br /> *[[Paul Brooks]] [[Corus]]<br /> *[[Dave Cutteridge]] [[Inchferry]]<br /> *[[Martin Gale]] [[UPM Kymenne]]<br /> *[[Mark Hope]] [[Shell UK Exploration &amp; Production]] <br /> *[[Simon Green]] [[North Lincolnshire Council]] <br /> *[[Danny Lawrence]] [[Lafarge]]<br /> *[[John Mumford]] [[BP]] <br /> *[[Peter Sharratt]] [[WSP]]<br /> *[[Mike Ferrow]] [[ConocoPhillips]]. <br /> <br /> Coincidentally [[Lafarge]], which employs one of the members of the '''BCSD''' mamangement, has recently been exposed by [[SEPA]] as one of the main polluters in Scotland.<br /> <br /> ==Scottish steering group==<br /> <br /> The [[Scottish Steering Group of the Business Council for Sustainable Development-UK]] ('''BCSD-UK''') was created following 'a General Meeting hosted in Edinburgh in November 2003' where the '''BCSD-UK''' Secretariat asked 'for a mandate for an Action Plan. With this given, a programme of work was agreed with the [[Scottish Executive]] which provided financial support to the initial stages of this, up to the end of March 2004'[http://www.bcsd-uk.co.uk/].<br /> <br /> ==Lobby affiliations==<br /> <br /> &quot;For some on the left discussion of the power of Westminster may well be code for the power of the Transnational Corporations (TNCs), but it is not enough to leave matters there. Big business does not just rule Scotland via Westminster, it also rules by direct if often low profile and covert engagement in Scottish politics. How is this power accomplished? ‘Social movements for global capitalism’. These include all sorts of corporate lobby groups and the burgeoning lobbying and PR industry. Scottish based TNCs such as [[HBOS]] and [[Scottish Power]] are pretty well integrated into the European and global lobby groups. Their integration into global governance means that the macro level terms of trade and of political regulation are already fixed at the global, European and UK levels. Scottish governance is subject to specific corporate influence. In a devolved Scotland the most obvious way in which corporate actors pursue their interests is by lobbying. But lobbying takes place in the context of already entrenched policy assumptions and a political culture which is already fundamentally oriented to wards the market. It is against this background - which is fundamentally favourable to big business - that lobbying for particular policy measures takes place. Nevertheless lobbying is seen as worthwhile by business interests as evidenced in the burgeoning lobbying and PR market which emerged post devolution. SSP MSPs have already been persistently approached by lobbyists - with some even offering steadily increasing donations to charity to secure meetings with the MSPs. One senior MSP confesses to being gobsmacked at the number of MSPs who are routinely schmoozed and lunched by lobbyists. It is no surprise that lobbyists swarm around the Parliament. It has significant power over budgets which some of the big corporations want to get their hands on. The drug companies also have an interest along with other TNCs in keeping the Scottish political system sweet so they can continues to pollute Scotland without major penalties. These include [[BP]], [[Scottish Power]], [[GlaxoSmithKline]], [[Exxon Mobil]], [[Scottish and Southern Energy]] and others. A more serious problem is that the main target of corporations and their lobbyists is the Executive, meaning both ministers and civil servants. Here there is an extremely murky world of networks, professional, political and personal associations between lobbyists, ministers and civil servants. These developments indicate the fundamental problem of the degraded democratic system we have in Scotland. Big business has already infiltrated the very structure and operating assumptions of the public services - including the civil service.&quot; {{ref|3}} <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> #{{note|1}} Photograph from BCSD-UK [http://www.bcsd-uk.co.uk/ homepage], accessed 15 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} BCSD history from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article], &quot;Taking the Risk out of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007. <br /> #{{note|3}} Lobby connections from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/96/8/ article], “Corporate power, institutional corruption&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.</div>

Heather Kirk https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Business_Council_for_Sustainable_Development-UK&diff=22446 2007-04-20T17:13:19Z

<p>Heather Kirk: </p> <hr /> <div>UK affiliate of the [[World Business Council for Sustainable Development]] [http://www.wbcsd.ch]. It claims to promote sustanable development, but is in fact the key peak business association lobbying against sustainability.<br /> [[Image:BCSD-UK.jpg|centre|600px|thumb|Business Council for Sustainable Development – UK logo{{ref|1}}]]<br /> <br /> ==History==<br /> &quot;The second pillar of business power is said to be the political activities of business including its sponsorship of party conferences, donations to parties, lobbying, PR, the creation and use of front groups, seemingly independent institutes and apparently enlightened business networks. One such that has emerged in Scotland in recent months if the creation of the Scottish steering group of the [[Business Council for Sustainable Development- UK]] ('''BCSD-UK'''). In fact the '''WBCSD''' is at the forefront of corporate attempts to undermine environmental action, lobbying worldwide against regulation and in favour of voluntary ‘solutions’. In Scotland the environmentally conscious members of the '''BCSD''' include road building consultancy '''Scott Wilson''', the biggest users of natural (Water) resources [[Scottish Power]]. The '''WBCSD''' is a peak business lobby group dedicated to resisting environmental progress. In Scotland it is at the heart of the policy process. Maybe this is quite routine these days, but when was the last time you heard of a business lobby group set up to influence government policy being funded by the very government being targeted. For some pulling the strings the election of the parliament posed a problem since it had the potential to represent some elements of popular interests, thus there was lots of discussion about how the parliament could be 'educated' (read lobbied) about business. In particular it was argued that most MSPs had no experience of business and that their main experience was in the public sector. To rectify this, the [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]] was set up…&quot; {{ref|2}}<br /> <br /> ==People==<br /> The Management Structure of [[BCSD-UK]] is as follows; <br /> *Chairman [[Jeff Tetlow]]- Managing Director- [[ConocoPhillips]]<br /> *CEO [[David Middleton]] secretariat - [[Environmental Business Communications]](EBC)<br /> *Deputy CEO [[Peter Laybourn]] <br /> *Secretary [[Rory Tait]] [[Eversheds]] <br /> ===Management Committee ===<br /> *[[Peter Braithwaite]] [[Arup]] <br /> *[[Paul Brooks]] [[Corus]]<br /> *[[Dave Cutteridge]] [[Inchferry]]<br /> *[[Martin Gale]] [[UPM Kymenne]]<br /> *[[Mark Hope]] [[Shell UK Exploration &amp; Production]] <br /> *[[Simon Green]] [[North Lincolnshire Council]] <br /> *[[Danny Lawrence]] [[Lafarge]]<br /> *[[John Mumford]] [[BP]] <br /> *[[Peter Sharratt]] [[WSP]]<br /> *[[Mike Ferrow]] [[ConocoPhillips]]. <br /> <br /> Coincidentally [[Lafarge]], which employs one of the members of the '''BCSD''' mamangement, has recently been exposed by [[SEPA]] as one of the main polluters in Scotland.<br /> <br /> ==Scottish steering group==<br /> <br /> The [[Scottish Steering Group of the Business Council for Sustainable Development-UK]] ('''BCSD-UK''') was created following 'a General Meeting hosted in Edinburgh in November 2003' where the '''BCSD-UK''' Secretariat asked 'for a mandate for an Action Plan. With this given, a programme of work was agreed with the [[Scottish Executive]] which provided financial support to the initial stages of this, up to the end of March 2004'[http://www.bcsd-uk.co.uk/].<br /> <br /> ==Lobby affiliations==<br /> <br /> &quot;For some on the left discussion of the power of Westminster may well be code for the power of the Transnational Corporations (TNCs), but it is not enough to leave matters there. Big business does not just rule Scotland via Westminster, it also rules by direct if often low profile and covert engagement in Scottish politics. How is this power accomplished? ‘Social movements for global capitalism’. These include all sorts of corporate lobby groups and the burgeoning lobbying and PR industry. Scottish based TNCs such as [[HBOS]] and [[Scottish Power]] are pretty well integrated into the European and global lobby groups. Their integration into global governance means that the macro level terms of trade and of political regulation are already fixed at the global, European and UK levels. Scottish governance is subject to specific corporate influence. In a devolved Scotland the most obvious way in which corporate actors pursue their interests is by lobbying. But lobbying takes place in the context of already entrenched policy assumptions and a political culture which is already fundamentally oriented to wards the market. It is against this background - which is fundamentally favourable to big business - that lobbying for particular policy measures takes place. Nevertheless lobbying is seen as worthwhile by business interests as evidenced in the burgeoning lobbying and PR market which emerged post devolution. SSP MSPs have already been persistently approached by lobbyists - with some even offering steadily increasing donations to charity to secure meetings with the MSPs. One senior MSP confesses to being gobsmacked at the number of MSPs who are routinely schmoozed and lunched by lobbyists. It is no surprise that lobbyists swarm around the Parliament. It has significant power over budgets which some of the big corporations want to get their hands on. The drug companies also have an interest along with other TNCs in keeping the Scottish political system sweet so they can continues to pollute Scotland without major penalties. These include [[BP]], [[Scottish Power]], [[GlaxoSmithKline]], [[Exxon Mobil]], [[Scottish and Southern Energy]] and others. A more serious problem is that the main target of corporations and their lobbyists is the Executive, meaning both ministers and civil servants. Here there is an extremely murky world of networks, professional, political and personal associations between lobbyists, ministers and civil servants. These developments indicate the fundamental problem of the degraded democratic system we have in Scotland. Big business has already infiltrated the very structure and operating assumptions of the public services - including the civil service.&quot; {{ref|3}} <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> #{{note|1}} Photograph from BCSD-UK [http://www.bcsd-uk.co.uk/ homepage], accessed 15 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} BCSD history from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article], &quot;Taking the Risk out of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007. <br /> {{note|3}} Lobby connections from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/96/8/ article], “Corporate power, institutional corruption&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.</div>

Heather Kirk https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=ScottishPower&diff=22447 2007-04-20T17:00:18Z

<p>Heather Kirk: /* Other activities */</p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Scottish power.JPG|right|210px|thumb|Scottish Power logo{{ref|1}}]]<br /> [[Image:Glasgow.JPG|right|140px|thumb|Glasgow, Scotland{{ref|2}}]]<br /> :'''Address''': 1 Atlantic Quay, Glasgow, G2 8SP<br /> :'''Phone''': 0141 248 8200<br /> <br /> Based in Glasgow, Scotland, '''ScottishPower Plc''' is a vertically integrated energy company and is Britain's fifth-largest energy supplier. {{ref|3}} As part of the utilities industry, it is the distribution network operator for the central and southern Scotland and the Merseyside and North Wales regions. The company also supplies electricity and natural gas to homes and business around the United Kingdom and generates power for supply to the grid. It owns '''[[PPM Energy]]''' in the United States and is also quoted on the '''London Stock Exchange''' as part of the FTSE 100 Index, and has a secondary listing on the '''New York Stock Exchange'''.<br /> <br /> :[[Scottish Power]] has a number of divisions and subsidiaries, which can be found here: <br /> *[[Scottish Power: Divisons]]<br /> *[[Scottish Power: Subsidiaries]]<br /> <br /> ==History==<br /> [[Scottish Power]] was formed in 1990, in preparation for the privatisation of the previously nationalised Scottish electricity industry the following year. Previously the UK government had privatised the English and Welsh electricity industry by splitting the market into 12 regional electricity companies (RECs) and two power generators. However in Scotland, the industry was already organised on an integrated generation, distribution and supply basis, and this integration survived the privatisation to become a model for the rest of the United Kingdom. [[Scottish Power]] was largely formed from of the larger of the two Scottish electricity boards, the '''South of Scotland Electricity Board''', whilst the other, the '''North of Scotland Hydro Board''', eventually became part of the '''Scottish and Southern Energy Group''' (the nuclear power stations in Scotland were spun off into a third company, '''Scottish Nuclear''', which was not sold off with [[Scottish Power]] and '''Scottish Hydro Electric''', but was sold later as part of '''British Energy''').<br /> <br /> ==Company Chronology==<br /> *1990 - [[Scottish Power]] prepared for privitisation from state-owned [[Scottish Electricity]]<br /> *1991 - officially founded<br /> *1995 - aquired [[Manweb]]<br /> *1996 - expanded into the water supply bussiness and purchased [[Southern Water]]<br /> *2000 - aquired [[Pacificorp]]<br /> *2001 - PacifiCorp Power Marketing, Inc. moved from being a subsidiary of [[PacifiCorp]] to being an affiliate to [[PacifiCorp]]<br /> *2002 - sold [[Southern Water]]; sold [[Thus]] interest; made [[PPM Energy]] a separate business from [[Pacificorp]] <br /> *2005 - rejected takeover bid from [[E.ON]] on 22 November<br /> *2006 - sold [[Pacificorp]] to MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company on 21 March; aquired permission to build Europe's largest on-shore Windfarm on 27 April; agreed to takeover by [[Iberdrola]] on 28 November<br /> <br /> ==People==<br /> ===Board===<br /> <br /> *[[Charles Miller Smith]] Joined the Board as Deputy Chairman in August 1999 and was appointed as Chairman in April 2000.<br /> *[[Euan Baird]] Joined the Board in January 2001 and brings executive level experience in the electronics and engineering industry to the ScottishPower Board.<br /> *[[Donald Brydon]] Joined the Board in May 2003 and is the senior independent director.<br /> *[[Nick Rose]] Joined the Board in February 2003 and he is Chairman of the Audit Committee, nominated as the Committee’s designated “financial expert”.<br /> *[[Nancy Wilgenbusch]] Joined the Board in June 2004.<br /> *[[Peter Hickson]] Joined the Board on 1st September 2006.<br /> <br /> ===Management Team===<br /> <br /> * [[Philip Bowman]] Chief Executive<br /> * [[Simon Lowth]] Finance Director<br /> * [[Terry Hudgens]] Chief Executive Officer, PPM Energy Inc<br /> * [[Susan Reilly]] Commercial Director<br /> * [[Alan Bryce]] Director, Energy Networks<br /> * [[John Campbell]] Director, Energy Wholesale<br /> * [[Willie MacDiarmid]] Director, Energy Retail<br /> * [[Sheelagh Duffield]] Company Secretary<br /> * [[Stephen Dunn]] Director, Human Resources and Communications {{ref|4}}<br /> <br /> ===Previous Members===<br /> * [[Vicky Bailey]] Former American non-Executive Director<br /> * [[Charles Berry]] Former Executive Director (UK)<br /> * [[Dominic Fry]] Former Corporate Affairs Director<br /> * [[David Nish]] Former Exucutive Director of Infrastructure<br /> * [[Ian Russell]] Former Chief Executive<br /> <br /> ==Fat Cat payoffs==<br /> [[Scottish Power]]'s former chief executive [[Ian Russell]] and three colleagues received £10.9m for pay and pension compensation. The sums have been branded 'obscene' by the [[Scottish National Party]] energy spokesman [[Richard Lochhead]], and come to light just three months after they warned customers about inflation-busting bill hikes.<br /> <br /> Mr. Russell, who left in January of 2006 after five years as chief executive, received a £2.3m compensation payment as well as benefiting from a resultant pension top-up of £2.7m. The compensation sum is more than three times his salary of £648,000, while his pension windfall nearly doubled his total entitlement to £6.8m. His colleagues [[Charles Berry]] and [[David Nish]], who both left the firm in September of 2006, pocketed a total of £2.6m and £2.2m in extra compensation and extra pension sums respectively. And [[Judi Johansen]], the former head of the company's [[PacifiCorp]] arm that was sold in 2006 as well, walked off with a total of £1.1m.<br /> <br /> The figures are published in Scottish Power's 2005/06 annual report and accounts, and are on top of their normal pay and pension entitlements totalling a further £10.5m. The plc made £675m profit before tax in the financial year to March 2006. [[Scottish Power]] raised gas prices by 15% and electricity by 8% in March of 2006, only to warn that bills would rise again due to high wholesale costs. {{ref|5}}<br /> <br /> ==Direct links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> ===Scottish Executive===<br /> [[Image:SE logo.JPG|right|150px|thumb|Scottish Executive logo {{ref|6}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] has had a number of direct links with the '''Scottish Executive''' over the years. The following shows some press releases, brochures &amp; posters, CorporateWatch reports, and SpinWatch articles regarding the relationships between the two.<br /> ====Press Releases====<br /> <br /> *In May of 2002, [[Scottish Power]] &quot;submitted plans to the '''Scottish Executive''' for a £70 million windfarm on the site of an abandoned open cast mine at Black Law near the village of Forth in South Lanarkshire. [[Scottish Power]], in partnership with the '''Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and landowners''', has developed a habitat management plan that integrates nature conservation, windfarm operation, and other land uses on the site which has been derelict since coal mining activities ceased there.” {{ref|7}}<br /> <br /> *In January of 2003, [[Scottish Power]] announced to the '''Scottish Executive''' its proposals for the third large scale Scottish windfarm; and &quot;if approved, '''Harestanes''' windfarm alone could meet a third of the '''Scottish Executive'''’s renewable energy target of 18% by 2010.” {{ref|8}}<br /> <br /> *In June of 2004, it was announced that &quot;ScottishPower in partnership with the Scottish Energy Office of the '''Scottish Executive''' today launched a nationwide campaign to make businesses aware of the introduction of the Government's Climate Change Levy (CCL). The CCL is a tax that will be the major force behind the Government's commitment to reduce the UK's production of greenhouse gases by 12.5 per cent, compared to 1990 levels, by 2010.” {{ref|9}}<br /> <br /> *More recently in January of 2007, a press release stated that &quot;Former US Vice President Al Gore’s climate change film, An Inconvenient Truth, will be shown in all of Scotland’s Secondary Schools this year thanks to an initiative from [[Scottish Power]] and the Scottish Executive. The Scottish Executive, through Learning Teaching Scotland, is developing a package of educational materials to help raise awareness of the challenges we all face from global warming. [[Stephen Dunn]], [[Scottish Power]]’s HR and Communications Director, said; “I was greatly impressed by An Inconvenient Truth. Not only does it powerfully explain what is happening to the planet, it also gives hope by simply setting out what we can still do to fight climate change. [[Scottish Power]] is already the biggest generator of onshore wind energy in the UK and is developing biomass and wave generation to reduce emissions and combat global warming – but it is essential that we also help promote understanding of this crucial challenge through initiatives such as this.”&quot; {{ref|10}} <br /> <br /> *In Febraury of 2007, &quot;ScottishPower, working closely with the '''Scottish Executive''', today announced a £10m wave power project designed to push Scotland to the forefront of global marine energy development. ScottishPower's Director of Renewables, Keith Anderson, said: &quot;This is a massive step forward. It will be a test of the actual devices that will be used commercially and, if successful, should help propel Scotland into the forefront of marine energy throughout the world.”&quot; {{ref|11}}<br /> <br /> ====Brochures &amp; Posters====<br /> [[Image:SP windfarm.JPG|right|130px|thumb|Brochure {{ref|12}}]]<br /> “ScottishPower Windfarm Biodiversity Conservation Strategy”<br /> This was a joint venture in 2006 between the '''Scottish Executive''' and '''ScottishPower Renewables'''. It also involved the Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Sustainable Development, as can be proudly seen at the bottom of the brocure.<br /> [[Image:Future.JPG|left|120px|thumb|Poster {{ref|13}}]]<br /> “It’s Our Future schools’ competition”<br /> This is another example of a joint venture in 2006 between '''ScottishPower Gas and Electricity''' &amp; the '''Scottish Executive''''s ''Natural Scotland'' campaign. It involved the WWF (World Wildlife Fund), EcoSchools, as well as Learning &amp; Teaching Scotland, which is funded by the Scottish Executive Education Department (SEED).<br /> <br /> ====CorporateWatch Reports====<br /> &quot;Despite the pro-business outlook of McConnell and the '''Scottish executive''', corporate lobbyists still find it worthwhile to swarm around the '''Scottish Parliament''' in an attempt to secure meetings with MSPs, to influence Scottish public spending in their favour and to keep polluting Scotland without major penalties. The incestuous relationships between the '''Scottish Parliament''' and corporations extend beyond external lobbying, however. Take for example the corporate swamping of cross party policy discussion groups that meet within the '''Scottish Parliament'''. The '''Scottish Executive''' has seen further controversy over its cosy connections with corporations. Since its creation, business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and transnational corporations, with inward secondments from [[Scottish Power]].” {{ref|14}} <br /> <br /> ====Spinwatch articles====<br /> “Since the creation of the '''Scottish Executive''', business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and Trans-National corporations, Inward: [[Scottish Power]], [[Scottish and Newcastle]], [[Stagecoach]], [[Ernst and Young]], [[PriceWaterhouseCoopers]]. Outward: [[Lloyds TSB]] Foundation, [[Scottish Power]], [[McGrigor Donald]] (law firm and lobbyist), [[Scottish and Newcastle]] and business lobby groups [[Business in the Community]] and the '''Scottish Chambers of Commerce'''.” {{ref|15}}<br /> <br /> ===Scottish Parliament===<br /> [[Image:SP logo.JPG|right|170px|thumb|Scottish Parliament logo{{ref|16}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] also has many links with the '''Scottish Parliament''' as well. The following shows Parliamentary News Releases regarding the development of the [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]], Scottish Parliament official reports, and SpinWatch articles as evidence of relationships between the two.<br /> <br /> ====Parliamentary News Releases====<br /> The Scottish Parliament Business Exchange is a scheme where supposedly, MSPs are to be given an opportunity to gain a valuable insight into the diverse Scottish business sector. The Scottish Parliament and Business Exchange ('The Exchange') aims to develop and provide opportunities for promoting mutual understanding between MSPs and business and related communities in Scotland. The Exchange is registered as an educational charity with a board made up of 50 per-cent Parliamentarians and 50 per-cent business representatives. Presiding officer and The Exchange's honorary President, Sir David Steel said &quot;Through being transparent, open, inclusive and flexible in its approach, The Exchange will be able to bring MSPs and the business community together in a non-lobbying and non-partisan way, providing benefits to the whole of Scotland.” The Board of The Exchange was set-up at the first AGM in June of 2001. The Parliament's Chief Executive, Paul Grice, was the convener, and Sir David Steel MSP was the honorary President. The Board members were Elaine Thomson MSP, Brian Adam MSP, David Davidson MSP, Keith Raffan MSP, Lynda Gauld ([[Pfizer]]), Alan Wilson ([[SCDI]]), Miller McLean ([[Royal Bank of Scotland]]), [[Dominic Fry]] ([[Scottish Power]]), Alastair Smith ([[BAA]] Scottish Airports) and Bill Spiers ([[Scottish TUC]]). {{ref|17}}<br /> :To see more about the SPBE's claims vs. realities, click [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]]. <br /> <br /> ====Scottish Parliament official reports====<br /> The 28 February 2007 Official Report regarding Energy Debt featured many varied comments about [[Scottish Power]]'s energy practices. <br /> *Patrick Harvie from Glasgow representing the Green party said: &quot;I was pleased to see that we received briefings from a number of other organisations, including Barnardo's and Capability Scotland, which want Parliament to understand the impact that energy debt has on a range of different people in diverse family situations. Energy suppliers will always have a problem with billing systems for the most vulnerable people, but some of their practices, as Scott Barrie mentioned, hit the poorest households and families hardest. In the case of [[Scottish Power]]'s practices, they had not even calculated what it would cost [[Scottish Power]] to change the policy by writing off such debt. The role of politicians is not just to engage with suppliers on the issue but to look at public policy. Scott Barrie explained the historical situation in terms of the welfare state but, as we move further into the 21st century, the job for politicians is to prepare all citizens and households in Scotland for the period after cheap energy. It falls on all suppliers, including [[Scottish Power]], to adjust their systems to ensure that the most vulnerable people are not placed in further debt.&quot; <br /> *Christine Grahame from the South of Scotland representing the SNP party said: &quot;Energy companies are making a financial killing on the back of the less well-off. Figures that I have obtained show that some companies are charging customers who will not pay by direct debit almost £300 a year more. With regard to the overcharging of non-direct debit customers for gas and electricity combined, the worst offenders—I will name and shame them—were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]]. The worst companies for customers who required only electricity and who chose not to pay by direct debit were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]].&quot;<br /> *Jackie Baillie from Dumbarton representing the Labour party said: &quot;Come on, [[Scottish Power]]—stop back-charging customers and stop back-charging the people who are potentially the most vulnerable customers. I echo the call for [[Scottish Power]] to end immediately its practice of backdating and to acknowledge that prepayment meter tariffs are a mess.” {{ref|18}} <br /> <br /> ====SpinWatch articles====<br /> While the SPBE at first glance seems potentially beneficial and rather harmless, a deeper look reveals something different: &quot;The Scottish Parliament Business Exchange was set up to allow MSPs to be educated about the realities of business life. To ensure that education and not lobbying took place the scheme was required to be ‘non-lobbying’. But in practice three quarters of the business representatives taking part were lobbyists.” {{ref|19}}<br /> <br /> ==Indirect links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> [[Scottish Power]] enjoys many indirect links with the '''Scottish Executive''' and the '''Scottish Parliament''' as well. <br /> *The company sponsors '''community activities''' such as '''ScottishPower Learning'''. This is the company's flagship corporate community programme focused on education/employability. A more detailed look reveals: <br /> a) School-based programmes designed to support the school to work transition<br /> <br /> b) Community-based programmes designed to help unemployed young people build their skills in preparation for work (Involved with Prince’s Trust, Community Champions, Project Scotland)<br /> <br /> c) Work-based programmes designed to provide young people with work experience and vocational training<br /> <br /> *The company is involved with '''think tanks''' as well. [[Demos]], for example, is another 'third way' think tank in the UK. According to its website &quot;Demos is a greenhouse for new ideas which can improve the quality of our lives. As an independent think tank, our aim is to create an open resource of knowledge and learning that operates beyond traditional parties, identities and disciplines.&quot; {{ref|20}} [[Scottish Power]] is one of the many partners of [[Demos]].<br /> <br /> *[[Scottish Power]] is involved with '''policy planning''' agencies, such as the regulatory body '''SEPA'''. The [[Scottish Environmental Protection Agency]]is a powerful Scottish public body sponsored by the '''Scottish Executive''' Environment and Rural Affairs Department. '''SEPA''' was established by the Environment Act 1995 and is responsible for the protection of the natural environment in Scotland, including air, land, freshwater and marine environments.<br /> <br /> *The company is also a member of [[BWEA]] (formerly the British '''Wind Energy Association'''). [[BWEA]] is a renewable power industry, however &quot;Critics in the environment movement may be suspicious of a company they believe talks about green issues but invests little. [[Shell]] has been a member for some years and other big power producers, such as [[Centrica]], owner of British Gas, and [[E.ON]] of Germany have also joined.” {{ref|21}}<br /> <br /> ==Other activities==<br /> Some other activities that [[Scottish Power]] are involved in include the follwoing:<br /> ===PR connections===<br /> *[[BIG Partnership]]<br /> *[[GPC International]], in 2004/[[Fleishman Hillard]] in 2005<br /> <br /> ===Lobby connections===<br /> *[[Business Council for Sustainable Development – UK]]<br /> *DC lobbying firm [[Stuntz, Davis &amp; Staffier]]<br /> <br /> ===Cultural Affiliations/Sponsorships===<br /> *[[Ballet Central]]<br /> *[[Celtic Connections]]<br /> *[[Edinburgh International Book Festival]] <br /> *[[Glasgow Science Centre]] (The ScottishPower Planetarium)<br /> *[[National Theatre for Scotland]] <br /> *[[ScottishPower Pipe Band]]<br /> <br /> ==External Links==<br /> :ScottishPower website [http://www.scottishpower.com/]<br /> :ScottishPower Gas and Electricity Customer website [http://scottishpower.co.uk/]<br /> :ScottishPower Energy Networks website [http://www.spenergynetworks.com/]<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> #{{note|1}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Power Scottish Power], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow Glasgow], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|3}} Energy supply rank from CNN.com [http://www.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/11/28/scot.power/index.html World Business], &quot;Scot Power agrees $22B Spanish bid&quot;, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|4}} Board and Management bios from Scottish Power[http://www.scottishpower.com/ManagementTeam.asp Meet the Board], accessed March 2007.<br /> #{{note|5}} Fat Cat payoff information from ThisIsMoney [http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=410010&amp;in_page_id=2 article] &quot;Sacked power chiefs get 'obscene' pay-off&quot;, accessed 18 June 2006.<br /> #{{note|6}} Photograph from Eco-Schools[http://www.eco-schools.org/partners/institutional/logo_scotexec.gif Partners], Scottish Executive, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|7}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_616.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Plans to Turn Open-cast Mine into Windfarm and Bird Habitat&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|8}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_537.htm News &amp; Media], “ScottishPower Announces Proposals for Third Large-Scale Scottish Windfarm, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|9}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_634.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Spearheads Drive to Advise Business on the Climate Change Levy&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|10}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1487.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Brings Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' to Schools&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|11}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1498.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower to Build World’s Biggest Wave Project off Orkney&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|12}} Photograph from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/uploads/windfarmconsbiostrategy.pdf Brochure], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|13}} Photograph from Scottish Executive [http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/921/0040702.pdf Poster], accessed 22 March 2007. <br /> #{{note|14}} Report from CorporateWatch [http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=1305 article], &quot;SCOTLAND PLC: The Scottish Executive’s corporate links&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|15}} Information from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article], &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|16}} Photograph from Scottish Parliament[http://survey.scottish.parliament.uk/vli/education/youth/games/jigsaw/logoBig.gif Education], Scottish Parliament, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|17}} SPBE information from Scottish Parliament[http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/nmCentre/news/news-01/pa01-089.htm Parliamentary News Release], “New Scheme Promotes Mutual Understanding Between MSPs and Scottish Businesses&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|18}} Energy Debt comments from Scottish Parliament [http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-07/sor0228-02.htm Energy Debt], &quot;Official Report 28 February 2007&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|19}} SPBE lobby relations from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article] &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|20}} Demos information from Demos [http://www.demos.co.uk/content/aboutdemos homepage], accessed 20 April 2007.</div>

