Corporate responsibility

Some of you may have seen the recent newspaper reports regarding our Five Golden Safety Rules.  These rules are designed to make our offices, depots and other workplaces safer for our staff and visitors.  They include simple things like; always reverse park, so you have a better view when driving away and always hold handrails when walking up and down stairs.

We recognise these as sensible actions to help encourage a safety culture at work, but the newspapers held them up as examples of "health and safety gone mad"...

Whenever I’m out and about, meeting people and talking about energy, there’s one topic which always divides opinion right down the middle - windfarms.  No one sits on the fence, they either love them or they loathe them.

The nights are drawing in and it's getting colder. At this time of year we all realise how much we depend on electricity and gas. Thankfully the networks in place to help keep the lights and heating on are very reliable but they do go wrong sometimes. If the lights go out would you know what to do?

Our first responsibility to you is to ensure we supply the energy you need in reliable and sustainable way. To do this we have to secure enough energy to meet your needs, sometimes up to two years in advance, in the forward wholesale market.

As you may have seen in the media, we recently announced the welcome news that we would be reducing our electricity and gas prices. We made our price reduction announcement to the media to give our customers peace of mind that prices would soon be reduced.

The media take great delight in highlighting when 'health and safety' appears to be spoiling people's fun, for example, by stopping actors at pantomimes throwing sweets into the audience in case someone gets hit by one. But, as is often the case, we seldom get to hear the whole story.

Last year, the Scottish and Southern Energy Group (the parent company of Atlantic Electric and Gas), set aside over £1.7 million to support community and charitable causes.

Atlantic Electric and Gas is part of the Scottish and Southern Energy Group (SSE), the UK’s second largest energy supplier. Our core purpose is to provide the energy you need in a reliable and sustainable way.