Hong Kong-owned energy firm appoints CEO

Northern Gas Networks, the £343m-turnover distributor, has appointed a new chief executive.

Mark Horsley will succeed Basil Scarsella, who has left to head UK Power Networks. Both are infrastructure companies owned by Si Li Ka Shing, Hong Kong's richest man.

Mr Horsley, 51, is currently a partner at EC Harris, the international built asset consultancy. Previously he was a director at Scottish Power.

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He is originally from York and began his career as an apprentice with the North Eastern Electricity Board. He rose through the ranks to become the president and chief operating officer of CE Electric UK in 2003.

He said: "I am excited to be joining Northern Gas Networks, which has an excellent reputation for customer service, efficiency, and health and safety, and I am also pleased to be returning to Yorkshire."

Mr Scarsella, 55 and a former FIFA board member, became CEO of Northern Gas Networks when the company was created in 2005 after the Cheung Kong Group paid National Grid 1.5bn for the networks which cover parts of Cumbria, the North East and most of Yorkshire.

Last year, the group paid EDF 5.8bn for the electricity networks that deliver to homes and business in East Anglia, the South East and London.

Northern Gas Networks has 1,300 employees and delivers gas to 2.6m homes and businesses through a pipeline network which is long enough to stretch from Leeds to Sydney, Australia and back again.

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