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	Centrica
		Centrica is considering plans to invest £300m in a project to import natural gas from Turkmenistan, as part of a joint venture with Gazprom of Russia and Naftogaz of Ukraine.
		Centrica is to invest £100m in the development of an offshore wind farm near Barrow-in-Furness, in partnership with DONG of Denmark and Statkraft of Norway.
		Centrica is to acquire the remaining 60% stake in the North Sea's Rose Field from BG Group, in return for £7.3m and a 1.5% stake in the Armada Field.
	www.ukbusinesspark.co.uk /centrica.htm (2757 words)

	MSD - sickness absence - Centrica case study
		The nature of the work and the risks involved mean that Centrica’s workforce are potentially vulnerable to musculoskeletal problems and their specialist skills are difficult to replace in the event of sickness absence.
		Centrica Occupational Health provide a full range of advisory services and although individuals may contact Occupational Health directly, it is normally their line manager who makes the initial referral.
		Centrica have agreed benefit in kind tax exemption with the Inland Revenue for musculoskeletal and mental health conditions for many employees provided of course that the condition fulfils the criteria laid down by the Inland Revenue for tax exemption.
	www.hse.gov.uk /sicknessabsence/casestudies/centrica.htm (565 words)

	CENTRICA Srl - Company - News
		Centrica presents XLphoto® at the IST Prize Exhibition in Bruxelles being one of the 20 Nominees for the European IST Grand Prize 2006 for XLphoto®.
		Centrica is technical sponsor of "Dalla Memoria al Futuro" with the development of www.firenzecultura.it and of the multimedia web application in the exhibition where the integration of XLimage® and big touch screen technology can be found.
		Centrica is one of the 20 Nominees for the European IST Grand Prize 2006 for XLphoto®.
	www.centrica.it /main.php?type=ENG-azienda-news (706 words)

	RedOrbit - Science - Centrica Turns to Europe for Power Needs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Centrica, which has 17 million electricity and gas customers, said the agreement now meant it would be able to supply 65% of electricity used by its customers from its own sources.
		Centrica and other UK energy suppliers were fiercely criticised by consumer groups earlier this year for the hikes in household energy bills.
		Centrica yesterday said it hoped to be able to meet 75% of demand for energy from its own sources in the future (up from just 32% three years ago (as it battled to control prices.
	www.redorbit.com /news/science/467299/centrica_turns_to_europe_for_power_needs/index.html?source=r_science (451 words)

	CNN.com - UK power group Centrica in $250m power station deal - Aug. 24, 2001
		Centrica said its purchase of the two plants in East Anglia, eastern England, for £174 million ($250 million) from U.S. utility TXU Corp. (TXU: Research, Estimates) would provide a combined generating capacity of 705 megawatts.
		The deal will see Centrica (CNA) acquire operating leases of about 20 years on the plants and take over their operation and management.
		The acquisitions follow Centrica's purchase in May of a 60 percent stake in UK utility Humber Power Ltd., which runs a 1,260 MW power station in northern England.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/BUSINESS/08/24/centrica (294 words)

	RTE Business - Centrica buys two UK power plants from TXU
		Centrica said the two plants in East Anglia, eastern England, would have a combined generating capacity of 705 megawatts.
		Centrica's electricity business currently serves 4.5 million customers, and a company spokeswoman said the latest acquisitions meant the group could meet demand for 30% of those customers from its own generating capacity.
		The acquisitions follow Centrica's purchase in May of a 60% stake in UK utility Humber Power Ltd, which runs a 1260 MW power station in northern England.
	www.rte.ie /business/2001/0824/centrica.html (240 words)

	Employer's Forum on Disability: Gold card – Centrica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Centrica is a leading provider of energy and other essential services at home and on the road.
		Centrica's policy on employee diversity is publicised to all employees and deliberately brought to the attention of all managers.
		Centrica has to date worked with a number of public and private sector employees interested in the recruitment model and has produced a video documenting the project to date.
	www.employers-forum.co.uk /www/guests/gold/centrica.html (1699 words)

	Centrica \| Power generation portfolio boosted
		Centrica plc has boosted its power generation portfolio by increasing its interest from 60 to 100 per cent in Humber Power Limited, which owns the gas fired 1260MW South Humber Bank power station in North Lincolnshire.
		Over the course of the year, based on expected load factors, Centrica's portfolio and its British Energy supply contract will be capable of delivering enough power, in volume terms, to supply the equivalent of its forecast residential customer demand in 2006.
		Centrica already operates the largest fleet of combined cycle gas turbine power stations in the UK and has invited tenders for the 1010MW Langage power station project in Devon, where it expects to make a final construction decision in the first half of 2006.
	www.contractorsunlimited.co.uk /news/050921-Centrica.shtml (459 words)

