News Digest Item
16 Sep 2016

“Innogy advertisement; Green subsidiary provokes RWE”

Handelsblatt

RWE’s majority-held subsidiary innogy is advertising its renewable energy in the Rhineland, a campaign completely at odds with RWE's own operation of lignite power plants in the region, says Greenpeace energy expert Karsten Smid in the Handelsblatt. “The campaign will backfire,” Smid told the newspaper. Innogy is using the the slogan “Rhineland becomes Cleanland. Energy becomes innogy.”

Read the article in German here.

Find background information in the CLEW factsheet RWE’s plans for new renewable subsidiary.

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