Heather Kirk https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=ScottishPower&diff=22432 2007-04-20T16:59:22Z

<p>Heather Kirk: /* Other activities */</p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Scottish power.JPG|right|210px|thumb|Scottish Power logo{{ref|1}}]]<br /> [[Image:Glasgow.JPG|right|140px|thumb|Glasgow, Scotland{{ref|2}}]]<br /> :'''Address''': 1 Atlantic Quay, Glasgow, G2 8SP<br /> :'''Phone''': 0141 248 8200<br /> <br /> Based in Glasgow, Scotland, '''ScottishPower Plc''' is a vertically integrated energy company and is Britain's fifth-largest energy supplier. {{ref|3}} As part of the utilities industry, it is the distribution network operator for the central and southern Scotland and the Merseyside and North Wales regions. The company also supplies electricity and natural gas to homes and business around the United Kingdom and generates power for supply to the grid. It owns '''[[PPM Energy]]''' in the United States and is also quoted on the '''London Stock Exchange''' as part of the FTSE 100 Index, and has a secondary listing on the '''New York Stock Exchange'''.<br /> <br /> :[[Scottish Power]] has a number of divisions and subsidiaries, which can be found here: <br /> *[[Scottish Power: Divisons]]<br /> *[[Scottish Power: Subsidiaries]]<br /> <br /> ==History==<br /> [[Scottish Power]] was formed in 1990, in preparation for the privatisation of the previously nationalised Scottish electricity industry the following year. Previously the UK government had privatised the English and Welsh electricity industry by splitting the market into 12 regional electricity companies (RECs) and two power generators. However in Scotland, the industry was already organised on an integrated generation, distribution and supply basis, and this integration survived the privatisation to become a model for the rest of the United Kingdom. [[Scottish Power]] was largely formed from of the larger of the two Scottish electricity boards, the '''South of Scotland Electricity Board''', whilst the other, the '''North of Scotland Hydro Board''', eventually became part of the '''Scottish and Southern Energy Group''' (the nuclear power stations in Scotland were spun off into a third company, '''Scottish Nuclear''', which was not sold off with [[Scottish Power]] and '''Scottish Hydro Electric''', but was sold later as part of '''British Energy''').<br /> <br /> ==Company Chronology==<br /> *1990 - [[Scottish Power]] prepared for privitisation from state-owned [[Scottish Electricity]]<br /> *1991 - officially founded<br /> *1995 - aquired [[Manweb]]<br /> *1996 - expanded into the water supply bussiness and purchased [[Southern Water]]<br /> *2000 - aquired [[Pacificorp]]<br /> *2001 - PacifiCorp Power Marketing, Inc. moved from being a subsidiary of [[PacifiCorp]] to being an affiliate to [[PacifiCorp]]<br /> *2002 - sold [[Southern Water]]; sold [[Thus]] interest; made [[PPM Energy]] a separate business from [[Pacificorp]] <br /> *2005 - rejected takeover bid from [[E.ON]] on 22 November<br /> *2006 - sold [[Pacificorp]] to MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company on 21 March; aquired permission to build Europe's largest on-shore Windfarm on 27 April; agreed to takeover by [[Iberdrola]] on 28 November<br /> <br /> ==People==<br /> ===Board===<br /> <br /> *[[Charles Miller Smith]] Joined the Board as Deputy Chairman in August 1999 and was appointed as Chairman in April 2000.<br /> *[[Euan Baird]] Joined the Board in January 2001 and brings executive level experience in the electronics and engineering industry to the ScottishPower Board.<br /> *[[Donald Brydon]] Joined the Board in May 2003 and is the senior independent director.<br /> *[[Nick Rose]] Joined the Board in February 2003 and he is Chairman of the Audit Committee, nominated as the Committee’s designated “financial expert”.<br /> *[[Nancy Wilgenbusch]] Joined the Board in June 2004.<br /> *[[Peter Hickson]] Joined the Board on 1st September 2006.<br /> <br /> ===Management Team===<br /> <br /> * [[Philip Bowman]] Chief Executive<br /> * [[Simon Lowth]] Finance Director<br /> * [[Terry Hudgens]] Chief Executive Officer, PPM Energy Inc<br /> * [[Susan Reilly]] Commercial Director<br /> * [[Alan Bryce]] Director, Energy Networks<br /> * [[John Campbell]] Director, Energy Wholesale<br /> * [[Willie MacDiarmid]] Director, Energy Retail<br /> * [[Sheelagh Duffield]] Company Secretary<br /> * [[Stephen Dunn]] Director, Human Resources and Communications {{ref|4}}<br /> <br /> ===Previous Members===<br /> * [[Vicky Bailey]] Former American non-Executive Director<br /> * [[Charles Berry]] Former Executive Director (UK)<br /> * [[Dominic Fry]] Former Corporate Affairs Director<br /> * [[David Nish]] Former Exucutive Director of Infrastructure<br /> * [[Ian Russell]] Former Chief Executive<br /> <br /> ==Fat Cat payoffs==<br /> [[Scottish Power]]'s former chief executive [[Ian Russell]] and three colleagues received £10.9m for pay and pension compensation. The sums have been branded 'obscene' by the [[Scottish National Party]] energy spokesman [[Richard Lochhead]], and come to light just three months after they warned customers about inflation-busting bill hikes.<br /> <br /> Mr. Russell, who left in January of 2006 after five years as chief executive, received a £2.3m compensation payment as well as benefiting from a resultant pension top-up of £2.7m. The compensation sum is more than three times his salary of £648,000, while his pension windfall nearly doubled his total entitlement to £6.8m. His colleagues [[Charles Berry]] and [[David Nish]], who both left the firm in September of 2006, pocketed a total of £2.6m and £2.2m in extra compensation and extra pension sums respectively. And [[Judi Johansen]], the former head of the company's [[PacifiCorp]] arm that was sold in 2006 as well, walked off with a total of £1.1m.<br /> <br /> The figures are published in Scottish Power's 2005/06 annual report and accounts, and are on top of their normal pay and pension entitlements totalling a further £10.5m. The plc made £675m profit before tax in the financial year to March 2006. [[Scottish Power]] raised gas prices by 15% and electricity by 8% in March of 2006, only to warn that bills would rise again due to high wholesale costs. {{ref|5}}<br /> <br /> ==Direct links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> ===Scottish Executive===<br /> [[Image:SE logo.JPG|right|150px|thumb|Scottish Executive logo {{ref|6}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] has had a number of direct links with the '''Scottish Executive''' over the years. The following shows some press releases, brochures &amp; posters, CorporateWatch reports, and SpinWatch articles regarding the relationships between the two.<br /> ====Press Releases====<br /> <br /> *In May of 2002, [[Scottish Power]] &quot;submitted plans to the '''Scottish Executive''' for a £70 million windfarm on the site of an abandoned open cast mine at Black Law near the village of Forth in South Lanarkshire. [[Scottish Power]], in partnership with the '''Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and landowners''', has developed a habitat management plan that integrates nature conservation, windfarm operation, and other land uses on the site which has been derelict since coal mining activities ceased there.” {{ref|7}}<br /> <br /> *In January of 2003, [[Scottish Power]] announced to the '''Scottish Executive''' its proposals for the third large scale Scottish windfarm; and &quot;if approved, '''Harestanes''' windfarm alone could meet a third of the '''Scottish Executive'''’s renewable energy target of 18% by 2010.” {{ref|8}}<br /> <br /> *In June of 2004, it was announced that &quot;ScottishPower in partnership with the Scottish Energy Office of the '''Scottish Executive''' today launched a nationwide campaign to make businesses aware of the introduction of the Government's Climate Change Levy (CCL). The CCL is a tax that will be the major force behind the Government's commitment to reduce the UK's production of greenhouse gases by 12.5 per cent, compared to 1990 levels, by 2010.” {{ref|9}}<br /> <br /> *More recently in January of 2007, a press release stated that &quot;Former US Vice President Al Gore’s climate change film, An Inconvenient Truth, will be shown in all of Scotland’s Secondary Schools this year thanks to an initiative from [[Scottish Power]] and the Scottish Executive. The Scottish Executive, through Learning Teaching Scotland, is developing a package of educational materials to help raise awareness of the challenges we all face from global warming. [[Stephen Dunn]], [[Scottish Power]]’s HR and Communications Director, said; “I was greatly impressed by An Inconvenient Truth. Not only does it powerfully explain what is happening to the planet, it also gives hope by simply setting out what we can still do to fight climate change. [[Scottish Power]] is already the biggest generator of onshore wind energy in the UK and is developing biomass and wave generation to reduce emissions and combat global warming – but it is essential that we also help promote understanding of this crucial challenge through initiatives such as this.”&quot; {{ref|10}} <br /> <br /> *In Febraury of 2007, &quot;ScottishPower, working closely with the '''Scottish Executive''', today announced a £10m wave power project designed to push Scotland to the forefront of global marine energy development. ScottishPower's Director of Renewables, Keith Anderson, said: &quot;This is a massive step forward. It will be a test of the actual devices that will be used commercially and, if successful, should help propel Scotland into the forefront of marine energy throughout the world.”&quot; {{ref|11}}<br /> <br /> ====Brochures &amp; Posters====<br /> [[Image:SP windfarm.JPG|right|130px|thumb|Brochure {{ref|12}}]]<br /> “ScottishPower Windfarm Biodiversity Conservation Strategy”<br /> This was a joint venture in 2006 between the '''Scottish Executive''' and '''ScottishPower Renewables'''. It also involved the Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Sustainable Development, as can be proudly seen at the bottom of the brocure.<br /> [[Image:Future.JPG|left|120px|thumb|Poster {{ref|13}}]]<br /> “It’s Our Future schools’ competition”<br /> This is another example of a joint venture in 2006 between '''ScottishPower Gas and Electricity''' &amp; the '''Scottish Executive''''s ''Natural Scotland'' campaign. It involved the WWF (World Wildlife Fund), EcoSchools, as well as Learning &amp; Teaching Scotland, which is funded by the Scottish Executive Education Department (SEED).<br /> <br /> ====CorporateWatch Reports====<br /> &quot;Despite the pro-business outlook of McConnell and the '''Scottish executive''', corporate lobbyists still find it worthwhile to swarm around the '''Scottish Parliament''' in an attempt to secure meetings with MSPs, to influence Scottish public spending in their favour and to keep polluting Scotland without major penalties. The incestuous relationships between the '''Scottish Parliament''' and corporations extend beyond external lobbying, however. Take for example the corporate swamping of cross party policy discussion groups that meet within the '''Scottish Parliament'''. The '''Scottish Executive''' has seen further controversy over its cosy connections with corporations. Since its creation, business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and transnational corporations, with inward secondments from [[Scottish Power]].” {{ref|14}} <br /> <br /> ====Spinwatch articles====<br /> “Since the creation of the '''Scottish Executive''', business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and Trans-National corporations, Inward: [[Scottish Power]], [[Scottish and Newcastle]], [[Stagecoach]], [[Ernst and Young]], [[PriceWaterhouseCoopers]]. Outward: [[Lloyds TSB]] Foundation, [[Scottish Power]], [[McGrigor Donald]] (law firm and lobbyist), [[Scottish and Newcastle]] and business lobby groups [[Business in the Community]] and the '''Scottish Chambers of Commerce'''.” {{ref|15}}<br /> <br /> ===Scottish Parliament===<br /> [[Image:SP logo.JPG|right|170px|thumb|Scottish Parliament logo{{ref|16}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] also has many links with the '''Scottish Parliament''' as well. The following shows Parliamentary News Releases regarding the development of the [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]], Scottish Parliament official reports, and SpinWatch articles as evidence of relationships between the two.<br /> <br /> ====Parliamentary News Releases====<br /> The Scottish Parliament Business Exchange is a scheme where supposedly, MSPs are to be given an opportunity to gain a valuable insight into the diverse Scottish business sector. The Scottish Parliament and Business Exchange ('The Exchange') aims to develop and provide opportunities for promoting mutual understanding between MSPs and business and related communities in Scotland. The Exchange is registered as an educational charity with a board made up of 50 per-cent Parliamentarians and 50 per-cent business representatives. Presiding officer and The Exchange's honorary President, Sir David Steel said &quot;Through being transparent, open, inclusive and flexible in its approach, The Exchange will be able to bring MSPs and the business community together in a non-lobbying and non-partisan way, providing benefits to the whole of Scotland.” The Board of The Exchange was set-up at the first AGM in June of 2001. The Parliament's Chief Executive, Paul Grice, was the convener, and Sir David Steel MSP was the honorary President. The Board members were Elaine Thomson MSP, Brian Adam MSP, David Davidson MSP, Keith Raffan MSP, Lynda Gauld ([[Pfizer]]), Alan Wilson ([[SCDI]]), Miller McLean ([[Royal Bank of Scotland]]), [[Dominic Fry]] ([[Scottish Power]]), Alastair Smith ([[BAA]] Scottish Airports) and Bill Spiers ([[Scottish TUC]]). {{ref|17}}<br /> :To see more about the SPBE's claims vs. realities, click [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]]. <br /> <br /> ====Scottish Parliament official reports====<br /> The 28 February 2007 Official Report regarding Energy Debt featured many varied comments about [[Scottish Power]]'s energy practices. <br /> *Patrick Harvie from Glasgow representing the Green party said: &quot;I was pleased to see that we received briefings from a number of other organisations, including Barnardo's and Capability Scotland, which want Parliament to understand the impact that energy debt has on a range of different people in diverse family situations. Energy suppliers will always have a problem with billing systems for the most vulnerable people, but some of their practices, as Scott Barrie mentioned, hit the poorest households and families hardest. In the case of [[Scottish Power]]'s practices, they had not even calculated what it would cost [[Scottish Power]] to change the policy by writing off such debt. The role of politicians is not just to engage with suppliers on the issue but to look at public policy. Scott Barrie explained the historical situation in terms of the welfare state but, as we move further into the 21st century, the job for politicians is to prepare all citizens and households in Scotland for the period after cheap energy. It falls on all suppliers, including [[Scottish Power]], to adjust their systems to ensure that the most vulnerable people are not placed in further debt.&quot; <br /> *Christine Grahame from the South of Scotland representing the SNP party said: &quot;Energy companies are making a financial killing on the back of the less well-off. Figures that I have obtained show that some companies are charging customers who will not pay by direct debit almost £300 a year more. With regard to the overcharging of non-direct debit customers for gas and electricity combined, the worst offenders—I will name and shame them—were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]]. The worst companies for customers who required only electricity and who chose not to pay by direct debit were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]].&quot;<br /> *Jackie Baillie from Dumbarton representing the Labour party said: &quot;Come on, [[Scottish Power]]—stop back-charging customers and stop back-charging the people who are potentially the most vulnerable customers. I echo the call for [[Scottish Power]] to end immediately its practice of backdating and to acknowledge that prepayment meter tariffs are a mess.” {{ref|18}} <br /> <br /> ====SpinWatch articles====<br /> While the SPBE at first glance seems potentially beneficial and rather harmless, a deeper look reveals something different: &quot;The Scottish Parliament Business Exchange was set up to allow MSPs to be educated about the realities of business life. To ensure that education and not lobbying took place the scheme was required to be ‘non-lobbying’. But in practice three quarters of the business representatives taking part were lobbyists.” {{ref|19}}<br /> <br /> ==Indirect links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> [[Scottish Power]] enjoys many indirect links with the '''Scottish Executive''' and the '''Scottish Parliament''' as well. <br /> *The company sponsors '''community activities''' such as '''ScottishPower Learning'''. This is the company's flagship corporate community programme focused on education/employability. A more detailed look reveals: <br /> a) School-based programmes designed to support the school to work transition<br /> <br /> b) Community-based programmes designed to help unemployed young people build their skills in preparation for work (Involved with Prince’s Trust, Community Champions, Project Scotland)<br /> <br /> c) Work-based programmes designed to provide young people with work experience and vocational training<br /> <br /> *The company is involved with '''think tanks''' as well. [[Demos]], for example, is another 'third way' think tank in the UK. According to its website &quot;Demos is a greenhouse for new ideas which can improve the quality of our lives. As an independent think tank, our aim is to create an open resource of knowledge and learning that operates beyond traditional parties, identities and disciplines.&quot; {{ref|20}} [[Scottish Power]] is one of the many partners of [[Demos]].<br /> <br /> *[[Scottish Power]] is involved with '''policy planning''' agencies, such as the regulatory body '''SEPA'''. The [[Scottish Environmental Protection Agency]]is a powerful Scottish public body sponsored by the '''Scottish Executive''' Environment and Rural Affairs Department. '''SEPA''' was established by the Environment Act 1995 and is responsible for the protection of the natural environment in Scotland, including air, land, freshwater and marine environments.<br /> <br /> *The company is also a member of [[BWEA]] (formerly the British '''Wind Energy Association'''). [[BWEA]] is a renewable power industry, however &quot;Critics in the environment movement may be suspicious of a company they believe talks about green issues but invests little. [[Shell]] has been a member for some years and other big power producers, such as [[Centrica]], owner of British Gas, and [[E.ON]] of Germany have also joined.” {{ref|21}}<br /> <br /> ==Other activities==<br /> Some other activities that Scottish Power are involved in include the follwoing:<br /> ===PR connections===<br /> *[[BIG Partnership]]<br /> *[[GPC International]], in 2004/[[Fleishman Hillard]] in 2005<br /> <br /> ===Lobby connections===<br /> *[[Business Council for Sustainable Development – UK]]<br /> *DC lobbying firm [[Stuntz, Davis &amp; Staffier]]<br /> <br /> ===Cultural Affiliations/Sponsorships===<br /> *[[Ballet Central]]<br /> *[[Celtic Connections]]<br /> *[[Edinburgh International Book Festival]] <br /> *[[Glasgow Science Centre]] (The ScottishPower Planetarium)<br /> *[[National Theatre for Scotland]] <br /> *[[ScottishPower Pipe Band]]<br /> <br /> ==External Links==<br /> :ScottishPower website [http://www.scottishpower.com/]<br /> :ScottishPower Gas and Electricity Customer website [http://scottishpower.co.uk/]<br /> :ScottishPower Energy Networks website [http://www.spenergynetworks.com/]<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> #{{note|1}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Power Scottish Power], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow Glasgow], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|3}} Energy supply rank from CNN.com [http://www.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/11/28/scot.power/index.html World Business], &quot;Scot Power agrees $22B Spanish bid&quot;, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|4}} Board and Management bios from Scottish Power[http://www.scottishpower.com/ManagementTeam.asp Meet the Board], accessed March 2007.<br /> #{{note|5}} Fat Cat payoff information from ThisIsMoney [http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=410010&amp;in_page_id=2 article] &quot;Sacked power chiefs get 'obscene' pay-off&quot;, accessed 18 June 2006.<br /> #{{note|6}} Photograph from Eco-Schools[http://www.eco-schools.org/partners/institutional/logo_scotexec.gif Partners], Scottish Executive, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|7}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_616.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Plans to Turn Open-cast Mine into Windfarm and Bird Habitat&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|8}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_537.htm News &amp; Media], “ScottishPower Announces Proposals for Third Large-Scale Scottish Windfarm, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|9}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_634.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Spearheads Drive to Advise Business on the Climate Change Levy&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|10}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1487.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Brings Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' to Schools&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|11}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1498.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower to Build World’s Biggest Wave Project off Orkney&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|12}} Photograph from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/uploads/windfarmconsbiostrategy.pdf Brochure], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|13}} Photograph from Scottish Executive [http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/921/0040702.pdf Poster], accessed 22 March 2007. <br /> #{{note|14}} Report from CorporateWatch [http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=1305 article], &quot;SCOTLAND PLC: The Scottish Executive’s corporate links&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|15}} Information from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article], &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|16}} Photograph from Scottish Parliament[http://survey.scottish.parliament.uk/vli/education/youth/games/jigsaw/logoBig.gif Education], Scottish Parliament, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|17}} SPBE information from Scottish Parliament[http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/nmCentre/news/news-01/pa01-089.htm Parliamentary News Release], “New Scheme Promotes Mutual Understanding Between MSPs and Scottish Businesses&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|18}} Energy Debt comments from Scottish Parliament [http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-07/sor0228-02.htm Energy Debt], &quot;Official Report 28 February 2007&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|19}} SPBE lobby relations from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article] &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|20}} Demos information from Demos [http://www.demos.co.uk/content/aboutdemos homepage], accessed 20 April 2007.</div>

