E.ON UK Press Releases - August 2007


Chapel Allerton Arts Festival has been named by Powergen, part of E.ON, as one of the most energy conscious summer fairs in the UK. The week-long festival, which culminates on festival day on 1 September in Chapel Allerton, Leeds, has been selected by Powergen’s energy experts as one of the most eco-friendly festivals to take place in the UK this summer.

E.ON UK, one of the country’s leading green generators, has announced plans to build a multi-million pound offshore wind farm over 8km off the coast of East Yorkshire, just north of the Humber estuary.

E.ON UK has successfully carried out a series of small emplosive tests in preparation for the demolition of the cooling towers at Blackburn Meadows.

A group of 10 volunteers from energy company E.ON’s Finance management team got hands-on and earned their place history when they put up fences in the Runnymede National Trust parklands site, near Windsor.

Powergen has today [20 August 2007] launched its first ever fixed price energy product, which will allow both new and existing customers to fix their energy prices at Powergen’s current standard prices until 1 January 2009.

E.ON UK, the company behind Kingsnorth and Grain power stations, is urging residents of the Hoo Peninsula to send their applications in to be in with a chance of taking away a slice of their £100,000 community investment fund.

With E.ON, one of the UK's leading green generators, spending billions of pounds on the next generation of power stations, it is also welcoming a team of new apprentices to help deliver that investment.

Gotham City might be the usual habitat for Batman but E.ON UK's Ironbridge Power Station is now inviting local people to take a look at their bat colony.

Energy company E.ON has given a £15,000 grant under its new SOURCE community initiative to Sandwich Technology School towards the cost of installing a 5kW wind turbine.

Energy company E.ON has given a £8,900 grant under its new SOURCE community initiative to North Nibley Village Hall towards the cost of an ambitious energy efficiency project.

A group of 12 volunteers from E.ON’s Energy Services data management team got their hands dirty when they cleared up a large area of scrubland at Dawley Brook Primary School in Kingswinford .

Nottinghamshire-based Professor Allan Jones, Head of Research and Development and Acting Director of Technology and Innovation at E.ON UK, has been appointed to a new government panel set up to look at tomorrow’s lower carbon power generation.

E.ON AG, the parent company of E.ON UK, has today acquired stakes in the Skarv and Idun Norwegian natural gas fields in a move to strengthen the security of gas supply to its customers in the UK and mainland Europe.