I quit my job to make music

OK, tough guy, you asked for it.

I'm quitting my stupid job to make an album and work on my musicianship for hours a day.

So my question to you is, Why the hell would I want to do that?

Seriously, I can't figure out why I so desperately need to do it. It creeps up and bites me in the ass every day when I'm sitting in my ugly cube.

I guess a more pertinent question would be, What the HELL am I going to do every day? How do you be creative all day? How do I get up every morning with the energy to create something from nothing, for hours a day? Can I still take breaks for lunch?

Take that.

Bill

Dear Bill,

Wham. Ugh! Poof! Zouch! Wow.

Geez, man, go easy on me!

That was rough. Lemme get this straight. You are asking me why you would want to quit your job and play music? It makes perfect sense to me, because I've done it, and when I did it it made perfect sense.

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I quit my job to make music

OK, tough guy, you asked for it.

I'm quitting my stupid job to make an album and work on my musicianship for hours a day.

So my question to you is, Why the hell would I want to do that?

Seriously, I can't figure out why I so desperately need to do it. It creeps up and bites me in the ass every day when I'm sitting in my ugly cube.

I guess a more pertinent question would be, What the HELL am I going to do every day? How do you be creative all day? How do I get up every morning with the energy to create something from nothing, for hours a day? Can I still take breaks for lunch?

Take that.

Bill

Dear Bill,

Wham. Ugh! Poof! Zouch! Wow.

Geez, man, go easy on me!

That was rough. Lemme get this straight. You are asking me why you would want to quit your job and play music? It makes perfect sense to me, because I've done it, and when I did it it made perfect sense.

Continue Reading...

