Shaking up the German Energy market – the Eon and RWE deal

March 16, 2018 by Marius Buchmann in General

On 12th March 2018 E.on and RWE made public that they will exchange resources to form two more focused companies. E.on will sell its renewable generation business to RWE and will in exchange receive the network and retail business from Innogy, a subsidiary of RWE. Thereby, E.on will become the dominant player in network and retail business in Germany, while RWE will be the largest German generation company. What does this mean for the energy transition and innovation related to distributed energy systems?

How Third Parties pushed E.ON & RWE in Germany to change strategies

June 12, 2017 by Marius Buchmann in Research

E.on and RWE, two of the largest European utilities, significantly changed their strategies in 2016: Both separated their renewable generation business from conventional generation in two independent entities. In this post we discuss the key driver that forced E.on and RWE to change strategies: Competition from third parties that operate renewable generation.