Électricité de France
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| Société anonyme | |
| Traded as | Euronext: EDF |
| Industry | Electric utility |
| Founded | 1946 |
| Founder | Marcel Paul |
| Headquarters | Paris, France |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Jean-Bernard Lévy (Chairman and CEO) |
| Products | Electricity generation, transmission and distribution; energy trading |
| Revenue | €72.874 billion (2014) |
| €17.279 billion (2014) | |
| Profit | €3.701 billion (2014) |
| Total assets | $303.01 billion (2016) |
| Total equity | €40.610 billion (end 2014) |
| Owner | French State : (84.5%) |
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Number of employees
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158,161 (FTE, average 2014) |
| Subsidiaries | EDF Energy, EDF Luminus |
| Website | www |
Électricité de France S.A. (EDF; Electricity of France) is a French electric utility company, largely owned by the French state. Headquartered in Paris, France, with €65.2 billion in revenues in 2010, EDF operates a diverse portfolio of 120+ gigawatts of generation capacity in Europe, South America, North America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
In 2009, EDF was the world's largest producer of electricity. In 2011, it produced 22% of the European Union's electricity, primarily from nuclear power:
Its 58 active nuclear reactors (in France) are spread out over 20 sites (nuclear power plants). They comprise 34 reactors of 900 MWe, 20 reactors of 1300 MWe, and 4 reactors of 1450 MWe, all PWRs.
EDF specialises in electricity, from engineering to distribution. The company's operations include the following: electricity generation and distribution; power plant design, construction and dismantling; energy trading; and transport. It is active in such power generation technologies as nuclear power, hydropower, marine energies, wind power, solar energy, biomass, geothermal energy and fossil-fired energy.
The electricity network in France is composed of the following:
The EDF head office is located along Avenue de Wagram in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. The EDF head office is shared between several EDF sites in Greater Paris.
EDF was founded on 8 April 1946, as a result of the nationalisation of around 1,700 smaller energy producers, transporters and distributors by the Minister of Industrial Production Marcel Paul. A state-owned EPIC, it became the main electricity generation and distribution company in France, enjoying a monopoly in electricity generation, although some small local distributors were retained by the nationalisation. This monopoly ended in 1999, when EDF was forced by a European Directive to open up 20% of its business to competitors.
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