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69 BASF Chemical industry $85.347[74] 2010 $66,302 109,140[75] FWB: BAS Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany Kurt Bock
70 Wells Fargo Banking / Financial services $85.21[76] 2010 $95,937 160,000 NYSE: WFC San Francisco, California, United States John Stumpf
71 Société Générale Financial Services $84.868[77] 2010 $57,315 120,000 Euronext: GLE Paris, France Frédéric Oudéa
72 Kuwait Petroleum Corporation Oil and gas $84.594[78] March 31, 2010 - 18,500 - Kuwait Saad Al Shuwaib
73 Deutsche Telekom Telecommunications $83.407[79] 2010 $72,907 246,777[80] ISIN: DE0005557508 Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany René Obermann
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76 Kroger Retailing $82.189[83] January 29, 2011 $16,380[25] 334,000[83] NYSE: KR Cincinnati, Ohio, United States David Dillon
77 Nippon Life Insurance Insurance $81.315[84] March 31, 2011 - 67,348 Mutual Chūō-ku, Osaka, Japan Kunie Okamoto
78 Telefónica Telecommunications $80.938[85] 2010 $137,660 173,554 Euronext: TFA Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain César Alierta
79 BMW Automotive $80.809[86] 2010 $35,742 104,342 ISIN: DE0005 Munich, Bavaria, Germany Norbert Reithofer
80 Repsol YPF Oil and Gas $80.747[87] 2010 $42,288 41,017 BMAD: REP Madrid, Spain Antonio Brufau
81 Archer Daniels Midland Agriculture, Food processing $80.676[88] June 30, 2011 $26,490 30,000 NYSE: ADM Decatur, Illinois, United States Patricia A. Woertz
82 HSBC Financial services $80.014[89] 2010 $199,255 302,000[90] LSE: HSBA London, England, United Kingdom Stephen Green
83 SK Group Conglomerate $79.603[91] 2010 $8,530[25] KRX: 003600 Seoul, South Korea Choi Tae-Won
84 Trafigura Raw materials $79.2[92] 2010 - 4,000 Private Lucerne, Switzerland ?
85 ArcelorMittal Steel $78.025[93] 2010 $119,124 273,811 Euronext: MT, NYSE: MT, LuxSE: MT Luxembourg City, Luxembourg Lakshmi Mittal
86 National Iranian Oil Company Oil and gas $78.00[94] March 21, 2009 - 36,000 Government-owned Tehran, Iran Masoud Mir Kazemi
87 AmerisourceBergen Health care $77.954[95] September 30, 2010 $6,780[25] 12,300 NYSE: ABC Chesterbrook, Pennsylvania, United States R. David Yost
88 American International Group Financial services $77.301[96] 2010 $109,091 86,000 NYSE: AIG New York, New York, United States Robert Benmosche
89 Toshiba Conglomerate $77.090[97] March 31, 2011 $21,659 199,000 TYO: 6502 Tokyo, Japan Tadashi Okamura
90 Petronas Oil and gas $76.822[98] March 31, 2011 - 33,944 Government-owned Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Tan Sri Dato Sri Mohd Hassan Marican
91 Costco Retailing $76.255[99] August 29, 2010 $28,149 132,000 NASDAQ: COST Issaquah, Washington, United States Jim Sinegal
92 Fiat Conglomerate $75.172[100] 2010 $28,591 162,237 BIT: F Turin, Piedmont, Italy Sergio Marchionne
93 PSA Peugeot Citroën Automotive $74.909[101] 2010 $17,980[25] 186,220[102] Euronext: UG Paris, Île-de-France, France Philippe Varin
94 ZEN-NOH Agricultural marketing $74.227[103] March 31, 2010 - 8,530 - Tokyo, Japan Katsuyoshi Kitajima
95 Vodafone Telecommunications $73.635[104] March 31, 2011 $159,337 83,862 LSE: VOD London, England Vittorio Colao
96 Marathon Oil Oil and gas $73.621[105] 2010 $32,329 28,855 NYSE: MRO Houston, Texas, United States Clarence Cazalot, Jr.
97 China Mobile Telecommunications $73.520[106] 2010 $199,268 145,934 SEHK: 0941 Hong Kong SAR, China Li Yue
98 Prudential plc Banking $73.337[107] 2010 $34,743 26,000 LSE: PRU London, United Kingdom Tidjane Thiam
99 Deutsche Post Courier $71.751[108] 2010 $37,180 436,651[109] ISIN: DE0005552004 Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Frank Appel
100 RWE Public utilities $71.246[110] 2010 $68,287 127,028 ISIN: DE0007037129 Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Jürgen Großmann
101 Aegon Insurance $71.148[111] 2010 $23,967 29,000 Euronext: AGN The Hague, Netherlands Alex Wynaendts
102 REWE Group Retailing $70.872[112] 2010 - 325,848 Private Cologne, Germany Alain Caparros
103 Dexia Banking $70.106[113] 2010 $33,708 34,234 Euronext: DX Brussels, Belgium Pierre Mariani
