E.ON to link Tesla's German Gigafactory to the grid

FILE PHOTO: E.ON headquarters in Essen, Germany, March 15, 2017. REUTERS/Thilo Schmuelgen

(This March 25 story corrects after E.ON says it will not provide energy solutions to Tesla and has not been given 18 months to do it)

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – E.ON, Germany’s largest energy group, has been hired by Tesla to hook its planned Gigafactory near Berlin to the power grid, it said.

The grid connection will be done by EDIS Netz, a unit of E.ON, the company said.

Reporting by Christoph Steitz; editing by Thomas Seythal

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