Vattenfall UK (formerly: Nuon Renewables) is a subsidiary of

Vattenfall Vattenfall is a Swedish multinational power company owned by the Swedish State. Beyond Sweden, the company generates power in Denmark, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. The company's name is Swedish for "waterfall", and ...

headquartered in London. It generates

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, primarily through

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History

Vattenfall UK was established as Nuon Renewables in 2000. It was a United Kingdom-based subsidiary of

N.V. 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. History Nuon NV was established in ...

. It has built wind farms across the UK with a potential annual power generation total of eight hundred megawatts. In 2009, N.V. Nuon Energy was acquired by Vattenfall. In January 2012, it was merged with Vattenfall's other assets in the United Kingdom and was renamed ''Vattenfall UK''.Nuon Renewables joins forces with Vattenfall in the UK
(10 January 2012) Power Engineering International In March 2020, Vattenfall UK sold its

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and its supply side business, Energy, to

EDF Energy EDF Energy is a British integrated energy company, wholly owned by the French state-owned EDF (Électricité de France), with operations spanning electricity generation and the sale of natural gas and electricity to homes and businesses through ...

Operations

Vattenfall's core businesses in the United Kingdom are renewable power generation, heating, business-to-business sales and distribution. The company owns and operates several wind farms, some as small as their ten megawatt Parc Cynog wind farm, to others as large as their current project, a two-hundred and ninety-nine megawatt development in

Pen y Cymoedd Pen y Cymoedd ("Head of the Valleys") is a wind farm located between Neath and Aberdare in south Wales. It opened in 2017. History Development Natural Resources Wales signed a lease agreement with Vattenfall of Sweden and its British-based subsi ...

Wind Energy.

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