Uniper Maintains Investment-Grade Rating as Scope Highlights Strong Liquidity and Improved Earnings Visibility

Uniper Maintains Investment-Grade Rating as Scope Highlights Strong Liquidity and Improved Earnings Visibility

(IN BRIEF) Scope Ratings has affirmed Uniper SE’s long-term issuer rating at BBB and assessed its Stand-Alone Credit Profile at bbb−, keeping both within investment-grade territory. The rating agency’s assessment reflects Uniper’s strong liquidity position, solid financial metrics, improved earnings visibility and continued financial discipline, as well as progress in stabilising cash flows. The investment-grade stand-alone profile underlines the strength of Uniper’s own business fundamentals and suggests that the company’s credit quality is supported by its underlying financial and operational performance. Uniper CFO Christian Barr said the rating affirmation confirms the company’s progress in strengthening its financial profile, improving earnings stability and maintaining strategic credibility. The company remains a major European energy player, with 18.5 gigawatts of generation capacity, a strong role in gas trading and LNG imports, and ongoing investments in renewables, hydrogen and low-carbon energy carriers.

(PRESS RELEASE) DÜSSELDORF, 16-Jun-2026 — /EuropaWire/ — Scope Ratings has affirmed Uniper SE’s long-term issuer rating at BBB and assessed the company’s Stand-Alone Credit Profile at bbb−, keeping both ratings within investment-grade territory.

The European rating agency’s decision reflects Uniper’s strengthened financial position, strong liquidity, solid financial metrics and improved visibility over future earnings. Scope also pointed to the company’s continued financial discipline and progress in stabilising cash flows as important factors supporting the assessment.

The stand-alone investment-grade profile highlights Uniper’s underlying business fundamentals and confirms that the company’s credit quality is supported by its own operating and financial performance.

Christian Barr, Chief Financial Officer of Uniper, said the affirmation of the BBB issuer rating and the investment-grade stand-alone assessment reflect the company’s progress in reinforcing its financial profile and improving earnings stability. He said the rating outcome confirms that Uniper stands on its own credit merits and supports the credibility of the company’s strategic direction and financial discipline. Barr added that Uniper will continue to deliver on its strategy while further strengthening earnings quality and financial metrics.

The full Scope report is available through Uniper’s capital structure and ratings information.

About Uniper

Düsseldorf-based Uniper is a European energy company with global reach. It has about 7,000 employees and plays a key role in ensuring a secure energy supply in Europe, particularly in its core markets of Germany, the United Kingdom, Sweden, and the Netherlands. Uniper’s 18.5 gigawatts of power generating capacity make it a mainstay of reliable power production. Uniper is a leading gas trader and one of Northwestern Europe’s most important LNG importers, and its broad procurement portfolio enhances supply security. Uniper’s investments in renewables, hydrogen, and other low-carbon energy carriers propel the transformation of the energy system.

Uniper provides energy and services to about 1,000 municipalities and industrial companies in its home market, Germany. Uniper is also Germany’s largest operator of gas storage facilities and hydropower plants.

Media Contact:

Oliver Roeder
Spokesperson/ Finance & Sustainability
oliver.roeder@uniper.energy
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SOURCE: Uniper