104 Microsoft Information technology $69.943[114] June 30, 2011 $270,635 71,000 NASDAQ: MSFT Redmond, Washington, United States Steve Ballmer
105 China Railway Construction Corporation Infrastructure $69.118[115] 2010 $13,310[25] 229,070 SEHK: 1186 Beijing, China Meng Fengchao
106 Home Depot, Inc. Retailing $67.997[116] January 31, 2010 $47,203 317,000 NYSE: HD Vinings, Georgia, United States Frank Blake
107 Zurich Financial Services Insurance $67.85[117] 2010 $46,024 58,000 SIX: ZURN Zürich, Switzerland Martin Senn
108 Philip Morris International Tobacco industry $67.713[118] 2010 $93,935 77,300[118] NYSE: PM New York, New York, United States Louis C. Camilleri
109 Groupe BPCE Banking $67.303[119] 2010 - 127,000 - Paris, France François Pérol
110 Walgreens Retailing $67.42[120] August 31, 2010 $37,762 238,000[121] NYSE: WAG Deerfield, Illinois, United States Jeff Rein
107 Target Corporation Retailing $67.390[122] January 29, 2011 $41,205 352,000 NYSE: TGT Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States Gregg Steinhafel
108 United States Postal Service Courier $67.052[123] September 30, 2010 N/A 583,908 Government agency Washington, D.C., United States John E. Potter
109 China Railway Engineering Corporation Infrastructure $66.808[124] 2010 N/A 285,054 SEHK: 390 Beijing, China Shi Dahua
110 Apple Inc. Electronics $65.225[125] September 25, 2010 $189,802 - NASDAQ: AAPL Cupertino, California, United States Tim Cook
111 Gunvor Raw material $65.0[126] 2010 - - Private Nicosia -
112 Crédit Agricole Financial Services $64.800[127] 2010 $51,857 134,000 Euronext: ACA Paris, France Jean-Paul Chifflet
94 Boeing Aerospace $64.306[128] 2010 $56,881 157,000 NYSE: BA Chicago, Illinois, United States Jim McNerney
113 Barclays Bank Banking $63.978[129] 2010 $50,861 77,000 United Kingdom LSE: BARC London, England, United Kingdom Bob Diamond
120 State Farm Insurance Insurance $63.2[130] 2010 - (Mutual) 68,800 - Bloomington, Illinois, United States Edward B. Rust Jr.
119 Johnson & Johnson Health care $61.587[131] 2010 $183,751 120,500 NYSE: JNJ New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States William C. Weldon
117 EADS Aerospace $60.969[132] 2010 $19,361 109,135 Netherlands (Euronext: EAD) Schiphol-Rijk, North Holland, Netherlands Louis Gallois
103 France Télécom Telecommunications $60.801[133] 2010 $88,049 191,000 Euronext: FTE Paris, France Stéphane Richard
99 CNP Assurances Insurance $59.846[134] 2010 $16,360[25] 4,630 Euronext: CNP Paris, France Gilles Benoist
122 Medco Health Solutions Health care $59.804[135] 2009 $22,943 14,800 NYSE: MHS Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, United States David B. Snow, Jr.
123 Munich Re Financial services $59.674[136] 2009 $30,777 41,431 ISIN: DE0008430026 Munich, Bavaria, Germany Nikolaus von Bomhard
96 Legal & General Financial services $59.167[137] 2010 $10,820 8,071 LSE: LGEN London, England, United Kingdom Tim Breedon
124 Unilever Consumer goods $59.143[138] 2010 $101,642 179,000 Euronext: UNA London, United Kingdom / Rotterdam, Netherlands Paul Polman
125 WellPoint Health care $58.8018[139] 2010 $23,916 42,000 NYSE: WLP Indianapolis, Indiana, United States Angela Braly
126 ThyssenKrupp Conglomerate $58.169[140] September 30, 2010 $29,544 188,000 ISIN: DE0007500001 Essen & Duisburg, Germany Heinrich Hiesinger
120 Edeka Group Retailing $57.968[141] 2010 - 302,000 Private Hamburg, Germany
127 PepsiCo Food $57.838[142] 2010 $111,360 - NYSE: PEP Purchase, New York, United States Indra Nooyi
128 Seven & I Holdings Co. Retailing $57.43[143] March 31, 2010 $24,023 55,815 TYO: 382 Tokyo, Japan Toshifumi Suzuki
129 Grupo Santander Banking $57.388[144] 2010 $136,631 129,749 BMAD: SAN Santander, Cantabria, Spain Emilio Botín
130 Auchan Retailing $57.15[145] 2009 - 243,000 - Croix, Nord, France Christophe Dubrulle
131 ÆON Retailing $56.7[146] February 27, 2010 $9,420[25] TYO: 8267 Tokyo, Japan
132 Noble Group Raw materials $56.696[147] 2010 - SGX: N21 Hong Kong Ricardo Leiman
133 Dai-ichi Life Insurance $56.665[148] March 31, 2010 - TYO: 8750 Tokyo, Japan
134 Nokia Telecommunications $53.322[149] 2010 $120,583 62,763 OMX: NOK1V Espoo, Southern Finland, Finland Stephen Elop
