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| Company type | Private (from 1990) |
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| Industry | Electricity distribution |
| Founded | 1947; 79 years ago (1947) |
| Defunct | 10 December 1993  |
| Fate | Purchased byPowergen |
| Successor | Central Networks East |
| Headquarters | 398 Coppice Road, Arnold, Nottingham NG5 7HX, England, United Kingdom |
Area served | East Midlands |
| Products | Electricity supply |
| Parent | Powergen (from 1998) |
TheEast Midlands Electricity Board (EMEB) was formed in 1947 as one of the United Kingdom's twelve areaelectricity boards specified under theElectricity Act 1947. In 1990 it was floated on the stock market asEast Midlands Electricity plc, which went through several changes of ownership.
The board covered a large area: fromChesterfield inDerbyshire, toNewport Pagnell (near modern-dayMilton Keynes), inBuckinghamshire, and fromCoventry in the west toSkegness in the east.[1]
The organisation's headquarters were atMapperley Hall inMapperley Park,Nottingham in the 1960s, then on Coppice Road inArnold, a suburb of the city.[1]
The board was responsible for the purchase of electricity from the electricity generator (British Electricity Authority (1948–1955),Central Electricity Authority (1955–1957),Central Electricity Generating Board from 1958) and its distribution and sale of electricity to customers.[1]
The key people on the board were: Chairman A.N. Todd (1964) A. H. Kenyon (1967), Deputy Chairman A. H. Kenyon (1964) P. Sydney (1967), full-time members J. A. MacKerrell (1964, 1967) R. A. York (1967).[2]
The board was required to supply electricity to homes and businesses, as regulated by the Act, and under terms of reference from theElectricity Council and theCEGB. In many towns, the board opened showrooms, to provide customer service facilities such as paying bills, as well as demonstrating and supplying the latest electrical goods to customers. The total number of customers supplied by the Board was:[3][4]
| Year | 1948/9 | 1960/1 | 1965/6 | 1970/1 | 1975/6 | 1978/9 | 1980/1 | 1985/6 | 1987/8 | 1988/9 |
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| No. of Customers, 1000s | 893 | 1364 | 1512 | 1651 | 1782 | 1873 | 1920 | 2032 | 2086 | 2115 |
The post-war period was one of fast growth for the electricity industry. The pre-warNational Grid system was vastly expanded, and many new power stations were opened across the region. One major customer wasBritish Rail: when theWest Coast Main Line waselectrified in the 1960s, and theEast Coast Main Line in the 1980s, the electricity boards were required to supply the lines passing through their territory with electricity direct from the National Grid. The amount of electricity, in GWh, sold by East Midlands Electricity Board was:[3][4]
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TheElectricity (Allocation of Undertakings to Area Boards) Order 1948 (SI 1948/484) transferred the electricity business of the following local authorities and private companies to the new board effective 31 March 1948.[5]
In 1987, theConservatives’ election manifesto committed the party to further privatisation of nationalised industries, and the electricity industry was to be one of these. In March 1990, the board became East Midlands Electricity plc, a new regional electricity company. In December 1990 it floated on the stock market. Although operations continued as usual for a few years, the business began to be separated and broken up. The electricity showroom and sales business merged with those of other companies into thePowerhouse chain, in 1994/5. In November 1995, the company split into three divisions of distribution, metering and supply. The company was bought byDominion Resources for £1.3bn in December 1996. In September 1998, EME's distribution and supply business was bought byPowergen for £1.9bn, ensuring the business remainedvertically integrated. The EME brand was not replaced until 1999, although the distribution business continued under the EME brand until it merged withCentral Networks in 2004.
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