Video: Energy firms showed 'neglect' for their customers The bosses of energy distribution companies are today being questioned by MPs about their firms' responses to the power cuts and how they dealt with customers. They are also being asked about the compensation that was paid to customers left without power over the period. The energy distribution bosses appearing before at the MPs from the Commons Energy Select Committee include: Frank Mitchell, Chief Executive, ScottishPower Energy Networks; Basil Scarsella, Chief Executive, UK Power Networks; Mark Mathieson, Managing Director, Networks, Scottish and southern Energy; Steve Johnson, Chief Executive, Electricity North West; Robert Symons, Chief Executive, Western Power Distribution; David Smith, Chief Executive, Energy Networks Association. Hannah Nixon, Senior Partner for Distribution, Ofgem.