135 Royal Bank of Scotland Financial services $55.737[150] 2009 $67,158 120,000 LSE: RBS Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom Stephen Hester
136 Iraq National Oil Company Oil and gas $55.1[151] 2007 - ? - Iraq ?
137 Bosch Group Automotive $54.993[152] 2009 - 270,687 Private Gerlingen, Germany
138 Temasek Holdings Sovereign Wealth Fund $54.781[153] March 31, 2010 - - Government-owned Singapore
139 Indian Oil Corporation Oil and Gas $54.734[154] March 31, 2010 $16,360[25] 36,127 NSE: IOC New Delhi, India B.M.Bansal
140 Saint-Gobain Construction $54.435[155] 2009 $30,626 208,000 Euronext: SGO Paris, France Pierre-André de Chalendar
141 United Technologies Conglomerate $54.326[156] 2010 $67,548 215,000 NYSE: UTX Hartford, Connecticut, United States Louis R. Chênevert
142 Tokyo Electric Power Electricity generation $53.909[157] March 31, 2010 $36,222 39,619 TYO: 9501 Tokyo, Japan Tsunehisa Katsumata
143 Dell Information technology $52.902[158] January 29, 2010 $44,640 95,000 NASDAQ: DELL Round Rock, Texas, United States Michael Dell
144 Toyota Tsusho Sogo shosha $52.893[159] March 31, 2010 $9,070[25] 20,708 TYO: 8015 Nagoya, Japan Masaaki Furukawa
145 BHP Billiton Mining $52.798[160] Jun. 30, 2010 $201,248 34,000 LSE: BLT, ASX: BHP Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and London, United Kingdom Marius Kloppers
146 Renault Automotive $52.073[161] 2010 $31,650 121,422 Euronext: RNO Boulogne-Billancourt, Île-de-France, France Carlos Ghosn
147 Deutsche Bank Banking $51.666[162] 2009 $44,021 82,504 FWB: DBK Frankfurt am Main, Germany Josef Ackermann
148 Fujitsu Electronics $50.317[163] March 31, 2010 $14,990[25] 157,044 TYO: 6702 Tokyo, Japan Hiroaki Kurokawa
149 Credit Suisse Financial services $50.193[164] 2009 $58,682 60,477 SIX: CSGN Zürich, Canton of Zürich, Switzerland Brady Dougan
150 UniCredit Banking $50.055[165] 2009 $89,654 170,000 BIT: UCG Milan, Italy Federico Ghizzoni
152 Pfizer Health care $50.009[166] 2009 $141,507 106,000 NYSE: PFE New York City, United States Jeff Kindler
152 Veolia Environnement Public utilities $49.774[167] 2009 $32,938 312,590 Euronext: VIE Paris, France Antoine Frérot
153 China Life Insurance Insurance $49.698[168] 2009 - - SSE: 601628, SEHK: 2628 Beijing, China
154 Best Buy Retailing $49.694[169] Feb. 27, 2010 - - NYSE: BBY Richfield, Minnesota, United States Brian J. Dunn
155 United Parcel Service Transportation $49.545[170] 2010 $50,553 400,600 NYSE: UPS Sandy Springs, Georgia, United States Scott Davis
156 Banco Bradesco Banking $49.267[171] 2009 $58,441 85,577 BM&F Bovespa: BBDC3/BBDC4 Osasco, Brazil Luiz Carlos Trabuco Cappi
157 Mitsubishi Corporation Sogo shosha $48.833[172] March 31, 2010 $34,794[173] TYO: 8058 Tokyo, Japan Mikio Sasaki
158 Pertamina Oil and gas $48.717[174] 2010 - 15,868 Government-owned Jakarta, Indonesia Karen Agustiawan
159 A. P. Møller - Mærsk Transport $48.522[175] 2009 $49,039 110,000 OMX: MAERSK A,MAERSK B Copenhagen, Denmark Nils Andersen
160 Hoffmann-La Roche Health care $47.629[176] 2009 $165,241 74,372 SIX: ROG Basel, Switzerland Severin Schwan
161 PTT Public Company Limited Oil and Gas $47.619[177] 2009 $28,285 3,681 SET: PTT Bangkok, Thailand Prasert Bunsumpun
162 Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria Banking $47.429[178] 2009 $68,452 91,000 BMAD: BBVA Bilbao, Spain Francisco González
163 Lowe's Retailing $47.22[179] 2009 $33,552 210,000 NYSE: LOW Mooresville, North Carolina, United States Robert Niblock
164 Rosneft Oil and gas $46.826[180] 2009 - - RTS:ROSN Moscow, Russia -
165 National Mutual Insurance Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives (Zenkyoren or JA Kyosai) Insurance $46.8[181] 2005 6,248 Japan
166 VINCI Construction $46.762[182] 2009 $35,334 162,000 Euronext: DG Rueil-Malmaison, France Xavier Huillard
167 Woori Financial Group Financial services $46.459[183] 2009 - - KRX: 053000 Seoul, South Korea Lee Pal Seung
168 Sonatrach Oil and gas $46.420[184] 2009 - 120,000 Government-owned Algiers, Algeria Djenane El Malik
169 GlaxoSmithKline Health care $46.016[185] 2009 $114,833 100,019 LSE: GSK London, England, United Kingdom Andrew Witty
