MANWEB (Merseyside And North Wales Electricity Board) was the regional electricity supplier and distributor for Merseyside North Wales and (despite the name) parts of Cheshire. It is now part of Scottish Power itself a subsidiary of the Spanish energy company Iberdrola. It was originally created in 1947 as the nationalised Merseyside and North Wales Electricity Board in the Electricity Act 1947 but was privatised in 1990 to become Manweb plc.