Heather Kirk https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=ScottishPower&diff=22431 2007-04-20T16:57:18Z

<p>Heather Kirk: /* Indirect links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament */</p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Scottish power.JPG|right|210px|thumb|Scottish Power logo{{ref|1}}]]<br /> [[Image:Glasgow.JPG|right|140px|thumb|Glasgow, Scotland{{ref|2}}]]<br /> :'''Address''': 1 Atlantic Quay, Glasgow, G2 8SP<br /> :'''Phone''': 0141 248 8200<br /> <br /> Based in Glasgow, Scotland, '''ScottishPower Plc''' is a vertically integrated energy company and is Britain's fifth-largest energy supplier. {{ref|3}} As part of the utilities industry, it is the distribution network operator for the central and southern Scotland and the Merseyside and North Wales regions. The company also supplies electricity and natural gas to homes and business around the United Kingdom and generates power for supply to the grid. It owns '''[[PPM Energy]]''' in the United States and is also quoted on the '''London Stock Exchange''' as part of the FTSE 100 Index, and has a secondary listing on the '''New York Stock Exchange'''.<br /> <br /> :[[Scottish Power]] has a number of divisions and subsidiaries, which can be found here: <br /> *[[Scottish Power: Divisons]]<br /> *[[Scottish Power: Subsidiaries]]<br /> <br /> ==History==<br /> [[Scottish Power]] was formed in 1990, in preparation for the privatisation of the previously nationalised Scottish electricity industry the following year. Previously the UK government had privatised the English and Welsh electricity industry by splitting the market into 12 regional electricity companies (RECs) and two power generators. However in Scotland, the industry was already organised on an integrated generation, distribution and supply basis, and this integration survived the privatisation to become a model for the rest of the United Kingdom. [[Scottish Power]] was largely formed from of the larger of the two Scottish electricity boards, the '''South of Scotland Electricity Board''', whilst the other, the '''North of Scotland Hydro Board''', eventually became part of the '''Scottish and Southern Energy Group''' (the nuclear power stations in Scotland were spun off into a third company, '''Scottish Nuclear''', which was not sold off with [[Scottish Power]] and '''Scottish Hydro Electric''', but was sold later as part of '''British Energy''').<br /> <br /> ==Company Chronology==<br /> *1990 - [[Scottish Power]] prepared for privitisation from state-owned [[Scottish Electricity]]<br /> *1991 - officially founded<br /> *1995 - aquired [[Manweb]]<br /> *1996 - expanded into the water supply bussiness and purchased [[Southern Water]]<br /> *2000 - aquired [[Pacificorp]]<br /> *2001 - PacifiCorp Power Marketing, Inc. moved from being a subsidiary of [[PacifiCorp]] to being an affiliate to [[PacifiCorp]]<br /> *2002 - sold [[Southern Water]]; sold [[Thus]] interest; made [[PPM Energy]] a separate business from [[Pacificorp]] <br /> *2005 - rejected takeover bid from [[E.ON]] on 22 November<br /> *2006 - sold [[Pacificorp]] to MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company on 21 March; aquired permission to build Europe's largest on-shore Windfarm on 27 April; agreed to takeover by [[Iberdrola]] on 28 November<br /> <br /> ==People==<br /> ===Board===<br /> <br /> *[[Charles Miller Smith]] Joined the Board as Deputy Chairman in August 1999 and was appointed as Chairman in April 2000.<br /> *[[Euan Baird]] Joined the Board in January 2001 and brings executive level experience in the electronics and engineering industry to the ScottishPower Board.<br /> *[[Donald Brydon]] Joined the Board in May 2003 and is the senior independent director.<br /> *[[Nick Rose]] Joined the Board in February 2003 and he is Chairman of the Audit Committee, nominated as the Committee’s designated “financial expert”.<br /> *[[Nancy Wilgenbusch]] Joined the Board in June 2004.<br /> *[[Peter Hickson]] Joined the Board on 1st September 2006.<br /> <br /> ===Management Team===<br /> <br /> * [[Philip Bowman]] Chief Executive<br /> * [[Simon Lowth]] Finance Director<br /> * [[Terry Hudgens]] Chief Executive Officer, PPM Energy Inc<br /> * [[Susan Reilly]] Commercial Director<br /> * [[Alan Bryce]] Director, Energy Networks<br /> * [[John Campbell]] Director, Energy Wholesale<br /> * [[Willie MacDiarmid]] Director, Energy Retail<br /> * [[Sheelagh Duffield]] Company Secretary<br /> * [[Stephen Dunn]] Director, Human Resources and Communications {{ref|4}}<br /> <br /> ===Previous Members===<br /> * [[Vicky Bailey]] Former American non-Executive Director<br /> * [[Charles Berry]] Former Executive Director (UK)<br /> * [[Dominic Fry]] Former Corporate Affairs Director<br /> * [[David Nish]] Former Exucutive Director of Infrastructure<br /> * [[Ian Russell]] Former Chief Executive<br /> <br /> ==Fat Cat payoffs==<br /> [[Scottish Power]]'s former chief executive [[Ian Russell]] and three colleagues received £10.9m for pay and pension compensation. The sums have been branded 'obscene' by the [[Scottish National Party]] energy spokesman [[Richard Lochhead]], and come to light just three months after they warned customers about inflation-busting bill hikes.<br /> <br /> Mr. Russell, who left in January of 2006 after five years as chief executive, received a £2.3m compensation payment as well as benefiting from a resultant pension top-up of £2.7m. The compensation sum is more than three times his salary of £648,000, while his pension windfall nearly doubled his total entitlement to £6.8m. His colleagues [[Charles Berry]] and [[David Nish]], who both left the firm in September of 2006, pocketed a total of £2.6m and £2.2m in extra compensation and extra pension sums respectively. And [[Judi Johansen]], the former head of the company's [[PacifiCorp]] arm that was sold in 2006 as well, walked off with a total of £1.1m.<br /> <br /> The figures are published in Scottish Power's 2005/06 annual report and accounts, and are on top of their normal pay and pension entitlements totalling a further £10.5m. The plc made £675m profit before tax in the financial year to March 2006. [[Scottish Power]] raised gas prices by 15% and electricity by 8% in March of 2006, only to warn that bills would rise again due to high wholesale costs. {{ref|5}}<br /> <br /> ==Direct links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> ===Scottish Executive===<br /> [[Image:SE logo.JPG|right|150px|thumb|Scottish Executive logo {{ref|6}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] has had a number of direct links with the '''Scottish Executive''' over the years. The following shows some press releases, brochures &amp; posters, CorporateWatch reports, and SpinWatch articles regarding the relationships between the two.<br /> ====Press Releases====<br /> <br /> *In May of 2002, [[Scottish Power]] &quot;submitted plans to the '''Scottish Executive''' for a £70 million windfarm on the site of an abandoned open cast mine at Black Law near the village of Forth in South Lanarkshire. [[Scottish Power]], in partnership with the '''Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and landowners''', has developed a habitat management plan that integrates nature conservation, windfarm operation, and other land uses on the site which has been derelict since coal mining activities ceased there.” {{ref|7}}<br /> <br /> *In January of 2003, [[Scottish Power]] announced to the '''Scottish Executive''' its proposals for the third large scale Scottish windfarm; and &quot;if approved, '''Harestanes''' windfarm alone could meet a third of the '''Scottish Executive'''’s renewable energy target of 18% by 2010.” {{ref|8}}<br /> <br /> *In June of 2004, it was announced that &quot;ScottishPower in partnership with the Scottish Energy Office of the '''Scottish Executive''' today launched a nationwide campaign to make businesses aware of the introduction of the Government's Climate Change Levy (CCL). The CCL is a tax that will be the major force behind the Government's commitment to reduce the UK's production of greenhouse gases by 12.5 per cent, compared to 1990 levels, by 2010.” {{ref|9}}<br /> <br /> *More recently in January of 2007, a press release stated that &quot;Former US Vice President Al Gore’s climate change film, An Inconvenient Truth, will be shown in all of Scotland’s Secondary Schools this year thanks to an initiative from [[Scottish Power]] and the Scottish Executive. The Scottish Executive, through Learning Teaching Scotland, is developing a package of educational materials to help raise awareness of the challenges we all face from global warming. [[Stephen Dunn]], [[Scottish Power]]’s HR and Communications Director, said; “I was greatly impressed by An Inconvenient Truth. Not only does it powerfully explain what is happening to the planet, it also gives hope by simply setting out what we can still do to fight climate change. [[Scottish Power]] is already the biggest generator of onshore wind energy in the UK and is developing biomass and wave generation to reduce emissions and combat global warming – but it is essential that we also help promote understanding of this crucial challenge through initiatives such as this.”&quot; {{ref|10}} <br /> <br /> *In Febraury of 2007, &quot;ScottishPower, working closely with the '''Scottish Executive''', today announced a £10m wave power project designed to push Scotland to the forefront of global marine energy development. ScottishPower's Director of Renewables, Keith Anderson, said: &quot;This is a massive step forward. It will be a test of the actual devices that will be used commercially and, if successful, should help propel Scotland into the forefront of marine energy throughout the world.”&quot; {{ref|11}}<br /> <br /> ====Brochures &amp; Posters====<br /> [[Image:SP windfarm.JPG|right|130px|thumb|Brochure {{ref|12}}]]<br /> “ScottishPower Windfarm Biodiversity Conservation Strategy”<br /> This was a joint venture in 2006 between the '''Scottish Executive''' and '''ScottishPower Renewables'''. It also involved the Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Sustainable Development, as can be proudly seen at the bottom of the brocure.<br /> [[Image:Future.JPG|left|120px|thumb|Poster {{ref|13}}]]<br /> “It’s Our Future schools’ competition”<br /> This is another example of a joint venture in 2006 between '''ScottishPower Gas and Electricity''' &amp; the '''Scottish Executive''''s ''Natural Scotland'' campaign. It involved the WWF (World Wildlife Fund), EcoSchools, as well as Learning &amp; Teaching Scotland, which is funded by the Scottish Executive Education Department (SEED).<br /> <br /> ====CorporateWatch Reports====<br /> &quot;Despite the pro-business outlook of McConnell and the '''Scottish executive''', corporate lobbyists still find it worthwhile to swarm around the '''Scottish Parliament''' in an attempt to secure meetings with MSPs, to influence Scottish public spending in their favour and to keep polluting Scotland without major penalties. The incestuous relationships between the '''Scottish Parliament''' and corporations extend beyond external lobbying, however. Take for example the corporate swamping of cross party policy discussion groups that meet within the '''Scottish Parliament'''. The '''Scottish Executive''' has seen further controversy over its cosy connections with corporations. Since its creation, business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and transnational corporations, with inward secondments from [[Scottish Power]].” {{ref|14}} <br /> <br /> ====Spinwatch articles====<br /> “Since the creation of the '''Scottish Executive''', business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and Trans-National corporations, Inward: [[Scottish Power]], [[Scottish and Newcastle]], [[Stagecoach]], [[Ernst and Young]], [[PriceWaterhouseCoopers]]. Outward: [[Lloyds TSB]] Foundation, [[Scottish Power]], [[McGrigor Donald]] (law firm and lobbyist), [[Scottish and Newcastle]] and business lobby groups [[Business in the Community]] and the '''Scottish Chambers of Commerce'''.” {{ref|15}}<br /> <br /> ===Scottish Parliament===<br /> [[Image:SP logo.JPG|right|170px|thumb|Scottish Parliament logo{{ref|16}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] also has many links with the '''Scottish Parliament''' as well. The following shows Parliamentary News Releases regarding the development of the [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]], Scottish Parliament official reports, and SpinWatch articles as evidence of relationships between the two.<br /> <br /> ====Parliamentary News Releases====<br /> The Scottish Parliament Business Exchange is a scheme where supposedly, MSPs are to be given an opportunity to gain a valuable insight into the diverse Scottish business sector. The Scottish Parliament and Business Exchange ('The Exchange') aims to develop and provide opportunities for promoting mutual understanding between MSPs and business and related communities in Scotland. The Exchange is registered as an educational charity with a board made up of 50 per-cent Parliamentarians and 50 per-cent business representatives. Presiding officer and The Exchange's honorary President, Sir David Steel said &quot;Through being transparent, open, inclusive and flexible in its approach, The Exchange will be able to bring MSPs and the business community together in a non-lobbying and non-partisan way, providing benefits to the whole of Scotland.” The Board of The Exchange was set-up at the first AGM in June of 2001. The Parliament's Chief Executive, Paul Grice, was the convener, and Sir David Steel MSP was the honorary President. The Board members were Elaine Thomson MSP, Brian Adam MSP, David Davidson MSP, Keith Raffan MSP, Lynda Gauld ([[Pfizer]]), Alan Wilson ([[SCDI]]), Miller McLean ([[Royal Bank of Scotland]]), [[Dominic Fry]] ([[Scottish Power]]), Alastair Smith ([[BAA]] Scottish Airports) and Bill Spiers ([[Scottish TUC]]). {{ref|17}}<br /> :To see more about the SPBE's claims vs. realities, click [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]]. <br /> <br /> ====Scottish Parliament official reports====<br /> The 28 February 2007 Official Report regarding Energy Debt featured many varied comments about [[Scottish Power]]'s energy practices. <br /> *Patrick Harvie from Glasgow representing the Green party said: &quot;I was pleased to see that we received briefings from a number of other organisations, including Barnardo's and Capability Scotland, which want Parliament to understand the impact that energy debt has on a range of different people in diverse family situations. Energy suppliers will always have a problem with billing systems for the most vulnerable people, but some of their practices, as Scott Barrie mentioned, hit the poorest households and families hardest. In the case of [[Scottish Power]]'s practices, they had not even calculated what it would cost [[Scottish Power]] to change the policy by writing off such debt. The role of politicians is not just to engage with suppliers on the issue but to look at public policy. Scott Barrie explained the historical situation in terms of the welfare state but, as we move further into the 21st century, the job for politicians is to prepare all citizens and households in Scotland for the period after cheap energy. It falls on all suppliers, including [[Scottish Power]], to adjust their systems to ensure that the most vulnerable people are not placed in further debt.&quot; <br /> *Christine Grahame from the South of Scotland representing the SNP party said: &quot;Energy companies are making a financial killing on the back of the less well-off. Figures that I have obtained show that some companies are charging customers who will not pay by direct debit almost £300 a year more. With regard to the overcharging of non-direct debit customers for gas and electricity combined, the worst offenders—I will name and shame them—were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]]. The worst companies for customers who required only electricity and who chose not to pay by direct debit were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]].&quot;<br /> *Jackie Baillie from Dumbarton representing the Labour party said: &quot;Come on, [[Scottish Power]]—stop back-charging customers and stop back-charging the people who are potentially the most vulnerable customers. I echo the call for [[Scottish Power]] to end immediately its practice of backdating and to acknowledge that prepayment meter tariffs are a mess.” {{ref|18}} <br /> <br /> ====SpinWatch articles====<br /> While the SPBE at first glance seems potentially beneficial and rather harmless, a deeper look reveals something different: &quot;The Scottish Parliament Business Exchange was set up to allow MSPs to be educated about the realities of business life. To ensure that education and not lobbying took place the scheme was required to be ‘non-lobbying’. But in practice three quarters of the business representatives taking part were lobbyists.” {{ref|19}}<br /> <br /> ==Indirect links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> [[Scottish Power]] enjoys many indirect links with the '''Scottish Executive''' and the '''Scottish Parliament''' as well. <br /> *The company sponsors '''community activities''' such as '''ScottishPower Learning'''. This is the company's flagship corporate community programme focused on education/employability. A more detailed look reveals: <br /> a) School-based programmes designed to support the school to work transition<br /> <br /> b) Community-based programmes designed to help unemployed young people build their skills in preparation for work (Involved with Prince’s Trust, Community Champions, Project Scotland)<br /> <br /> c) Work-based programmes designed to provide young people with work experience and vocational training<br /> <br /> *The company is involved with '''think tanks''' as well. [[Demos]], for example, is another 'third way' think tank in the UK. According to its website &quot;Demos is a greenhouse for new ideas which can improve the quality of our lives. As an independent think tank, our aim is to create an open resource of knowledge and learning that operates beyond traditional parties, identities and disciplines.&quot; {{ref|20}} [[Scottish Power]] is one of the many partners of [[Demos]].<br /> <br /> *[[Scottish Power]] is involved with '''policy planning''' agencies, such as the regulatory body '''SEPA'''. The [[Scottish Environmental Protection Agency]]is a powerful Scottish public body sponsored by the '''Scottish Executive''' Environment and Rural Affairs Department. '''SEPA''' was established by the Environment Act 1995 and is responsible for the protection of the natural environment in Scotland, including air, land, freshwater and marine environments.<br /> <br /> *The company is also a member of [[BWEA]] (formerly the British '''Wind Energy Association'''). [[BWEA]] is a renewable power industry, however &quot;Critics in the environment movement may be suspicious of a company they believe talks about green issues but invests little. [[Shell]] has been a member for some years and other big power producers, such as [[Centrica]], owner of British Gas, and [[E.ON]] of Germany have also joined.” {{ref|21}}<br /> <br /> ==Other activities==<br /> <br /> ===PR connections===<br /> *[[BIG Partnership]]<br /> *[[GPC International]], in 2004/[[Fleishman Hillard]] in 2005<br /> <br /> ===Lobby connections===<br /> *[[Business Council for Sustainable Development – UK]]<br /> *DC lobbying firm [[Stuntz, Davis &amp; Staffier]]<br /> <br /> ===Cultural Affiliations/Sponsorships===<br /> *[[Ballet Central]]<br /> *[[Celtic Connections]]<br /> *[[Edinburgh International Book Festival]] <br /> *[[Glasgow Science Centre]] (The ScottishPower Planetarium)<br /> *[[National Theatre for Scotland]] <br /> *[[ScottishPower Pipe Band]]<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> ==External Links==<br /> :ScottishPower website [http://www.scottishpower.com/]<br /> :ScottishPower Gas and Electricity Customer website [http://scottishpower.co.uk/]<br /> :ScottishPower Energy Networks website [http://www.spenergynetworks.com/]<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> #{{note|1}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Power Scottish Power], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow Glasgow], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|3}} Energy supply rank from CNN.com [http://www.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/11/28/scot.power/index.html World Business], &quot;Scot Power agrees $22B Spanish bid&quot;, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|4}} Board and Management bios from Scottish Power[http://www.scottishpower.com/ManagementTeam.asp Meet the Board], accessed March 2007.<br /> #{{note|5}} Fat Cat payoff information from ThisIsMoney [http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=410010&amp;in_page_id=2 article] &quot;Sacked power chiefs get 'obscene' pay-off&quot;, accessed 18 June 2006.<br /> #{{note|6}} Photograph from Eco-Schools[http://www.eco-schools.org/partners/institutional/logo_scotexec.gif Partners], Scottish Executive, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|7}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_616.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Plans to Turn Open-cast Mine into Windfarm and Bird Habitat&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|8}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_537.htm News &amp; Media], “ScottishPower Announces Proposals for Third Large-Scale Scottish Windfarm, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|9}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_634.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Spearheads Drive to Advise Business on the Climate Change Levy&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|10}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1487.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Brings Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' to Schools&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|11}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1498.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower to Build World’s Biggest Wave Project off Orkney&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|12}} Photograph from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/uploads/windfarmconsbiostrategy.pdf Brochure], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|13}} Photograph from Scottish Executive [http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/921/0040702.pdf Poster], accessed 22 March 2007. <br /> #{{note|14}} Report from CorporateWatch [http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=1305 article], &quot;SCOTLAND PLC: The Scottish Executive’s corporate links&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|15}} Information from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article], &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|16}} Photograph from Scottish Parliament[http://survey.scottish.parliament.uk/vli/education/youth/games/jigsaw/logoBig.gif Education], Scottish Parliament, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|17}} SPBE information from Scottish Parliament[http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/nmCentre/news/news-01/pa01-089.htm Parliamentary News Release], “New Scheme Promotes Mutual Understanding Between MSPs and Scottish Businesses&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|18}} Energy Debt comments from Scottish Parliament [http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-07/sor0228-02.htm Energy Debt], &quot;Official Report 28 February 2007&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|19}} SPBE lobby relations from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article] &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|20}} Demos information from Demos [http://www.demos.co.uk/content/aboutdemos homepage], accessed 20 April 2007.</div>

Heather Kirk https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=ScottishPower&diff=22430 2007-04-20T16:55:48Z