170 Deutsche Bahn Transportation $45.979[186] 2010 - 276,310 - Berlin, Germany Rüdiger Grube
170 Hon Hai Precision Industry Electronics $45.899[187] 2009 $40,635 920,000 TWSE: 2317 Tucheng, Taiwan Terry Gou
171 Lockheed Martin Aerospace $45.803[188] 2010 $40,527 140,000 NYSE: LMT Bethesda, Maryland, United States Robert J. Stevens
172 Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Banking $45.322[189] 2009 $268,956 385,609 SSE: 601398, SEHK: 1398 Beijing, China Jiang Jianqing
173 Goldman Sachs Financial services $45.173[190] 2009 $65,479 30,335 NYSE: GS New York City, New York, United States Lloyd Blankfein
174 Woolworths Limited Retailing $45.170[191] June 28, 2010 $31,224 195,000 ASX: WOW Bella Vista, Australia Michael Luscombe
175 Bouygues Conglomerate $45.167[192] 2009 $22,157 113,300 Euronext: EN Paris, France Martin Bouygues
176 Bayer Health care $44.901[193] 2009 - 106,000 FWB: BAYN Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Marijn Dekkers
177 China Investment Corporation Sovereign wealth fund $44.876[194] 2009 - - Government-owned Beijing, China Lou Jiwei
178 Dow Chemical Manufacturing $44.875[195] 2009 $34,625 46,000 NYSE: DOW Midland, Michigan, United States Andrew N. Liveris
179 Imperial Tobacco Tobacco industry $44.713[196] September 30, 2010 - - LSE: IMT Bristol, United Kingdom Gareth Davis
180 Reliance Industries Conglomerate $44.632[197] March 31, 2010 - 23,365 BSE: 500325 Mumbai, India Mukesh Ambani
181 Novartis Health care $44.267[198] January 26, 2010 $134,928 100,735 SIX: NOVN Basel, Switzerland Joseph Jimenez
182 Mitsui & Co. Conglomerate $44.048[199] March 31, 2010 ? ? TYO: 8045 Tokyo, Japan -
183 Sears Holdings Retailing $44.043[200] January 30, 2010 $12,660[25] 355,000 NASDAQ: SHLD Hoffman Estates, Illinois, United States Louis D'Ambrosio
184 Rio Tinto Mining $44.036[201] 2009 - 101,994 ASX: RIO London, United Kingdom and  City of Melbourne, Australia Tom Albanese
185 LG Electronics Conglomerate $44.000[202] 2010 $136,229 82,772 KRX: 066570 Seoul, South Korea Koo Bon-joon
185 Shinhan Financial Group Financial services $43.975[203] 2009 - - KRX: 055550, NYSE: SHG Seoul, South Korea Sang Hoon Shin
186 Wesfarmers Retailing $43.949[204] June 30, 2010 $32,530 200,000 ASX: WES Perth, Australia Bob Every
187 Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Banking $43.896[205] March 31, 2010 $68,694 57,500 TYO: 8306 Tokyo, Japan Nobuo Kuroyanagi
188 Intel Semiconductors $43.623[206] December 25, 2010 $109,210 82,500 NASDAQ: INTC Mountain View, California, United States Paul S. Otellini
189 Sumitomo Life Insurance Insurance $43.272[207] March 31, 2010 - - N/A (Mutual) Osaka, Japan -
192 Caterpillar Heavy equipment $42.588[208] 2010 - - NYSE: CAT Peoria, Illinois, USA Douglas R. Oberhelman
194 Sanofi Health care $42.218[209] 2009 $102,849 96,439 Euronext: SAN Paris, France Chris Viehbacher
195 Chrysler Automotive $41.946[210] 2010 N/A - Private company Auburn Hills, Michigan, USA Sergio Marchionne
196 Bunge Limited Agriculture $41.926[211] 2009 $13,400[25] 30,000 NYSE: BG White Plains, New York, United States Alberto Weisser
197 Sojitz Sogo shosha $41.338[212] March 31, 2010 $4,790[25] 17,331 TYO: 2768 Tokyo, Japan Yutaka Kase
198 MetLife Insurance $41.058[213] 2009 $42,734 83,800 NYSE: MET New York City, United States C. Robert Henrikson
199 Safeway Retailing $40.8507[214] January 2, 2010 $12,650[25] 201,000 NYSE: SWY Pleasanton, California, United States Steven Burd
200 SuperValu Retailing $40.597[215] February 27, 2010 $5,550[25] 200,000 NYSE: SVU Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States Craig Herkert
201 UBS Financial services $40.561[216] 2009 - 65,233[217] SIX: UBSN, NYSE: UBS Zurich & Basel, Switzerland Oswald Grübel
202 Kraft Foods Food $40.386[218] 2009 $40,172[218] 97,000[218] NYSE: KFT Northfield, Illinois, United States Irene Rosenfeld
204 Ahold Retailing $40.229[219] 2009 $15,790[25] 206,000[220] Euronext: AH Amsterdam, Netherlands Dick Boer
205 Cisco Information technology $40.04[221] July 31, 2010 $137,716 70,700 NASDAQ: CSCO San Jose, California, United States John T. Chambers

