RE: RE: Gonna be a bad week10 Aug 2019 18:27
Ovo Energy in talks to acquire SSE retail operations.
Ovo Energy, the decade-old gas and electricity supplier, is plotting a move into the ranks of Britain's biggest utilities with a bid to acquire the retail operations of SSE.
Sky News can exclusively reveal that Ovo has been in discussions for a number of months with SSE, the FTSE-100 group, about a deal.
A transaction is not certain to be struck, but sources close to the situation said this weekend that it could be agreed in outline within weeks.
If a deal is completed, it would pave the way for SSE's exit from the challenged UK energy retail market and catapult Ovo into the big league of British power suppliers.