SSE-npower merger at risk over price cap and lost customers

Joint firm would be second biggest retail energy company after British GasThe loss of almost a million customers and the government’s energy price cap have thrown into doubt a merger between the retail arm of SSE and npower, two of the UK’s big six energy firms.The merger, agreed in November 2017, was intended to create the second largest retail energy supply company in the UK, behind British Gas, but the companies will now miss a deadline for its completion by April next year as the