Powergen has become the first major UK firm to ensure virtually all of its employees have a PC and internet connectivity at home. After teaming up with IT services provider PeoplePC to launch its Clicks@ Home scheme, Powergen offered all 5,000-plus of
Powergen and Metropolitan Housing Trust, are installing specially-designed ‘ground source heat pumps’ to provide central heating for a low energy, social housing development of ten retirement bungalows in Nottinghamshire. This scheme is an example of
Powergen’s energy trading arm, Powergen Trading Ltd, today (MON) announced it had become one of the first businesses in the industry to receive authorisation from the Securities & Futures Authority under the new Energy Market Participant regime. The authorisation
Charity Macmillan Cancer Relief has profited from some quick thinking by a Powergen employee. Ann Ward, who works at Newland House in Nottingham, has made sure that Powergen’s chosen charity received a boot full of loose change after she was first to
Powergen Renewables has just completed a background noise survey for a proposed Cornish wind farm. The survey has seen noise measurement devices fitted in the gardens of eight of the nearest residents to the proposed development in Otterham. The devices
The Viewpark Family Centre Association in Uddingston has received a cheque from the Powergen Environment Fund to help buy tools to maintain its leisure space. Brian Sheen, Sales Manager at Powergen’s call centre in Uddingston, near Glasgow, together with
The rescued seal adopted by the Powergen Renewables team has had a very special visitor – the Renewables team member who named her. When the seven-day-old seal was washed up in Great Yarmouth over the summer she was severely dehydrated and unable to look
Paul Clark, MP for Gillingham, has congratulated Powergen and Age Concern for testing older people’s electric blankets in the area and replacing free of charge the blankets that were deemed to be unsafe. Almost 47% of blankets tested at the event were
Ashfield MP, the Rt Hon Geoffrey Hoon, officially opened Powergen’s new Nottinghamshire office. The Midlands-based company opened its new centre, built and managed by Port@l, at Sherwood Park in Hucknall. The company is in the process of recruiting over
Students and staff at Nottingham Trent University will be able to take advantage of a state-of-the-art learning facility thanks to Powergen. The Powergen Information Skills Training Room was officially opened by Duncan Sedgwick, Powergen’s Director of
The winners of the Powergen Young Environmentalist of the Year Awards have been presented with special Otter trophies at a celebrity lunch attended by the likes of Terry Nutkins, Tony Hart and Cheryl Baker. Actor Frank Thornton – famous for his role as
OLDER people in Leicestershire are unwittingly putting themselves in danger during the cold weather by using potentially lethal electric blankets. That is the verdict of both Powergen and Age Concern following testing sessions across the county designed
Simulator Training Systems, a section within Powergen’s Power Technology Business, has today announced the formation of a marketing alliance with GSE Systems of America. This agreement will enable both parties to fully exploit the world market in plant
Gravesham MP, Chris Pond saw how everyone could do their bit to tackle climate change when he attended the parliamentary launch of a link-up between Powergen and WWF. The two organisations have united in their efforts to support the growth of renewable
Powergen to Sell Georgia Power Plants Powergen plc, via its LG&E Energy Corp subsidiary, has reached an agreement to sell two independent power projects it owns in Georgia, USA to Progress Ventures Inc, a subsidiary of Progress Energy Inc, for a total
The press release concerning the publication of Powergen's third quarter results