Electricite de France (EDF) is a French electric utility company headquartered in Paris, founded in 1946 when the French government nationalized the country's electricity sector following the Second World War. It is France's dominant electric utility, operating the large majority of the country's nuclear power plants and standing as one of the largest nuclear-fleet operators in the world; the French state completed a renationalization of full ownership of EDF in 2023.
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Électricité de France (French pronunciation: [elɛktʁisite də fʁɑ̃s]; lit. 'Electricity of France'), commonly known as EDF, is a French multinational electric utility company owned by the government of France.
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Électricité de France (French pronunciation: [elɛktʁisite də fʁɑ̃s]; lit. 'Electricity of France'), commonly known as EDF, is a French multinational electric utility company owned by the government of France.
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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.
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Headquartered in Paris, with €139.7 billion in sales in 2023, EDF operates a diverse portfolio of at least 120 gigawatts of generation capacity in Europe, South America, North America, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.
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