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Seeboard Energy
Seeboard Energy was bought by EDF Energy in 2002, and the brand was discontinued four years later in June 2006.
Seeboard was formerly known as the South Eastern Electricity Board - one of the UK’s 14 Area Boards.
EDF
EDF Energy, is the UK arm of Électricité de France, and serves over 5 million customers throughout the UK.
It also owns the London Energy and SWEB areas, which were later merged with Seeboard.
In 2006 the three areas lost their individual brands to become a single national identity as EDF Energy.
History
Following the nationalisation of the electricity industry in 1947, the UK was power industry was merged and then split into 14 Area Boards.
South Eastern Electricity Board was one of these boards, and supplied the South Eastern part of the country with electricity.
These area boards then became independent Regional Electricity Companies after the government privatised the market in 1990.
After privatisation, the UK’s 14 Area Boards were turned into public electricity suppliers or regional electricity companies.
Incumbent suppliers
Each of these distribution areas is owned by an “incumbent supplier” - either E.ON, Npower, Scottish Power, EDF or Scottish & Southern Energy. Please click here for a map of which supplier owns which area.
In the case of Seeboard Energy, EDF has owned the distribution area since 2002.
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