<p>Heather Kirk: /* Indirect links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament */</p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Scottish power.JPG|right|210px|thumb|Scottish Power logo{{ref|1}}]]<br /> [[Image:Glasgow.JPG|right|140px|thumb|Glasgow, Scotland{{ref|2}}]]<br /> :'''Address''': 1 Atlantic Quay, Glasgow, G2 8SP<br /> :'''Phone''': 0141 248 8200<br /> <br /> Based in Glasgow, Scotland, '''ScottishPower Plc''' is a vertically integrated energy company and is Britain's fifth-largest energy supplier. {{ref|3}} As part of the utilities industry, it is the distribution network operator for the central and southern Scotland and the Merseyside and North Wales regions. The company also supplies electricity and natural gas to homes and business around the United Kingdom and generates power for supply to the grid. It owns '''[[PPM Energy]]''' in the United States and is also quoted on the '''London Stock Exchange''' as part of the FTSE 100 Index, and has a secondary listing on the '''New York Stock Exchange'''.<br /> <br /> :[[Scottish Power]] has a number of divisions and subsidiaries, which can be found here: <br /> *[[Scottish Power: Divisons]]<br /> *[[Scottish Power: Subsidiaries]]<br /> <br /> ==History==<br /> [[Scottish Power]] was formed in 1990, in preparation for the privatisation of the previously nationalised Scottish electricity industry the following year. Previously the UK government had privatised the English and Welsh electricity industry by splitting the market into 12 regional electricity companies (RECs) and two power generators. However in Scotland, the industry was already organised on an integrated generation, distribution and supply basis, and this integration survived the privatisation to become a model for the rest of the United Kingdom. [[Scottish Power]] was largely formed from of the larger of the two Scottish electricity boards, the '''South of Scotland Electricity Board''', whilst the other, the '''North of Scotland Hydro Board''', eventually became part of the '''Scottish and Southern Energy Group''' (the nuclear power stations in Scotland were spun off into a third company, '''Scottish Nuclear''', which was not sold off with [[Scottish Power]] and '''Scottish Hydro Electric''', but was sold later as part of '''British Energy''').<br /> <br /> ==Company Chronology==<br /> *1990 - [[Scottish Power]] prepared for privitisation from state-owned [[Scottish Electricity]]<br /> *1991 - officially founded<br /> *1995 - aquired [[Manweb]]<br /> *1996 - expanded into the water supply bussiness and purchased [[Southern Water]]<br /> *2000 - aquired [[Pacificorp]]<br /> *2001 - PacifiCorp Power Marketing, Inc. moved from being a subsidiary of [[PacifiCorp]] to being an affiliate to [[PacifiCorp]]<br /> *2002 - sold [[Southern Water]]; sold [[Thus]] interest; made [[PPM Energy]] a separate business from [[Pacificorp]] <br /> *2005 - rejected takeover bid from [[E.ON]] on 22 November<br /> *2006 - sold [[Pacificorp]] to MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company on 21 March; aquired permission to build Europe's largest on-shore Windfarm on 27 April; agreed to takeover by [[Iberdrola]] on 28 November<br /> <br /> ==People==<br /> ===Board===<br /> <br /> *[[Charles Miller Smith]] Joined the Board as Deputy Chairman in August 1999 and was appointed as Chairman in April 2000.<br /> *[[Euan Baird]] Joined the Board in January 2001 and brings executive level experience in the electronics and engineering industry to the ScottishPower Board.<br /> *[[Donald Brydon]] Joined the Board in May 2003 and is the senior independent director.<br /> *[[Nick Rose]] Joined the Board in February 2003 and he is Chairman of the Audit Committee, nominated as the Committee’s designated “financial expert”.<br /> *[[Nancy Wilgenbusch]] Joined the Board in June 2004.<br /> *[[Peter Hickson]] Joined the Board on 1st September 2006.<br /> <br /> ===Management Team===<br /> <br /> * [[Philip Bowman]] Chief Executive<br /> * [[Simon Lowth]] Finance Director<br /> * [[Terry Hudgens]] Chief Executive Officer, PPM Energy Inc<br /> * [[Susan Reilly]] Commercial Director<br /> * [[Alan Bryce]] Director, Energy Networks<br /> * [[John Campbell]] Director, Energy Wholesale<br /> * [[Willie MacDiarmid]] Director, Energy Retail<br /> * [[Sheelagh Duffield]] Company Secretary<br /> * [[Stephen Dunn]] Director, Human Resources and Communications {{ref|4}}<br /> <br /> ===Previous Members===<br /> * [[Vicky Bailey]] Former American non-Executive Director<br /> * [[Charles Berry]] Former Executive Director (UK)<br /> * [[Dominic Fry]] Former Corporate Affairs Director<br /> * [[David Nish]] Former Exucutive Director of Infrastructure<br /> * [[Ian Russell]] Former Chief Executive<br /> <br /> ==Fat Cat payoffs==<br /> [[Scottish Power]]'s former chief executive [[Ian Russell]] and three colleagues received £10.9m for pay and pension compensation. The sums have been branded 'obscene' by the [[Scottish National Party]] energy spokesman [[Richard Lochhead]], and come to light just three months after they warned customers about inflation-busting bill hikes.<br /> <br /> Mr. Russell, who left in January of 2006 after five years as chief executive, received a £2.3m compensation payment as well as benefiting from a resultant pension top-up of £2.7m. The compensation sum is more than three times his salary of £648,000, while his pension windfall nearly doubled his total entitlement to £6.8m. His colleagues [[Charles Berry]] and [[David Nish]], who both left the firm in September of 2006, pocketed a total of £2.6m and £2.2m in extra compensation and extra pension sums respectively. And [[Judi Johansen]], the former head of the company's [[PacifiCorp]] arm that was sold in 2006 as well, walked off with a total of £1.1m.<br /> <br /> The figures are published in Scottish Power's 2005/06 annual report and accounts, and are on top of their normal pay and pension entitlements totalling a further £10.5m. The plc made £675m profit before tax in the financial year to March 2006. [[Scottish Power]] raised gas prices by 15% and electricity by 8% in March of 2006, only to warn that bills would rise again due to high wholesale costs. {{ref|5}}<br /> <br /> ==Direct links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> ===Scottish Executive===<br /> [[Image:SE logo.JPG|right|150px|thumb|Scottish Executive logo {{ref|6}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] has had a number of direct links with the '''Scottish Executive''' over the years. The following shows some press releases, brochures &amp; posters, CorporateWatch reports, and SpinWatch articles regarding the relationships between the two.<br /> ====Press Releases====<br /> <br /> *In May of 2002, [[Scottish Power]] &quot;submitted plans to the '''Scottish Executive''' for a £70 million windfarm on the site of an abandoned open cast mine at Black Law near the village of Forth in South Lanarkshire. [[Scottish Power]], in partnership with the '''Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and landowners''', has developed a habitat management plan that integrates nature conservation, windfarm operation, and other land uses on the site which has been derelict since coal mining activities ceased there.” {{ref|7}}<br /> <br /> *In January of 2003, [[Scottish Power]] announced to the '''Scottish Executive''' its proposals for the third large scale Scottish windfarm; and &quot;if approved, '''Harestanes''' windfarm alone could meet a third of the '''Scottish Executive'''’s renewable energy target of 18% by 2010.” {{ref|8}}<br /> <br /> *In June of 2004, it was announced that &quot;ScottishPower in partnership with the Scottish Energy Office of the '''Scottish Executive''' today launched a nationwide campaign to make businesses aware of the introduction of the Government's Climate Change Levy (CCL). The CCL is a tax that will be the major force behind the Government's commitment to reduce the UK's production of greenhouse gases by 12.5 per cent, compared to 1990 levels, by 2010.” {{ref|9}}<br /> <br /> *More recently in January of 2007, a press release stated that &quot;Former US Vice President Al Gore’s climate change film, An Inconvenient Truth, will be shown in all of Scotland’s Secondary Schools this year thanks to an initiative from [[Scottish Power]] and the Scottish Executive. The Scottish Executive, through Learning Teaching Scotland, is developing a package of educational materials to help raise awareness of the challenges we all face from global warming. [[Stephen Dunn]], [[Scottish Power]]’s HR and Communications Director, said; “I was greatly impressed by An Inconvenient Truth. Not only does it powerfully explain what is happening to the planet, it also gives hope by simply setting out what we can still do to fight climate change. [[Scottish Power]] is already the biggest generator of onshore wind energy in the UK and is developing biomass and wave generation to reduce emissions and combat global warming – but it is essential that we also help promote understanding of this crucial challenge through initiatives such as this.”&quot; {{ref|10}} <br /> <br /> *In Febraury of 2007, &quot;ScottishPower, working closely with the '''Scottish Executive''', today announced a £10m wave power project designed to push Scotland to the forefront of global marine energy development. ScottishPower's Director of Renewables, Keith Anderson, said: &quot;This is a massive step forward. It will be a test of the actual devices that will be used commercially and, if successful, should help propel Scotland into the forefront of marine energy throughout the world.”&quot; {{ref|11}}<br /> <br /> ====Brochures &amp; Posters====<br /> [[Image:SP windfarm.JPG|right|130px|thumb|Brochure {{ref|12}}]]<br /> “ScottishPower Windfarm Biodiversity Conservation Strategy”<br /> This was a joint venture in 2006 between the '''Scottish Executive''' and '''ScottishPower Renewables'''. It also involved the Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Sustainable Development, as can be proudly seen at the bottom of the brocure.<br /> [[Image:Future.JPG|left|120px|thumb|Poster {{ref|13}}]]<br /> “It’s Our Future schools’ competition”<br /> This is another example of a joint venture in 2006 between '''ScottishPower Gas and Electricity''' &amp; the '''Scottish Executive''''s ''Natural Scotland'' campaign. It involved the WWF (World Wildlife Fund), EcoSchools, as well as Learning &amp; Teaching Scotland, which is funded by the Scottish Executive Education Department (SEED).<br /> <br /> ====CorporateWatch Reports====<br /> &quot;Despite the pro-business outlook of McConnell and the '''Scottish executive''', corporate lobbyists still find it worthwhile to swarm around the '''Scottish Parliament''' in an attempt to secure meetings with MSPs, to influence Scottish public spending in their favour and to keep polluting Scotland without major penalties. The incestuous relationships between the '''Scottish Parliament''' and corporations extend beyond external lobbying, however. Take for example the corporate swamping of cross party policy discussion groups that meet within the '''Scottish Parliament'''. The '''Scottish Executive''' has seen further controversy over its cosy connections with corporations. Since its creation, business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and transnational corporations, with inward secondments from [[Scottish Power]].” {{ref|14}} <br /> <br /> ====Spinwatch articles====<br /> “Since the creation of the '''Scottish Executive''', business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and Trans-National corporations, Inward: [[Scottish Power]], [[Scottish and Newcastle]], [[Stagecoach]], [[Ernst and Young]], [[PriceWaterhouseCoopers]]. Outward: [[Lloyds TSB]] Foundation, [[Scottish Power]], [[McGrigor Donald]] (law firm and lobbyist), [[Scottish and Newcastle]] and business lobby groups [[Business in the Community]] and the '''Scottish Chambers of Commerce'''.” {{ref|15}}<br /> <br /> ===Scottish Parliament===<br /> [[Image:SP logo.JPG|right|170px|thumb|Scottish Parliament logo{{ref|16}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] also has many links with the '''Scottish Parliament''' as well. The following shows Parliamentary News Releases regarding the development of the [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]], Scottish Parliament official reports, and SpinWatch articles as evidence of relationships between the two.<br /> <br /> ====Parliamentary News Releases====<br /> The Scottish Parliament Business Exchange is a scheme where supposedly, MSPs are to be given an opportunity to gain a valuable insight into the diverse Scottish business sector. The Scottish Parliament and Business Exchange ('The Exchange') aims to develop and provide opportunities for promoting mutual understanding between MSPs and business and related communities in Scotland. The Exchange is registered as an educational charity with a board made up of 50 per-cent Parliamentarians and 50 per-cent business representatives. Presiding officer and The Exchange's honorary President, Sir David Steel said &quot;Through being transparent, open, inclusive and flexible in its approach, The Exchange will be able to bring MSPs and the business community together in a non-lobbying and non-partisan way, providing benefits to the whole of Scotland.” The Board of The Exchange was set-up at the first AGM in June of 2001. The Parliament's Chief Executive, Paul Grice, was the convener, and Sir David Steel MSP was the honorary President. The Board members were Elaine Thomson MSP, Brian Adam MSP, David Davidson MSP, Keith Raffan MSP, Lynda Gauld ([[Pfizer]]), Alan Wilson ([[SCDI]]), Miller McLean ([[Royal Bank of Scotland]]), [[Dominic Fry]] ([[Scottish Power]]), Alastair Smith ([[BAA]] Scottish Airports) and Bill Spiers ([[Scottish TUC]]). {{ref|17}}<br /> :To see more about the SPBE's claims vs. realities, click [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]]. <br /> <br /> ====Scottish Parliament official reports====<br /> The 28 February 2007 Official Report regarding Energy Debt featured many varied comments about [[Scottish Power]]'s energy practices. <br /> *Patrick Harvie from Glasgow representing the Green party said: &quot;I was pleased to see that we received briefings from a number of other organisations, including Barnardo's and Capability Scotland, which want Parliament to understand the impact that energy debt has on a range of different people in diverse family situations. Energy suppliers will always have a problem with billing systems for the most vulnerable people, but some of their practices, as Scott Barrie mentioned, hit the poorest households and families hardest. In the case of [[Scottish Power]]'s practices, they had not even calculated what it would cost [[Scottish Power]] to change the policy by writing off such debt. The role of politicians is not just to engage with suppliers on the issue but to look at public policy. Scott Barrie explained the historical situation in terms of the welfare state but, as we move further into the 21st century, the job for politicians is to prepare all citizens and households in Scotland for the period after cheap energy. It falls on all suppliers, including [[Scottish Power]], to adjust their systems to ensure that the most vulnerable people are not placed in further debt.&quot; <br /> *Christine Grahame from the South of Scotland representing the SNP party said: &quot;Energy companies are making a financial killing on the back of the less well-off. Figures that I have obtained show that some companies are charging customers who will not pay by direct debit almost £300 a year more. With regard to the overcharging of non-direct debit customers for gas and electricity combined, the worst offenders—I will name and shame them—were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]]. The worst companies for customers who required only electricity and who chose not to pay by direct debit were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]].&quot;<br /> *Jackie Baillie from Dumbarton representing the Labour party said: &quot;Come on, [[Scottish Power]]—stop back-charging customers and stop back-charging the people who are potentially the most vulnerable customers. I echo the call for [[Scottish Power]] to end immediately its practice of backdating and to acknowledge that prepayment meter tariffs are a mess.” {{ref|18}} <br /> <br /> ====SpinWatch articles====<br /> While the SPBE at first glance seems potentially beneficial and rather harmless, a deeper look reveals something different: &quot;The Scottish Parliament Business Exchange was set up to allow MSPs to be educated about the realities of business life. To ensure that education and not lobbying took place the scheme was required to be ‘non-lobbying’. But in practice three quarters of the business representatives taking part were lobbyists.” {{ref|19}}<br /> <br /> ==Indirect links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> [[Scottish Power]] enjoys many indirect links with the Scottish Executive and the Scottish Parliament as well. The company sponsors community activities such as '''ScottishPower Learning'''.<br /> *'''ScottishPower Learning''' is the flagship corporate community programme focused on education/employability. A more detailed look reveals: <br /> a) School-based programmes designed to support the school to work transition<br /> <br /> b) Community-based programmes designed to help unemployed young people build their skills in preparation for work (Involved with Prince’s Trust, Community Champions, Project Scotland)<br /> <br /> c) Work-based programmes designed to provide young people with work experience and vocational training<br /> <br /> *The company is involved with '''think tanks''' as well. [[Demos]], for example, is another 'third way' think tank in the UK. According to its website &quot;Demos is a greenhouse for new ideas which can improve the quality of our lives. As an independent think tank, our aim is to create an open resource of knowledge and learning that operates beyond traditional parties, identities and disciplines.&quot; {{ref|20}} [[Scottish Power]] is one of the many partners of [[Demos]].<br /> <br /> *[[Scottish Power]] is involved with '''policy planning''' agencies, such as the regulatory body '''SEPA'''. The [[Scottish Environmental Protection Agency]]is a powerful Scottish public body sponsored by the '''Scottish Executive''' Environment and Rural Affairs Department. '''SEPA''' was established by the Environment Act 1995 and is responsible for the protection of the natural environment in Scotland, including air, land, freshwater and marine environments.<br /> <br /> *The company is also a member of [[BWEA]] (formerly the British '''Wind Energy Association'''). [[BWEA]] is a renewable power industry, however &quot;Critics in the environment movement may be suspicious of a company they believe talks about green issues but invests little. [[Shell]] has been a member for some years and other big power producers, such as [[Centrica]], owner of British Gas, and [[E.ON]] of Germany have also joined.” {{ref|21}}<br /> <br /> ==Other activities==<br /> <br /> ===PR connections===<br /> *[[BIG Partnership]]<br /> *[[GPC International]], in 2004/[[Fleishman Hillard]] in 2005<br /> <br /> ===Lobby connections===<br /> *[[Business Council for Sustainable Development – UK]]<br /> *DC lobbying firm [[Stuntz, Davis &amp; Staffier]]<br /> <br /> ===Cultural Affiliations/Sponsorships===<br /> *[[Ballet Central]]<br /> *[[Celtic Connections]]<br /> *[[Edinburgh International Book Festival]] <br /> *[[Glasgow Science Centre]] (The ScottishPower Planetarium)<br /> *[[National Theatre for Scotland]] <br /> *[[ScottishPower Pipe Band]]<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> ==External Links==<br /> :ScottishPower website [http://www.scottishpower.com/]<br /> :ScottishPower Gas and Electricity Customer website [http://scottishpower.co.uk/]<br /> :ScottishPower Energy Networks website [http://www.spenergynetworks.com/]<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> #{{note|1}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Power Scottish Power], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow Glasgow], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|3}} Energy supply rank from CNN.com [http://www.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/11/28/scot.power/index.html World Business], &quot;Scot Power agrees $22B Spanish bid&quot;, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|4}} Board and Management bios from Scottish Power[http://www.scottishpower.com/ManagementTeam.asp Meet the Board], accessed March 2007.<br /> #{{note|5}} Fat Cat payoff information from ThisIsMoney [http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=410010&amp;in_page_id=2 article] &quot;Sacked power chiefs get 'obscene' pay-off&quot;, accessed 18 June 2006.<br /> #{{note|6}} Photograph from Eco-Schools[http://www.eco-schools.org/partners/institutional/logo_scotexec.gif Partners], Scottish Executive, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|7}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_616.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Plans to Turn Open-cast Mine into Windfarm and Bird Habitat&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|8}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_537.htm News &amp; Media], “ScottishPower Announces Proposals for Third Large-Scale Scottish Windfarm, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|9}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_634.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Spearheads Drive to Advise Business on the Climate Change Levy&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|10}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1487.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Brings Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' to Schools&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|11}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1498.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower to Build World’s Biggest Wave Project off Orkney&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|12}} Photograph from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/uploads/windfarmconsbiostrategy.pdf Brochure], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|13}} Photograph from Scottish Executive [http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/921/0040702.pdf Poster], accessed 22 March 2007. <br /> #{{note|14}} Report from CorporateWatch [http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=1305 article], &quot;SCOTLAND PLC: The Scottish Executive’s corporate links&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|15}} Information from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article], &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|16}} Photograph from Scottish Parliament[http://survey.scottish.parliament.uk/vli/education/youth/games/jigsaw/logoBig.gif Education], Scottish Parliament, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|17}} SPBE information from Scottish Parliament[http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/nmCentre/news/news-01/pa01-089.htm Parliamentary News Release], “New Scheme Promotes Mutual Understanding Between MSPs and Scottish Businesses&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|18}} Energy Debt comments from Scottish Parliament [http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-07/sor0228-02.htm Energy Debt], &quot;Official Report 28 February 2007&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|19}} SPBE lobby relations from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article] &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|20}} Demos information from Demos [http://www.demos.co.uk/content/aboutdemos homepage], accessed 20 April 2007.</div>

Heather Kirk https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=ScottishPower&diff=22428 2007-04-20T16:55:20Z

