Budding young artists have been the inspiration behind this year’s Scottish and Southern Energy Power Distribution (SSEPD) awareness-raising campaign for winter.
The ‘We’re ready for winter. Are you?’ campaign kicks off this week and will run until January, featuring artwork from the children of SSEPD employees. The drawings and messages from the children reflect the work their parents do 365 days a year to keep the lights on for SSEPD’s 2.9 million customers across central southern England, and show their pride in the roles their mums or dads play when the worst of the weather hits and affects the power network. Their artwork will be appearing on outdoor displays and online, while further information on how SSEPD is preparing – and helping its customers prepare – for bad weather will be broadcast on radio.
While the campaign aims to raise some smiles with its child’s eye view on electricity and power cuts, its main aim is to raise awareness of the work SSEPD does all year round to reinforce its network and the various resources available to customers through SSEPD to help them weather the storm.
Director of Customer Operations, Stuart Hogarth explains:
“Our ‘We’re ready for winter. Are you?’ campaign may not run all year round, but our work to maintain, repair and replace our network to make it stronger goes on every day of the year. However, it’s during the winter months that the work of Southern Energy Power Distribution becomes more apparent as temperatures drop, winds and rain move in, and as we prepare our workforces for the worst of the weather, we encourage our customers to prepare themselves too by taking simple steps that can see them through the possibility of a power cut.
“This year’s campaign aims to reassure our customers that we’re constantly working to keep their lights on and that when the bad weather sets in, we’re always ready.”
SSEPD continually monitors the weather so that engineers, call centre staff and welfare provisions are in place at the earliest opportunity when the risk of bad weather is looming.
Customers are also encouraged to download the company’s award-winning PowerTrack app which provides updates on power cuts via Apple and Android smartphones and tablets. Customers can also store SSEPD’s Freephone number 0800 072 7282 on their phones.
In the event of a storm, the SSEPD website switches to Storm Live – a specifically developed site that provides rolling live updates on individual storms across the SSEPD area.
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