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Tidal Turbine Powers Up in Orkney – Harnessing Scotland’s Tidal Energy a Step Closer
17 May 2012
An underwater turbine that is set to be used in Scotland’s first and only consented tidal power project has successfully completed an initial testing period in Orkney.
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ScottishPower First Energy Company To Launch Midata System
17 May 2012
Government-backed scheme intends to deliver a new era of consumer empowerment.
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Big Ticks For ScottishPower Projects Across The UK
11 May 2012
ScottishPower’s commitment to the energy industry and creating a skilled workforce for the future has been acknowledged by Business in the Community (BITC) after two of its projects were reaccredited with coveted Big Ticks.
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Iberdrola First Quarter Net Profit up 0.7% at €1,022 Million with Growth in all Businesses
10 May 2012
Ebitda rose 4.1% to €2,365 million with increases of 8.9% in regulated businesses, 2.7% in liberalised business and 2.8% in renewables
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Support From ScottishPower Helps Record Number Of Glasgow Teenagers Complete The Duke Of Edinburgh’s Award
9 May 2012
ScottishPower’s support of The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award has helped to significantly increase the number of young people in Glasgow completing the challenging award.
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Iberdrola Boosts Presence In UK With Dedicated London Office
9 May 2012
The Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Edward Davey MP, has officially opened the new London offices of Iberdrola and ScottishPower in an inauguration ceremony presided over by the Chairman and CEO of Iberdrola and Chairman of ScottishPower, Ignacio Galan.
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Samantha Barber Appointed Chairman Of Iberdrola Corporate Responsibility Committee
7 May 2012
Samantha Barber has been appointed chairman of Iberdrola’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Committee, a committee of independent directors that reports to the Iberdrola Board.
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Scottishpower Renewables And Dong Energy Award Major Contracts For West Of Duddon Sands Offshore Windfarm
2 May 2012
ScottishPower Renewables and DONG Energy have today awarded contracts worth €115m for the transportation and installation of turbine foundations for the 389MW West of Duddon Sands offshore windfarm in the Irish Sea.
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ScottishPower and Cancer Research UK Charity Relationship Raises Quarter of A Million Pounds
1 May 2012
Employees and customers at ScottishPower have raised a quarter of a million pounds for Cancer Research UK in just over two months.
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ScottishPower Launches Swap Shop 2012 – Schools Encouraged To Swap Books And Raise Money For Charity
27 April 2012
ScottishPower is urging primary school pupils in Scotland to swap books as part of their Swap Shop initiative designed to encourage reading and raise money for charity.
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ScottishPower Renewables Set To Award £20m Onshore Wind Contracts To Northstone Limited As Belfast Harbour Investment Continues To Show Wider Benefits Of Offshore Wind Power
25 April 2012
ScottishPower Renewables CEO Keith Anderson met with Charles Hendry MP, Minister of State for Energy and Climate Change, at Belfast Harbour this week to discuss investment in the UK’s offshore wind power sector. At the same time, the energy company is also set to award Belfast-based Northstone Limited contracts worth more than £20m to deliver infrastructure works at two of its onshore windfarms.
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ScottishPower Renewables Welcomes Arab Ambassadors To Whitelee
24 April 2012
ScottishPower Renewables last week welcomed UK Ambassadors from several Arab States to Europe’s largest windfarm, Whitelee, as part of an international fact finding visit.
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ScottishPower Invests £1million In Youth Development In North West England And North Wales
19 April 2012
ScottishPower is hosting a partnership event at Liverpool’s BT Convention Centre today (19th April) with the Duke of Edinburgh’s (DofE) Award, which the company supports, as part of its £1m investment in youth development in North West England and North Wales.
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Lord Kerr of Kinlochard GCMG Appointed as Vice Chairman of ScottishPower Limited
18 April 2012
18th April - Following its meeting today, the Board of Directors of ScottishPower Limited approved the appointment of Lord Kerr as the new Vice Chairman of ScottishPower Limited.
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ScottishPower Launches New Print Campaign And Micro-site With Newhaven
13 April 2012
ScottishPower has launched a new UK-wide print advertising campaign with Newhaven to help highlight the company’s many commitments to its customers and its ongoing investment sustainable energy solutions for the future.
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ScottishPower And Iberdrola Working With Comillas And Strathclyde Universities To Launch International Energy Masters Degree
11 April 2012
ScottishPower and Iberdrola are working closely with the University of Strathclyde and Comillas Pontifical University ICAI in Madrid to develop an International Energy MBA (Masters in Business Administration).
