SSE plc (SSE) Q4 2024 Earnings Call

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Good morning and thank you for joining us for our full year results presentation. I'm joined by Chief Commercial Officer Martin Pidworth and Barry O'Regan, our Chief Financial Officer. We'd be delighted to take your questions after we present the results of what was a good year of delivery as we continue to power sustainable growth across the group. First, I'd like to acknowledge the people behind today's results. SSE's ongoing success depends on the employees and contractors who deliver our strategy. Keeping them safe is our top priority and we were deeply saddened by the loss of Richard Ellis, the employee of a contractor who died in an off-site incident in October last year. Our thoughts remain with Richard's family, friends and colleagues. Our workforce is growing significantly to deliver our construction programme and we are redoubling efforts to ensure everyone on an SSE site gets home safely. As part of this, we recently opened Scotland's first Immersive Safety Training Centre. It will serve up to 7,000 colleagues and contractors per year over the next three years before being opened to wider industry and it reinforces the importance of embedding a strong safety culture across our activities. Before we get into the detailed financial and operational review, I'd like to take a few minutes to give a brief overview of the past year and tell you why we remain confident about our future growth prospects. This year has demonstrated three defining features of SSE. Our track record of powering growth and delivering major projects, the resilience of our business model in a range of market conditions, and the continued strengthening of our growth prospects with multiple high-quality options to deploy capital where we can generate most value for shareholders and society....