News
17 October 2018

ScottishPower's future is wind with divestment of gas, hydro assets to Drax

In:
Oil & gas, Power, Renewables
Region:
Europe

Iberdrola Group company ScottishPower has agreed to sell its 2,566MW gas-fired and hydro generation business to Drax Smart Generation for £702 million to become the first UK intergrated energy firm to exit coal and gas generation. ScottishPower currently has 2,700MW of wind power capacity...

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