Électricité de France
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| Treddit as | Euronext: EDFCAC Next 20 Component |
| Industrie | Electric utility |
| Foondit | 1946 |
| Foonder | Marcel Paul |
| Heidquarters | Paris, France |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key fowk | Jean-Bernard Lévy (Chairman and CEO) |
| Products | Electricity generation, transmission and distribution; energy trading |
| Revenue |  € 69.6 billion (2017) |
| €13.7 billion (2017)[1] | |
| Profit |  €3.2 billion (2017) |
| Awner | French State : (84.5%)[2][3] |
Nummer o employees | 151,073 (FTE, average 2017)[1] |
| Subsidiaries | EDF Energy, EDF Luminus |
| Wabsteid | www |
Électricité de France S.A. (EDF; Electricity of France) is a French electric utility company, largely owned bi the French state. Headquartered in Paris, with €71.2 billion in revenues in 2016, EDF operates a diverse portfolio o 120+ gigawatts o generation capacity in Europe, Sooth Americae, North Americae, Asie, the Middle East an Africae.
In 2009, EDF was the world's largest producer o electricity.[4] In 2011, it produced 22% o the European Union's electricity, primarily from nuclear pouer.
Analysis[eedit | eedit soorce]
- nuclear: 64.3%
- renewable energy: 12.3% (includes 4.6% hydroelectricity)
- gas: 8.6%
- coal: 14.5%
- other: 0.3%
Nuclear pouer[eedit | eedit soorce]
Its 58 active nuclear reactors (in Fraunce) are spread oot over 20 sites (nuclear pouer plants). They comprise 34 reactors o 900 MWe, 20 reactors o 1300 MWe, an 4 reactors o 1450 MWe. All are pressurized watter reactors.
In 2017 EDF will take over the majority o the reactor business o Areva, in a French government sponsored restructurin followin financial and technical problems at Areva. In July 2017, Fraunce's Environmental Minister Nicolas Hulot stated that up tae 17 o Fraunce's nuclear pouer reactors — all of which are operated bi EDF — could be shuttered bi 2025 tae meet legislative targets for reducing dependence on the pouer source.
References[eedit | eedit soorce]
- ↑ a b Consolidated Financial Statements at 31 December 2017 (PDF) (Report). EDF Group. 2018. Retrieved 16 Februar 2018.
- ↑ "Shareholding structure | EDF France". Edf.fr. 31 December 2016. Retrieved 30 Mairch 2017.
- ↑ "Les participations publiques" (in French). Agence des participations de l'État. 30 Apryle 2015. Retrieved 21 Februar 2016.
- ↑ AFP (August 2010)