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21 Jul 2017

ā€œComeback of the utilitiesā€

Handelsblatt

The tough times Germany’s utilities have gone through as a result of the energy transition are coming to an end, with investor confidence in takeovers and rising power prices pushing stocks up, Susanne Schier writes for Handelsblatt. ā€œThe Fukushima nuclear disaster and Germany’s Energiewende hit the utilities’ business model hard,ā€ she writes, but things are looking up for heavyweights RWE and E.ON, as well as their spin-offs Uniper and innogy. In terms of profits, E.ON and RWE still ā€œare the most indebtedā€ companies on Germany’s stock market index DAX, but selling more shares in their subsidiaries could ease their predicament, she says.

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