Essent N.V. is a Dutch energy company based in 's-Hertogenbosch , Netherlands . It is a subsidiary of E.ON . It is a public limited liability corporation . Essent is the largest energy company in the country. Belgium is their second home market. Essent provides customers with gas , electricity , heat and energy services. Essent (including its predecessors) has over 90 years of experience with generating, trading, transmitting and supplying electricity.
13-543: Essent has 2.3 million customers for electricity and about 2 million for gas. Essent was formed in 1999 by the merger of PNEM/MEGA Groep and EDON Groep, energy groups based in the south and north of the Netherlands, respectively. PNEM/MEGA was created in 1997 by a merger between PNEM and Mega Limburg. EDON was a result of a merger between NV Energiebedrijf IJsselmij and EGD (Energiebedrijf Groningen Drenthe). In 2005, Nutsbedrijven Maastricht merged with Essent. The name Essent
26-439: A merger with another Dutch energy company Nuon Energy , but the proposed merger was cancelled. In 2009, the transmission network was unbundled from Essent. In January 2009, German energy major, RWE AG , announced its intention to buy out all outstanding and issued shares of Essent. The deal, valued to be around 9.3 billion euros, would make Essent an operating company of RWE in the Netherlands and Belgium . On 30 September 2009,
39-656: The Italian energy company Eni . In 2018, the company changed its name to Vattenfall Nederland. Vattenfall Nederland produces, sells and delivers electricity, gas, heat and additional services. It owns gas-fired power plants in Amsterdam, Eemshaven and Diemen , and a coal-fired power plant in Hemweg. Essent Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include
52-609: The Swedish state, and the Reinfeldt cabinet was heavily criticized after the company was depreciated by SEK 15 billion post-purchase. The purchase was the biggest business deal in Swedish history. Nuon's German subsidiary Nuon Deutschland GmbH was sold to Südwestfalen Energie und Wasser AG (ENERVIE AG) in 2010. On 26 July 2011, all activities in Belgium, including the subsidiaries Nuon Wind Belgium and Nuon Power Generation Walloon, were sold to
65-420: The deal was closed. Until 1 October 2009, the shares of Essent were owned by six Dutch provinces of Overijssel (18%), Groningen (6%), North Brabant (30.8%), Drenthe (2.3%), Flevoland (0.02%) and Limburg (16%) and by more than 100 municipalities in these provinces and in the province of Friesland (the remaining 26%). Since the split of RWE and Innogy as of 1 April 2016, the power generation business
78-659: The first Dutch utility company to sell CNG fuel to the transport market. Nuon Energy Vattenfall Nederland B.V. (former name: N.V. Nuon Energy ) is a utility company based in Amsterdam , Netherlands . It provides electricity, natural gas, and heat. The company belongs to the group of Vattenfall . Nuon NV was established in 1994 by a merger of regional utility companies Provinciale Gelderse Energie Maatschappij (PGEM), Provinciaal Elektriciteitsbedrijf Friesland (PEB Friesland), Zuid-Gelderse Nutsbedrijven (ZGN) and Veluwse Nutsbedrijven (VNB). The new company adopted
91-576: The merger was canceled because no agreement could be reached on the exchange ratio. According to the Independent Network Management Act of 2006. the electricity distribution operations were separated into a separate company under the name Liander in November 2008, and in June 2009 Liander was unbundled from Nuon. Correspondingly, Nuon adopted a new name N.V. Nuon Energy . In 2006, Nuon in
104-442: The name N.V. Nuon Energie-Onderneming . The name Nuon was a Dutch abbreviation for utility (NU) and for east (O) and north (N), which were that time the main markets for the company. The yellow and purple logo and car design was also introduced during this time. In 1999 also Energie Noord-West , Gamog and Energie- en Watervoorziening Rijnland were merged with Nuon and the name was changed N.V. Nuon . Installation company Feenstra
117-500: The partnership with Royal Dutch Shell built NoordzeeWind (Egmond aan Zee) offshore wind farm. In 2008, Nuon bought stakes in 35 North Sea gas fields from ConocoPhillips . In 2011, the North Sea exploration and production operations were sold to Tullow Oil . On 1 July 2009, Vattenfall acquired a 49% stake in Nuon and took full control of the company in 2012. Vattenfall is owned by
130-562: The student team at the World Solar Challenge . In 2002, Nuon expanded into Germany and Belgium . In 2003, Nuon acquired Reliant Energy Europe, formerly Energieproduktiebedrijf UNA , a subsidiary of the American utility Reliant Energy operating in Amsterdam and Utrecht . On 1 February 2007, Nuon and another Dutch energy utility Essent announced their intention to merge. On 7 September 2007, Nuon and Essent announced that
143-477: Was developed by Globrands Naming & Strategy. In 2000, Essent acquired a 51% stake in German utility Stadtwerke Bremen AG which at the same year made an offer for a 49.9% stake in another German utility Stadtwerke Bielefeld. In 2007, Essent divested its cable division Kabelcom to the investment companies Cinven and Warburg Pincus. At the same year, Essent acquired Westland Energie Services. Also in 2007, Essent planned
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#1732858500532156-465: Was taken over on 1 December 2000. Feenstra's new construction unit was sold to Groen Holding in 2012 and the insulation unit to De Takkenkamp Groep in 2016 In 2000, Nuon incorporated Nuon Renewables in the United Kingdom. In 2012, Nuon Renewables was merged with Vattenfall's renewable energy operations in the United Kingdom and it became Vattenfall United Kingdom . Since 2001, Nuon has sponsored
169-568: Was transferred to RWE Generation NL B.V., while Essent as retail and renewable energy company remained in the Innogy group. Innogy has been purchased on 18 September 2019 by E.ON. As a consequence Essent is a consolidated part of E.ON. In 2010 Essent opened the first commercial fast-charge station for electric vehicles in Europe. The charger produced by Epyon charges electric 9-person taxi-vans in 30 minutes. In 2016 Essent opened 5 bio-gas CNG stations being
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