Monday, November 13, 2017

Npower hands German parent company a £427m headache

Falling number of customers, planned price cap and tougher competition prompts big fall in value of UK assets

Npower has inflicted a €480m (£427m) writedown on its German parent company, Innogy, which it blamed on the worsening UK energy market and Prime Minister Theresa May’s price cap.

Innogy said the planned merger of npower and the UK’s second biggest energy supplier, SSE, had not affected its assessment of the reduction in the value of the business.

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from Mergers and acquisitions | The Guardian http://ift.tt/2AGQSI7

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