<p>Heather Kirk: /* Indirect links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament */</p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Scottish power.JPG|right|210px|thumb|Scottish Power logo{{ref|1}}]]<br /> [[Image:Glasgow.JPG|right|140px|thumb|Glasgow, Scotland{{ref|2}}]]<br /> :'''Address''': 1 Atlantic Quay, Glasgow, G2 8SP<br /> :'''Phone''': 0141 248 8200<br /> <br /> Based in Glasgow, Scotland, '''ScottishPower Plc''' is a vertically integrated energy company and is Britain's fifth-largest energy supplier. {{ref|3}} As part of the utilities industry, it is the distribution network operator for the central and southern Scotland and the Merseyside and North Wales regions. The company also supplies electricity and natural gas to homes and business around the United Kingdom and generates power for supply to the grid. It owns '''[[PPM Energy]]''' in the United States and is also quoted on the '''London Stock Exchange''' as part of the FTSE 100 Index, and has a secondary listing on the '''New York Stock Exchange'''.<br /> <br /> :[[Scottish Power]] has a number of divisions and subsidiaries, which can be found here: <br /> *[[Scottish Power: Divisons]]<br /> *[[Scottish Power: Subsidiaries]]<br /> <br /> ==History==<br /> [[Scottish Power]] was formed in 1990, in preparation for the privatisation of the previously nationalised Scottish electricity industry the following year. Previously the UK government had privatised the English and Welsh electricity industry by splitting the market into 12 regional electricity companies (RECs) and two power generators. However in Scotland, the industry was already organised on an integrated generation, distribution and supply basis, and this integration survived the privatisation to become a model for the rest of the United Kingdom. [[Scottish Power]] was largely formed from of the larger of the two Scottish electricity boards, the '''South of Scotland Electricity Board''', whilst the other, the '''North of Scotland Hydro Board''', eventually became part of the '''Scottish and Southern Energy Group''' (the nuclear power stations in Scotland were spun off into a third company, '''Scottish Nuclear''', which was not sold off with [[Scottish Power]] and '''Scottish Hydro Electric''', but was sold later as part of '''British Energy''').<br /> <br /> ==Company Chronology==<br /> *1990 - [[Scottish Power]] prepared for privitisation from state-owned [[Scottish Electricity]]<br /> *1991 - officially founded<br /> *1995 - aquired [[Manweb]]<br /> *1996 - expanded into the water supply bussiness and purchased [[Southern Water]]<br /> *2000 - aquired [[Pacificorp]]<br /> *2001 - PacifiCorp Power Marketing, Inc. moved from being a subsidiary of [[PacifiCorp]] to being an affiliate to [[PacifiCorp]]<br /> *2002 - sold [[Southern Water]]; sold [[Thus]] interest; made [[PPM Energy]] a separate business from [[Pacificorp]] <br /> *2005 - rejected takeover bid from [[E.ON]] on 22 November<br /> *2006 - sold [[Pacificorp]] to MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company on 21 March; aquired permission to build Europe's largest on-shore Windfarm on 27 April; agreed to takeover by [[Iberdrola]] on 28 November<br /> <br /> ==People==<br /> ===Board===<br /> <br /> *[[Charles Miller Smith]] Joined the Board as Deputy Chairman in August 1999 and was appointed as Chairman in April 2000.<br /> *[[Euan Baird]] Joined the Board in January 2001 and brings executive level experience in the electronics and engineering industry to the ScottishPower Board.<br /> *[[Donald Brydon]] Joined the Board in May 2003 and is the senior independent director.<br /> *[[Nick Rose]] Joined the Board in February 2003 and he is Chairman of the Audit Committee, nominated as the Committee’s designated “financial expert”.<br /> *[[Nancy Wilgenbusch]] Joined the Board in June 2004.<br /> *[[Peter Hickson]] Joined the Board on 1st September 2006.<br /> <br /> ===Management Team===<br /> <br /> * [[Philip Bowman]] Chief Executive<br /> * [[Simon Lowth]] Finance Director<br /> * [[Terry Hudgens]] Chief Executive Officer, PPM Energy Inc<br /> * [[Susan Reilly]] Commercial Director<br /> * [[Alan Bryce]] Director, Energy Networks<br /> * [[John Campbell]] Director, Energy Wholesale<br /> * [[Willie MacDiarmid]] Director, Energy Retail<br /> * [[Sheelagh Duffield]] Company Secretary<br /> * [[Stephen Dunn]] Director, Human Resources and Communications {{ref|4}}<br /> <br /> ===Previous Members===<br /> * [[Vicky Bailey]] Former American non-Executive Director<br /> * [[Charles Berry]] Former Executive Director (UK)<br /> * [[Dominic Fry]] Former Corporate Affairs Director<br /> * [[David Nish]] Former Exucutive Director of Infrastructure<br /> * [[Ian Russell]] Former Chief Executive<br /> <br /> ==Fat Cat payoffs==<br /> [[Scottish Power]]'s former chief executive [[Ian Russell]] and three colleagues received £10.9m for pay and pension compensation. The sums have been branded 'obscene' by the [[Scottish National Party]] energy spokesman [[Richard Lochhead]], and come to light just three months after they warned customers about inflation-busting bill hikes.<br /> <br /> Mr. Russell, who left in January of 2006 after five years as chief executive, received a £2.3m compensation payment as well as benefiting from a resultant pension top-up of £2.7m. The compensation sum is more than three times his salary of £648,000, while his pension windfall nearly doubled his total entitlement to £6.8m. His colleagues [[Charles Berry]] and [[David Nish]], who both left the firm in September of 2006, pocketed a total of £2.6m and £2.2m in extra compensation and extra pension sums respectively. And [[Judi Johansen]], the former head of the company's [[PacifiCorp]] arm that was sold in 2006 as well, walked off with a total of £1.1m.<br /> <br /> The figures are published in Scottish Power's 2005/06 annual report and accounts, and are on top of their normal pay and pension entitlements totalling a further £10.5m. The plc made £675m profit before tax in the financial year to March 2006. [[Scottish Power]] raised gas prices by 15% and electricity by 8% in March of 2006, only to warn that bills would rise again due to high wholesale costs. {{ref|5}}<br /> <br /> ==Direct links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> ===Scottish Executive===<br /> [[Image:SE logo.JPG|right|150px|thumb|Scottish Executive logo {{ref|6}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] has had a number of direct links with the '''Scottish Executive''' over the years. The following shows some press releases, brochures &amp; posters, CorporateWatch reports, and SpinWatch articles regarding the relationships between the two.<br /> ====Press Releases====<br /> <br /> *In May of 2002, [[Scottish Power]] &quot;submitted plans to the '''Scottish Executive''' for a £70 million windfarm on the site of an abandoned open cast mine at Black Law near the village of Forth in South Lanarkshire. [[Scottish Power]], in partnership with the '''Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and landowners''', has developed a habitat management plan that integrates nature conservation, windfarm operation, and other land uses on the site which has been derelict since coal mining activities ceased there.” {{ref|7}}<br /> <br /> *In January of 2003, [[Scottish Power]] announced to the '''Scottish Executive''' its proposals for the third large scale Scottish windfarm; and &quot;if approved, '''Harestanes''' windfarm alone could meet a third of the '''Scottish Executive'''’s renewable energy target of 18% by 2010.” {{ref|8}}<br /> <br /> *In June of 2004, it was announced that &quot;ScottishPower in partnership with the Scottish Energy Office of the '''Scottish Executive''' today launched a nationwide campaign to make businesses aware of the introduction of the Government's Climate Change Levy (CCL). The CCL is a tax that will be the major force behind the Government's commitment to reduce the UK's production of greenhouse gases by 12.5 per cent, compared to 1990 levels, by 2010.” {{ref|9}}<br /> <br /> *More recently in January of 2007, a press release stated that &quot;Former US Vice President Al Gore’s climate change film, An Inconvenient Truth, will be shown in all of Scotland’s Secondary Schools this year thanks to an initiative from [[Scottish Power]] and the Scottish Executive. The Scottish Executive, through Learning Teaching Scotland, is developing a package of educational materials to help raise awareness of the challenges we all face from global warming. [[Stephen Dunn]], [[Scottish Power]]’s HR and Communications Director, said; “I was greatly impressed by An Inconvenient Truth. Not only does it powerfully explain what is happening to the planet, it also gives hope by simply setting out what we can still do to fight climate change. [[Scottish Power]] is already the biggest generator of onshore wind energy in the UK and is developing biomass and wave generation to reduce emissions and combat global warming – but it is essential that we also help promote understanding of this crucial challenge through initiatives such as this.”&quot; {{ref|10}} <br /> <br /> *In Febraury of 2007, &quot;ScottishPower, working closely with the '''Scottish Executive''', today announced a £10m wave power project designed to push Scotland to the forefront of global marine energy development. ScottishPower's Director of Renewables, Keith Anderson, said: &quot;This is a massive step forward. It will be a test of the actual devices that will be used commercially and, if successful, should help propel Scotland into the forefront of marine energy throughout the world.”&quot; {{ref|11}}<br /> <br /> ====Brochures &amp; Posters====<br /> [[Image:SP windfarm.JPG|right|130px|thumb|Brochure {{ref|12}}]]<br /> “ScottishPower Windfarm Biodiversity Conservation Strategy”<br /> This was a joint venture in 2006 between the '''Scottish Executive''' and '''ScottishPower Renewables'''. It also involved the Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Sustainable Development, as can be proudly seen at the bottom of the brocure.<br /> [[Image:Future.JPG|left|120px|thumb|Poster {{ref|13}}]]<br /> “It’s Our Future schools’ competition”<br /> This is another example of a joint venture in 2006 between '''ScottishPower Gas and Electricity''' &amp; the '''Scottish Executive''''s ''Natural Scotland'' campaign. It involved the WWF (World Wildlife Fund), EcoSchools, as well as Learning &amp; Teaching Scotland, which is funded by the Scottish Executive Education Department (SEED).<br /> <br /> ====CorporateWatch Reports====<br /> &quot;Despite the pro-business outlook of McConnell and the '''Scottish executive''', corporate lobbyists still find it worthwhile to swarm around the '''Scottish Parliament''' in an attempt to secure meetings with MSPs, to influence Scottish public spending in their favour and to keep polluting Scotland without major penalties. The incestuous relationships between the '''Scottish Parliament''' and corporations extend beyond external lobbying, however. Take for example the corporate swamping of cross party policy discussion groups that meet within the '''Scottish Parliament'''. The '''Scottish Executive''' has seen further controversy over its cosy connections with corporations. Since its creation, business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and transnational corporations, with inward secondments from [[Scottish Power]].” {{ref|14}} <br /> <br /> ====Spinwatch articles====<br /> “Since the creation of the '''Scottish Executive''', business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and Trans-National corporations, Inward: [[Scottish Power]], [[Scottish and Newcastle]], [[Stagecoach]], [[Ernst and Young]], [[PriceWaterhouseCoopers]]. Outward: [[Lloyds TSB]] Foundation, [[Scottish Power]], [[McGrigor Donald]] (law firm and lobbyist), [[Scottish and Newcastle]] and business lobby groups [[Business in the Community]] and the '''Scottish Chambers of Commerce'''.” {{ref|15}}<br /> <br /> ===Scottish Parliament===<br /> [[Image:SP logo.JPG|right|170px|thumb|Scottish Parliament logo{{ref|16}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] also has many links with the '''Scottish Parliament''' as well. The following shows Parliamentary News Releases regarding the development of the [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]], Scottish Parliament official reports, and SpinWatch articles as evidence of relationships between the two.<br /> <br /> ====Parliamentary News Releases====<br /> The Scottish Parliament Business Exchange is a scheme where supposedly, MSPs are to be given an opportunity to gain a valuable insight into the diverse Scottish business sector. The Scottish Parliament and Business Exchange ('The Exchange') aims to develop and provide opportunities for promoting mutual understanding between MSPs and business and related communities in Scotland. The Exchange is registered as an educational charity with a board made up of 50 per-cent Parliamentarians and 50 per-cent business representatives. Presiding officer and The Exchange's honorary President, Sir David Steel said &quot;Through being transparent, open, inclusive and flexible in its approach, The Exchange will be able to bring MSPs and the business community together in a non-lobbying and non-partisan way, providing benefits to the whole of Scotland.” The Board of The Exchange was set-up at the first AGM in June of 2001. The Parliament's Chief Executive, Paul Grice, was the convener, and Sir David Steel MSP was the honorary President. The Board members were Elaine Thomson MSP, Brian Adam MSP, David Davidson MSP, Keith Raffan MSP, Lynda Gauld ([[Pfizer]]), Alan Wilson ([[SCDI]]), Miller McLean ([[Royal Bank of Scotland]]), [[Dominic Fry]] ([[Scottish Power]]), Alastair Smith ([[BAA]] Scottish Airports) and Bill Spiers ([[Scottish TUC]]). {{ref|17}}<br /> :To see more about the SPBE's claims vs. realities, click [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]]. <br /> <br /> ====Scottish Parliament official reports====<br /> The 28 February 2007 Official Report regarding Energy Debt featured many varied comments about [[Scottish Power]]'s energy practices. <br /> *Patrick Harvie from Glasgow representing the Green party said: &quot;I was pleased to see that we received briefings from a number of other organisations, including Barnardo's and Capability Scotland, which want Parliament to understand the impact that energy debt has on a range of different people in diverse family situations. Energy suppliers will always have a problem with billing systems for the most vulnerable people, but some of their practices, as Scott Barrie mentioned, hit the poorest households and families hardest. In the case of [[Scottish Power]]'s practices, they had not even calculated what it would cost [[Scottish Power]] to change the policy by writing off such debt. The role of politicians is not just to engage with suppliers on the issue but to look at public policy. Scott Barrie explained the historical situation in terms of the welfare state but, as we move further into the 21st century, the job for politicians is to prepare all citizens and households in Scotland for the period after cheap energy. It falls on all suppliers, including [[Scottish Power]], to adjust their systems to ensure that the most vulnerable people are not placed in further debt.&quot; <br /> *Christine Grahame from the South of Scotland representing the SNP party said: &quot;Energy companies are making a financial killing on the back of the less well-off. Figures that I have obtained show that some companies are charging customers who will not pay by direct debit almost £300 a year more. With regard to the overcharging of non-direct debit customers for gas and electricity combined, the worst offenders—I will name and shame them—were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]]. The worst companies for customers who required only electricity and who chose not to pay by direct debit were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]].&quot;<br /> *Jackie Baillie from Dumbarton representing the Labour party said: &quot;Come on, [[Scottish Power]]—stop back-charging customers and stop back-charging the people who are potentially the most vulnerable customers. I echo the call for [[Scottish Power]] to end immediately its practice of backdating and to acknowledge that prepayment meter tariffs are a mess.” {{ref|18}} <br /> <br /> ====SpinWatch articles====<br /> While the SPBE at first glance seems potentially beneficial and rather harmless, a deeper look reveals something different: &quot;The Scottish Parliament Business Exchange was set up to allow MSPs to be educated about the realities of business life. To ensure that education and not lobbying took place the scheme was required to be ‘non-lobbying’. But in practice three quarters of the business representatives taking part were lobbyists.” {{ref|19}}<br /> <br /> ==Indirect links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> [[Scottish Power]] enjoys many indirect links with the Scottish Executive and the Scottish Parliament as well. The company sponsors community activities such as '''ScottishPower Learning'''.<br /> *'''ScottishPower Learning''' is the flagship corporate community programme focused on education/employability. A more detailed look reveals: <br /> a) School-based programmes designed to support the school to work transition<br /> <br /> b) Community-based programmes designed to help unemployed young people build their skills in preparation for work (Involved with Prince’s Trust, Community Champions, Project Scotland)<br /> <br /> c) Work-based programmes designed to provide young people with work experience and vocational training<br /> <br /> *The company is involved with '''think tanks''' as well. [[Demos]], for example, is another 'third way' think tank in the UK. According to its website &quot;Demos is a greenhouse for new ideas which can improve the quality of our lives. As an independent think tank, our aim is to create an open resource of knowledge and learning that operates beyond traditional parties, identities and disciplines.&quot; {{ref|20}} [[Scottish Power]] is one of the many partners of [[Demos]].<br /> <br /> *[[Scottish Power]] is involved with policy planning agencies, such as the regulatory body '''SEPA'''. The [[Scottish Environmental Protection Agency]]is a powerful Scottish public body sponsored by the '''Scottish Executive''' Environment and Rural Affairs Department. '''SEPA''' was established by the Environment Act 1995 and is responsible for the protection of the natural environment in Scotland, including air, land, freshwater and marine environments.<br /> <br /> *The company is also a member of [[BWEA]] (formerly the British '''Wind Energy Association'''). [[BWEA]] is a renewable power industry, however &quot;Critics in the environment movement may be suspicious of a company they believe talks about green issues but invests little. [[Shell]] has been a member for some years and other big power producers, such as [[Centrica]], owner of British Gas, and [[E.ON]] of Germany have also joined.” {{ref|21}}<br /> <br /> ==Other activities==<br /> <br /> ===PR connections===<br /> *[[BIG Partnership]]<br /> *[[GPC International]], in 2004/[[Fleishman Hillard]] in 2005<br /> <br /> ===Lobby connections===<br /> *[[Business Council for Sustainable Development – UK]]<br /> *DC lobbying firm [[Stuntz, Davis &amp; Staffier]]<br /> <br /> ===Cultural Affiliations/Sponsorships===<br /> *[[Ballet Central]]<br /> *[[Celtic Connections]]<br /> *[[Edinburgh International Book Festival]] <br /> *[[Glasgow Science Centre]] (The ScottishPower Planetarium)<br /> *[[National Theatre for Scotland]] <br /> *[[ScottishPower Pipe Band]]<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> ==External Links==<br /> :ScottishPower website [http://www.scottishpower.com/]<br /> :ScottishPower Gas and Electricity Customer website [http://scottishpower.co.uk/]<br /> :ScottishPower Energy Networks website [http://www.spenergynetworks.com/]<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> #{{note|1}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Power Scottish Power], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow Glasgow], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|3}} Energy supply rank from CNN.com [http://www.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/11/28/scot.power/index.html World Business], &quot;Scot Power agrees $22B Spanish bid&quot;, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|4}} Board and Management bios from Scottish Power[http://www.scottishpower.com/ManagementTeam.asp Meet the Board], accessed March 2007.<br /> #{{note|5}} Fat Cat payoff information from ThisIsMoney [http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=410010&amp;in_page_id=2 article] &quot;Sacked power chiefs get 'obscene' pay-off&quot;, accessed 18 June 2006.<br /> #{{note|6}} Photograph from Eco-Schools[http://www.eco-schools.org/partners/institutional/logo_scotexec.gif Partners], Scottish Executive, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|7}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_616.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Plans to Turn Open-cast Mine into Windfarm and Bird Habitat&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|8}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_537.htm News &amp; Media], “ScottishPower Announces Proposals for Third Large-Scale Scottish Windfarm, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|9}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_634.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Spearheads Drive to Advise Business on the Climate Change Levy&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|10}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1487.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Brings Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' to Schools&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|11}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1498.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower to Build World’s Biggest Wave Project off Orkney&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|12}} Photograph from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/uploads/windfarmconsbiostrategy.pdf Brochure], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|13}} Photograph from Scottish Executive [http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/921/0040702.pdf Poster], accessed 22 March 2007. <br /> #{{note|14}} Report from CorporateWatch [http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=1305 article], &quot;SCOTLAND PLC: The Scottish Executive’s corporate links&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|15}} Information from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article], &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|16}} Photograph from Scottish Parliament[http://survey.scottish.parliament.uk/vli/education/youth/games/jigsaw/logoBig.gif Education], Scottish Parliament, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|17}} SPBE information from Scottish Parliament[http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/nmCentre/news/news-01/pa01-089.htm Parliamentary News Release], “New Scheme Promotes Mutual Understanding Between MSPs and Scottish Businesses&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|18}} Energy Debt comments from Scottish Parliament [http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-07/sor0228-02.htm Energy Debt], &quot;Official Report 28 February 2007&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|19}} SPBE lobby relations from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article] &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|20}} Demos information from Demos [http://www.demos.co.uk/content/aboutdemos homepage], accessed 20 April 2007.</div>

Heather Kirk https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=ScottishPower&diff=22427 2007-04-20T16:55:16Z