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ScottishPower Outlines Ayrshire Investment At Dumfries House Meeting With HRH Duke Of Rothesay
5 April 2012
Keith Anderson, CEO of ScottishPower Renewables, met with HRH Duke of Rothesay at Dumfries House near Cumnock today (Wednesday 3rd April) to discuss the company’s work in the Ayrshire region. The meeting was arranged by East Ayrshire Council to examine the engineering sector in the local area, and consider opportunities for economic development, skills, education and training.
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ScottishPower Plans Major Investment Project To Reinforce The Electricity Network In Cowdenbeath
2 April 2012
ScottishPower Energy Networks is set to carry out an essential project to reinforce the electricity network in Cowdenbeath. Work is due to commence on 09 April 2012 on a scheme worth over £200,000 that will improve the reliability of supplies to homes and businesses in High Street for many years to come.
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ScottishPower Comment: Ofgem Customer Satisfaction Survey
2 April 2012
ScottishPower has retained its position as one of the best performing Big 6 Energy Companies in Ofgem’s annual customer satisfaction survey. As well as featuring at the top this year’s survey, the company also had one of the largest improvements in the industry against performance in 2010.
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Cockenzie Power Station Update
15 March 2012
Following a detailed strategic review, ScottishPower has stated that the remaining operational hours permitted under European Law at Cockenzie Power Station are expected to expire by the end of March 2013. The station was opted out of the Large Combustion Plant Directive (LCPD) in January 2008 and as a consequence was required to close by December 2015 or after it had operated for 20,000 hours.
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ScottishPower Encouraged By Major Response To Apprentice Programme – Company Receive 1,000 Applications In One Week
12 March 2012
ScottishPower has received 1,000 applications in one week for 25 apprenticeship roles that it recently announced in its Energy Networks business. The company has been overwhelmed by the interest that has been shown in pursuing a career in the energy industry.
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Whitelee Windfarm Visitor Centre Re-Opens For The Summer
5 March 2012
Energy and Tourism Minister Fergus Ewing will join ScottishPower Renewables CEO Keith Anderson and pupils from Howford Primary School today (March 5th), to officially launch the activity programme at Whitelee Windfarm Visitor Centre for 2012.
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Cable thieves in Flint put lives at risk
1 March 2012
North Wales Police is working closely with electricity company ScottishPower to crackdown on cable thefts.
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ScottishPower Creating 300 Engineering And Technical Jobs - £6.5 Million Also Earmarked To Counter Skills Gap
28 February 2012
ScottishPower expects to invest over £5bn to upgrade the electricity network in central and southern Scotland over the next 10 years, and is launching a recruitment drive to boost its engineering and technical workforce by creating 300 new roles. ScottishPower Chairman Ignacio Galán made the announcement today at the company’s training headquarters in Cumbernauld with First Minister Alex Salmond.
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Scottish Government’s Interactive Recycling Bank Visits ScottishPower
27 February 2012
ScottishPower employees had the opportunity to find out how easy and important it is to recycle more items, more often, when the Scottish Government’s interactive recycling bank visited earlier this week.
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Europe’s Largest Wind farm sets another Record as New Turbines at Whitelee Extension Are Connected to Grid
24 February 2012
Europe’s largest wind farm set another record today when the first array of new turbines at the Whitelee extension, near Glasgow, were connected to the electricity grid.
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Iberdrola Announces €2,805 Million Net Profit for 2011 and Maintains Dividend
23 February 2012
Ebitda rose 1.6% to €7.65 billion helped by a balanced and diversified business portfolio and grounded in efficiency measures, international spread and solid finances.
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King and Queen of Spain Inaugurate the Iberdrola Tower in Bilbao
21 February 2012
King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofía of Spain, this morning inaugurated the Iberdrola Tower in Bilbao, the Company’s new headquarters. They were accompanied by the Minister of Industry, Energy and Tourism, José Manuel Soria, the president of the Basque country, Patxi López, and IBERDROLA Group Chairman Ignacio Galán.
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ScottishPower and National Grid Award Contracts to Deliver Major Electricity Grid Upgrade
16 February 2012
First ever subsea link between Scotland and England/Wales will increase flow of electricity by more than 2,000 megawatts (MW), and will be the longest 2,000 MW capacity High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) cable in the world
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ScottishPower Tops Which? Magazine Performance Table for Telesales Practices
16 February 2012
ScottishPower has achieved the best score of the Big 6 energy companies in Which? magazine’s second investigation into energy industry telesales practices.
