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Innogy

February 2021

  • A man looking at the website logo for energy company Npower on his phone

    Npower withdraws mobile app after hackers steal personal details

    Company contacts affected gas and electricity customers, telling them to change passwords

November 2020

  • RWE’s wind turbines in the North Sea.

    UK's bid to power every home via offshore windfarms by 2030 at risk

    Germany’s RWE says outdated regulation is slowing investment in onshore electricity grid

January 2019

  • Pages of an energy bill from npower

    Npower to cut 900 jobs as it predicts marked financial losses for 2019

    Big six energy firm blames 15% cut to UK workforce on price cap and ‘intense competition’

December 2018

  • A sign hangs outside an npower building

    Job fears for npower staff, with ownership transferring to E.ON

  • A high-voltage power line

    SSE and npower scrap merger plan amid 'challenging conditions'

November 2018

  • SSE said it had lost 460,000 customers in the year to September.

    SSE-npower merger at risk over price cap and lost customers

    Joint firm would be second biggest retail energy company after British Gas
  • Npower joins other big six energy firms in losing customer accounts to challenger companies.

    Troubled npower sheds 500,000 customer accounts in 2018

    Member of big six energy companies to report fourth consecutive annual loss
  • Burbo bank offshore wind farm on the Burbo Flats in Liverpool Bay.

    Merger of SSE and npower is hanging in the balance

    Companies admit tie-up is threatened by government’s price cap and market conditions

August 2018

  • Competition watchdog rules that npower and the retail arm of SSE are not ‘close rivals’.

    Npower-SSE merger wins go-ahead from competition watchdog

    Big six shrinks to big five as CMA clears way for major shakeup of energy sector

May 2018

  • Npower symbol.

    Npower owner warns staff they will be first to be cut in E.ON deal

    Innogy has said E.ON workers are likely to be get priority as 5,000 roles are axed after asset swap

April 2018

  • a smart home heating thermostat

    npower-SSE merger could lead to higher prices, says regulator

    CMA refuses to back energy giants’ tie-up, saying it could result in less competition

March 2018

  • Onshore wind and solar farms, Germany

    Global energy giants forced to adapt to rise of renewables

  • Flags bearing the E.ON logo outside at the company’s headquarters in Essen, Germany.

    SSE-npower merger: UK watchdog examines German shakeup

December 2017

  • a hiker passes wind turbines in the Highlands

    MPs call on competition watchdog to probe energy giant merger

    Planned SSE-npower deal seen as bad for UK consumers with new entity along with British Gas holding almost 50% of energy share, warn MPs

November 2017

  • Gas kettle on hob

    SSE merger with npower should be blocked by government, says union

  • blue gas ring flames

    Npower hands German parent company a £427m headache

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