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| Centrica plc is a leading provider of energy and related services in the UK, North America and Western Europe. In the UK, Centrica operates under the British Gas brand name, supplying gas and electricity to more than 15 million residential customers and around 1 million business customers, and is a significant player in the energy efficiency market. Its Centrica Energy division sources the energy to supply British Gas’ residential and commercial customers and also manages Centrica’s UK and European UK gas fields and power stations. Centrica has made strong inroads in the North American market following the acquisition of the Direct Energy brand in 2000. Direct Energy serves more than 5 million residential customers in Canada and the United States. The company is exporting its successful strategy into Europe with Ventures in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Spain. Centrica employs 34,000 worldwide and its turnover in 2006 was £16.5bn. |
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| Sam Laidlaw is CEO of Centrica and joined Centrica plc as Chief Executive in July 2006. He was previously Executive Vice President of the Chevron Corporation, Chief Executive Officer at Enterprise Oil and President and Chief Operating Officer at Amerada Hess. He is a Trustee of the medical charity RAFT and a Director of the Business Council for International Understanding. Until August 2007, he was a Non-Executive Director of Hanson plc. In October 2007, it was announced that he will be appointed as a non-executive director of HSBC Holdings plc with effect from 1 January 2008. Sam represents Centrica on the Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change. |
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Sam Laidlaw on Climate Change and 3C
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| “Centrica is supporting the creation of a low carbon economy by building major wind farms, investing in new technologies, delivering innovative products and services to help our customers to reduce their carbon footprint, and enabling our employees to reduce their impact. The electricity we supply to our British Gas customers in UK has the lowest carbon intensity of any of the major power suppliers and we are proud to be recognised as a sector leader by the Carbon Disclosure Project. I am pleased to support the 3C roadmap and believe it shows a valuable business route to help meet the climate change challenge” |
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