Swiss Giant Alpiq Emerges

摘要

Switzerland's leading electricity company, Alpiq Holding, resulting from the merger of Atel and EOS, is due to begin operations on February 1. The main shareholders will be EOS Holding and a consortium of Swiss minority shareholders, each with 31%, and as a strong international partner, EDF with 25%. EDF will bring into the new company either the energy purchase rights on the Emosson storage power station or strengthen its share in the new company through the subscription to new shares as part of a public rights issue.rnCritics of the merger include Basel's Socialist MP Rudolf Rechsteiner, President of the anti-nuclear grouprnNWA, who described Alpiq as "a very negative concentration of power linking Switzerland's highly profitable hydropower to the French nuclear capability."