<p>Heather Kirk: /* References */</p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Scottish power.JPG|right|210px|thumb|Scottish Power logo{{ref|1}}]]<br /> [[Image:Glasgow.JPG|right|140px|thumb|Glasgow, Scotland{{ref|2}}]]<br /> :'''Address''': 1 Atlantic Quay, Glasgow, G2 8SP<br /> :'''Phone''': 0141 248 8200<br /> <br /> Based in Glasgow, Scotland, '''ScottishPower Plc''' is a vertically integrated energy company and is Britain's fifth-largest energy supplier. {{ref|3}} As part of the utilities industry, it is the distribution network operator for the central and southern Scotland and the Merseyside and North Wales regions. The company also supplies electricity and natural gas to homes and business around the United Kingdom and generates power for supply to the grid. It owns '''[[PPM Energy]]''' in the United States and is also quoted on the '''London Stock Exchange''' as part of the FTSE 100 Index, and has a secondary listing on the '''New York Stock Exchange'''.<br /> <br /> :[[Scottish Power]] has a number of divisions and subsidiaries, which can be found here: <br /> *[[Scottish Power: Divisons]]<br /> *[[Scottish Power: Subsidiaries]]<br /> <br /> ==History==<br /> [[Scottish Power]] was formed in 1990, in preparation for the privatisation of the previously nationalised Scottish electricity industry the following year. Previously the UK government had privatised the English and Welsh electricity industry by splitting the market into 12 regional electricity companies (RECs) and two power generators. However in Scotland, the industry was already organised on an integrated generation, distribution and supply basis, and this integration survived the privatisation to become a model for the rest of the United Kingdom. [[Scottish Power]] was largely formed from of the larger of the two Scottish electricity boards, the '''South of Scotland Electricity Board''', whilst the other, the '''North of Scotland Hydro Board''', eventually became part of the '''Scottish and Southern Energy Group''' (the nuclear power stations in Scotland were spun off into a third company, '''Scottish Nuclear''', which was not sold off with [[Scottish Power]] and '''Scottish Hydro Electric''', but was sold later as part of '''British Energy''').<br /> <br /> ==Company Chronology==<br /> *1990 - [[Scottish Power]] prepared for privitisation from state-owned [[Scottish Electricity]]<br /> *1991 - officially founded<br /> *1995 - aquired [[Manweb]]<br /> *1996 - expanded into the water supply bussiness and purchased [[Southern Water]]<br /> *2000 - aquired [[Pacificorp]]<br /> *2001 - PacifiCorp Power Marketing, Inc. moved from being a subsidiary of [[PacifiCorp]] to being an affiliate to [[PacifiCorp]]<br /> *2002 - sold [[Southern Water]]; sold [[Thus]] interest; made [[PPM Energy]] a separate business from [[Pacificorp]] <br /> *2005 - rejected takeover bid from [[E.ON]] on 22 November<br /> *2006 - sold [[Pacificorp]] to MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company on 21 March; aquired permission to build Europe's largest on-shore Windfarm on 27 April; agreed to takeover by [[Iberdrola]] on 28 November<br /> <br /> ==People==<br /> ===Board===<br /> <br /> *[[Charles Miller Smith]] Joined the Board as Deputy Chairman in August 1999 and was appointed as Chairman in April 2000.<br /> *[[Euan Baird]] Joined the Board in January 2001 and brings executive level experience in the electronics and engineering industry to the ScottishPower Board.<br /> *[[Donald Brydon]] Joined the Board in May 2003 and is the senior independent director.<br /> *[[Nick Rose]] Joined the Board in February 2003 and he is Chairman of the Audit Committee, nominated as the Committee’s designated “financial expert”.<br /> *[[Nancy Wilgenbusch]] Joined the Board in June 2004.<br /> *[[Peter Hickson]] Joined the Board on 1st September 2006.<br /> <br /> ===Management Team===<br /> <br /> * [[Philip Bowman]] Chief Executive<br /> * [[Simon Lowth]] Finance Director<br /> * [[Terry Hudgens]] Chief Executive Officer, PPM Energy Inc<br /> * [[Susan Reilly]] Commercial Director<br /> * [[Alan Bryce]] Director, Energy Networks<br /> * [[John Campbell]] Director, Energy Wholesale<br /> * [[Willie MacDiarmid]] Director, Energy Retail<br /> * [[Sheelagh Duffield]] Company Secretary<br /> * [[Stephen Dunn]] Director, Human Resources and Communications {{ref|4}}<br /> <br /> ===Previous Members===<br /> * [[Vicky Bailey]] Former American non-Executive Director<br /> * [[Charles Berry]] Former Executive Director (UK)<br /> * [[Dominic Fry]] Former Corporate Affairs Director<br /> * [[David Nish]] Former Exucutive Director of Infrastructure<br /> * [[Ian Russell]] Former Chief Executive<br /> <br /> ==Fat Cat payoffs==<br /> [[Scottish Power]]'s former chief executive [[Ian Russell]] and three colleagues received £10.9m for pay and pension compensation. The sums have been branded 'obscene' by the [[Scottish National Party]] energy spokesman [[Richard Lochhead]], and come to light just three months after they warned customers about inflation-busting bill hikes.<br /> <br /> Mr. Russell, who left in January of 2006 after five years as chief executive, received a £2.3m compensation payment as well as benefiting from a resultant pension top-up of £2.7m. The compensation sum is more than three times his salary of £648,000, while his pension windfall nearly doubled his total entitlement to £6.8m. His colleagues [[Charles Berry]] and [[David Nish]], who both left the firm in September of 2006, pocketed a total of £2.6m and £2.2m in extra compensation and extra pension sums respectively. And [[Judi Johansen]], the former head of the company's [[PacifiCorp]] arm that was sold in 2006 as well, walked off with a total of £1.1m.<br /> <br /> The figures are published in Scottish Power's 2005/06 annual report and accounts, and are on top of their normal pay and pension entitlements totalling a further £10.5m. The plc made £675m profit before tax in the financial year to March 2006. [[Scottish Power]] raised gas prices by 15% and electricity by 8% in March of 2006, only to warn that bills would rise again due to high wholesale costs. {{ref|5}}<br /> <br /> ==Direct links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> ===Scottish Executive===<br /> [[Image:SE logo.JPG|right|150px|thumb|Scottish Executive logo {{ref|6}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] has had a number of direct links with the '''Scottish Executive''' over the years. The following shows some press releases, brochures &amp; posters, CorporateWatch reports, and SpinWatch articles regarding the relationships between the two.<br /> ====Press Releases====<br /> <br /> *In May of 2002, [[Scottish Power]] &quot;submitted plans to the '''Scottish Executive''' for a £70 million windfarm on the site of an abandoned open cast mine at Black Law near the village of Forth in South Lanarkshire. [[Scottish Power]], in partnership with the '''Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and landowners''', has developed a habitat management plan that integrates nature conservation, windfarm operation, and other land uses on the site which has been derelict since coal mining activities ceased there.” {{ref|7}}<br /> <br /> *In January of 2003, [[Scottish Power]] announced to the '''Scottish Executive''' its proposals for the third large scale Scottish windfarm; and &quot;if approved, '''Harestanes''' windfarm alone could meet a third of the '''Scottish Executive'''’s renewable energy target of 18% by 2010.” {{ref|8}}<br /> <br /> *In June of 2004, it was announced that &quot;ScottishPower in partnership with the Scottish Energy Office of the '''Scottish Executive''' today launched a nationwide campaign to make businesses aware of the introduction of the Government's Climate Change Levy (CCL). The CCL is a tax that will be the major force behind the Government's commitment to reduce the UK's production of greenhouse gases by 12.5 per cent, compared to 1990 levels, by 2010.” {{ref|9}}<br /> <br /> *More recently in January of 2007, a press release stated that &quot;Former US Vice President Al Gore’s climate change film, An Inconvenient Truth, will be shown in all of Scotland’s Secondary Schools this year thanks to an initiative from [[Scottish Power]] and the Scottish Executive. The Scottish Executive, through Learning Teaching Scotland, is developing a package of educational materials to help raise awareness of the challenges we all face from global warming. [[Stephen Dunn]], [[Scottish Power]]’s HR and Communications Director, said; “I was greatly impressed by An Inconvenient Truth. Not only does it powerfully explain what is happening to the planet, it also gives hope by simply setting out what we can still do to fight climate change. [[Scottish Power]] is already the biggest generator of onshore wind energy in the UK and is developing biomass and wave generation to reduce emissions and combat global warming – but it is essential that we also help promote understanding of this crucial challenge through initiatives such as this.”&quot; {{ref|10}} <br /> <br /> *In Febraury of 2007, &quot;ScottishPower, working closely with the '''Scottish Executive''', today announced a £10m wave power project designed to push Scotland to the forefront of global marine energy development. ScottishPower's Director of Renewables, Keith Anderson, said: &quot;This is a massive step forward. It will be a test of the actual devices that will be used commercially and, if successful, should help propel Scotland into the forefront of marine energy throughout the world.”&quot; {{ref|11}}<br /> <br /> ====Brochures &amp; Posters====<br /> [[Image:SP windfarm.JPG|right|130px|thumb|Brochure {{ref|12}}]]<br /> “ScottishPower Windfarm Biodiversity Conservation Strategy”<br /> This was a joint venture in 2006 between the '''Scottish Executive''' and '''ScottishPower Renewables'''. It also involved the Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Sustainable Development, as can be proudly seen at the bottom of the brocure.<br /> [[Image:Future.JPG|left|120px|thumb|Poster {{ref|13}}]]<br /> “It’s Our Future schools’ competition”<br /> This is another example of a joint venture in 2006 between '''ScottishPower Gas and Electricity''' &amp; the '''Scottish Executive''''s ''Natural Scotland'' campaign. It involved the WWF (World Wildlife Fund), EcoSchools, as well as Learning &amp; Teaching Scotland, which is funded by the Scottish Executive Education Department (SEED).<br /> <br /> ====CorporateWatch Reports====<br /> &quot;Despite the pro-business outlook of McConnell and the '''Scottish executive''', corporate lobbyists still find it worthwhile to swarm around the '''Scottish Parliament''' in an attempt to secure meetings with MSPs, to influence Scottish public spending in their favour and to keep polluting Scotland without major penalties. The incestuous relationships between the '''Scottish Parliament''' and corporations extend beyond external lobbying, however. Take for example the corporate swamping of cross party policy discussion groups that meet within the '''Scottish Parliament'''. The '''Scottish Executive''' has seen further controversy over its cosy connections with corporations. Since its creation, business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and transnational corporations, with inward secondments from [[Scottish Power]].” {{ref|14}} <br /> <br /> ====Spinwatch articles====<br /> “Since the creation of the '''Scottish Executive''', business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and Trans-National corporations, Inward: [[Scottish Power]], [[Scottish and Newcastle]], [[Stagecoach]], [[Ernst and Young]], [[PriceWaterhouseCoopers]]. Outward: [[Lloyds TSB]] Foundation, [[Scottish Power]], [[McGrigor Donald]] (law firm and lobbyist), [[Scottish and Newcastle]] and business lobby groups [[Business in the Community]] and the '''Scottish Chambers of Commerce'''.” {{ref|15}}<br /> <br /> ===Scottish Parliament===<br /> [[Image:SP logo.JPG|right|170px|thumb|Scottish Parliament logo{{ref|16}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] also has many links with the '''Scottish Parliament''' as well. The following shows Parliamentary News Releases regarding the development of the [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]], Scottish Parliament official reports, and SpinWatch articles as evidence of relationships between the two.<br /> <br /> ====Parliamentary News Releases====<br /> The Scottish Parliament Business Exchange is a scheme where supposedly, MSPs are to be given an opportunity to gain a valuable insight into the diverse Scottish business sector. The Scottish Parliament and Business Exchange ('The Exchange') aims to develop and provide opportunities for promoting mutual understanding between MSPs and business and related communities in Scotland. The Exchange is registered as an educational charity with a board made up of 50 per-cent Parliamentarians and 50 per-cent business representatives. Presiding officer and The Exchange's honorary President, Sir David Steel said &quot;Through being transparent, open, inclusive and flexible in its approach, The Exchange will be able to bring MSPs and the business community together in a non-lobbying and non-partisan way, providing benefits to the whole of Scotland.” The Board of The Exchange was set-up at the first AGM in June of 2001. The Parliament's Chief Executive, Paul Grice, was the convener, and Sir David Steel MSP was the honorary President. The Board members were Elaine Thomson MSP, Brian Adam MSP, David Davidson MSP, Keith Raffan MSP, Lynda Gauld ([[Pfizer]]), Alan Wilson ([[SCDI]]), Miller McLean ([[Royal Bank of Scotland]]), [[Dominic Fry]] ([[Scottish Power]]), Alastair Smith ([[BAA]] Scottish Airports) and Bill Spiers ([[Scottish TUC]]). {{ref|17}}<br /> :To see more about the SPBE's claims vs. realities, click [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]]. <br /> <br /> ====Scottish Parliament official reports====<br /> The 28 February 2007 Official Report regarding Energy Debt featured many varied comments about [[Scottish Power]]'s energy practices. <br /> *Patrick Harvie from Glasgow representing the Green party said: &quot;I was pleased to see that we received briefings from a number of other organisations, including Barnardo's and Capability Scotland, which want Parliament to understand the impact that energy debt has on a range of different people in diverse family situations. Energy suppliers will always have a problem with billing systems for the most vulnerable people, but some of their practices, as Scott Barrie mentioned, hit the poorest households and families hardest. In the case of [[Scottish Power]]'s practices, they had not even calculated what it would cost [[Scottish Power]] to change the policy by writing off such debt. The role of politicians is not just to engage with suppliers on the issue but to look at public policy. Scott Barrie explained the historical situation in terms of the welfare state but, as we move further into the 21st century, the job for politicians is to prepare all citizens and households in Scotland for the period after cheap energy. It falls on all suppliers, including [[Scottish Power]], to adjust their systems to ensure that the most vulnerable people are not placed in further debt.&quot; <br /> *Christine Grahame from the South of Scotland representing the SNP party said: &quot;Energy companies are making a financial killing on the back of the less well-off. Figures that I have obtained show that some companies are charging customers who will not pay by direct debit almost £300 a year more. With regard to the overcharging of non-direct debit customers for gas and electricity combined, the worst offenders—I will name and shame them—were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]]. The worst companies for customers who required only electricity and who chose not to pay by direct debit were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]].&quot;<br /> *Jackie Baillie from Dumbarton representing the Labour party said: &quot;Come on, [[Scottish Power]]—stop back-charging customers and stop back-charging the people who are potentially the most vulnerable customers. I echo the call for [[Scottish Power]] to end immediately its practice of backdating and to acknowledge that prepayment meter tariffs are a mess.” {{ref|18}} <br /> <br /> ====SpinWatch articles====<br /> While the SPBE at first glance seems potentially beneficial and rather harmless, a deeper look reveals something different: &quot;The Scottish Parliament Business Exchange was set up to allow MSPs to be educated about the realities of business life. To ensure that education and not lobbying took place the scheme was required to be ‘non-lobbying’. But in practice three quarters of the business representatives taking part were lobbyists.” {{ref|19}}<br /> <br /> ==Indirect links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> [[Scottish Power]] enjoys many indirect links with the Scottish Executive and the Scottish Parliament as well. The company sponsors community activities such as '''ScottishPower Learning'''.<br /> *'''ScottishPower Learning''' is the flagship corporate community programme focused on education/employability. A more detailed look reveals: <br /> a) School-based programmes designed to support the school to work transition<br /> <br /> b) Community-based programmes designed to help unemployed young people build their skills in preparation for work (Involved with Prince’s Trust, Community Champions, Project Scotland)<br /> <br /> c) Work-based programmes designed to provide young people with work experience and vocational training<br /> <br /> *The company is involved with '''think tanks''' as well. [[Demos]], for example, is another 'third way' think tank in the UK. According to its website &quot;Demos is a greenhouse for new ideas which can improve the quality of our lives. As an independent think tank, our aim is to create an open resource of knowledge and learning that operates beyond traditional parties, identities and disciplines.&quot; {{ref|20}} [[Scottish Power]] is one of the many partners of [[Demos]].<br /> <br /> -policy planning<br /> Scottish Environmental Protection Agency: <br /> - “a powerful non-departmental public body in Scotland sponsored by the Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Department. SEPA was established by the Environment Act 1995 and is responsible for the protection of the natural environment in Scotland. Its area of competence includes air, land, freshwater and marine environments.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Environment_Protection_Agency)<br /> B(ritish)W(Ind)E(energy)A(ssociation):<br /> - “BP joins renewable power campaign group - Terry Macalister, December 27, 2006 - BP is to throw its weight behind the renewable power industry by joining its main campaigning body. Critics in the environment movement may be suspicious of a company they believe talks about green issues but invests little. Shell has been a member for some years and other big power producers, such as Centrica, owner of British Gas, E.ON of Germany and Scottish Power, have also joined.” (http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/3886/9/)<br /> <br /> ==Other activities==<br /> <br /> ===PR connections===<br /> *[[BIG Partnership]]<br /> *[[GPC International]], in 2004/[[Fleishman Hillard]] in 2005<br /> <br /> ===Lobby connections===<br /> *[[Business Council for Sustainable Development – UK]]<br /> *DC lobbying firm [[Stuntz, Davis &amp; Staffier]]<br /> <br /> ===Cultural Affiliations/Sponsorships===<br /> *[[Ballet Central]]<br /> *[[Celtic Connections]]<br /> *[[Edinburgh International Book Festival]] <br /> *[[Glasgow Science Centre]] (The ScottishPower Planetarium)<br /> *[[National Theatre for Scotland]] <br /> *[[ScottishPower Pipe Band]]<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> ==External Links==<br /> :ScottishPower website [http://www.scottishpower.com/]<br /> :ScottishPower Gas and Electricity Customer website [http://scottishpower.co.uk/]<br /> :ScottishPower Energy Networks website [http://www.spenergynetworks.com/]<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> #{{note|1}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Power Scottish Power], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow Glasgow], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|3}} Energy supply rank from CNN.com [http://www.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/11/28/scot.power/index.html World Business], &quot;Scot Power agrees $22B Spanish bid&quot;, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|4}} Board and Management bios from Scottish Power[http://www.scottishpower.com/ManagementTeam.asp Meet the Board], accessed March 2007.<br /> #{{note|5}} Fat Cat payoff information from ThisIsMoney [http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=410010&amp;in_page_id=2 article] &quot;Sacked power chiefs get 'obscene' pay-off&quot;, accessed 18 June 2006.<br /> #{{note|6}} Photograph from Eco-Schools[http://www.eco-schools.org/partners/institutional/logo_scotexec.gif Partners], Scottish Executive, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|7}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_616.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Plans to Turn Open-cast Mine into Windfarm and Bird Habitat&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|8}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_537.htm News &amp; Media], “ScottishPower Announces Proposals for Third Large-Scale Scottish Windfarm, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|9}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_634.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Spearheads Drive to Advise Business on the Climate Change Levy&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|10}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1487.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Brings Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' to Schools&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|11}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1498.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower to Build World’s Biggest Wave Project off Orkney&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|12}} Photograph from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/uploads/windfarmconsbiostrategy.pdf Brochure], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|13}} Photograph from Scottish Executive [http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/921/0040702.pdf Poster], accessed 22 March 2007. <br /> #{{note|14}} Report from CorporateWatch [http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=1305 article], &quot;SCOTLAND PLC: The Scottish Executive’s corporate links&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|15}} Information from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article], &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|16}} Photograph from Scottish Parliament[http://survey.scottish.parliament.uk/vli/education/youth/games/jigsaw/logoBig.gif Education], Scottish Parliament, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|17}} SPBE information from Scottish Parliament[http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/nmCentre/news/news-01/pa01-089.htm Parliamentary News Release], “New Scheme Promotes Mutual Understanding Between MSPs and Scottish Businesses&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|18}} Energy Debt comments from Scottish Parliament [http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-07/sor0228-02.htm Energy Debt], &quot;Official Report 28 February 2007&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|19}} SPBE lobby relations from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article] &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|20}} Demos information from Demos [http://www.demos.co.uk/content/aboutdemos homepage], accessed 20 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|21}} BWEA membership information from SpinWatch [(http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/3886/9/ article] &quot;BP joins renewable power campaign group&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.</div>

Heather Kirk https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=ScottishPower&diff=22426 2007-04-20T16:42:30Z

<p>Heather Kirk: </p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Scottish power.JPG|right|210px|thumb|Scottish Power logo{{ref|1}}]]<br /> [[Image:Glasgow.JPG|right|140px|thumb|Glasgow, Scotland{{ref|2}}]]<br /> :'''Address''': 1 Atlantic Quay, Glasgow, G2 8SP<br /> :'''Phone''': 0141 248 8200<br /> <br /> Based in Glasgow, Scotland, '''ScottishPower Plc''' is a vertically integrated energy company and is Britain's fifth-largest energy supplier. {{ref|3}} As part of the utilities industry, it is the distribution network operator for the central and southern Scotland and the Merseyside and North Wales regions. The company also supplies electricity and natural gas to homes and business around the United Kingdom and generates power for supply to the grid. It owns '''[[PPM Energy]]''' in the United States and is also quoted on the '''London Stock Exchange''' as part of the FTSE 100 Index, and has a secondary listing on the '''New York Stock Exchange'''.<br /> <br /> :[[Scottish Power]] has a number of divisions and subsidiaries, which can be found here: <br /> *[[Scottish Power: Divisons]]<br /> *[[Scottish Power: Subsidiaries]]<br /> <br /> ==History==<br /> [[Scottish Power]] was formed in 1990, in preparation for the privatisation of the previously nationalised Scottish electricity industry the following year. Previously the UK government had privatised the English and Welsh electricity industry by splitting the market into 12 regional electricity companies (RECs) and two power generators. However in Scotland, the industry was already organised on an integrated generation, distribution and supply basis, and this integration survived the privatisation to become a model for the rest of the United Kingdom. [[Scottish Power]] was largely formed from of the larger of the two Scottish electricity boards, the '''South of Scotland Electricity Board''', whilst the other, the '''North of Scotland Hydro Board''', eventually became part of the '''Scottish and Southern Energy Group''' (the nuclear power stations in Scotland were spun off into a third company, '''Scottish Nuclear''', which was not sold off with [[Scottish Power]] and '''Scottish Hydro Electric''', but was sold later as part of '''British Energy''').<br /> <br /> ==Company Chronology==<br /> *1990 - [[Scottish Power]] prepared for privitisation from state-owned [[Scottish Electricity]]<br /> *1991 - officially founded<br /> *1995 - aquired [[Manweb]]<br /> *1996 - expanded into the water supply bussiness and purchased [[Southern Water]]<br /> *2000 - aquired [[Pacificorp]]<br /> *2001 - PacifiCorp Power Marketing, Inc. moved from being a subsidiary of [[PacifiCorp]] to being an affiliate to [[PacifiCorp]]<br /> *2002 - sold [[Southern Water]]; sold [[Thus]] interest; made [[PPM Energy]] a separate business from [[Pacificorp]] <br /> *2005 - rejected takeover bid from [[E.ON]] on 22 November<br /> *2006 - sold [[Pacificorp]] to MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company on 21 March; aquired permission to build Europe's largest on-shore Windfarm on 27 April; agreed to takeover by [[Iberdrola]] on 28 November<br /> <br /> ==People==<br /> ===Board===<br /> <br /> *[[Charles Miller Smith]] Joined the Board as Deputy Chairman in August 1999 and was appointed as Chairman in April 2000.<br /> *[[Euan Baird]] Joined the Board in January 2001 and brings executive level experience in the electronics and engineering industry to the ScottishPower Board.<br /> *[[Donald Brydon]] Joined the Board in May 2003 and is the senior independent director.<br /> *[[Nick Rose]] Joined the Board in February 2003 and he is Chairman of the Audit Committee, nominated as the Committee’s designated “financial expert”.<br /> *[[Nancy Wilgenbusch]] Joined the Board in June 2004.<br /> *[[Peter Hickson]] Joined the Board on 1st September 2006.<br /> <br /> ===Management Team===<br /> <br /> * [[Philip Bowman]] Chief Executive<br /> * [[Simon Lowth]] Finance Director<br /> * [[Terry Hudgens]] Chief Executive Officer, PPM Energy Inc<br /> * [[Susan Reilly]] Commercial Director<br /> * [[Alan Bryce]] Director, Energy Networks<br /> * [[John Campbell]] Director, Energy Wholesale<br /> * [[Willie MacDiarmid]] Director, Energy Retail<br /> * [[Sheelagh Duffield]] Company Secretary<br /> * [[Stephen Dunn]] Director, Human Resources and Communications {{ref|4}}<br /> <br /> ===Previous Members===<br /> * [[Vicky Bailey]] Former American non-Executive Director<br /> * [[Charles Berry]] Former Executive Director (UK)<br /> * [[Dominic Fry]] Former Corporate Affairs Director<br /> * [[David Nish]] Former Exucutive Director of Infrastructure<br /> * [[Ian Russell]] Former Chief Executive<br /> <br /> ==Fat Cat payoffs==<br /> [[Scottish Power]]'s former chief executive [[Ian Russell]] and three colleagues received £10.9m for pay and pension compensation. The sums have been branded 'obscene' by the [[Scottish National Party]] energy spokesman [[Richard Lochhead]], and come to light just three months after they warned customers about inflation-busting bill hikes.<br /> <br /> Mr. Russell, who left in January of 2006 after five years as chief executive, received a £2.3m compensation payment as well as benefiting from a resultant pension top-up of £2.7m. The compensation sum is more than three times his salary of £648,000, while his pension windfall nearly doubled his total entitlement to £6.8m. His colleagues [[Charles Berry]] and [[David Nish]], who both left the firm in September of 2006, pocketed a total of £2.6m and £2.2m in extra compensation and extra pension sums respectively. And [[Judi Johansen]], the former head of the company's [[PacifiCorp]] arm that was sold in 2006 as well, walked off with a total of £1.1m.<br /> <br /> The figures are published in Scottish Power's 2005/06 annual report and accounts, and are on top of their normal pay and pension entitlements totalling a further £10.5m. The plc made £675m profit before tax in the financial year to March 2006. [[Scottish Power]] raised gas prices by 15% and electricity by 8% in March of 2006, only to warn that bills would rise again due to high wholesale costs. {{ref|5}}<br /> <br /> ==Direct links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> ===Scottish Executive===<br /> [[Image:SE logo.JPG|right|150px|thumb|Scottish Executive logo {{ref|6}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] has had a number of direct links with the '''Scottish Executive''' over the years. The following shows some press releases, brochures &amp; posters, CorporateWatch reports, and SpinWatch articles regarding the relationships between the two.<br /> ====Press Releases====<br /> <br /> *In May of 2002, [[Scottish Power]] &quot;submitted plans to the '''Scottish Executive''' for a £70 million windfarm on the site of an abandoned open cast mine at Black Law near the village of Forth in South Lanarkshire. [[Scottish Power]], in partnership with the '''Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and landowners''', has developed a habitat management plan that integrates nature conservation, windfarm operation, and other land uses on the site which has been derelict since coal mining activities ceased there.” {{ref|7}}<br /> <br /> *In January of 2003, [[Scottish Power]] announced to the '''Scottish Executive''' its proposals for the third large scale Scottish windfarm; and &quot;if approved, '''Harestanes''' windfarm alone could meet a third of the '''Scottish Executive'''’s renewable energy target of 18% by 2010.” {{ref|8}}<br /> <br /> *In June of 2004, it was announced that &quot;ScottishPower in partnership with the Scottish Energy Office of the '''Scottish Executive''' today launched a nationwide campaign to make businesses aware of the introduction of the Government's Climate Change Levy (CCL). The CCL is a tax that will be the major force behind the Government's commitment to reduce the UK's production of greenhouse gases by 12.5 per cent, compared to 1990 levels, by 2010.” {{ref|9}}<br /> <br /> *More recently in January of 2007, a press release stated that &quot;Former US Vice President Al Gore’s climate change film, An Inconvenient Truth, will be shown in all of Scotland’s Secondary Schools this year thanks to an initiative from [[Scottish Power]] and the Scottish Executive. The Scottish Executive, through Learning Teaching Scotland, is developing a package of educational materials to help raise awareness of the challenges we all face from global warming. [[Stephen Dunn]], [[Scottish Power]]’s HR and Communications Director, said; “I was greatly impressed by An Inconvenient Truth. Not only does it powerfully explain what is happening to the planet, it also gives hope by simply setting out what we can still do to fight climate change. [[Scottish Power]] is already the biggest generator of onshore wind energy in the UK and is developing biomass and wave generation to reduce emissions and combat global warming – but it is essential that we also help promote understanding of this crucial challenge through initiatives such as this.”&quot; {{ref|10}} <br /> <br /> *In Febraury of 2007, &quot;ScottishPower, working closely with the '''Scottish Executive''', today announced a £10m wave power project designed to push Scotland to the forefront of global marine energy development. ScottishPower's Director of Renewables, Keith Anderson, said: &quot;This is a massive step forward. It will be a test of the actual devices that will be used commercially and, if successful, should help propel Scotland into the forefront of marine energy throughout the world.”&quot; {{ref|11}}<br /> <br /> ====Brochures &amp; Posters====<br /> [[Image:SP windfarm.JPG|right|130px|thumb|Brochure {{ref|12}}]]<br /> “ScottishPower Windfarm Biodiversity Conservation Strategy”<br /> This was a joint venture in 2006 between the '''Scottish Executive''' and '''ScottishPower Renewables'''. It also involved the Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Sustainable Development, as can be proudly seen at the bottom of the brocure.<br /> [[Image:Future.JPG|left|120px|thumb|Poster {{ref|13}}]]<br /> “It’s Our Future schools’ competition”<br /> This is another example of a joint venture in 2006 between '''ScottishPower Gas and Electricity''' &amp; the '''Scottish Executive''''s ''Natural Scotland'' campaign. It involved the WWF (World Wildlife Fund), EcoSchools, as well as Learning &amp; Teaching Scotland, which is funded by the Scottish Executive Education Department (SEED).<br /> <br /> ====CorporateWatch Reports====<br /> &quot;Despite the pro-business outlook of McConnell and the '''Scottish executive''', corporate lobbyists still find it worthwhile to swarm around the '''Scottish Parliament''' in an attempt to secure meetings with MSPs, to influence Scottish public spending in their favour and to keep polluting Scotland without major penalties. The incestuous relationships between the '''Scottish Parliament''' and corporations extend beyond external lobbying, however. Take for example the corporate swamping of cross party policy discussion groups that meet within the '''Scottish Parliament'''. The '''Scottish Executive''' has seen further controversy over its cosy connections with corporations. Since its creation, business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and transnational corporations, with inward secondments from [[Scottish Power]].” {{ref|14}} <br /> <br /> ====Spinwatch articles====<br /> “Since the creation of the '''Scottish Executive''', business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and Trans-National corporations, Inward: [[Scottish Power]], [[Scottish and Newcastle]], [[Stagecoach]], [[Ernst and Young]], [[PriceWaterhouseCoopers]]. Outward: [[Lloyds TSB]] Foundation, [[Scottish Power]], [[McGrigor Donald]] (law firm and lobbyist), [[Scottish and Newcastle]] and business lobby groups [[Business in the Community]] and the '''Scottish Chambers of Commerce'''.” {{ref|15}}<br /> <br /> ===Scottish Parliament===<br /> [[Image:SP logo.JPG|right|170px|thumb|Scottish Parliament logo{{ref|16}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] also has many links with the '''Scottish Parliament''' as well. The following shows Parliamentary News Releases regarding the development of the [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]], Scottish Parliament official reports, and SpinWatch articles as evidence of relationships between the two.<br /> <br /> ====Parliamentary News Releases====<br /> The Scottish Parliament Business Exchange is a scheme where supposedly, MSPs are to be given an opportunity to gain a valuable insight into the diverse Scottish business sector. The Scottish Parliament and Business Exchange ('The Exchange') aims to develop and provide opportunities for promoting mutual understanding between MSPs and business and related communities in Scotland. The Exchange is registered as an educational charity with a board made up of 50 per-cent Parliamentarians and 50 per-cent business representatives. Presiding officer and The Exchange's honorary President, Sir David Steel said &quot;Through being transparent, open, inclusive and flexible in its approach, The Exchange will be able to bring MSPs and the business community together in a non-lobbying and non-partisan way, providing benefits to the whole of Scotland.” The Board of The Exchange was set-up at the first AGM in June of 2001. The Parliament's Chief Executive, Paul Grice, was the convener, and Sir David Steel MSP was the honorary President. The Board members were Elaine Thomson MSP, Brian Adam MSP, David Davidson MSP, Keith Raffan MSP, Lynda Gauld ([[Pfizer]]), Alan Wilson ([[SCDI]]), Miller McLean ([[Royal Bank of Scotland]]), [[Dominic Fry]] ([[Scottish Power]]), Alastair Smith ([[BAA]] Scottish Airports) and Bill Spiers ([[Scottish TUC]]). {{ref|17}}<br /> :To see more about the SPBE's claims vs. realities, click [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]]. <br /> <br /> ====Scottish Parliament official reports====<br /> The 28 February 2007 Official Report regarding Energy Debt featured many varied comments about [[Scottish Power]]'s energy practices. <br /> *Patrick Harvie from Glasgow representing the Green party said: &quot;I was pleased to see that we received briefings from a number of other organisations, including Barnardo's and Capability Scotland, which want Parliament to understand the impact that energy debt has on a range of different people in diverse family situations. Energy suppliers will always have a problem with billing systems for the most vulnerable people, but some of their practices, as Scott Barrie mentioned, hit the poorest households and families hardest. In the case of [[Scottish Power]]'s practices, they had not even calculated what it would cost [[Scottish Power]] to change the policy by writing off such debt. The role of politicians is not just to engage with suppliers on the issue but to look at public policy. Scott Barrie explained the historical situation in terms of the welfare state but, as we move further into the 21st century, the job for politicians is to prepare all citizens and households in Scotland for the period after cheap energy. It falls on all suppliers, including [[Scottish Power]], to adjust their systems to ensure that the most vulnerable people are not placed in further debt.&quot; <br /> *Christine Grahame from the South of Scotland representing the SNP party said: &quot;Energy companies are making a financial killing on the back of the less well-off. Figures that I have obtained show that some companies are charging customers who will not pay by direct debit almost £300 a year more. With regard to the overcharging of non-direct debit customers for gas and electricity combined, the worst offenders—I will name and shame them—were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]]. The worst companies for customers who required only electricity and who chose not to pay by direct debit were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]].&quot;<br /> *Jackie Baillie from Dumbarton representing the Labour party said: &quot;Come on, [[Scottish Power]]—stop back-charging customers and stop back-charging the people who are potentially the most vulnerable customers. I echo the call for [[Scottish Power]] to end immediately its practice of backdating and to acknowledge that prepayment meter tariffs are a mess.” {{ref|18}} <br /> <br /> ====SpinWatch articles====<br /> While the SPBE at first glance seems potentially beneficial and rather harmless, a deeper look reveals something different: &quot;The Scottish Parliament Business Exchange was set up to allow MSPs to be educated about the realities of business life. To ensure that education and not lobbying took place the scheme was required to be ‘non-lobbying’. But in practice three quarters of the business representatives taking part were lobbyists.” {{ref|19}}<br /> <br /> ==Indirect links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> [[Scottish Power]] enjoys many indirect links with the Scottish Executive and the Scottish Parliament as well. The company sponsors community activities such as '''ScottishPower Learning'''.<br /> *'''ScottishPower Learning''' is the flagship corporate community programme focused on education/employability. A more detailed look reveals: <br /> a) School-based programmes designed to support the school to work transition<br /> <br /> b) Community-based programmes designed to help unemployed young people build their skills in preparation for work (Involved with Prince’s Trust, Community Champions, Project Scotland)<br /> <br /> c) Work-based programmes designed to provide young people with work experience and vocational training<br /> <br /> *The company is involved with '''think tanks''' as well. [[Demos]], for example, is another 'third way' think tank in the UK. According to its website &quot;Demos is a greenhouse for new ideas which can improve the quality of our lives. As an independent think tank, our aim is to create an open resource of knowledge and learning that operates beyond traditional parties, identities and disciplines.&quot; {{ref|20}} [[Scottish Power]] is one of the many partners of [[Demos]].<br /> <br /> -policy planning<br /> Scottish Environmental Protection Agency: <br /> - “a powerful non-departmental public body in Scotland sponsored by the Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Department. SEPA was established by the Environment Act 1995 and is responsible for the protection of the natural environment in Scotland. Its area of competence includes air, land, freshwater and marine environments.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Environment_Protection_Agency)<br /> B(ritish)W(Ind)E(energy)A(ssociation):<br /> - “BP joins renewable power campaign group - Terry Macalister, December 27, 2006 - BP is to throw its weight behind the renewable power industry by joining its main campaigning body. Critics in the environment movement may be suspicious of a company they believe talks about green issues but invests little. Shell has been a member for some years and other big power producers, such as Centrica, owner of British Gas, E.ON of Germany and Scottish Power, have also joined.” (http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/3886/9/)<br /> <br /> ==Other activities==<br /> <br /> ===PR connections===<br /> *[[BIG Partnership]]<br /> *[[GPC International]], in 2004/[[Fleishman Hillard]] in 2005<br /> <br /> ===Lobby connections===<br /> *[[Business Council for Sustainable Development – UK]]<br /> *DC lobbying firm [[Stuntz, Davis &amp; Staffier]]<br /> <br /> ===Cultural Affiliations/Sponsorships===<br /> *[[Ballet Central]]<br /> *[[Celtic Connections]]<br /> *[[Edinburgh International Book Festival]] <br /> *[[Glasgow Science Centre]] (The ScottishPower Planetarium)<br /> *[[National Theatre for Scotland]] <br /> *[[ScottishPower Pipe Band]]<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> ==External Links==<br /> :ScottishPower website [http://www.scottishpower.com/]<br /> :ScottishPower Gas and Electricity Customer website [http://scottishpower.co.uk/]<br /> :ScottishPower Energy Networks website [http://www.spenergynetworks.com/]<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> #{{note|1}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Power Scottish Power], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow Glasgow], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|3}} Energy supply rank from CNN.com [http://www.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/11/28/scot.power/index.html World Business], &quot;Scot Power agrees $22B Spanish bid&quot;, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|4}} Board and Management bios from Scottish Power[http://www.scottishpower.com/ManagementTeam.asp Meet the Board], accessed March 2007.<br /> #{{note|5}} Fat Cat payoff information from ThisIsMoney [http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=410010&amp;in_page_id=2 article] &quot;Sacked power chiefs get 'obscene' pay-off&quot;, accessed 18 June 2006.<br /> #{{note|6}} Photograph from Eco-Schools[http://www.eco-schools.org/partners/institutional/logo_scotexec.gif Partners], Scottish Executive, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|7}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_616.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Plans to Turn Open-cast Mine into Windfarm and Bird Habitat&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|8}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_537.htm News &amp; Media], “ScottishPower Announces Proposals for Third Large-Scale Scottish Windfarm, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|9}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_634.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Spearheads Drive to Advise Business on the Climate Change Levy&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|10}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1487.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Brings Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' to Schools&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|11}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1498.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower to Build World’s Biggest Wave Project off Orkney&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|12}} Photograph from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/uploads/windfarmconsbiostrategy.pdf Brochure], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|13}} Photograph from Scottish Executive [http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/921/0040702.pdf Poster], accessed 22 March 2007. <br /> #{{note|14}} Report from CorporateWatch [http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=1305 article], &quot;SCOTLAND PLC: The Scottish Executive’s corporate links&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|15}} Information from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article], &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|16}} Photograph from Scottish Parliament[http://survey.scottish.parliament.uk/vli/education/youth/games/jigsaw/logoBig.gif Education], Scottish Parliament, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|17}} SPBE information from Scottish Parliament[http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/nmCentre/news/news-01/pa01-089.htm Parliamentary News Release], “New Scheme Promotes Mutual Understanding Between MSPs and Scottish Businesses&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|18}} Energy Debt comments from Scottish Parliament [http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-07/sor0228-02.htm Energy Debt], &quot;Official Report 28 February 2007&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|19}} SPBE lobby relations from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article] &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|20}} Demos information from Demos [http://www.demos.co.uk/content/aboutdemos homepage], accessed 20 April 2007.</div>