	Centrica plc and Dynegy Storage Ltd and Dynegy Onshore Processing UK Ltd
		Centrica was formed by the 1997 demerger of British Gas plc into two parts—Centrica and BG plc (BG—now BG Group plc (BG Group)).
		Centrica’s share of flexibility actually used in the last three winters ranged from 40 to 51 per cent, which Rough’s usage would have increased to 59 to 70 per cent.
		It appeared to us that Centrica had the ability to do this, and that such a strategy could be profitable if most of the resulting increase in wholesale prices were passed on to domestic customers, although the potential gain would be modest in relation to the costs involved and subject to uncertainty.
	www.competition-commission.org.uk /rep_pub/reports/2003/480centrica.htm (1589 words)

	Centrica srl
		Centrica is in Florence, Italy: your perfect partner for digital imaging, IPR and watermarking, software for image and colour management.
		Centrica participates to the Festival with its XLspace booth, in the Vespucci Prize area and at Job Fair.
		Centrica exhibits at SMAU 2006 inside "I Percorsi dell'Innovazione", the section of the big ICT event dedicated to start up innovation.
	www.centrica.it (153 words)

	Centrica - Our company - About us - Our businesses - Centrica Energy
		Centrica Energy consists of our upstream gas production, electricity generation and renewable asset operations, wholesale and certain industrial gas sales activities, and our energy procurement optimisation and scheduling unit.
		In 2005, Centrica further boosted its involvement in major UK gas projects when it became a partner in Canvey LNG which proposes to convert an existing LPG terminal into an LNG receiving facility that would be capable of meeting 5% of the UK's annual gas demand.
		Centrica is an active trader in the Renewable Obligation Certificate (ROC) market and has itself invested in renewable assets to ensure it can supply residential and business customers with a proportion of electricity from green sources.
	www.centrica.com /index.asp?pageid=26 (663 words)

	Bloomberg.com: U.K.
		Centrica's profit margins have shrunk over the past two years because the company only produces about a third of its own gas and power, requiring it to buy in the market for the rest.
		Centrica, which has lost more than one million customers after raising prices, said on Feb. 17 it plans to charge customers 22 percent more from March 1 because of higher natural gas prices.
		Centrica is among a number of options being considered and no talks have been held or an offer made, a Moscow-based Gazprom official said then.
	www.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000102&sid=ahPSroO29A5I&refer=uk (879 words)

	RedOrbit - Science - Centrica Feels the Heat As British Gas Heads for Heavy Losses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Centrica has 11.4 million domestic gas customers, giving it 55 per cent of the market and 5.6 million electricity customers, equal to a 23 per cent share.
		Centrica's share of the domestic energy market is in decline and it is making slow progress in breaking into Europe.
		Centrica produces about 25 per cent of its own gas, but output from its main asset, the Morecambe field off the North-west coast, is in steep decline.
	www.redorbit.com /news/display?id=241358&source=r_science (1161 words)

	Centrica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1999 Centrica acquired the AA for £1.1 billion.
		Centrica has also attempted to diversify by developing the Goldfish credit card (later sold to Lloyds TSB Bank then subsequently to Morgan Stanley Bank International Limited) and buying the Dyno franchise group (best known for its Dyno-Rod drains unblocking service).
		British Gas Logo which Centrica has the rights to in the UK Centrica plc, trading as British Gas (and as Scottish Gas in Scotland) is market leader in the supply of energy to UK households.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Centrica (717 words)

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		Centrica supplies gas, electricity and energy related products and services to homes and businesses, including gas sales and gas trading, gas production, services and retail `Energy Centres'.
		Centrica markets home insurance and consumer guides, as well as the Goldfish credit card.
		Both Centrica and the AA are strongly cash generative.
	members.lycos.co.uk /eldo_rado/centrica163.htm (416 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Business \| Centrica shares soar on bid story
		Centrica, which is the UK's largest utility firm with more than 17 million electricity and gas customers, said it had not been approached.
		Gazprom is the world's biggest gas producer, and its chairman Alexander Medvedev - a close adviser to President Putin - told the BBC it recently aspired to become one of the world's largest energy companies.
		Any takeover or merger involving Centrica would be likely to involve close scrutiny from industry regulator Ofgem and the competition authorities.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/business/4674526.stm (229 words)

	Morse Group Limited - Case Studies - Centrica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Centrica is a leading supplier of essential services in its chosen markets.
		Centrica’s IT organisation employs 1,600 staff, approximately 1,000 of which are dedicated to looking after the delivery of IT services, from the servers and applications right through to the desktop.
		Keen to deliver a better service to Centrica, the IS Service Delivery directorate needed to transform its delivery functions, streamlining processes and reducing costs to create a service-orientated organisation.
	www.morse.co.uk /case_30.htm (528 words)

