US owner hires banks to run €2.75bn Energia sale
I Squared Capital seeking to offload Irish utility eight years after purchase
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Energia pays €40m dividend as generation arms offset retail losses
Group has hiked tariffs for customers a number of times in the past year amid spiralling wholesale prices
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Energia’s owner ‘plans to sell it later this year’ in deal worth €2bn
US private equity firm acquired the Irish energy group for €1bn in 2016
Energia plans €3bn investment in renewable energy
Utilities provider will invest across a raft of projects over the next five years
Energia agrees €44m debt finance with AIB
Energy provider in the throes of €50m investment on a new bioenergy plant in Dublin
Energia spends €3m on marketing campaign to dispel switcher wariness
Campaign aims ‘to tell people that we are bigger than they think we are’, says firm
Latest electricity capacity auctions end EirGrid-Viridian dispute
Viridian selected to generate electricity for State following previous failed attempt
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Viridian’s New York owner plots sale after two years
I-Squared Capital purchased Northern Irish power firm in 2016 for €1 billion
Viridian owner considers sale of Irish energy business
Private equity group bought Energia parent in 2016 and refinanced debt last year
Viridian wins appeal that could save 40 jobs at Dublin power plants
Huntstown plants could now remain open following ruling by statutory panel
Viridian blocked from closing its Huntstown power plants
Proposed closure could affect security of electricity supplies, says regulator
Wholesale energy prices down due to mild weather, strong imports
New survey shows gas prices are 14% lower than December while electricity down 10%
Profits up at Energia on back of rise in residential customers
Revenues decline by €32m as supplier says it now supplies 145,300 homes
Viridian eyes move to slash €45m interest bill
Owner of gas and electricity supplier Energia’s 7.5% bond rate almost double rivals’
Viridian’s New York owners plot energy group stake sale
Asian sovereign wealth and investment firms among interested investors in Viridian
Energia’s Donegal windfarm starts supplying renewable energy
The €145m windfarm can provide enough energy to power 50,000 homes
Energia sees profits surge as business customers decline
Gas and electricity supplier records lower turnover as pretax profits rise 33% to €22.2m
Chinese bidder wins race for Gaelectric wind farms
China General Nuclear Power is preferred bidder for majority stake in 230-megawatt portfolio
Barry Gavin to be next Gaelectric chief executive
Renewable energy company advances plans to sell control of wind farm assets
Viridian injects €236m equity into its Republic unit
Northern Ireland energy supplier restructuring its capital base under new US owner I Squared
Wind firms defend €270m support added to electricity bills
Energy regulator to increase the public service obligation charge by €76m to €400m
Viridian repays costly debt after injection from new owner
I Squared Capital provided equity to discharge junior loan facility
Australian firm AMP pulls out of race to buy Mater Private
German healthcare giant Fresenius has also left race for hospital
New Viridian owner I Squared aims for expansion
Owners of Bord Gáis Energy and Airtricity also believed to have submitted bids for firm
Ireland Strategic Investment Fund stalls on Viridian bid
Retreat from deal believed to be linked to stalemate over next government
Energy group Viridian posts after-tax profit of €7.5 million
Firm, which owns electricity and gas suppliers Energia, reports turnover of €90.3m
Centrica chief looking to power up in Irish market
Urbane MD of Bord Gáis Energy owner is Oxford-educated mathematician
Belfast briefing: seeing North’s problems in a better light
Some of the current directors of Northern Ireland plc have not quite fulfilled their responsibility
Energia stays plugged in to The Pat Kenny Show
The energy supplier has renewed its deal to sponsor the presenter’s Newstalk radio show
Viridian poised for £1bn stock market flotation
Reports say Bahrain bank Arcapita has hired JP Morgan to lead a share listing for Irish energy firm
Commission sets April deadline for break-up of Bord Gáis
Rabbitte says bids for Bord Gáis Energy ‘were not at an acceptable value’
Taking Bord Gáis off market leaves costly sales process without result
Ireland, Europe’s comeback story, is à la mode for international investors. But still the State failed to raise its mysterious ‘fair price’
Government defers Bord Gáis sale after bids fall short
Minister says proposed sale attracted significant interest but market conditions were not favourable
Three fresh bids for Bord Gais Energy
Viridian, Blackstone and Centrica understood to be among bidders
Energy and recruitment firms announce plans for 200 jobs
New entrant Energia and global job site Indeed to hire more than 200 in next year
Energia to enter domestic gas and electricity market
New player pledges 100 jobs and discounted energy supply to consumers
Malaysian Tenaga withdraws bid for Bord Gais
Retail and power generation division ‘not the right fit’ for Asian energy producer
Energia sponsorship lights up Pat Kenny
Newstalk spends €1 million on advertising campaign to promote big new signing
Household energy bills to fall as Viridian enters domestic market
“We will compete on price,” vows executive
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