News Digest Item
09 Mar 2017

“Uniper reports 3.2 billion-euro net loss as electricity prices fall”

Financial Times

E.ON spin-off Uniper made a net loss of 3.2 billion euros last year due to big writedowns on generation and gas-storage assets, reports Guy Chazan for the Financial Times. But Uniper said it had “good momentum for 2017” having delivered a “solid” operating performance and strengthening its balance sheet, in what was its first financial year as an independent company.

Read the report in English here.

Find the Uniper press release in English here.

For background on the woes of Germany’s former top utilities, read the dossier Utilities and the energy transition.

The factsheet E.ON shareholders ratify energy giant’s split provides background on the changes at the company.

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