Électricité de France
Electricite de France S.A. (EDF; "Electricity of France") is a French power company. It is mostly owned by the government of France. Its headquarters are in Paris. It earned €71.2 billion in revenues in 2016. EDF produces 120+ gigawatts of electricity in Europe, South America, North America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
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| Company type | S.A. |
|---|---|
| Euronext: EDF CAC Next 20 Component | |
| Industry | Electric utility |
| Predecessor | Compagnie d'Électricité de l'Ouest Parisien  |
| Founded | 1946 |
| Founder | Marcel Paul |
| Headquarters | , |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Jean-Bernard Lévy (Chairman and CEO) |
| Products | Electricity generation, transmission and distribution; energy trading |
| Revenue |  € 71.203 billion (2016)[1] |
| €16.414 billion (2016)[1] | |
 €3.011 billion (2016)[1] | |
| Total assets | €281.640 billion (2016)[1] |
| Total equity | €40.610 billion (end 2014)[1] |
| Owner | French State : (84.5%)[2][3] |
Number of employees | 158,161 (FTE, average 2014)[1] |
| Subsidiaries | EDF Energy, EDF Luminus |
| Website | www |
In 2009, EDF produced more electricity than any other power company in the world.[4] In 2011, it produced 22% of the European Union's electricity, most of it from nuclear power:
- nuclear: 64.3%;
- renewable energy: 12.3% (includes 4.6% from dams);
- gas: 8.6%;
- coal: 14.5%;
- other: 0.3%.[5]
Its 58 active nuclear reactors (in France) are spread out over 20 sites (nuclear power plants). There are 34 reactors with 900 MWe, 20 reactors with 1300 MWe, and 4 reactors with 1450 MWe, all PWRs.
In 2017, EDF was scheduled to take over most of the power business of Areva, in a French government sponsored restructuring following financial and technical problems at Areva. In July 2017, France's Environmental Minister Nicolas Hulot said that up to 17 of France's nuclear power reactors — all of which are operated by EDF — could be closed by 2025 because of a new law about using less nuclear power.[6]
References
change- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "Annual Results 2016" (PDF). Électricité de France. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
- ↑ "Shareholding structure | EDF France". Edf.fr. 2016-12-31. Retrieved 2017-03-30.
- ↑ "Les participations publiques" (in French). Agence des participations de l'État. 30 April 2015. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
- ↑ AFP (August 2010)
- ↑ "Fuel Mix". EDF website. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
- ↑ "France could close a third of its nuclear reactors, says minister". 2017-07-10. Retrieved 2017-07-13.
Other websites
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- Official website Archived 2008-09-08 at the Wayback Machine