Blades Being Installed on Turbine 5, Yelvertoft Wind Farm (Image: T. Larkum)

E.ON to quit gas and coal and focus on renewable energy

Germany utility firm to sell off most power generating units amid ‘dramatically altered global energy markets’ Germany’s biggest utility firm, E.ON, has announced plans to split in two and spin off most of its power generation, energy trading and upstream businesses, responding to a crisis that has crippled the European energy sector. E.ON said it