Shanghai power firm eyes Italian assets
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SHANGHAI Electric Power yesterday said it was in preliminary contact with top German utility E.ON over the possible purchase of its Italian assets.
E.ON, whose market value has plunged by nearly three quarters since 2008 on the back of a sluggish European economy, is in the middle of a massive restructuring that will see it split its business in two to focus on renewable energy.
As part of this restructuring plan, the German utility giant is also selling non-core assets such as its operations in Italy. Sources said earlier that the Italian assets could be worth more than 2 billion euros (US$2.5 billion).
A Shanghai Electric Power official said the company was in early stages of communication with E.ON over those assets. She declined to comment further.
A spokesman for E.ON declined to comment on whether the company had been approached by Shanghai Electric Power.
Edison, an Italy-based utility owned by French power giant EDF, is also interested in E.ON’s operations in Italy, a source with knowledge of the matter said.
These include gas-fired power plants, renewable assets, a hydro generation plant and an LNG terminal.
Earlier this week, E.ON agreed to sell its Spain and Portugal businesses to Australian investment bank Macquarie Group Ltd for 2.5 billion euros, two sources said.
In May, state-owned Shanghai Electric Power bought 40 percent of power engineering company Ansaldo Energia from Italian state fund FSI for 400 million euros.
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