SSE promotes Martin Pibworth to group energy and commercial director

SSE has promoted Martin Pibworth to the newly-created role of group energy and commercial director with effect from 1 November.

Pibworth, who has served on the board since September 2017, most recently as energy director, will be accountable for identifying and delivering on growth opportunities across all of the company’s market businesses.

"He will be aided in this by the recent expansion of SSE's energy portfolio management (EPMI) division, which now benefits from enhanced commercial analytics capability and market insights following the addition of SSE's energy economics and markets codes teams," the company said.

SSE Enterprise, led by Enterprise managing director Neil Kirkby and comprising distributed energy including solar and storage, will now report into Pibworth.

Chairman Richard Gillingwater said: "We are very pleased that Martin will be taking on this expanded remit which will see him drive growth and manage commercial risk across SSE's market businesses.

"He has made an outstanding contribution to the board since he joined it three years ago, and has recently demonstrated the value he and the team bring to the business through SSE's success in offshore wind auctions and the value created from the recent Multifuel Energy transaction. He now has the opportunity to make an even greater impact in his new role."