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RWE Innogy will cut its workforce by between 200-300 employees in its renewable energies division due to high levels of debt incurred in the acquisition of other renewable businesses. The sector is suffering from high levels of competition, declining electricity prices and declining tariff supports. The number of employees has already declined from 1,500 over the last year with many being transferred to other units. The latest job cuts will be carried out during 2015. Several hundred employees are expected to be transferred internally to other departments.
According to the chief executive, capital expenditure was around one billion euros last year. It will be reduced but the company remains committed to renewable energy. RWE Innogy is a subsidiary of the German energy company RWE, the second biggest energy group in Germany based in Essen.
Eurofound (2015), RWE Innogy, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 78186, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/78186.