Our businesses

Retail

We supply electricity, gas and other energy related services to around 6.5 million residential and business customer accounts.

Power generation

We operate and manage a flexible portfolio of coal, oil, biomass and gas-fired power stations, with the capacity to generate over 11,000 MW.

npower cogen

Cogeneration is the simultaneous generation of electricity and useful heat from a single fuel source. npower cogen is one of the UK's leading developers of industrial cogeneration schemes.

Investment in new power stations

We’ve embarked upon a large scale building programme of new generation infrastructure and are planning new-build investments amounting to billions of pounds over the next ten years.

Renewable energy

The UK has a huge amount of renewable resources, including the best wind resources in Europe. RWE npower renewables, part of RWE Innogy, is one of the UK's leading renewable energy companies.