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ScottishPower And Cancer Research UK Form Charity Relationship
10 February 2012
ScottishPower has announced a new relationship with Cancer Research UK, the cancer charity dedicated to saving lives through research. As part of this relationship, Cancer Research UK will be ScottishPower’s principal charity for the next three years, with the aim of raising over £5m to help beat cancer.
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Minister meets students on innovative course at Cardonald College Glasgow
9 February 2012
Scottish Minister for Youth Employment, Angela Constance MSP, met students at Cardonald College Glasgow on Wednesday 8 February to discuss their experiences of studying three new and innovative courses. Run in conjunction with ScottishPower, the engineering-related courses are aimed at young people, some of whom who have struggled in the past to get into education or employment.
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Celtic Connections Celebrates A Successful 19th Festival, Sponsored By ScottishPower
7 February 2012
Celtic Connections is once again celebrating a bumper year as the 19th festival draws to a close tonight, as attendances reached over 100,000 and gross ticket sales topped £1.1 million for the fifth year running. This was the sixth year that the festival has been supported by its principal sponsor ScottishPower.
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St Ambrose High School Pupils Play Celtic Connections Main Stage
7 February 2012
Gifted musicians from St Ambrose High School in North Lanarkshire put on a powerful performance on the Celtic Connections main stage after being crowned winners in ScottishPower’s nationwide music contest.
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ScottishPower Customers Respond To Tariff Check Campaign Saving £4 Million In The Process
1 February 2012
A targeted tariff check campaign by ScottishPower, to alert customers to potential savings by changing the way they pay for their energy, has seen more than 20,000 customers make savings by switching to a more suitable tariff in the last 3 months. The total savings experienced by these customers will top £4million.
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The Fundación Iberdrola Launches A New Edition Of Its Scholarships And Research Grants Scheme
31 January 2012
Following the success of earlier editions, the Fundación IBERDROLA has announced a new call of its different scholarship and research grants programmes to carry out energy and environmental studies for the 2012/2013 academic year.
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ScottishPower Trials New System Of Community Energy Advisors
27 January 2012
ScottishPower is conducting a limited trial of a new community based energy advice service, which has been endorsed by the Energy Savings Trust, in Motherwell and North Shields in February.
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ScottishPower’s Proposals For £2.6 Billion Transmission Grid Investments Fast Tracked For Approval By Ofgem
23 January 2012
ScottishPower has successfully reached agreement with the energy regulator Ofgem to fund an investment plan totalling £2.6 billion pounds over the 8-year period from 2013 to 2021 that will see the creation of up to 1,500 jobs in Scotland. The company’s plans have been fast tracked for approval by Ofgem, who have agreed a 4.5% rate of return on investment over the period.
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Brakes Are Off For Green Energy At Pollokshaws West Station
19 January 2012
Glasgow Building Preservation Trust and South West Community Cycles are set to benefit from a funding boost to install a wood pellet stove boiler which will provide heating and hot water in the refurbished Pollokshaws West station building.
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Celtic Connections 2012, sponsored by ScottishPower, starts today
19 January 2012
The 19th Celtic Connections festival launches in spectacular style today with fire performers and the ScottishPower pipe band warming up for the opening concert, An evening with Béla Fleck and The Flecktones with special guests.
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ScottishPower Introduces Plans To Boost Wholesale Electricity Market Liquidity And Help Smaller Suppliers
18 January 2012
ScottishPower has outlined plans to enhance the liquidity of the wholesale energy market in the UK, as well as committing to a campaign to contact small and independent energy suppliers to detail all the
ways in which it can help them to operate successfully in the market.
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ScottishPower Cuts Gas Bills By 5%
16 January 2012
ScottishPower today announced reductions in its gas bills for around 1.4 million domestic gas customers.
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Iberdrola Consortium Submits Bids For French Offshore Wind Projects
11 January 2012
A consortium led by Iberdrola, who have their global offshore wind headquarters located in Glasgow, has announced today the submission of two bids for windfarm projects off the Brittany and Atlantic coasts as part of the French Government’s competition to install up to 3 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind capacity.
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ScottishPower Storm Update - 6th January 5pm
6 January 2012
ScottishPower expects all homes affected by Tuesday’s storm to be reconnected today. If a reconnection estimate for a property is expected to be later this evening, the company will make every attempt to contact customers to offer alternative accommodation for tonight.