Heather Kirk https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=ScottishPower&diff=22424 2007-04-20T16:41:25Z

<p>Heather Kirk: /* Indirect links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament */</p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Scottish power.JPG|right|210px|thumb|Scottish Power logo{{ref|1}}]]<br /> [[Image:Glasgow.JPG|right|140px|thumb|Glasgow, Scotland{{ref|2}}]]<br /> :'''Address''': 1 Atlantic Quay, Glasgow, G2 8SP<br /> :'''Phone''': 0141 248 8200<br /> <br /> Based in Glasgow, Scotland, '''ScottishPower Plc''' is a vertically integrated energy company and is Britain's fifth-largest energy supplier. {{ref|3}} As part of the utilities industry, it is the distribution network operator for the central and southern Scotland and the Merseyside and North Wales regions. The company also supplies electricity and natural gas to homes and business around the United Kingdom and generates power for supply to the grid. It owns '''[[PPM Energy]]''' in the United States and is also quoted on the '''London Stock Exchange''' as part of the FTSE 100 Index, and has a secondary listing on the '''New York Stock Exchange'''.<br /> <br /> :[[Scottish Power]] has a number of divisions and subsidiaries, which can be found here: <br /> *[[Scottish Power: Divisons]]<br /> *[[Scottish Power: Subsidiaries]]<br /> <br /> ==History==<br /> [[Scottish Power]] was formed in 1990, in preparation for the privatisation of the previously nationalised Scottish electricity industry the following year. Previously the UK government had privatised the English and Welsh electricity industry by splitting the market into 12 regional electricity companies (RECs) and two power generators. However in Scotland, the industry was already organised on an integrated generation, distribution and supply basis, and this integration survived the privatisation to become a model for the rest of the United Kingdom. [[Scottish Power]] was largely formed from of the larger of the two Scottish electricity boards, the '''South of Scotland Electricity Board''', whilst the other, the '''North of Scotland Hydro Board''', eventually became part of the '''Scottish and Southern Energy Group''' (the nuclear power stations in Scotland were spun off into a third company, '''Scottish Nuclear''', which was not sold off with [[Scottish Power]] and '''Scottish Hydro Electric''', but was sold later as part of '''British Energy''').<br /> <br /> ==Company Chronology==<br /> *1990 - [[Scottish Power]] prepared for privitisation from state-owned [[Scottish Electricity]]<br /> *1991 - officially founded<br /> *1995 - aquired [[Manweb]]<br /> *1996 - expanded into the water supply bussiness and purchased [[Southern Water]]<br /> *2000 - aquired [[Pacificorp]]<br /> *2001 - PacifiCorp Power Marketing, Inc. moved from being a subsidiary of [[PacifiCorp]] to being an affiliate to [[PacifiCorp]]<br /> *2002 - sold [[Southern Water]]; sold [[Thus]] interest; made [[PPM Energy]] a separate business from [[Pacificorp]] <br /> *2005 - rejected takeover bid from [[E.ON]] on 22 November<br /> *2006 - sold [[Pacificorp]] to MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company on 21 March; aquired permission to build Europe's largest on-shore Windfarm on 27 April; agreed to takeover by [[Iberdrola]] on 28 November<br /> <br /> ==People==<br /> ===Board===<br /> <br /> *[[Charles Miller Smith]] Joined the Board as Deputy Chairman in August 1999 and was appointed as Chairman in April 2000.<br /> *[[Euan Baird]] Joined the Board in January 2001 and brings executive level experience in the electronics and engineering industry to the ScottishPower Board.<br /> *[[Donald Brydon]] Joined the Board in May 2003 and is the senior independent director.<br /> *[[Nick Rose]] Joined the Board in February 2003 and he is Chairman of the Audit Committee, nominated as the Committee’s designated “financial expert”.<br /> *[[Nancy Wilgenbusch]] Joined the Board in June 2004.<br /> *[[Peter Hickson]] Joined the Board on 1st September 2006.<br /> <br /> ===Management Team===<br /> <br /> * [[Philip Bowman]] Chief Executive<br /> * [[Simon Lowth]] Finance Director<br /> * [[Terry Hudgens]] Chief Executive Officer, PPM Energy Inc<br /> * [[Susan Reilly]] Commercial Director<br /> * [[Alan Bryce]] Director, Energy Networks<br /> * [[John Campbell]] Director, Energy Wholesale<br /> * [[Willie MacDiarmid]] Director, Energy Retail<br /> * [[Sheelagh Duffield]] Company Secretary<br /> * [[Stephen Dunn]] Director, Human Resources and Communications {{ref|4}}<br /> <br /> ===Previous Members===<br /> * [[Vicky Bailey]] Former American non-Executive Director<br /> * [[Charles Berry]] Former Executive Director (UK)<br /> * [[Dominic Fry]] Former Corporate Affairs Director<br /> * [[David Nish]] Former Exucutive Director of Infrastructure<br /> * [[Ian Russell]] Former Chief Executive<br /> <br /> ==Fat Cat payoffs==<br /> [[Scottish Power]]'s former chief executive [[Ian Russell]] and three colleagues received £10.9m for pay and pension compensation. The sums have been branded 'obscene' by the [[Scottish National Party]] energy spokesman [[Richard Lochhead]], and come to light just three months after they warned customers about inflation-busting bill hikes.<br /> <br /> Mr. Russell, who left in January of 2006 after five years as chief executive, received a £2.3m compensation payment as well as benefiting from a resultant pension top-up of £2.7m. The compensation sum is more than three times his salary of £648,000, while his pension windfall nearly doubled his total entitlement to £6.8m. His colleagues [[Charles Berry]] and [[David Nish]], who both left the firm in September of 2006, pocketed a total of £2.6m and £2.2m in extra compensation and extra pension sums respectively. And [[Judi Johansen]], the former head of the company's [[PacifiCorp]] arm that was sold in 2006 as well, walked off with a total of £1.1m.<br /> <br /> The figures are published in Scottish Power's 2005/06 annual report and accounts, and are on top of their normal pay and pension entitlements totalling a further £10.5m. The plc made £675m profit before tax in the financial year to March 2006. [[Scottish Power]] raised gas prices by 15% and electricity by 8% in March of 2006, only to warn that bills would rise again due to high wholesale costs. {{ref|5}}<br /> <br /> ==Direct links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> ===Scottish Executive===<br /> [[Image:SE logo.JPG|right|150px|thumb|Scottish Executive logo {{ref|6}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] has had a number of direct links with the '''Scottish Executive''' over the years. The following shows some press releases, brochures &amp; posters, CorporateWatch reports, and SpinWatch articles regarding the relationships between the two.<br /> ====Press Releases====<br /> <br /> *In May of 2002, [[Scottish Power]] &quot;submitted plans to the '''Scottish Executive''' for a £70 million windfarm on the site of an abandoned open cast mine at Black Law near the village of Forth in South Lanarkshire. [[Scottish Power]], in partnership with the '''Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and landowners''', has developed a habitat management plan that integrates nature conservation, windfarm operation, and other land uses on the site which has been derelict since coal mining activities ceased there.” {{ref|7}}<br /> <br /> *In January of 2003, [[Scottish Power]] announced to the '''Scottish Executive''' its proposals for the third large scale Scottish windfarm; and &quot;if approved, '''Harestanes''' windfarm alone could meet a third of the '''Scottish Executive'''’s renewable energy target of 18% by 2010.” {{ref|8}}<br /> <br /> *In June of 2004, it was announced that &quot;ScottishPower in partnership with the Scottish Energy Office of the '''Scottish Executive''' today launched a nationwide campaign to make businesses aware of the introduction of the Government's Climate Change Levy (CCL). The CCL is a tax that will be the major force behind the Government's commitment to reduce the UK's production of greenhouse gases by 12.5 per cent, compared to 1990 levels, by 2010.” {{ref|9}}<br /> <br /> *More recently in January of 2007, a press release stated that &quot;Former US Vice President Al Gore’s climate change film, An Inconvenient Truth, will be shown in all of Scotland’s Secondary Schools this year thanks to an initiative from [[Scottish Power]] and the Scottish Executive. The Scottish Executive, through Learning Teaching Scotland, is developing a package of educational materials to help raise awareness of the challenges we all face from global warming. [[Stephen Dunn]], [[Scottish Power]]’s HR and Communications Director, said; “I was greatly impressed by An Inconvenient Truth. Not only does it powerfully explain what is happening to the planet, it also gives hope by simply setting out what we can still do to fight climate change. [[Scottish Power]] is already the biggest generator of onshore wind energy in the UK and is developing biomass and wave generation to reduce emissions and combat global warming – but it is essential that we also help promote understanding of this crucial challenge through initiatives such as this.”&quot; {{ref|10}} <br /> <br /> *In Febraury of 2007, &quot;ScottishPower, working closely with the '''Scottish Executive''', today announced a £10m wave power project designed to push Scotland to the forefront of global marine energy development. ScottishPower's Director of Renewables, Keith Anderson, said: &quot;This is a massive step forward. It will be a test of the actual devices that will be used commercially and, if successful, should help propel Scotland into the forefront of marine energy throughout the world.”&quot; {{ref|11}}<br /> <br /> ====Brochures &amp; Posters====<br /> [[Image:SP windfarm.JPG|right|130px|thumb|Brochure {{ref|12}}]]<br /> “ScottishPower Windfarm Biodiversity Conservation Strategy”<br /> This was a joint venture in 2006 between the '''Scottish Executive''' and '''ScottishPower Renewables'''. It also involved the Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Sustainable Development, as can be proudly seen at the bottom of the brocure.<br /> [[Image:Future.JPG|left|120px|thumb|Poster {{ref|13}}]]<br /> “It’s Our Future schools’ competition”<br /> This is another example of a joint venture in 2006 between '''ScottishPower Gas and Electricity''' &amp; the '''Scottish Executive''''s ''Natural Scotland'' campaign. It involved the WWF (World Wildlife Fund), EcoSchools, as well as Learning &amp; Teaching Scotland, which is funded by the Scottish Executive Education Department (SEED).<br /> <br /> ====CorporateWatch Reports====<br /> &quot;Despite the pro-business outlook of McConnell and the '''Scottish executive''', corporate lobbyists still find it worthwhile to swarm around the '''Scottish Parliament''' in an attempt to secure meetings with MSPs, to influence Scottish public spending in their favour and to keep polluting Scotland without major penalties. The incestuous relationships between the '''Scottish Parliament''' and corporations extend beyond external lobbying, however. Take for example the corporate swamping of cross party policy discussion groups that meet within the '''Scottish Parliament'''. The '''Scottish Executive''' has seen further controversy over its cosy connections with corporations. Since its creation, business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and transnational corporations, with inward secondments from [[Scottish Power]].” {{ref|14}} <br /> <br /> ====Spinwatch articles====<br /> “Since the creation of the '''Scottish Executive''', business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and Trans-National corporations, Inward: [[Scottish Power]], [[Scottish and Newcastle]], [[Stagecoach]], [[Ernst and Young]], [[PriceWaterhouseCoopers]]. Outward: [[Lloyds TSB]] Foundation, [[Scottish Power]], [[McGrigor Donald]] (law firm and lobbyist), [[Scottish and Newcastle]] and business lobby groups [[Business in the Community]] and the '''Scottish Chambers of Commerce'''.” {{ref|15}}<br /> <br /> ===Scottish Parliament===<br /> [[Image:SP logo.JPG|right|170px|thumb|Scottish Parliament logo{{ref|16}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] also has many links with the '''Scottish Parliament''' as well. The following shows Parliamentary News Releases regarding the development of the [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]], Scottish Parliament official reports, and SpinWatch articles as evidence of relationships between the two.<br /> <br /> ====Parliamentary News Releases====<br /> The Scottish Parliament Business Exchange is a scheme where supposedly, MSPs are to be given an opportunity to gain a valuable insight into the diverse Scottish business sector. The Scottish Parliament and Business Exchange ('The Exchange') aims to develop and provide opportunities for promoting mutual understanding between MSPs and business and related communities in Scotland. The Exchange is registered as an educational charity with a board made up of 50 per-cent Parliamentarians and 50 per-cent business representatives. Presiding officer and The Exchange's honorary President, Sir David Steel said &quot;Through being transparent, open, inclusive and flexible in its approach, The Exchange will be able to bring MSPs and the business community together in a non-lobbying and non-partisan way, providing benefits to the whole of Scotland.” The Board of The Exchange was set-up at the first AGM in June of 2001. The Parliament's Chief Executive, Paul Grice, was the convener, and Sir David Steel MSP was the honorary President. The Board members were Elaine Thomson MSP, Brian Adam MSP, David Davidson MSP, Keith Raffan MSP, Lynda Gauld ([[Pfizer]]), Alan Wilson ([[SCDI]]), Miller McLean ([[Royal Bank of Scotland]]), [[Dominic Fry]] ([[Scottish Power]]), Alastair Smith ([[BAA]] Scottish Airports) and Bill Spiers ([[Scottish TUC]]). {{ref|17}}<br /> :To see more about the SPBE's claims vs. realities, click [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]]. <br /> <br /> ====Scottish Parliament official reports====<br /> The 28 February 2007 Official Report regarding Energy Debt featured many varied comments about [[Scottish Power]]'s energy practices. <br /> *Patrick Harvie from Glasgow representing the Green party said: &quot;I was pleased to see that we received briefings from a number of other organisations, including Barnardo's and Capability Scotland, which want Parliament to understand the impact that energy debt has on a range of different people in diverse family situations. Energy suppliers will always have a problem with billing systems for the most vulnerable people, but some of their practices, as Scott Barrie mentioned, hit the poorest households and families hardest. In the case of [[Scottish Power]]'s practices, they had not even calculated what it would cost [[Scottish Power]] to change the policy by writing off such debt. The role of politicians is not just to engage with suppliers on the issue but to look at public policy. Scott Barrie explained the historical situation in terms of the welfare state but, as we move further into the 21st century, the job for politicians is to prepare all citizens and households in Scotland for the period after cheap energy. It falls on all suppliers, including [[Scottish Power]], to adjust their systems to ensure that the most vulnerable people are not placed in further debt.&quot; <br /> *Christine Grahame from the South of Scotland representing the SNP party said: &quot;Energy companies are making a financial killing on the back of the less well-off. Figures that I have obtained show that some companies are charging customers who will not pay by direct debit almost £300 a year more. With regard to the overcharging of non-direct debit customers for gas and electricity combined, the worst offenders—I will name and shame them—were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]]. The worst companies for customers who required only electricity and who chose not to pay by direct debit were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]].&quot;<br /> *Jackie Baillie from Dumbarton representing the Labour party said: &quot;Come on, [[Scottish Power]]—stop back-charging customers and stop back-charging the people who are potentially the most vulnerable customers. I echo the call for [[Scottish Power]] to end immediately its practice of backdating and to acknowledge that prepayment meter tariffs are a mess.” {{ref|18}} <br /> <br /> ====SpinWatch articles====<br /> While the SPBE at first glance seems potentially beneficial and rather harmless, a deeper look reveals something different: &quot;The Scottish Parliament Business Exchange was set up to allow MSPs to be educated about the realities of business life. To ensure that education and not lobbying took place the scheme was required to be ‘non-lobbying’. But in practice three quarters of the business representatives taking part were lobbyists.” {{ref|19}}<br /> <br /> ==Indirect links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> [[Scottish Power]] enjoys many indirect links with the Scottish Executive and the Scottish Parliament as well. The company sponsors community activities such as '''ScottishPower Learning'''.<br /> *'''ScottishPower Learning''' is the flagship corporate community programme focused on education/employability. A more detailed look reveals: <br /> a) School-based programmes designed to support the school to work transition<br /> <br /> b) Community-based programmes designed to help unemployed young people build their skills in preparation for work (Involved with Prince’s Trust, Community Champions, Project Scotland)<br /> <br /> c) Work-based programmes designed to provide young people with work experience and vocational training<br /> <br /> *The company is involved with '''think tanks''' as well. [[Demos]], for example, is another 'third way' think tank in the UK. According to its website &quot;Demos is a greenhouse for new ideas which can improve the quality of our lives. As an independent think tank, our aim is to create an open resource of knowledge and learning that operates beyond traditional parties, identities and disciplines.&quot; {{ref|20}} [[Scottish Power]] is one of the many partners of [[Demos]].<br /> <br /> -policy planning<br /> Scottish Environmental Protection Agency: <br /> - “a powerful non-departmental public body in Scotland sponsored by the Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Department. SEPA was established by the Environment Act 1995 and is responsible for the protection of the natural environment in Scotland. Its area of competence includes air, land, freshwater and marine environments.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Environment_Protection_Agency)<br /> B(ritish)W(Ind)E(energy)A(ssociation):<br /> - “BP joins renewable power campaign group - Terry Macalister, December 27, 2006 - BP is to throw its weight behind the renewable power industry by joining its main campaigning body. Critics in the environment movement may be suspicious of a company they believe talks about green issues but invests little. Shell has been a member for some years and other big power producers, such as Centrica, owner of British Gas, E.ON of Germany and Scottish Power, have also joined.” (http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/3886/9/)<br /> <br /> ==Other activities==<br /> <br /> ===PR connections===<br /> *[[BIG Partnership]]<br /> *[[GPC International]], in 2004/[[Fleishman Hillard]] in 2005<br /> <br /> ===Lobby connections===<br /> *[[Business Council for Sustainable Development – UK]]<br /> *DC lobbying firm [[Stuntz, Davis &amp; Staffier]]<br /> <br /> ===Cultural Affiliations/Sponsorships===<br /> *[[Ballet Central]]<br /> *[[Celtic Connections]]<br /> *[[Edinburgh International Book Festival]] <br /> *[[Glasgow Science Centre]] (The ScottishPower Planetarium)<br /> *[[National Theatre for Scotland]] <br /> *[[ScottishPower Pipe Band]]<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> ==External Links==<br /> :ScottishPower website [http://www.scottishpower.com/]<br /> :ScottishPower Gas and Electricity Customer website [http://scottishpower.co.uk/]<br /> :ScottishPower Energy Networks website [http://www.spenergynetworks.com/]<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> #{{note|1}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Power Scottish Power], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow Glasgow], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|3}} Energy supply rank from CNN.com [http://www.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/11/28/scot.power/index.html World Business], &quot;Scot Power agrees $22B Spanish bid&quot;, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|4}} Board and Management bios from Scottish Power[http://www.scottishpower.com/ManagementTeam.asp Meet the Board], accessed March 2007.<br /> #{{note|5}} Fat Cat payoff information from ThisIsMoney [http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=410010&amp;in_page_id=2 article] &quot;Sacked power chiefs get 'obscene' pay-off&quot;, accessed 18 June 2006.<br /> #{{note|6}} Photograph from Eco-Schools[http://www.eco-schools.org/partners/institutional/logo_scotexec.gif Partners], Scottish Executive, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|7}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_616.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Plans to Turn Open-cast Mine into Windfarm and Bird Habitat&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|8}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_537.htm News &amp; Media], “ScottishPower Announces Proposals for Third Large-Scale Scottish Windfarm, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|9}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_634.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Spearheads Drive to Advise Business on the Climate Change Levy&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|10}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1487.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Brings Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' to Schools&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|11}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1498.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower to Build World’s Biggest Wave Project off Orkney&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|12}} Photograph from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/uploads/windfarmconsbiostrategy.pdf Brochure], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|13}} Photograph from Scottish Executive [http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/921/0040702.pdf Poster], accessed 22 March 2007. <br /> #{{note|14}} Report from CorporateWatch [http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=1305 article], &quot;SCOTLAND PLC: The Scottish Executive’s corporate links&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|15}} Information from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article], &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|16}} Photograph from Scottish Parliament[http://survey.scottish.parliament.uk/vli/education/youth/games/jigsaw/logoBig.gif Education], Scottish Parliament, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|17}} SPBE information from Scottish Parliament[http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/nmCentre/news/news-01/pa01-089.htm Parliamentary News Release], “New Scheme Promotes Mutual Understanding Between MSPs and Scottish Businesses&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|18}} Energy Debt comments from Scottish Parliament [http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-07/sor0228-02.htm Energy Debt], &quot;Official Report 28 February 2007&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|19}} SPBE lobby relations from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article] &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.</div>

