Count resigned his post voluntarily, said RWE Trading, one of the major European energy-trading companies. He joined the RWE group in September 2003 to integrate the UK and German trading businesses, with the understanding that he would then return to the UK. Count was previously chief executive of RWE Innogy, now RWE npower, the former UK utility that he has integrated into the RWE group.

In the second quarter of this year, Terium will work alongside Count to get to know the details of the