[9][10] The deal was approved by the EU antitrust authorities in September 2019, with final execution taking place in July 2020.

E.ON Next also has two million migrated customers from commercial energy firm Npower and Powershop after acquiring both companies.

[14] E.ON came into existence in 2000 through the merger of energy companies VEBA and VIAG [Wikidata] (Vereinigte Industrieunternehmungen AG, "United Industrial Enterprises Corporation").

[18] E.ON attempted to acquire Endesa in 2006, however this acquisition was overtaken by a joint bid from Italian utility Enel in conjunction with Spanish company Acciona.

[20][22] In 1975, Ruhrgas and Gaz de France concluded a deal according to which they agreed not to sell gas in each other's home market.

[23] In August 2011, the company announced a possible loss of 10,000 of its 85,600 employees due to the German decision to close all the country's nuclear power stations by 2022, instead of by 2036 as the Bundestag had decided on 28 October 2010.

[31] In July 2018, E.ON announced that 500 jobs would be lost in the United Kingdom, blaming the energy price cap due to be implemented by Ofgem.

[32] In November 2020, E.ON announced that in the next two years, almost 700 jobs will be cut due to the migration of customers to the new platform that will be completed by the end of 2022.

[1] In March 2018, it was announced that E.ON would acquire renewable energy utility Innogy from its controlling shareholder RWE.

[11] E.ON is one of the major public utility companies in Europe and the world's largest investor-owned energy service provider.

E.ON is organized into the following business areas: E.ON subsidiary PreussenElektra GmbH operates the Brokdorf, Grohnde, and Isar 2 nuclear power plants.

[43] Notably E.ON UK, owned 30% of the London Array project, which is a 630 MW wind generation farm in the Thames estuary.

[49] E.ON was also the official energy partner of The Football League and sponsored a collection of home programmes on Channel Five in the UK.

The energy company have partnered with the club since 2021 and have now struck a new deal which will see their logo appear on all men's and women's first-team training wear.

[54] In 2014, E.ON decided to sell Jackson Pollock's Number 5 (Elegant Lady) (1951), a painting the company has owned since 1980, at Christie's auction to keep funding the Museum Kunstpalast.

[55] Pollock had swapped it in 1954 with New York gallery owner Martha Jackson for the convertible in which he had a fatal accident two years later.

In 1980, Ulrich Hartmann, head of VEBA's corporate board office, pushed for the purchase from art dealer Alfred Schmela.