Électricité de France
The Electricite de France SA (EDF ) is a publicly listed, state-dominated French electricity company. EdF is the second largest electricity producer in the world. EDF employed worldwide in 2010 more than 158,000 employees to supply approximately 37 million customers.
- 3.1 Management of radioactive waste
Development
The EDF was founded on April 8, 1946 ( founding member and Others Marcel Paul and Pierre Ailleret ). In November 2004, she was a corporation and brought in a partial privatization in 2005 to the stock market. The French state holds 84.8 % of the shares, a further 2.4 % are employee shares; 13.1% are traded and are privately owned or held by institutional investors.
Until the beginning of the liberalization of the European energy market, EDF in France possessed a virtual monopoly in the field of electricity trading, but not in the electric power generation. The Réseau de Transport d' Electricité subsidiary (RTE) operates the power transmission network of the company.
International Presence
EDF is involved in the energy markets of Argentina, Egypt, Belgium, Brazil, China, Ivory Coast, Italy, the Netherlands, Mexico, Poland, Sweden, Slovakia, Spain, Hungary, the USA and Vietnam.
Presence in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
In Austria, the Group of 25 % 1 share in the energy supplier Energie Steiermark ( Day), and 100% is involved in the catering Vero. By 2006, the ASA was waste service to 100% of EDF, but was then sold to the Spanish Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas. In Switzerland, EDF is concerned about the resident in Martigny subsidiary EDF Alpes Investissements a 25% stake in Alpiq Holding. In Germany, EDF held until the end of 2010 45.01% in Baden-Württemberg, EnBW energy company. In December, 2010, the then Prime Minister of Baden -Wuerttemberg, Stefan undersecretary, the purchase of these shares known.
Nuclear power generation
In 2010, the company produced 630 billion kWh more than 22 % of the total electrical energy generated in the European Union. Of these, 74.5 % were produced nuclear and 9.2% in conventional thermal power plants. 16.2% came from hydropower and 0.1 % of the energy produced is obtained from other renewable energy sources such as wind power. EDF operates this world's 58 nuclear power plants at 20 locations. Of these, 34 reactors have a nominal capacity of over 900 MW, 20 reactors are designed for 1,300 MW. Four power plants each produce 1,450 MW. The total capacity of all power plants of EDF is 125 447 MW.
The British nuclear operator British Energy was acquired on 24 September 2008 for 12.5 billion pounds ( 14 billion euros ); 20 percent were then sold to the partner Centrica. EDF also plans at Hinkley Point in southwest England, the construction of two additional reactors, which are to go into operation in 2017.
End of July 2013, EDF announced to withdraw from the nuclear power plant business in the U.S. and the shares in the joint venture CENG at its U.S. partner Exelon to sell.
Management of radioactive waste
The EDF shipped 13 percent of the waste in power stations radioactive waste over Le Havre to Russia. Every year, to have been transported into the Siberian Sewersk since the 1990s, 108 tons of nuclear waste, where they are stored in containers outdoors. By 2007, 1.15 million cubic meters were incurred atomic waste, whose disposal is unknown. The whereabouts of military and industrial nuclear waste documentary researched nuclear waste nightmare end of 2009. He also informed about the dangers and consequences of the use of nuclear energy.