	Centrica - Our company - About us - Our businesses - Centrica Storage
		Centrica acquired the Rough gas storage facility in November 2002.
		Centrica's response is outlined in the associated press release within the news section.
		Centrica Storage Ltd sticks rigidly to a safety case accepted by the Health and Safety Executive and has all the necessary safety facilities for an offshore operation.
	www.centrica.com /index.asp?pageid=25 (1024 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Business \| Centrica warns gas bills to rise
		Centrica said volatile wholesale gas prices meant trading conditions would remain "challenging", warning of more job cuts in order to save costs.
		Centrica said it believed other energy suppliers would be forced to raise their prices next year to recover the cost of rising wholesale prices.
		Centrica said it would need to cut costs further in an effort to save an additional £30m by 2007.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/business/4533916.stm (270 words)

	Centrica to build Pounds 400m power plant Evening Standard (London) - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		BRITISH Gas group Centrica is to build the UK's first major power station in nearly half a decade, in the latest attempt to alleviate the country's looming energy crisis.
		Centrica said today it is to go ahead with a new, state-of-the- art gas-fired power station at Langage in Devon capable of producing 885 megawatts of electricity - enough to power one million homes.
		Even after the recent 10% sell off in the stock, Centrica shares are still nearly 25% higher than they were a year ago.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4153/is_20060616/ai_n16495542 (563 words)

	Centrica : FUJITSU UK - IT Consulting, IT Services, IT Managed Services
		Centrica is a global energy, home services, and telecommunications group, owning some of the best known brands in the UK today, such as British Gas, the AA and One.Tel.
		Faced with the prospect of energy market deregulation in the late 1990s, Centrica set the precedent for the enormous business and technology changes associated with the transition from a monopoly to a fully competitive entity.
		Fujitsu has worked with Centrica to blend the past with the future, providing continuity and support during a time of immense business change, whilst adding value to strategic new initiatives to help take Centrica’s business forward.
	www.fujitsu.com /uk/casestudies/fs_centrica.html (625 words)

	Centrica: jobs go for Jupiter - Computer Business Review
		Centrica has unveiled plans to cut around 2,000 back-office jobs at British Gas as part of its strategy to reorganize the gas utility and cut costs.
		The move comes as Centrica's belated integrated billing platform finally begins to migrate customers and could prove vital in terms of efficiency gains, as the company is years behind its rivals in its efforts to implement the new platform.
		However, although Centrica says that the nine-month delay to the project timeline will be immaterial in cost, the significant savings that should have been achieved in 2005 will not be realized.
	www.cbronline.com /article_feature.asp?guid=DF1C2379-1706-468B-BDD0-770B392DF0F9 (587 words)

	RTE Business - Centrica up 11% as gas prices hit record
		Britain's biggest energy supplier, Centrica, has said its 2005 profits rose 11% after a year in which wholesale gas prices surged to record levels.
		Centrica may face further turbulence in the commodity markets, but the results of 2005 clearly show a strong underlying business,' Centrica chief executive Roy Gardner said in a statement.
		Centrica, which has a 36% share of the UK's residential energy market with its British Gas brand, hit the headlines last week after it said it was hiking domestic bills by more than a fifth from March 1.
	www.rte.ie /business/2006/0223/centrica.html (244 words)

	SGP: Offices - Centrica
		The new regional HQ building for Centrica at Blythe Valley provides 11,148 sq m of office space on three floors with a large 3-storey atrium at its heart.
		To meet Centrica’s requirements the building had to be operational within a 54 week programme.
		To achieve this tight timescale, the building was designed in a simple ‘H’ form enclosed by a skin of curtain walling, which allowed early access for the fit-out contractor.
	www.stephengeorge.co.uk /offices/centrica.asp (89 words)

	Gardner's Centrica Announces 22% Gas Price Hike - Forbes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		And while Centrica said it was preparing to restart services at the North Sea platform, it did not wish to comment on how long operations would be suspended, nor how the accident would affect business.
		For Centrica's customers, meanwhile, the realities of the business of the energy industry have hit home, thanks of course, to wholesale prices.
		Incidentally the CEO would be forgiven for sporting a slightly blushing visage, considering that Centrica had only recently told us it would not raise its consumer bills by 25%, a number that many media reports had been reporting.
	www.forbes.com /2006/02/17/centrica-gas-gardner-cx_po_0217autofacescan04.html?partner=rss (382 words)

	Centrica to build Britain’s first major power station costing £400m
		British Gas owners Centrica said the project was part of plan to boost its own resources so that it is able to meet three quarters of demand rather than only one third that it had been doing so until now.
		The new plant will enable Centrica to meet 11 percent of the peak demand from residential consumers.
		Centrica has raised gas and electricity prices four times already in the last two and half years and has warned consumers to expect another rise in the coming months.
	www.abcmoney.co.uk /news/1720062445.htm (369 words)

	Centrica.biz
		Centrica's vision is to be a leading supplier of essential services in our chosen markets.
		Centrica has a wide range of excellent recruitment opportunities in Europe and North America
		The main Centrica group website can be found at www.centrica.com
	www.centrica.biz (61 words)

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