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E.ON SE〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Structure )〕 marketed with an interpunct as E·ON, is a European holding company based in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It runs one of the world's largest investor-owned electric utility service providers. The name comes from the Greek word ''aeon'' which means ''eternity''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Questions and Answers about E.ON Group – What does E.ON mean? )〕 The company is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index.〔(Frankfurt Stock Exchange )〕 It operates in over 30 countries and serves over 33 million customers.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Who we are. An overview )〕 It is one of the 30 members of the DAX stock index of major German companies and a member of the Global Titans 50 index. Its chief executive officer (''Vorstandsvorsitzender'') is Dr. Johannes Teyssen.〔(E.ON: Many Companies, One Brand )〕 The E.ON group will be split into 2 independent companies following an announcement in 2014. The E.ON brand will continue to service the downstream business including retail and distribution, as well as the Climate and Renewables business; with the Upstream business, to be branded Uniper, containing all conventional power generation and current Energy Trading activities. The future E.ON will have its headquarters in Essen, Germany. ==History== The company came into existence in 2000 through the merger of energy companies VEBA and VIAG. In the United Kingdom, Powergen was acquired by E.ON in January 2002.〔(E.ON to buy Powergen )〕 In 2003 E.ON entered the gas market through the acquisition of Ruhrgas (now E.ON Ruhrgas). E.ON Ruhrgas is represented in more than 20 countries in Europe.〔(German utility E.ON buys Ruhrgas )〕 E.ON also acquired Sydkraft in Sweden and OGK-4 in Russia. Sydkraft and Powergen were rebranded to E.ON Sverige and E.ON UK respectively. In the United States, E.ON inherited Louisville, Kentucky-based LG&E Energy, via the acquisition of Powergen, and operated it as E.ON US, until 2010, when E.ON US was sold to Pennsylvania-based PPL for $7.625 billion. The sale was closed on 1 November 2010, with E-ON US becoming LG&E and KU Energy.〔(PPL press release: "PPL Completes Acquisition of Two Kentucky Utility Companies", November 1, 2010. )〕 E.ON attempted to acquire Endesa in 2006, however this acquisition was overtaken by a joint bid from Italian utility Enel in conjunction with Spanish company Acciona. E.ON acquired about €10 billion of assets that the enlarged Enel was required to divest under EU competition rulings.〔(E.ON drops out of Endesa fight )〕 Its trading arm E.ON Energy Trading SE was founded in 2008. In July 2009, the European Commission fined GDF Suez and E.ON €553 million each over arrangements on the MEGAL pipeline.〔 〕〔 〕 It was the second biggest fines imposed by the European Commission and first one on the energy sector.〔〔 〕 In 1975, Ruhrgas and Gaz de France concluded a deal according to which they agreed not to sell gas in each other's home market. The deal was abandoned in 2005.〔 In 2009, E.ON and RWE established an equally owned joint venture Horizon Nuclear Power to develop around 6,000 MWe of new nuclear capacity in the United Kingdom by 2025 at the Wylfa and Oldbury sites. However, in March 2012 E.ON and RWE announced they were pulling out of the project due to difficult financial conditions.〔 〕 In August 2011, the company has announced that a possibility jobs cut of 10,000 of its 85,600 employees due to the German decision to close all the country's nuclear power stations by 2022, instead of in 2036 as originally planned.〔(EON may detail jobs cut )〕 As a result, E.ON developed an enhancement program to reorganize the company. The company made progress in implementing its strategy and will increase its activities in growth markets outside Europe. The next step is to enter the Brazilian market.〔(E.ON making progress with restructuring )〕 In May 2014 the UK energy sector regular Ofgem ordered the company to pay 330,000 of its customers a total sum of £12 million due to poor sales practices the company engaged in between June 2010 and December 2013. At the time it was the largest penalty levied against a UK energy supplier. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「E.ON」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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