sentences:  It was planned that SSE shareholders will own 65.6% of the demerged entity and Innogy would hold the remainder.The resulting company would have been listed on the London Stock Exchange and included npower's residential and business retail business, and SSE's residential energy supply and home services business, excluding its business in Ireland.Although the merger received preliminary regulatory clearance from the Competition and Markets Authority on 30 August 2018,, and full clearance was given on 10 October 2018, it was abandoned on 17 December 2018, with the companies blaming "very challenging market conditions".