E.ON

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E.ON AG, marketed with an interpunct as E•ON, is the holding company of the world's largest investor-owned energy service provider based in Düsseldorf, Germany. The name comes from the Greek word aeon which means eternity.
It operates in over 30 countries and serves over 26 million customers.[2] It is one of the 30 members of the DAX stock index of major German companies and a member of the Global Titans 50 index. Its chief executive officer (Vorstandsvorsitzender) is Johannes Teyssen.[3]
Contents [hide]
1 History
2 Operations
2.1 Market units
2.2 Environmental projects
2.2.1 Carbon intensity
3 Financial data
4 Sponsorship
5 Criticism
6 Facilities
7 See also
8 References
9 External links
[edit]History

The company came into existence in 2000 through the merger of energy companies VEBA and VIAG. In the UK, Powergen was eventually taken over itself by E.ON, an acquisition which was completed in January 2002.[4] In 2003 E.ON entered the gas market through the acquisition of Ruhrgas (now E.ON Ruhrgas). E.ON Ruhrgas is represented in more than 20 countries in Europe.[5]
E.ON has acquired Sydkraft in Sweden, OGK-4 in Russia and Powergen in the United Kingdom. Sydkraft and Powergen have now been rebranded to E.ON Sverige and E.ON UK respectively. In the United States, E.ON inherited Louisville, Kentucky-based LG&E Energy, via the acquisition of Powergen, and operated it as E.ON US, until 2010, when E.ON US was sold to Pennsylvania-based PPL for $7.625 billion. The sale was closed on November 1, 2010, with E-ON US becoming LG&E and KU Energy.[6]
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. E.ON did however acquire about €10 billion of assets that the enlarged Enel was required to divest under EU competition rulings.[7]
In July 2009, the European Commission fined GDF Suez and E.ON €553 million both over arrangements on the MEGAL pipeline.[8][9] It was the second biggest fines imposed by the European Commission and first one on the energy sector.[8][10] 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. The deal was abandoned in 2005.[8]
In 2009, E.ON and RWE established an equally owned joint venture Horizon Nuclear Power to develop around 6,000 MWe of new nuclear capacity in the United Kingdom by 2025. Horizon Nuclear Power is headquartered near Gloucester. It has operated since 16 November 2009.[11]
In August 2011, the company has announced that a possibility jobs cut of 10,000 of its 85,600 current employees due to the German decision to close all of the country's nuclear power stations by 2022, instead of in 2036 as originally planned.[12]
[edit]Operations