Heather Kirk https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=ScottishPower&diff=22423 2007-04-20T16:25:02Z

<p>Heather Kirk: /* Indirect links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament */</p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Scottish power.JPG|right|210px|thumb|Scottish Power logo{{ref|1}}]]<br /> [[Image:Glasgow.JPG|right|140px|thumb|Glasgow, Scotland{{ref|2}}]]<br /> :'''Address''': 1 Atlantic Quay, Glasgow, G2 8SP<br /> :'''Phone''': 0141 248 8200<br /> <br /> Based in Glasgow, Scotland, '''ScottishPower Plc''' is a vertically integrated energy company and is Britain's fifth-largest energy supplier. {{ref|3}} As part of the utilities industry, it is the distribution network operator for the central and southern Scotland and the Merseyside and North Wales regions. The company also supplies electricity and natural gas to homes and business around the United Kingdom and generates power for supply to the grid. It owns '''[[PPM Energy]]''' in the United States and is also quoted on the '''London Stock Exchange''' as part of the FTSE 100 Index, and has a secondary listing on the '''New York Stock Exchange'''.<br /> <br /> :[[Scottish Power]] has a number of divisions and subsidiaries, which can be found here: <br /> *[[Scottish Power: Divisons]]<br /> *[[Scottish Power: Subsidiaries]]<br /> <br /> ==History==<br /> [[Scottish Power]] was formed in 1990, in preparation for the privatisation of the previously nationalised Scottish electricity industry the following year. Previously the UK government had privatised the English and Welsh electricity industry by splitting the market into 12 regional electricity companies (RECs) and two power generators. However in Scotland, the industry was already organised on an integrated generation, distribution and supply basis, and this integration survived the privatisation to become a model for the rest of the United Kingdom. [[Scottish Power]] was largely formed from of the larger of the two Scottish electricity boards, the '''South of Scotland Electricity Board''', whilst the other, the '''North of Scotland Hydro Board''', eventually became part of the '''Scottish and Southern Energy Group''' (the nuclear power stations in Scotland were spun off into a third company, '''Scottish Nuclear''', which was not sold off with [[Scottish Power]] and '''Scottish Hydro Electric''', but was sold later as part of '''British Energy''').<br /> <br /> ==Company Chronology==<br /> *1990 - [[Scottish Power]] prepared for privitisation from state-owned [[Scottish Electricity]]<br /> *1991 - officially founded<br /> *1995 - aquired [[Manweb]]<br /> *1996 - expanded into the water supply bussiness and purchased [[Southern Water]]<br /> *2000 - aquired [[Pacificorp]]<br /> *2001 - PacifiCorp Power Marketing, Inc. moved from being a subsidiary of [[PacifiCorp]] to being an affiliate to [[PacifiCorp]]<br /> *2002 - sold [[Southern Water]]; sold [[Thus]] interest; made [[PPM Energy]] a separate business from [[Pacificorp]] <br /> *2005 - rejected takeover bid from [[E.ON]] on 22 November<br /> *2006 - sold [[Pacificorp]] to MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company on 21 March; aquired permission to build Europe's largest on-shore Windfarm on 27 April; agreed to takeover by [[Iberdrola]] on 28 November<br /> <br /> ==People==<br /> ===Board===<br /> <br /> *[[Charles Miller Smith]] Joined the Board as Deputy Chairman in August 1999 and was appointed as Chairman in April 2000.<br /> *[[Euan Baird]] Joined the Board in January 2001 and brings executive level experience in the electronics and engineering industry to the ScottishPower Board.<br /> *[[Donald Brydon]] Joined the Board in May 2003 and is the senior independent director.<br /> *[[Nick Rose]] Joined the Board in February 2003 and he is Chairman of the Audit Committee, nominated as the Committee’s designated “financial expert”.<br /> *[[Nancy Wilgenbusch]] Joined the Board in June 2004.<br /> *[[Peter Hickson]] Joined the Board on 1st September 2006.<br /> <br /> ===Management Team===<br /> <br /> * [[Philip Bowman]] Chief Executive<br /> * [[Simon Lowth]] Finance Director<br /> * [[Terry Hudgens]] Chief Executive Officer, PPM Energy Inc<br /> * [[Susan Reilly]] Commercial Director<br /> * [[Alan Bryce]] Director, Energy Networks<br /> * [[John Campbell]] Director, Energy Wholesale<br /> * [[Willie MacDiarmid]] Director, Energy Retail<br /> * [[Sheelagh Duffield]] Company Secretary<br /> * [[Stephen Dunn]] Director, Human Resources and Communications {{ref|4}}<br /> <br /> ===Previous Members===<br /> * [[Vicky Bailey]] Former American non-Executive Director<br /> * [[Charles Berry]] Former Executive Director (UK)<br /> * [[Dominic Fry]] Former Corporate Affairs Director<br /> * [[David Nish]] Former Exucutive Director of Infrastructure<br /> * [[Ian Russell]] Former Chief Executive<br /> <br /> ==Fat Cat payoffs==<br /> [[Scottish Power]]'s former chief executive [[Ian Russell]] and three colleagues received £10.9m for pay and pension compensation. The sums have been branded 'obscene' by the [[Scottish National Party]] energy spokesman [[Richard Lochhead]], and come to light just three months after they warned customers about inflation-busting bill hikes.<br /> <br /> Mr. Russell, who left in January of 2006 after five years as chief executive, received a £2.3m compensation payment as well as benefiting from a resultant pension top-up of £2.7m. The compensation sum is more than three times his salary of £648,000, while his pension windfall nearly doubled his total entitlement to £6.8m. His colleagues [[Charles Berry]] and [[David Nish]], who both left the firm in September of 2006, pocketed a total of £2.6m and £2.2m in extra compensation and extra pension sums respectively. And [[Judi Johansen]], the former head of the company's [[PacifiCorp]] arm that was sold in 2006 as well, walked off with a total of £1.1m.<br /> <br /> The figures are published in Scottish Power's 2005/06 annual report and accounts, and are on top of their normal pay and pension entitlements totalling a further £10.5m. The plc made £675m profit before tax in the financial year to March 2006. [[Scottish Power]] raised gas prices by 15% and electricity by 8% in March of 2006, only to warn that bills would rise again due to high wholesale costs. {{ref|5}}<br /> <br /> ==Direct links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> ===Scottish Executive===<br /> [[Image:SE logo.JPG|right|150px|thumb|Scottish Executive logo {{ref|6}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] has had a number of direct links with the '''Scottish Executive''' over the years. The following shows some press releases, brochures &amp; posters, CorporateWatch reports, and SpinWatch articles regarding the relationships between the two.<br /> ====Press Releases====<br /> <br /> *In May of 2002, [[Scottish Power]] &quot;submitted plans to the '''Scottish Executive''' for a £70 million windfarm on the site of an abandoned open cast mine at Black Law near the village of Forth in South Lanarkshire. [[Scottish Power]], in partnership with the '''Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and landowners''', has developed a habitat management plan that integrates nature conservation, windfarm operation, and other land uses on the site which has been derelict since coal mining activities ceased there.” {{ref|7}}<br /> <br /> *In January of 2003, [[Scottish Power]] announced to the '''Scottish Executive''' its proposals for the third large scale Scottish windfarm; and &quot;if approved, '''Harestanes''' windfarm alone could meet a third of the '''Scottish Executive'''’s renewable energy target of 18% by 2010.” {{ref|8}}<br /> <br /> *In June of 2004, it was announced that &quot;ScottishPower in partnership with the Scottish Energy Office of the '''Scottish Executive''' today launched a nationwide campaign to make businesses aware of the introduction of the Government's Climate Change Levy (CCL). The CCL is a tax that will be the major force behind the Government's commitment to reduce the UK's production of greenhouse gases by 12.5 per cent, compared to 1990 levels, by 2010.” {{ref|9}}<br /> <br /> *More recently in January of 2007, a press release stated that &quot;Former US Vice President Al Gore’s climate change film, An Inconvenient Truth, will be shown in all of Scotland’s Secondary Schools this year thanks to an initiative from [[Scottish Power]] and the Scottish Executive. The Scottish Executive, through Learning Teaching Scotland, is developing a package of educational materials to help raise awareness of the challenges we all face from global warming. [[Stephen Dunn]], [[Scottish Power]]’s HR and Communications Director, said; “I was greatly impressed by An Inconvenient Truth. Not only does it powerfully explain what is happening to the planet, it also gives hope by simply setting out what we can still do to fight climate change. [[Scottish Power]] is already the biggest generator of onshore wind energy in the UK and is developing biomass and wave generation to reduce emissions and combat global warming – but it is essential that we also help promote understanding of this crucial challenge through initiatives such as this.”&quot; {{ref|10}} <br /> <br /> *In Febraury of 2007, &quot;ScottishPower, working closely with the '''Scottish Executive''', today announced a £10m wave power project designed to push Scotland to the forefront of global marine energy development. ScottishPower's Director of Renewables, Keith Anderson, said: &quot;This is a massive step forward. It will be a test of the actual devices that will be used commercially and, if successful, should help propel Scotland into the forefront of marine energy throughout the world.”&quot; {{ref|11}}<br /> <br /> ====Brochures &amp; Posters====<br /> [[Image:SP windfarm.JPG|right|130px|thumb|Brochure {{ref|12}}]]<br /> “ScottishPower Windfarm Biodiversity Conservation Strategy”<br /> This was a joint venture in 2006 between the '''Scottish Executive''' and '''ScottishPower Renewables'''. It also involved the Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Sustainable Development, as can be proudly seen at the bottom of the brocure.<br /> [[Image:Future.JPG|left|120px|thumb|Poster {{ref|13}}]]<br /> “It’s Our Future schools’ competition”<br /> This is another example of a joint venture in 2006 between '''ScottishPower Gas and Electricity''' &amp; the '''Scottish Executive''''s ''Natural Scotland'' campaign. It involved the WWF (World Wildlife Fund), EcoSchools, as well as Learning &amp; Teaching Scotland, which is funded by the Scottish Executive Education Department (SEED).<br /> <br /> ====CorporateWatch Reports====<br /> &quot;Despite the pro-business outlook of McConnell and the '''Scottish executive''', corporate lobbyists still find it worthwhile to swarm around the '''Scottish Parliament''' in an attempt to secure meetings with MSPs, to influence Scottish public spending in their favour and to keep polluting Scotland without major penalties. The incestuous relationships between the '''Scottish Parliament''' and corporations extend beyond external lobbying, however. Take for example the corporate swamping of cross party policy discussion groups that meet within the '''Scottish Parliament'''. The '''Scottish Executive''' has seen further controversy over its cosy connections with corporations. Since its creation, business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and transnational corporations, with inward secondments from [[Scottish Power]].” {{ref|14}} <br /> <br /> ====Spinwatch articles====<br /> “Since the creation of the '''Scottish Executive''', business representatives have had access as secondees to the Executive and civil servants have been seconded outwards to the private sector. Companies involved include the biggest Scottish and Trans-National corporations, Inward: [[Scottish Power]], [[Scottish and Newcastle]], [[Stagecoach]], [[Ernst and Young]], [[PriceWaterhouseCoopers]]. Outward: [[Lloyds TSB]] Foundation, [[Scottish Power]], [[McGrigor Donald]] (law firm and lobbyist), [[Scottish and Newcastle]] and business lobby groups [[Business in the Community]] and the '''Scottish Chambers of Commerce'''.” {{ref|15}}<br /> <br /> ===Scottish Parliament===<br /> [[Image:SP logo.JPG|right|170px|thumb|Scottish Parliament logo{{ref|16}}]]<br /> <br /> [[Scottish Power]] also has many links with the '''Scottish Parliament''' as well. The following shows Parliamentary News Releases regarding the development of the [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]], Scottish Parliament official reports, and SpinWatch articles as evidence of relationships between the two.<br /> <br /> ====Parliamentary News Releases====<br /> The Scottish Parliament Business Exchange is a scheme where supposedly, MSPs are to be given an opportunity to gain a valuable insight into the diverse Scottish business sector. The Scottish Parliament and Business Exchange ('The Exchange') aims to develop and provide opportunities for promoting mutual understanding between MSPs and business and related communities in Scotland. The Exchange is registered as an educational charity with a board made up of 50 per-cent Parliamentarians and 50 per-cent business representatives. Presiding officer and The Exchange's honorary President, Sir David Steel said &quot;Through being transparent, open, inclusive and flexible in its approach, The Exchange will be able to bring MSPs and the business community together in a non-lobbying and non-partisan way, providing benefits to the whole of Scotland.” The Board of The Exchange was set-up at the first AGM in June of 2001. The Parliament's Chief Executive, Paul Grice, was the convener, and Sir David Steel MSP was the honorary President. The Board members were Elaine Thomson MSP, Brian Adam MSP, David Davidson MSP, Keith Raffan MSP, Lynda Gauld ([[Pfizer]]), Alan Wilson ([[SCDI]]), Miller McLean ([[Royal Bank of Scotland]]), [[Dominic Fry]] ([[Scottish Power]]), Alastair Smith ([[BAA]] Scottish Airports) and Bill Spiers ([[Scottish TUC]]). {{ref|17}}<br /> :To see more about the SPBE's claims vs. realities, click [[Scottish Parliament Business Exchange]]. <br /> <br /> ====Scottish Parliament official reports====<br /> The 28 February 2007 Official Report regarding Energy Debt featured many varied comments about [[Scottish Power]]'s energy practices. <br /> *Patrick Harvie from Glasgow representing the Green party said: &quot;I was pleased to see that we received briefings from a number of other organisations, including Barnardo's and Capability Scotland, which want Parliament to understand the impact that energy debt has on a range of different people in diverse family situations. Energy suppliers will always have a problem with billing systems for the most vulnerable people, but some of their practices, as Scott Barrie mentioned, hit the poorest households and families hardest. In the case of [[Scottish Power]]'s practices, they had not even calculated what it would cost [[Scottish Power]] to change the policy by writing off such debt. The role of politicians is not just to engage with suppliers on the issue but to look at public policy. Scott Barrie explained the historical situation in terms of the welfare state but, as we move further into the 21st century, the job for politicians is to prepare all citizens and households in Scotland for the period after cheap energy. It falls on all suppliers, including [[Scottish Power]], to adjust their systems to ensure that the most vulnerable people are not placed in further debt.&quot; <br /> *Christine Grahame from the South of Scotland representing the SNP party said: &quot;Energy companies are making a financial killing on the back of the less well-off. Figures that I have obtained show that some companies are charging customers who will not pay by direct debit almost £300 a year more. With regard to the overcharging of non-direct debit customers for gas and electricity combined, the worst offenders—I will name and shame them—were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]]. The worst companies for customers who required only electricity and who chose not to pay by direct debit were [[npower]], [[Powergen]] and [[Scottish Power]].&quot;<br /> *Jackie Baillie from Dumbarton representing the Labour party said: &quot;Come on, [[Scottish Power]]—stop back-charging customers and stop back-charging the people who are potentially the most vulnerable customers. I echo the call for [[Scottish Power]] to end immediately its practice of backdating and to acknowledge that prepayment meter tariffs are a mess.” {{ref|18}} <br /> <br /> ====SpinWatch articles====<br /> While the SPBE at first glance seems potentially beneficial and rather harmless, a deeper look reveals something different: &quot;The Scottish Parliament Business Exchange was set up to allow MSPs to be educated about the realities of business life. To ensure that education and not lobbying took place the scheme was required to be ‘non-lobbying’. But in practice three quarters of the business representatives taking part were lobbyists.” {{ref|19}}<br /> <br /> ==Indirect links with the Scottish Executive &amp; the Scottish Parliament==<br /> [[Scottish Power]] enjoys many indirect links with the Scottish Executive and the Scottish Parliament as well. The company sponsors community activities such as '''ScottishPower Learning''', and being affiliated with [[SEPA]] and [[BWEA]].<br /> *'''ScottishPower Learning''' is the flagship corporate community programme focused on education/employability. A more detailed look reveals: <br /> a) School-based programmes designed to support the school to work transition<br /> <br /> b) Community-based programmes designed to help unemployed young people build their skills in preparation for work (Involved with Prince’s Trust, Community Champions, Project Scotland)<br /> <br /> c) Work-based programmes designed to provide young people with work experience and vocational training<br /> *<br /> -think tanks <br /> “an organization, institute, corporation, or group that conducts research, typically funded by governmental and commercial clients, in the areas of social or political strategy, technology, and armament. Critics such as Ralph Nader have suggested that because of the private nature of the funding of think tanks their results are biased to a varying degree. Some critics go further to assert think tanks are little more than propaganda tools for promoting the ideological arguments of whatever group established them. They charge that most think tanks, which are usually headquartered in state or national seats of government, exist merely for large-scale lobbying to form opinion in favor of special private interests.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_tank)<br /> -policy planning<br /> Scottish Environmental Protection Agency: <br /> - “a powerful non-departmental public body in Scotland sponsored by the Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Department. SEPA was established by the Environment Act 1995 and is responsible for the protection of the natural environment in Scotland. Its area of competence includes air, land, freshwater and marine environments.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Environment_Protection_Agency)<br /> B(ritish)W(Ind)E(energy)A(ssociation):<br /> - “BP joins renewable power campaign group - Terry Macalister, December 27, 2006 - BP is to throw its weight behind the renewable power industry by joining its main campaigning body. Critics in the environment movement may be suspicious of a company they believe talks about green issues but invests little. Shell has been a member for some years and other big power producers, such as Centrica, owner of British Gas, E.ON of Germany and Scottish Power, have also joined.” (http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/3886/9/)<br /> <br /> ==Other activities==<br /> <br /> ===PR connections===<br /> *[[BIG Partnership]]<br /> *[[GPC International]], in 2004/[[Fleishman Hillard]] in 2005<br /> <br /> ===Lobby connections===<br /> *[[Business Council for Sustainable Development – UK]]<br /> *DC lobbying firm [[Stuntz, Davis &amp; Staffier]]<br /> <br /> ===Cultural Affiliations/Sponsorships===<br /> *[[Ballet Central]]<br /> *[[Celtic Connections]]<br /> *[[Edinburgh International Book Festival]] <br /> *[[Glasgow Science Centre]] (The ScottishPower Planetarium)<br /> *[[National Theatre for Scotland]] <br /> *[[ScottishPower Pipe Band]]<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> ==External Links==<br /> :ScottishPower website [http://www.scottishpower.com/]<br /> :ScottishPower Gas and Electricity Customer website [http://scottishpower.co.uk/]<br /> :ScottishPower Energy Networks website [http://www.spenergynetworks.com/]<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> #{{note|1}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Power Scottish Power], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|2}} Photograph from Wikipedia[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow Glasgow], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|3}} Energy supply rank from CNN.com [http://www.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/11/28/scot.power/index.html World Business], &quot;Scot Power agrees $22B Spanish bid&quot;, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|4}} Board and Management bios from Scottish Power[http://www.scottishpower.com/ManagementTeam.asp Meet the Board], accessed March 2007.<br /> #{{note|5}} Fat Cat payoff information from ThisIsMoney [http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=410010&amp;in_page_id=2 article] &quot;Sacked power chiefs get 'obscene' pay-off&quot;, accessed 18 June 2006.<br /> #{{note|6}} Photograph from Eco-Schools[http://www.eco-schools.org/partners/institutional/logo_scotexec.gif Partners], Scottish Executive, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|7}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_616.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Plans to Turn Open-cast Mine into Windfarm and Bird Habitat&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|8}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_537.htm News &amp; Media], “ScottishPower Announces Proposals for Third Large-Scale Scottish Windfarm, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|9}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_634.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Spearheads Drive to Advise Business on the Climate Change Levy&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|10}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1487.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower Brings Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' to Schools&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|11}} Press release from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1498.htm News &amp; Media], &quot;ScottishPower to Build World’s Biggest Wave Project off Orkney&quot;, accessed 12 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|12}} Photograph from Scottish Power [http://www.scottishpower.com/uploads/windfarmconsbiostrategy.pdf Brochure], accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|13}} Photograph from Scottish Executive [http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/921/0040702.pdf Poster], accessed 22 March 2007. <br /> #{{note|14}} Report from CorporateWatch [http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=1305 article], &quot;SCOTLAND PLC: The Scottish Executive’s corporate links&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|15}} Information from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article], &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|16}} Photograph from Scottish Parliament[http://survey.scottish.parliament.uk/vli/education/youth/games/jigsaw/logoBig.gif Education], Scottish Parliament, accessed 16 April 2007.<br /> #{{note|17}} SPBE information from Scottish Parliament[http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/nmCentre/news/news-01/pa01-089.htm Parliamentary News Release], “New Scheme Promotes Mutual Understanding Between MSPs and Scottish Businesses&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|18}} Energy Debt comments from Scottish Parliament [http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-07/sor0228-02.htm Energy Debt], &quot;Official Report 28 February 2007&quot;, accessed 22 March 2007.<br /> #{{note|19}} SPBE lobby relations from SpinWatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/15/8/ article] &quot;Taking The Risk Out Of Devolution&quot;, accessed 19 March 2007.</div>

Heather Kirk