Network Plus: Driving North West and North Wales regional growth
02/09/2026

Network Plus: Driving North West and North Wales regional growth

Location: Worsley, Greater Manchester
The North West is growing and ScottishPower is not just investing in the electricity infrastructure to support it, but it’s local businesses too.

At a glance: 

  • 550+ employees working across ScottishPower contracts 

  • Around £370 million of ScottishPower investment over the last five years 

  • 120+ apprentices and graduates across the business 

  • Long-standing ScottishPower partner, helping to build, maintain and strengthen the North West and North Wales grid. 

Network Plus, based in Worsley, Greater Manchester, is a long-standing partner helping to build, maintain and strengthen the electricity network right across the North West and North Wales.

With around £370m of contracts awarded over the last five years, its business – and importantly, its people – have been boosted by our energy transition investment.

Today, more than 350 Network Plus employees support SP Electricity North West contracts, delivering underground cabling, overhead line and vegetation management services, from Cumbria to Stockport. A further 200+ employees work across SP Energy Networks contracts in the Manweb area straddling Liverpool, Cheshire and North Wales.

It now employs more than 120 apprentices and graduates and has partnered with SP Energy Networks and Coleg Llandrillo-Menai to train a new generation of specialist overhead linespeople – creating local opportunities for local people.

Dave Prescott – Chief Operating Officer, Network Plus "Our decade-long partnership with Scottish power is one of the most important relationships in our business. It has given us the confidence and stability to invest for the long term. This is what lets us keep developing our own talent. We've been able to bring new apprentices into the business, put existing colleagues through accredited training, and give teams a clear route to develop their careers. A long-term partnership like this doesn't just deliver work - it builds skills that stay in the industry"

The partnership is also supporting investment in technology. Network Plus is deploying live-dig radar technology across more than 200 excavators, helping teams detect underground assets and reduce the risk of utility strikes.