- CEO
- Martin Pibworth
- Full Time Employees
- 14,980
- Sector
- Utilities
- Industry
- Diversified Utilities
- Address
- Inveralmond House Perth United Kingdom PH1 3AQ
- IPO Date
- Aug 13, 2012
- Business
- SSE plc, a leading UK-based energy company headquartered in Perth, Scotland and founded in 1998 through the merger of Scottish Hydro-Electric and Southern Electric, generates, transmits, distributes and supplies electricity and related energy services across Great Britain and Ireland. The company operates through key business units including SSE Renewables, which develops and manages onshore and offshore wind farms such as Dogger Bank, Seagreen and Viking, hydroelectric schemes like the Tummel Valley and Affric-Beauly systems, solar projects including Littleton Solar, and battery energy storage systems like Salisbury BESS and Ferrybridge BESS; SSE Thermal, which provides flexible gas-fired generation at stations including Keadby 2, Peterhead, Marchwood and Great Island, alongside gas storage at Aldbrough and Atwick, carbon capture initiatives at Keadby 3, and energy-from-waste at Slough Multifuel; SSEN Transmission, responsible for the high-voltage electricity transmission network in northern Scotland; SSEN Distribution, serving approximately 3.9 million homes and businesses in central southern England and northern Scotland; SSE Energy Solutions, offering low-carbon solutions such as EV charging via the Source joint venture with TotalEnergies, onsite generation, battery storage and smart building systems; SSE Airtricity, supplying energy to over 770,000 meter points in Ireland with services including solar panels, heat pumps and corporate power purchase agreements; and SSE Energy Markets, handling commodity trading and portfolio management. SSE plc maintains a growing international presence in renewable development in countries including Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece, targeting industrial, commercial, domestic and public sector customers in the transition to net zero emissions. Recent developments include the announcement of a transformational £33 billion five-year investment plan to 2030 focused on electricity networks and renewables, with a proposed £2 billion equity raise in December 2025 to fund it; progression on major transmission projects like Accelerated Strategic Transmission Investment (ASTI) and Large Onshore Transmission Investment (LOTI), four of eleven now under construction; entry into commercial operations at the 55MW Slough Multifuel joint venture with Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners ahead of schedule; completion of the 101MW Yellow River onshore wind farm in Ireland; and the launch of the Source EV charging joint venture with TotalEnergies deploying up to 3,000 high-power points in the UK and Ireland.