EON Switches Millions of U.K. Customers to 100% Renewable Power

EON SE is now supplying all of its 3.3 million residential customers in Britain with 100% renewable electricity, the first of the U.K.’s “Big Six” utilities to do so.

Clean power is available on all its tariffs at no extra cost with most of the renewable energy coming from its own wind, biomass, and solar sources, the utility said in a statement. EON operates and owns more than 20 onshore and offshore wind farms across the U.K.

EON switched household consumers to clean energy in a bid to stem a customer exodus to smaller rivals such as Ovo Energy Ltd. ...