Outstanding ScottishPower business partners rewarded

At the heart of ScottishPower’s business ethos is its green principles. And providing green energy to its customers involves collaborating with a number of other companies.

One of the businesses ScottishPower works with is Providor, part of the Sureserve Group, based in Newmarket in Suffolk. The company installs gas and electric meters in customers’ homes.

So impressed is ScottishPower with the work its business partners have carried out to help it achieve its planet-friendly plans that it launched its ‘Supplier Awards: Delivering a Better Future through Partnerships’ event.

The businesses were invited to a celebration and awards ceremony at the IMAX theatre at the Glasgow Science Centre on November 14, where Providor won the Health & Safety category.

Providor won due to its commitment to safely install its gas and electric meters – sometimes in difficult circumstances – while actually reducing the number of safety incidents, which has created a safer working environment.

Graham Stewart, contracts director at Providor, said: “Winning the Health & Safety Award was an incredible honour and a proud, humbling moment for our business. It felt rewarding to have our commitment to a zero-harm and zero-incident environment recognised, as we put so much effort into keeping safety and wellbeing at the heart of everything we do.

“It’s a reflection of the culture we strive to create every day. It reinforces our dedication to health and safety standards and motivates us to continue setting even higher goals for the future. It also shows our partners, like ScottishPower, that we’re a reliable team focused on the wellbeing of everyone we work with.

“As partners, aligning our priorities strengthens our impact and ensures we’re contributing to a future that benefits both people and the planet. By upholding these values, we not only support ScottishPower’s goals but also reinforce our own commitment to operating responsibly.

“Working with ScottishPower is incredibly rewarding because of the strong emphasis they place on collaboration, support and transparency. Their open approach has allowed us to build a trusting partnership where we share ideas, challenge each other and share best practices freely.”

After the awards, Charles Langan, chief financial officer of ScottishPower, said: “We want to recognise and celebrate the work of our wide and varied supplier base, and I would like to congratulate and thank all the winners for their continued work to support the UK’s green energy transition.

“The energy sector is one of the UK’s biggest growth drivers and we injected more than £2bn into the economy over the first six months of this year. This shows how businesses right across the supply chain can benefit from the country’s clean power mission.

“Across our networks, renewables and customer businesses, we are lucky to work with some incredible companies, both big and small, who share our ethos and our goal of delivering a better future for everyone.

“ScottishPower continues to create huge opportunities for other businesses to win contracts, deliver for the UK and in turn invest in their own workforces.”

There were finalists in 10 categories, covering the important roles these partners had in pushing forward with ScottishPower’s ambitious plans, which include £24bn being invested up to 2028. This money will help deliver jobs, supply-chain contracts and economic growth across the UK.

ScottishPower invests £16m every working day to generate, transport and supply energy to its customers across the country. The company generates enough green electricity to power up to two million homes from more than 40 sites.

Keith Anderson, chief executive officer of ScottishPower said: “The combined commitment of ScottishPower and its partners aims to lead the way to improved air quality, cleaner electric transport and, with time, lower bills.”

So, ultimately, we’re all winners!

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