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ENERGY Eon remains as Endesa suitors fade Gas Natural is unlikely to revive its ?22.5 billion bid for Endesa despite Endesa asking a court to unblock it, analysts have told [...]

Under new management Will Spain retreat and allow a German takeover of its biggest electricity firm? THE takeover of Endesa, Spain's biggest electricity firm, by E.ON, a German utility, is [...]

by Simon Jones Spanish energy regulator CNE was understood to be considering tough conditions, including the sale by Eon of gas arm Ruhrgas, for its clearance of the German group's [...]

German energy giant Eon's Benelux unit has signed an agreement to acquire Dutch energy group NRE Energie from the city of Eindhoven and 11 local authorities. NRE Energie is the [...]

by Zoe Grainge German energy giant Eon has bought most of the gas assets of Hungary's upstream energy company MOL in a move valued at e2.1 billion. The deal marks [...]

Germany's Eon Energie is looking at consolidating its gas and electricity holdings in central Europe, before considering further expansion eastwards. 'We're much more interested in getting a majority in similar [...]

by Roger Milne The European Commission has come under pressure over energy giant Eon's planned takeover of German gas distributor Ruhrgas. Rival companies, one energy minister and a clutch of [...]

by Sumi Sastri Scottish & Southern Energy has ruled itself out of bidding for Seeboard on the grounds that its rivals, Electricite de France and German utility giant Eon, have [...]

Finland's Fortum has sold its German subsidiary Fortum Energie to Eon Energie for e545 million. Talks on the sale of another of Fortum's German assets - Fortum Kraftwerke Burghausen, a [...]

The Powergen brand is to be axed once the company's acquisition by German multi-utility giant Eon is complete. A source close to the German company told Utility Week that branding [...]

ONLY ten months have passed since Veba and Viag, two German utilities, were knocked together to form a new company, E.ON. The metamorphosis did not stop there. E.ON has been [...]

AREGULATOR is never going to please everybody. But Spain's energy authorities have achieved the feat of pleasing no-one with ham-fisted attempts to obstruct the proposed acquisition of Endesa by E.On [...]

France: E.ON is the latest favourite to acquire the French low cost energy provider Direct Energie, which has been seeking a partner to expand its operations for some time. It [...]

Germany utility E.ON has announced an all-cash offer to buy Endesa, Spain's largest electricity company, in a move that would create the world's largest power and gas company and that [...]

TERRA FIRMA, THE PRIVATE equity company of Guy Hands, has won the race to acquire the 150,000-strong residential portfolio of Germany energy company Eon, paying 7bn € (5bn £). In [...]

Germany's E.ON Energie plans to increase its stakes in Lithuanian electricity utilities RST and VST in which the government plans to sell shares later this year. The govermnent has an [...]

It is a hard to see when exactly the concept of open, free markets - intended to promote competition and consumer choice - became an invitation to monolithic energy giants [...]

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has ruled on EON's acquisition of Powergen granting the German utility conditional approval for the deal which will create the world's largest investor-owned energy [...]