E.ON is one of the major public utility companies in Europe and the world's largest investor-owned energy service provider. As result of mergers, E.ON inherited the subsidiaries of VEBA, VIAG and Ruhrgas in Central and Eastern Europe. It is also present in Russia, where it has a stake in the natural gas company Gazprom (6.4%) and control of the generation company OGK-4. E.ON is present in most of Scandinavia.
[edit]Market units
E.ON is organized in nine units:
Central Europe Market Unit led by Munich-based E.ON Energie AG
Pan-European Gas Market Unit led by Essen-based E.ON Ruhrgas
Spain Market Unit led by Madrid-based E.ON España
Nordic Market Unit led by Malmö-based E.ON Sverige, which supplies power in Scandinavia
U.K. Market Unit led by Coventry-based E.ON UK
Italy Market Unit led by Milan-based E.ON Italia
Russia Market Unit led by Moscow-based E.ON Russia Power
Climate & Renewables Market Unit led by Düsseldorf-based E.ON Climate & Renewables
Energy Trading Market Unit by Düsseldorf-based E.ON Energy Trading
[edit]Environmental projects
E.ON's UK arm, E.ON UK, owns 30% of the London Array project, which is a very large wind generation scheme that will be built in the Thames estuary. E.ON opened a windfarm off the coast of Cornwall in 2008 and ran, during autumn and summer 2007, "Wind of Change" adverts on British TV networks; the main advert was filmed in the English seaside town of Broadstairs.
[edit]Carbon intensity
year Production (TWh) Emission (Gt CO2) kg CO2/MWh
2002 216 91.78 425
2003 186 93.83 504
2004 245 101.39 413
2005 229 101.17 442
2006 221 100.8 456
2007 247 106.04 429
2008 239 100.07 418
2009 216 84.7 393
See also: List of European power companies by carbon intensity
[edit]Financial data

Financial data in millions of euro
Years 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
Sales 37 059 46 363 49 103 56 399 67 759
EBITDA 7 680 9 458 10 520 10 272 11 353
Net results 2 777 4 647 4 339 7 407 5 057
Net debt 13 979 7 855 5 483 -3 863 -268
Staff 107 856 66 549 69 710 79 947 80 612
Source: OpesC
[edit]Sponsorship

In February 2006 it was announced that E.ON UK would sponsor the FA Cup. The four-year deal which included the FA Women's Cup and the FA Youth Cup is worth around £40 million. E.ON is the official energy partner of The Football League and sponsors a collection of home programmes on Channel Five in the UK. E.ON has previously sponsored ITV Weather, the Ipswich Town football club and the Rugby Cup.
Between 2000 and 2006, E.ON was the main kit sponsor of German Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund.
E.ON Ruhrgas is the main sponsor of the IBU biathlon[when?] World Cup and is the main sponsor of the Ski jumping World Cup[when?].
E.ON Sverige has sponsored the home arena of Swedish ice hockey team Timrå IK since 2003.
E.ON was one of the main sponsors of 2007-2008 Dutch Eredivisie Champions PSV Eindhoven.
[edit]Criticism

The company has come up against heavy criticism for its plans to build a new coal power station to replace its current facility at Kingsnorth, Kent. This would be the first new coal power station in the UK in 30 years.[13][14]
According to a report published by Carbon Market Data [15], E.ON was in 2008 the second biggest emitter of CO2 in Europe (with about 108 million t CO2 emitted).
A recent scandal involving E.On company is the so called Black Tide, Oil Disaster (seeOil Spill)[16] in the north coast of the island of Sardinia, Italy, in the middle of the Mediterranean sea. The accident date from 11 January 2011: 45,000 liter of oil fuel spilled into the sea during the draining process from a ship at the Porto Torres port[17], devastating local fishing grounds, coastal ecosystems and birdlife (Photo Gallery [18],[19],[20]). energy has gone up 80 per cent