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{{Short description|British electricity supplier (1947–1993)}}
{{Distinguish|Seaboard (disambiguation){{!}}Seaboard}}
'''Seeboard''', formerly '''South Eastern Electricity Board''' (SEEB), was a [[England|British]] electricity company. The electrical power industry in the United Kingdom was nationalised by the [[Electricity Act 1947]], when over 600 electric power companies were merged into 12 area boards, one of which was the South Eastern Electricity Board. At its closure it served nearly 2 million residential customers.
==History==
The key people on the board were: Charles George Morley New (d.1957) (1948–55),<ref>{{Cite news|title=Obituary CG Morley New (p. 12)|date=11 December 1957|work=The Times}}</ref> Chairman Harold V. Pugh (1964), E. Sinnott (1967), Deputy Chairman E. Sinnott (1964), A. G. Milne (1967), full-time member E. Peel (1964, 1967). The board  acquired the then [[Kings House, Hove|Princes Hotel]]) on the seafront in [[Hove]], [[East Sussex]], and converted it to a headquarters. The building was refurbished and substantially extended between 1979 and 1981.<ref name="EncH&Pv13p29">{{Harvnb|Middleton|2003|loc=Vol. 13, p. 29.}}</ref>
==Customer data==
The total number of customers supplied by the board was:<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=The Electricity Council|title=Handbook of Electricity Supply Statistics 1979|publisher=The Elaectricity Council|year=1980|isbn=0851880762|location=London|pages=58, 63}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=The Electricity Council|title=Handbook of Electricity Supply Statistics 1989|publisher=The Electricity Council|year=1990|isbn=085188122X|location=London|pages=51 56}}</ref>
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!1948/9
!1960/1
!1965/6
!1970/1
!1975/6
!1978/9
!1980/1
!1985/6
!1987/8
!1988/9
|-
!No. of Customers, 1000s
|1482
|1787
|1848
|1849
|1844
|1872
|1787
|1849
|1887
|1909
|}
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== Privatisation ==
On 31 March 1990 the area electricity boards were changed to independent [[regional electricity company|regional electricity companies]] (REC), and Seeboard plc was formed.<ref name="EncH&Pv13p30">{{Harvnb|Middleton|2003|loc=Vol. 13, p. 30.}}</ref> On [[11 December]] 1990 the RECs were privatised.  The Hove headquarters was closed in 1994, but some jobs were transferred to a nearby Seeboard office in [[Portslade]].<ref name="EncH&Pv13p30"/>
'''Seeboard Powerlink''', a company owned by Seeboard, BICC and ABB, was awarded (on 13 August 1998) a 30-year contract to operate, maintain, finance and renew [[London Underground]]'s high-voltage power distribution network, under the terms of the UK government's [[private finance initiative]].  Seeboard Powerlink became responsible for distribution of high-voltage electricity supplies to London Underground's substations and more than 400 kilometres (250 miles) of track. The contract included significant capital construction and installation works on the LUL power system valued at approximately £100 million.
In 2002 Seeboard joined [[24seven (company)|24seven]] Utility Services under the ownership of the [[LE Group]], which then rebranded in 2003 to become [[EDF Energy]] Networks, the UK branch of [[Électricité de France]], before being acquired by [[Cheung Kong Holdings]] and renamed [[UK Power Networks]].<ref>{{cite web|title=UK Power Networks - About Us|url=http://www.ukpowernetworks.co.uk/internet/en/about-us/our-history/|website=UK Power Networks|accessdate=15 September 2014|archive-date=22 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151122044619/http://www.ukpowernetworks.co.uk/internet/en/about-us/our-history/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Bibliography==
{{refbegin}}
*{{cite book|last=Middleton|first=Judy|title=The Encyclopaedia of Hove & Portslade|year=2003|publisher=Brighton & Hove Libraries|location=Brighton}}
{{refend}}
==References==
{{reflist}}
==External links==
* [http://www.edfenergy.com/edf-energy/showPage.do?name=homeenergy.til EDF Energy website]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070928004559/http://www.fuelmix.co.uk/edf_energy_fuel_mix_2006.htm EDF Energy's Fuel Mix for 2006]
* [http://www.balfourbeatty.com/bby/media/press/prarchive/1998-08-13/ BalfourBeatty press release 1998-08-13/]
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