EDF - EDF Group

The European energy market is under construction, expandingparticularly as interconnections between national transmission networksincrease. EDF has a strong position on the four largest Europeanelectricity markets: France, Italy, the United Kingdom and Germany,with shareholdings in the rest of Europe, too. Over and above itsinvestment program in France, the EDF group plans to consolidate itsleadership based on its current positions by strengthening itsportfolio of electricity generating assets in Europe, fostering thegrowth of its subsidiaries, and pursuing integration within the Group.

• An integrated energy company, with a presence in a wide range of electricity-related businesses: generation, transmission and distribution, supply and energy trading
• The world's leading operator of nuclear power stations, Europe's leading electricity producer and France's leading electricity supplier
• An energy provider ranked among the lowest producers of CO₂ emissions, a leader in renewable energy in Europe supplying electricity that is 95 % CO₂ free in France
• Two subsidiaries in France responsible for conveying electricity for all energy suppliers, RTE-EDF Transport and ERDF for distribution, operating networks:

with around 100,000 km of high and very high voltage transmission lines and 1,246,000 km of medium and low voltage overhead and underground power distribution lines

• Over 38 million customers (1) worldwide, over 26.5 million of them in France
• Over 160,000 employees worldwide
• A balanced economic model between activities subject to competition (electricity production and marketing) and regulated activities associated with conveying electricity in the transmission and distribution networks, in France and internationally
• Consolidated turnover in 2008 of 64.3 billion euros, 47% in Europe outside France.
• A public limited company (société anonyme), listed on the Paris Stock Exchange and one of the leading stock market capitalisations of the CAC 40
• The largest number of private shareholders of any French industrial company, with the French State holding 84.66% of the capital

(1) A customer may have two customer’s accounts: one for electricity and one for gas.

Contact
Direction Médias Groupe
tel : 33 1 40 42 22 22

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